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Breakfast and Lunches for Work

MissLaura
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Hello All,
Happy Sunday.
I'm new here. Just wanted to say hello and post a thread about packing up food for work.
I ALWAYS default to the easy option of a loaf of bread and it's never a good idea.
So today I popped to the Cooperative and bought:
+ A bunch of 7 bananas for £1.29
+ All Bran (Own brand) for £1.39
+ 500g of Sultanas (Own brand) for £1.09
This will do me for the week at work, I reckon.
1 or 2 Bananas for breakfast.
Bowl of All Bran topped up with Sultanas for lunch.
Sultanas for snacks.
What do you guys like to take to work?
Happy Sunday.
I'm new here. Just wanted to say hello and post a thread about packing up food for work.
I ALWAYS default to the easy option of a loaf of bread and it's never a good idea.
So today I popped to the Cooperative and bought:
+ A bunch of 7 bananas for £1.29
+ All Bran (Own brand) for £1.39
+ 500g of Sultanas (Own brand) for £1.09
This will do me for the week at work, I reckon.
1 or 2 Bananas for breakfast.
Bowl of All Bran topped up with Sultanas for lunch.
Sultanas for snacks.
What do you guys like to take to work?
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I take one of the following for lunch.
Homemade gluten free sausage rolls, quiche, rice cakes, fruit, cold chicken, cold sausages, rice salad, carrot salad, coleslaw, potato salad and pasta salad, mixed salad, boiled eggs, ham, cheese and egg salad to mention just a few and if there is a microwave home made soup or baked potatoes.
HTH
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Casperthefriendlyghost wrote: »I take one of the following for lunch.
Homemade gluten free sausage rolls, quiche, rice cakes, fruit, cold chicken, cold sausages, rice salad, carrot salad, coleslaw, potato salad and pasta salad, mixed salad, boiled eggs, ham, cheese and egg salad to mention just a few and if there is a microwave home made soup or baked potatoes.
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Casper
is some one else in your family gluten intolerant? as you have a few items that contain gluten later on?0 -
I like peanuts for a breakfast. Filling way to start the day.
Quite often take salads to work as trying to fill up more non-starchy fibrous veg to keep my kcal level not to high.
go for a selection of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce. Ideally I put with some lean meats.0 -
is some one else in your family gluten intolerant? as you have a few items that contain gluten later on?
Hi stephen77
I’m coeliac and everything on here is gluten free. The quiche is crustless or made with gluten free pastry, the sausage rolls with gluten free sausages and gluten free puff pastry that I make myself, the pasta is rice or corn pasta
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Hello All,
Happy Sunday.
I'm new here. Just wanted to say hello and post a thread about packing up food for work.
I ALWAYS default to the easy option of a loaf of bread and it's never a good idea.
So today I popped to the Cooperative and bought:
+ A bunch of 7 bananas for £1.29
+ All Bran (Own brand) for £1.39
+ 500g of Sultanas (Own brand) for £1.09
This will do me for the week at work, I reckon.
1 or 2 Bananas for breakfast.
Bowl of All Bran topped up with Sultanas for lunch.
Sultanas for snacks.
What do you guys like to take to work?
I'd be concerned about the lack of protein in this diet.
I normally do homemade soup, a large chicken and coleslaw salad, a warburtons thin with chicken and salad (if they have been yellow stickered) or crackers and peanut butter. My other half gets sandwiches, soup or leftovers generally.0 -
My regular working lunch is crudites with a blob of hummus (I get carrots, sugarsnaps, tomato, cucumber, peppers, spring onion, celery, radish and anything else I can find to chop up) or take a salad with a separate tin of sardines in sauce and use the sauce as a salad dressing.
I make the crudite mix up in individual bags on a Sunday evening and provided the seeds are removed from the cucumber, they stay fresh enough for the whole week.
I keep some crispbreads/crackers at work too as I prefer them to bread (and they keep longer)
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I've just made a batch of gooseberry and apple breakfast muffins , as I can take one to eat in the car if I'm running late with a coffeeGrocery Challenge Feb 14 £500 / Spent £572.10!
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Bacon & sausage sarnie ! Proper food0
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I just cook extra in the evenings and build up a small stash of proper meals I can take into work for lunch. Lots of soup at the moment, perhaps with a bit of bread.
Breakfast is porridge where the oats and milk have been put in a tupperware container the night before, ready to microwave. At the moment I'm adding blackberries too. or sometimes it's yoghurt and fruit, or just fruit.
Snacks vary. Fruit, biscuits, nuts, stuff I've baked, something from a pack of chocolate I got at the £1 shop...Saving for deposit: Finished! :j
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