Any Tips For Packed Lunches?

Josslette

Hi everyone,

I've just starting working full time and my OH works full time as well. Just wondered if you had any tips of how to make life easier with packed lunches?

We can't afford to buy lunch at work, we've generally been having a sandwich or salad, crisps, fruit or veg and a mini chocolate bar.

I don't mind putting effort in to making stuff at the weekend I just don't want to do a lot during the week.

I know it's a bit of a vague question, but any ideas would be awesome

Tinwhistler

Apples and bananas good value and homemade granola bars are a good batch made item. Making your own popcorn is cheaper and healthier than crisps but I do that on hob rather than microwave. Baby carrots and a little tub of dip. Just what I would do.

mandragora_2

Make batches of simple sandwiches made with freezable ingredients, such as ham and mustard; cheese. Do a loaf's worth at a time, and then you'll have something basic, relatively cheap and simple to get you started. You can always jazz it up with other ingredients/elements to the lunch once you've got this done, such as a bag of cherry tomatoes to pop a handful in the bag with the day's worth of sarnies, or some pre-prepared salad nibbles like celery sticks, carrots. Cakes can be baked ahead and cut into slices and frozen. Take what you want out of the freezer each morning - the sarnies will be nicely defrosted by the time lunch-time comes around. If you have a microwave at work, and fancy the idea, soups can also be made ahead and frozen in individual portions.

Spendless

I'm an Office temp and at my workplace unless you want to trudge to the canteen where there's a microwave available, we only have access to a fridge and kettle. On Mondays one of the permanent ataff fills her office drawer full of soup sachets (heinz), mug shots and crackers, then puts a tub of spreadable cheese in the fridge. It then doesn't matter if she doesn't fetch sandwiches/salads with her on a daily basis as she always has something in for lunch.

happy35

i make 2 or 3 days worth of soup at the weekend and freeze this in portions

I also freeze leftovers for DS

At night I then take out of the freezer and put in the fridge the soup/leftivers

I put the fruit on the shelf in the fridge with the frozen stuff, then all I do is lift everythign out of the fridge and put it into a pile each

We have sandwiches occasionally and I also make jacket pots in the micro at night,out on beans and cheese and keep in the fridge overnight