Jolly January's Bring Your Lunch to Work

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Welcome to January's bring your lunch to work.

Feel free to post what you're having/planning/eating for lunch as this may give others a idea of what to make and we're always up for inspiration and a challenge

There are 22 working days up for grabs.

Let me know if you want to join in and how many days you want to attempt and I'll add you to the list on the next post. It is never too late to join.

If you haven’t already, join the forum to join in the challenge.

I know this is early but I'm unlikely to be about next week.

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Everyone is welcome even if you only work 1 day a week or stay at home but would like to join. So, the doors are now open......

Just to say that if you see a post on MSE and want to include it in your own post then do the following:

To copy a post, right click on the post number, click copy shortcut, go back to new post and right click to paste


Recipe ideas for sandwich fillings and lunches

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...d.php?t=159329

http://pinterest.com/lbnblbnb/food-lunch-ideas/

Now everyone say a big thank you to Shortie for compiling this list of ideas for us.

Thanks Shortie

*Cold foods*
Sandwich combos:
Stuffing
Tuna mayo/salad cream
Tuna and sweetcorn
Tuna and onion
Tuna and cucumber
Beetroot
Cheese & carmelised onion chutney
Cheese and chilli jam
grated cheese, mushed up egg, diced onion and mixed in with mayo
Peanut butter & marmite
Greek salad - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...3&postcount=38
Russian salad sandwich - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...3&postcount=38
Curry!
Bacon & banana
Cheese & pickle
Corned beef & lettuce
Ham & apple sauce
Coronation chicken
Fried egg baguette
Sausage & mustard / ketchup / mayo / pickle / onion relish
Scrambled egg (cooked in the microwave)
Chhese & piccalilli
Brie & grape
Cheese & tomato
Ham and coleslaw
Onion Baji & coleslaw wrap
Chicken and cranberry sauce
Chicken & bacon
Haslet and coleslaw
Peanutbutter, cream cheese & banana
Turkey/chicken & stuffing
Crisp butti
Chicken with pesto and mayo
Brie, crushed walnuts, feta &rocket wrap
Chorizo & goats cheese
Vegetarian pate http://fatfreevegan.com/blog/2010/02...d-lentil-pate/
sliced turkey, mayo, pineapple and a bit of tinned sweetcorn sprinkled

Adding the following to salads:
Hard boiled egg in salad
Carrot salad: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...&postcount=110
Cold duck and spinnach, raddish, pepper & carrot
Cheese, ham & whatever salad is in the fridge
Chicken and cold bacon bits
Spice sensation cous cous with raisins, pumpkin seeds. little cubes of cheese (feta or cheddar) cheery toms halved,cuc, spring onions and a couple of dried apricots chopped up
Bulk making salads: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...&postcount=358

Rice cakes & hummus
Crackers / carrot sticks / pitta bread & taramaslata (or dip of choice)
Crustless quiche (good for GF diets) - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...3&postcount=38
Spanish potato fritata
Cous cous

*Warm foods*
Soups (with some bread?):
Jamie Oliver's Parsnip and Ginger Soup
Jamie Oliver's carrot soup: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...5&postcount=50
Mushroom risotto soup: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...1&postcount=64
Liquidised curry
Pasta
Macaroni cheese
Leftovers... pasta bakes, curry, spag bol, chilli..
Falafel
Onion bhajis
Samosas
Jacket potatoes
Cous cous (take dried and rehydrate from a kettle at work, add some fillings - meat, vegs, cheese, etc - once warm and hydrated)
Mash, veg, gravy and meat in a tuppawear box
Spaghetti/beans on toast or with butter bread
Falafel & chilli dip
Paella a la Candlewick http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...1&postcount=39

*Snacks*
Cake
Fruit
Crisps (multibags can be better value)
Hot choc
Sausage rolls
Juice cartons
Cereal bars
Fruit salads (mix with a spoon or two of juice from tinned fruit to keep it from turning brown)
Biscuits
Mince Pies (especially for Betty Crumble)

*Emergency stocks for a drawer*
Cereal
Porridge oats
Tinned macaroni cheese
Mug Shot pasta packs
Cup-a-Soup

*Other suggestions*
Thermos flasK of tea or coffee
freeze sandwiches for the week or buy/make pasties, sausage rolls, and take them out in the morning.
Freeze bread and make your sandwich up using frozen slices, wrap in kitchen roll to prevent sogginess. This is a good way to cut back on wasting bread.
Hard boiled eggs keep for a week in the fridge with the shells on
Wraps instead of sliced bread


*.... and sneaking in here.... Breakfasts!*
Greek yoghurt and granola on top of fruit salad
Toast wrapped in foil asap after cooking - should keep warm for a 10 min journey to the train station etc!)
Scrambled egg (cooked in the microwave) and toast




I 'borrowed' this from another earlier Lunches to Work thread from way back when and I hope 'Shorite' whoever they are doesn't mind that I have. I thought it may help people with some lunch choices

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Lunchees


001 Purplemumof2 17/22
002 danielley 0/12
003 Betharooni 0/12
004 SSDD23 17/17 **TARGET HIT**
005 StartingAgainAt29 20/20 **TARGET HIT**
006 TryingAgain2022 0/19
007 MissyX 0/20
008 LINKYPIE2009 0/15
009 Coffeeandcanary 0/20
010 worklifebalance 6/15
010 Determinedmummy 0/20
011 nicmalauren 23/27
012 Saver.The.Taste 14/15
013 32b3in2013 0/15
014 olaf2014 TBC
015 LemonadeBudget 1/12
016 IvysMom 10/16
017 confusedsaving 14/17
018 savequidalot 2/17
019 Scloud 10/20
020 Willow92 2/19
021 Baldylocks14 2/15
022 squanderscouse 4/13
023 Zoeengland2000 0/17
024 Tink_04 0/11
025 little_green 19/19 **TARGET HIT**
026 Jmac82 5/17
027 Balancinglife 22/22 **TARGET HIT**
028 a_silver_lining 2/7

danielley

Can I join in?


I will be working 9 days in January 2020. But I'll challenge myself to 12 as I need to make savings on days at home too.

Betharooni

Can I join in? I have a week off so will only be in 17 days. Need to start making lunches, which need to be healthy too as I’m on Slimming World. I’d like to achieve 12 days to start with-hopefully can achieve better than that, but want to be realistic.

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Hi Purplemum I'll have 17 for my January target please xxx

StartingAgainAt29

I'll have 20 as my target please

TryingAgain2022

I'm going to go for 19 lunches - that's 12 days of actually bringing it in, and 7 days of making myself lunch working from home. Our team meeting is usually lunch out and I assume I will lapse or forget/be in a tearing rush at least a couple of other days.

Thanks for this challenge, it's a good one and (should be) simple.

MissyX

Can I join in please? I really need to get a grip on actually eating the lunches I take in!

I’ll go for 20 please

LINKYPIE2009

I too am doing slimming world so need to do this. I’ll go for 15 please.

Coffeeandcanary

Can I also join please? I'll aim for 20 days.