Packed lunches

DawnW

If you get bored of sandwiches, a salad can be nice for a change (with cheese, or tuna etc), or some HM soup in a flask to keep hot, or if you have a microwave at work you can heat it up from cold. Left over dinner can be good as well - sounds horrid, but left over pasta bake or something like that is lovely, even cold.

kathyd_2

Wraps are a favourite in our house. Mix shredded chicken with sweetcorn (optional) and mayonnaise - add some hot spices if liked, put salad onto wrap with the mixture. I usually buy a whole chicken, boil it to make a stock for soup and then remove all the chicken meat and use for sandwich/wrap/pitta fillings.

susieb1967

try popping some chinese chicken/ chicken tikka on wooden kebab sticks (break them in half if they are long) alternate with cherry tomatoes and chunks of cucumber for a tasty kebab! the prepacked chicken usually lasts about 3 portions/days- kids like this one too!!

squeaky

Hiya,

There are quite a few threads on lunches:-

Lunch:
- Best sandwich?
- Cheap and practical lo-carb
- Desk top sweet snacks
- Food on the go
- For work
- Healthy eating (packed lunch ideas?)
- Lunch for work(salads)
- Packed lunch
- Packed lunch - Advice On Daughter Please!
- Ploughman's
- Problem with pack-up


I'll merge this thread into one of them shortly to help keep the ideas together.

Happy reading!

babes21

squeaky wrote:

Hiya,

There are quite a few threads on lunches:-

Lunch:
- Best sandwich?
- Cheap and practical lo-carb
- Desk top sweet snacks
- Food on the go
- For work
- Healthy eating (packed lunch ideas?)
- Lunch for work(salads)
- Packed lunch
- Packed lunch - Advice On Daughter Please!
- Ploughman's
- Problem with pack-up


I'll merge this thread into one of them shortly to help keep the ideas together.

Happy reading!

Thank you, just read them all and shall be taking notes .

Thanks to everyone else's replies too, greatly appreciated.

jessicamb

babes21 wrote:

Hiya everyone

So what do you all take for your packed lunches to work? Looking for a little inspiration as after the New Year i'm going to start preparing food from home to take in, see how much money that saves me monthly

Any ideas/recipes would be appreciated.

A recent discovery but I'm loving Tuna Mayo and chive - tasty like tuna and onion but without the smelly breath .

Think I'll be on the packed lunches for a bit too in the new year

BarmyCow

I was previously guilty of grabbing M&S sandwiches or food from work but have been much better behaved over the last few months. I tend to take my pasta dish to work and the best thing is, it can all be cooked on one night and stored in the fridge. I just put it all together the night before I need it rather than stick everything in at one go -

own brand fusili pasta (or whatever you have/prefer)
sausages
cherry tomatoes
health living lowfat honey and mustard dressing.

Cook pasta and sausages, once cool slice sausages thinly and cut tomatoes into halves or quarters. Stir everything together and add some dressing to keep it from drying out. You could also throw in sweetcorn, peas or anything to be honest - I just love the sausage and tomato taste.

Hope this helps
Moo x