Ideas for lunches under £2

littlegreenparrot

I'm in awe at the organisation Chameleon.

Anyone for an unidentifiable/undated freezer bag of something?! :rotfl:

joedenise

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I guess it depends how much they want to save money. Spending 20-30 minutes in the kitchen to throw a few ingredients in a pan to make a large batch of soup is a worthwhile compromise in my eyes. I often make 2 or 3 varieties at a time and freeze individual portions in containers like this, and also great for freezing batch cooked stew, casseroles, chilli etc

Where do you get the pots from? They'd be brilliant for DH to use to take to work.

Denise

Florasaurus

I tend to get one of the little salad bowls from Morrisons for £1 and then I get some sort of peri peri chicken or chicken tikka and just stick them in a tuppaware in the morning. Not great if you're easily bored but they have different types of salads and you can change the type of chicken.

I've tried other places for salad like Aldi + Tesco but the Aldi ones aren't great and the Tesco ones are too big for me to eat in one sitting and they don't keep well.

As for chicken, Aldi do lush peri peri small chicken breasts for not very much

~Chameleon~

littlegreenparrot wrote: »

I'm in awe at the organisation Chameleon.

Anyone for an unidentifiable/undated freezer bag of something?! :rotfl:

Trust me, I have lots of unidentifiable frozen stuff. It's often pot luck what I end up with for lunch :rotfl:

~Chameleon~

joedenise wrote: »

Where do you get the pots from? They'd be brilliant for DH to use to take to work.

Denise

Various places. Reduced price (10p) pots of ready made soups from local supermarkets - cheap soup plus a re-useable pot - bonus!

You can also get cheaper versions of the clip-fresh type containers from the pound shop or supermarkets. I've even been known to line a container with a freezer bag which can then be removed once frozen but that's probably better for home use to defrost in a bowl than transporting to work.

joedenise

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Various places. Reduced price (10p) pots of ready made soups from local supermarkets - cheap soup plus a re-useable pot - bonus!

You can also get cheaper versions of the clip-fresh type containers from the pound shop or supermarkets. I've even been known to line a container with a freezer bag which can then be removed once frozen but that's probably better for home use to defrost in a bowl than transporting to work.

Thanks.

I live too far from the supermarkets to be able to get there when they do the reductions (16 mile round trip!) so would have to buy full price - and I won't do that, far too expensive, always make my own:money:.

Haven't seen them in the pound shop in town but will keep an eye out when I go elsewhere to see if I can find the clip ones.

Denise

Boodle

livewire_82 wrote: »

One thing to note, my office continuously stocks cereal, bread, peanut butter and chocolate spread. I usually utilise these for breakfast but have recently found myself taking advantage of the bread for lunches aswell.

Depending on how the general feeling is with the office being stocked (how generous they are, how much would constitute pushing your luck with consuming the stock), I would probably just use the peanut butter and bread for a free healthy protein-filled sarnie, sticking to the cereal for breakfast.