cheap/ healthy snacks

pollyanna24

I'm looking for inspiration for bf's lunchbox.

He works on the road so to speak, going to different places all day in his van.

He's complaining that's hungry and needs to pop into petrol stations for chocolate etc.

At the moment, he has 2 sarnies, fruit, crisps and buys water (won't take a bottle to work as he wants it cold - won't budge on this).

I do make a mean tealoaf and the homemade hobnobs from on here that I will start making again at the weekend for him, but just don't know what else he can have.

I would like the idea of buying chocolate in multipack, but he would eat the whole lot in one go (as would the lodgers) :mad: Think I might go back to this idea though and ration him.

purpleivy

An extra sarnie and a piece of HM flapjack or Dee's apple braid?

pollyanna24

purpleivy wrote: »

An extra sarnie and a piece of HM flapjack or Dee's apple braid?

3 sarnies! Surely all that bread can't be good for him! He already cost us a fortune in bread (although that also could be the lodger).

I used to make him flapjacks. Suppose I could go back to doing that. Have to look up Dee's apple braid though, sounds lovely!

Pink.

Hi Pollyanna,

There's an earlier thread with lots of ideas for snacks and nibbles at work so I've added your thread to it to keep all the suggestions together.

These older threads might give you some inspiration too:

Packed Lunch Ideas On The Cheap

Lunch for work

pasta lunch box help please..

Packed Lunch

Lunch ideas

HM Tortilla wraps for lunch?

saving money on lunch

Work lunches - ideas needed!

Help! Need Sarnies ideas for lunches

cold packed lunches

Packed lunches

Wanting help with packed lunches

Desk top sweet snacks?

Pink

peb

Just a thought - if he wants his water cold pop a bottle in the freezer hte night before and it will defrost gradually and give him really cold water. I use this in a cool box for picnics and the food is cold and the water is really cold. Also works for hot cricket matches!

Skint_Catt

slinks wrote: »

i wonder if has anyone has tried it...... :rotfl:

Yes I did - but it warns me first!

I snack on Mug shots at work! And apples, muller light yoghurts, grapes, cold meat..

GFN123

I was wondering if any of you kind folk have suggestions for snacks at work.

I do buy fruit but often don't get around to eating it & it goes off :rolleyes: (Baaad GFN!). My current phase has been a pack of oatcakes on my desk, but I'm a bit bored of them now.

I make my own lunches so would like something I can ideally just grab from a packet rather than making up even more stuff at home in the evenings.

I try to avoid wheat and don't really want sugary things like cereal bars, I try & stick vaguely to low GI foods to keep me going through the long days.

I am stumped today for some reason & can just see myself wandering helplessly round the supermarket this evening... probably then succumbing to all sorts of naughty impulse buys instead!

All wisdom gratefully received
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Skint_Catt

I don't know what's low GI or not, but I liek my yoghurts. I do take fruit too - but only small amounts of whatever I fancy at the time - if I take loads I won't eat any of it. I also take laughing cow cheese triangles and Alpen Light bars (but i know you said you wanted to stay off these).
I sometimes take cold meats (sausages, cut up chicken) too - usually leftovers (or I cook extra with dinner). My OH takes brazil nuts, seafood sticks and Actimels.

rainmac

Seeds are massively good for you. You can pick up packs in supermarkets/ health food shops of things like pumpkin, sunflower, seseme and mix together. Take to work in a plastic container and dip in!

You can also fry seeds and add a bit of soy sauce and honey for flavour and frying them makes them crunchy so a bit more interesting!

How about carrot and celery sticks (go well with cheese). Not much prep to do at home.

Stephen_Leak

An apple, orange and banana every workday - I may make a church mouse look like Bill Gates, but I do try my best to eat healthily.

Don't overdo the seeds, though. I've "grazed" on sunflower seeds all day, and they do tend to exact their revenge, if you know what I mean. OTOH, my skin and hair felt great.