Great 'cheap but nutritious packed lunches' hunt

bluebellbunny

Useful thread for ideas, thank you!

jordan2010 wrote: »

Sorry, i just can't understand you, please.

What part don't you understand jordan?

mcallister1

After successfully using the £19.99 flasks from Lakeland for kids lunches, I thought I'd get some I saw in Home Bargains for me and my Mum. These were Aladinn and you actually microwaved the flask- not the lid- wih food in it.
Total disaster. First my Mum heated the food first, then heated the whole thing. This must have set up some kind of vacuum- 2 days later it still won't open! Worried about that, I only just heated it up so that it was just boiling- and 3 hours later it was lukewarm at best.
So- a waste of £3.99 ( reduced from £10.99 apparently) each! I've been so jealous of the kids that I went to Lakeland again to get mine for my soup...

gunman786

Can anyone suggest to me what would be the ideal meal from supermarkets etc, which is ideally cheap, to take to work.

thanks

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

I have 2 slices sliced bread with whatever filling is cheap (sardines, cheese) and a banana

stumpycat

As well as the traditional flasks, I bought a bento box like this:
http://www.completeoutdoors.co.uk/Aladdin-Bento-Kids-0.6L-Lunch-Box

(except you can get them from Dunelm Mill for £7.99, but I can't link to them!)
They're ideal for keeping pasta, curry, chilli etc hot.

My son's other great favourite is Stromboli - basically a rolled up pizza. There's loads of recipes on the net, but I like making up naan bread mix, rolling it out, adding tomato sauce base with olives, onions, sweetcorn , cheese etc. Then you just roll it up & bake. Even better - he loves helping to make it!

CurrentWorker

Basically I want to cut down my cost on lunch. I do indeed spend around 4/5 pounds a day on just lunch alone which is just..bad. Any ideas how I can get my lunch cheaper? I attend college smack down in the middle of a big town so I do have tesco's and M&S and lastly an ASDA and 60 other high street shops along the way..


Cheapest I found so far is 2 quid sandwich in asda...

no.1swimmum

Could you not make sandwiches and take with you (we make our families the night before or depending on filling we make up a batch and freeze in individual sandwich bags - mostly for youngest who only eats ham or cheese!). Or if you have access to hot water at lunchtime sainsburys pasta in a mug sachets are 3 for a £1 at the moment - hubbie and eldest son are eating these with a sandwich at lunch, it is especially nice to have something hot during this cold weather so soup is another idea to take in a flask or heat in a microwave.

VfM4meplse

The cheapest alternative involves a little bit of forward planning and making your own lunch which could cost £5 pw if you are being generous. There are loads of threads devoted to this on the site.

bluebeary

alot of supermarket do two loaves of bread for 1.50, freeze one and save for the latter half of the week and buy yourself some fillings you like ?

i take a couple of home made sandwiches and a bottle of tap water to work with me every day, not even a fiver a week, easy as

Winifred

Marks and Spencer's prawn cocktail makes good sandwiches, especially in their finger rolls - perhaps lazy but still cheaper than ready-made!