Frozen lunch ideas

zcrat41

Hi everyone. 

I'm a farmer and about to go into silly season. I'm well prepared with ham and cheese rolls frozen for lunch. However I get really fed up of them and they're not that healthy. 

I'd normally eat a Buddha bowl salad type thing. Does anyone have any salad recipes that are feeezeable? Lidl used to do these noodle pots that were really healthy and freezeable. Something like that. 

bouicca21

Not exactly the answer you are looking for but when I was working I made healthy salad type sandwiches with frozen bread.  During the morning the bread slowly thaws so is lovely and fresh by the time to eat.

Sky_

Couscous, pasta, rice, or similar with veg (frozen peas, sweetcorn, etc) and ham, cheddar or chicken or other meat pieces, or beans/lentils?.  Or instead of peas etc, the veg could be roasted sliced peppers, onions, carrots, etc (just whack the veg in the oven on a tray with a little oil, salt and other seasoning, until the veg softens a little).  All those foods freeze, so once it's made the salad could be seasoned to your taste then frozen in small pots.
Couscous can be made with cold water so it's good for quick and easy salad preparation.
Or wraps filled with meat, cheese or beans/lentils and roast veg can also be frozen.

cornishchick

I used to put couscous, a  crushed stock cube and a hand full of frozen veg or grated fresh veg in a food flask, than add hot water and put the lid on about 20 minutes before I wanted to eat, like a homemade noodle thing, it also worked with the really cheap noodle packs you can get. 

maman

Id have thought you could make up noodles, mix with some sweet chilli sauce add some chopped veg to make it healthy and freeze that. If you use veg like peppers, spring onions, and peas it won't matter whether they're cooked or not. It's similar to what cornishchick suggested but having it cold IYSWIM. 

kacie

Not salad, but you could freeze quiches, pasties, savoury muffins, adding as much veg as you want to each. 

zcrat41

These are genius ideas thank you 

Melanieforum

I guess from the sarnis that you are sometimes looking for something that defrosts itself along the way. Id go for a box of precooked frozen rice, with frozen little norwegian prawns and sweetcorn or petit pois, take a bottle of hot sauce, this should defrost itself and be ready to eat when still chilled (dont let it become warm obviously
Thanks for being a Farmer. Double thanks if you are able to do any free range/less pesticides or whatnot.

[Deleted User]

You could just freeze the buddha bowl and grab the leaves on your way out 😉 buckwheat, quinoa, millet, rice etc all freeze well as do pulses - I used to eat buddha bowls regularly (although they didn't have a name when I started! 😂) and always made too much grain, pulses and veg so used to whack the dressing on them then freeze and add the raw greens and avocado them when I used it up 😊