July 2013 - Take Your Lunch To Work Thread

marmiterulesok

lilian1977 wrote: »

Ooh I have several tins of black eyes beans to use up, could I have the recipe please?

Here's a link:

www.recipesiveused.blogspot.ch/2007/09/black-eyed-beans-with-mushrooms.html

It's from the book 'Madhur Jaffery's Indian Cookery',page 128.

I use tinned tomatoes,400g.

I hope you like it.:)

Betty_Crumble

omelette cooked and ready to be nuked tomo plus blueberry, banana and almond smoothie for brekkie :-)

Shortie

Ah bottoms, my post this morning didn't make it through (I lost reception on my phone as the train went through a tunnel...)

I've been so lazy it's untrue - I didn't make the cous cous last night (*make* as in sweat down some onion and warm so peas - that's the biggest effort there is in the process..!) and this morning I forgot there were left overs so I have the same as yesterday - banana, cheese sarnie and caramel snack-a-jack. I'm bored of it now, but at least it's from home so much cheaper than buying food in here as I'm so desperate not to go into my buffer this month if I can help it

Right, butt-kicking time. Tonight I WILL

Make up some jelly for the boys for teatime snacks and for me for work (I mean, really, how hard is it?)
Make up some popcorn for the boys lunchboxes and for me for work (Again... how hard is it?)
Soften some onions, warm some peas and make up some beef stock flavoured cous cous for lunches

That should be Thursday and Friday covered then. And honestly - 5-10 minutes work as they can all be on the go at the same time!

lilian1977

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Here's a link:

www.recipesiveused.blogspot.ch/2007/09/black-eyed-beans-with-mushrooms.html

It's from the book 'Madhur Jaffery's Indian Cookery',page 128.

I use tinned tomatoes,400g.

I hope you like it.:)

Thank you!

lushlifesaver

Afternoon all,

Today I have had; ham and cheese sammich, mini gingerbread men, cereal bar, a banana and a Satsuma. I also had one of the porridge pots from my desk this morning for breakfast as I didn't have chance to eat at home this morning

Bf has gone away again today so I only have to sort myself out tonight, lunch and dinenr tomorrow and lunch on Friday - he should be back for dinner but I will check that.

I've been and opened a new bank account today with Halifax - no overdraft on this one and £100 paid to me for switching my DDs/SOs! Should help in the quest to be rid of my Lloyds overdraft by Christmas (closing half in 3 weeks anyway!) and my credit card will be gone in a few weeks too - bringing my lunch to work definitely has multiple benefits

Twiggy_34

Last week, while limited to a fairly soft diet, I bought a branded, low calorie chocolate yoghurt pack which was on "special offer" at 4 pots for £1. Having run out of these I nipped into the supermarket lastnight to buy more, but it was a different chain and I had to do some shelf searching to find either the same or next best thing, so when I spotted their savers brand chocolate mousses were only 18p for four I naturally snapped them up, especially when they were even lower in calories than than the branded stuff.

I know we're always told to watch out for these types of situations, but I was still quite shocked at the difference in price, and for it to be a lower calorie product was a bonus; I definitely need to start paying more attention to this stuff! Anyway, it follows nicely from one of my previous posts about how I ought to do the downshift challenge, so I guess that's another product successfully downshifted without even trying! :T

Shortie

Ah man, what a day.. I got talking to a friend last night onlin and my evening vanished so no food sorted. Then I got up late (whoops) so managed to pull together a breakfast banana, bread and butter for lunch, 2 snack jacks for the lack of sarnie filling and an apple

My 9.30-11.30 meeting turned up at my desk before I was even in, so the meeting ended up being 9-12.45 with no breakfast and I've only just now stopped for my uber exciting bread and butter (actually, this is like the sweaty cheese sarni syndrome - I'm soooo hungry it tastes like the best thing ever :rotfl:)

Shortie

That's a pretty positivie experience with the product downshift there Twiggy_34

We do loads of stuff as value already, it's almost embarrassing to open my cupboards and am thinking of investing in some nice jars to decant pasta etc into when we have the kicthen sorted to hide some of it. I do decant the teabags already though and then hide the unopened boxes - I buy in the Mr S el cheapo teabags and for someone usually fussy about their tea, it's perfectly servicable for a scary amount less than my usual brand. However, some guests are fussy, so I decant them into a limited edition metal tea box/tub I bought around the Jubilee so no-one knows, and I've not had refusals on a second cuppa so far. However I know some peeps would change their mind about having a cuppa if they saw the box the teabag came out of - potty isn't it?

lilian1977

Twiggy_34 wrote: »

Last week, while limited to a fairly soft diet, I bought a branded, low calorie chocolate yoghurt pack which was on "special offer" at 4 pots for £1. Having run out of these I nipped into the supermarket lastnight to buy more, but it was a different chain and I had to do some shelf searching to find either the same or next best thing, so when I spotted their savers brand chocolate mousses were only 18p for four I naturally snapped them up, especially when they were even lower in calories than than the branded stuff.

I know we're always told to watch out for these types of situations, but I was still quite shocked at the difference in price, and for it to be a lower calorie product was a bonus; I definitely need to start paying more attention to this stuff! Anyway, it follows nicely from one of my previous posts about how I ought to do the downshift challenge, so I guess that's another product successfully downshifted without even trying! :T

I know the very ones you mean - they're tasty aren't they?!

Twiggy_34

Now Shortie, getting carried away chatting online lastnight is no excuse for not having lunch sorted today! I didn't get home til well after midnight lastnight and still prepped mine (threw 4 crackers in a back with a dairylea triangle to go alongside the choc mousse lol).

I tend not to worry about what people will see in my cupboards, but I know what you mean. I do wonder what people will make of cheap tea/coffee, at the moment their spoiled as I'm using what was left of the coffee at my late dads and he had branded stuff, neither I or DP drink coffee so wouldn't normally spend much on this. We also hardly ever drink tea and while I do prefer some of the branded tea's, I currently have the savers brand at home and, like you, transfer them to a glass jar!

What I really ought to do is make the effort to do a shop at a certain supermarket that sends out vouchers in the post because of their clubcard scheme, I hardly go there usually, but I must have quite a few potential savings sat on the worktop at home for things we do eat/use... Maybe at the weekend...