Healthy Lunch Recipes

lostinrates

The forum is very hard to navigate, i find it hard too, but people are willing to help if asked politely!

If you are at home with a kitchen you have a larger range of options than many. I would look beyond 'lunch' searches and include searches for things you might consider more supper or breakfast fodder.

The suggestion of soup is one most of us will make, becuase its cheap, easy, warm healthy, can be mase in advance and flavoured slightly differently from a mpbase to ring the changes.

E.g. A normal veg soup can be eaten as is, a few chilli flakes or tobasco added, a grateing of cheese, a dollop of yoghurt....so it doesn't become monotonous.

I eat lots of eggs because i have chickens. An egg on a crumpet, muffin, piece of toast with a piece of fruit is a good light lunch.

Salad variety is almost infinite, and much nicer made fresh at home than eaten from a lunch box imo.

In the summer i make gazpacho in a jug and have that for lunch/ snacks for a few days.

jemb

Smartprice spaghetti on toast? Beans on toast? Raveoli on toast? Soup (Asda, Sains, morris, t's all do 5 for however much of their own soups). Jacket pots, look out for when on offer in aldi with beans, cheese, colslaw etc. Cheese on toast, sandwiches, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs (on toast?) leftovers from night before? How cheap are you talking when you ask if the recipes on the othe page are meant to be cheap?

strangeotron

pasta healthy? You can' tbe serious; it's loaded with starch and far too many carbs.

strangeotron

I'm afraid i don't live near places like Aldi, and even if I did I'd be very hesitant to buy from them. Not only do they exploit their staff but the quality of their stock I would seriously question, especially tinned goods like Ravioli.

strangeotron

lostinrates wrote: »

The forum is very hard to navigate, i find it hard too, but people are willing to help if asked politely!

If you are at home with a kitchen you have a larger range of options than many. I would look beyond 'lunch' searches and include searches for things you might consider more supper or breakfast fodder.

The suggestion of soup is one most of us will make, becuase its cheap, easy, warm healthy, can be mase in advance and flavoured slightly differently from a mpbase to ring the changes.

E.g. A normal veg soup can be eaten as is, a few chilli flakes or tobasco added, a grateing of cheese, a dollop of yoghurt....so it doesn't become monotonous.

I eat lots of eggs because i have chickens. An egg on a crumpet, muffin, piece of toast with a piece of fruit is a good light lunch.

Salad variety is almost infinite, and much nicer made fresh at home than eaten from a lunch box imo.

In the summer i make gazpacho in a jug and have that for lunch/ snacks for a few days.

Thanks, but soup isn't filling enough. It just leaves me even hungrier. Eggs are also not particularly healthy either, certainly no more than once a week.

Kleopatra

strangeotron wrote: »

Thanks, but soup isn't filling enough. It just leaves me even hungrier. Eggs are also not particularly healthy either, certainly no more than once a week.

You obviously have some rather personal views on what is and isn't healthy. Many suggestions have been made and you have rejected them all without showing any gratitude whatsoever. I doubt if many more people will bother to offer suggestions when there is so little point.

Since when have eggs not been healthy? There was a slight cholesterol scare at one time but that has now been proved false.

freyasmum

strangeotron wrote: »

pasta healthy? You can' tbe serious; it's loaded with starch and far too many carbs.

strangeotron wrote: »

I'm afraid i don't live near places like Aldi, and even if I did I'd be very hesitant to buy from them. Not only do they exploit their staff but the quality of their stock I would seriously question, especially tinned goods like Ravioli.

strangeotron wrote: »

Thanks, but soup isn't filling enough. It just leaves me even hungrier. Eggs are also not particularly healthy either, certainly no more than once a week.

Perhaps you could help us help you by letting us know what you think is/isn't healthy?

We're not going to get anywhere if every suggestion is rejected without you telling us what you will eat.

lostinrates

strangeotron wrote: »

Thanks, but soup isn't filling enough. It just leaves me even hungrier. Eggs are also not particularly healthy either, certainly no more than once a week.

Trials show the majority of people find soup more filling than the same ingrediants served as 'dry' food and a glass of water. I don't find soup particularly satisfying when i want to chew, but it is filling.

As for eggs, The health benefits are considerable! http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-eggs.html

The old advice about no more than three eggs a week has been superceeded!

strangeotron

lostinrates wrote: »

Trials show the majority of people find soup more filling than the same ingrediants served as 'dry' food and a glass of water. I don't find soup particularly satisfying when i want to chew, but it is filling.

As for eggs, The health benefits are considerable! http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-eggs.html

The old advice about no more than three eggs a week has been superceeded!

It isn't filling for me.

Eggs are bd because yolks are high in cholesterol.

lostinrates

strangeotron wrote: »

It isn't filling for me.

Eggs are bd because yolks are high in cholesterol.

Yes, this cholesterol information is outdated, the cholesterol advice now is that eggs are not the problem! In fact, some suggest eggs can even lower cholesterol. Out body needs some types of cholesterol, and it might well be that it is that that is well provided by eggs.



http://www.bhf.org.uk/default.aspx?page=12920

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7882850.stm

http://health.ninemsn.com.au/whatsgoodforyou/theshow/693988/are-eggs-bad-for-your-heart