Packed lunches

I'd be wary of eating too many of those noodles. They don't have much "good for you" stuff in them - just lots of refined carbs, usually quite a bit of fat, and lots of salt in the flavouring. you're better off having something wholemeal and with more veg in it.

I usually have:
sandwiches - peanut butter & banana, cheese & pickle, cheese & tomato (try pitta bread, bagels, etc, as a change from "normal bread"? Use wholemeal bread if poss and don't use butter or marg, you don't really need it)

salads e.g. lettuce, potato (cooked), green beans (cooked) hardboiled egg, french dressing (home made or bought)

cucumber, tomato, few olives, feta cheese, dressing of lemon juice & olive oil (not that cheap, but so so tasty!)

pasta or rice salad e.g. cold rice, chopped tomatoes, parsley or coriander, lemon juice & oil - similarly with chickpeas

couscous salad - what's very easy is to get one of the flavoured packs and then add a suitable veg, e.g. garlic & mushroom couscous with frozen peas; sundried tomato couscous with chopped tomato. cheaper to make your own flavoured couscous tho.

cold quiche

Katgoddess wrote:

I've just made the soup with noodles for my lunch today as an experiment, because I have to work tomorrow :mad: and the canteen is shut. I shall be making it tomorrow morning and putting it in a Thermos.

A very nice meal for a price of Super Noodles. (I used a tin of Morrisons soup )

Thanks :j

you might want to rethink this and not add the noodles in the morning

I once took noodles into work in my wide necked thermos and they were REALLY slimey and overcooked by lunchtime (mind I did put them in at 6am and didnt eat til 1pm). do you have access to a kettle to do what sarahsaver suggested and put the noodles in boiling water for two mins and stir and serve when you want to eat. yum!

Has anyone tried flour tortilla's with a filling?

My son usually buys these for lunch but making them is so much cheaper as they normally start a £1.99.:mad:

On the packet it says to heat in microwave but is it ok just to use them without heating and put a filling in them.

Also what would be a nice filling?

:beer:

If you have a microwave you should be able to poach fish in a tupperware box with a little lemon, white wine or water. Have that flaked over some of a bagged salad is good.

Do you eat spicy food? When you're dieting and cutting out the fat often it helps if you can replace it with some good strong flavours.

I almost never buy shops 'baking potatoes'. They're very large and often take a while to cook. I just get the normal ones and stick a couple in the microwave.

Do you have a favourite list of ready meals that you like but would like to replace with home made stuff. If so let us know and we can try to give some more specific recipies. I have to say that often I slow cook stuff during the week and weekend and box the extra up for the freezer just to take into work. The smell does make a number of people rather envious!:rolleyes:

make_life_easier wrote:

Has anyone tried flour tortilla's with a filling?

My son usually buys these for lunch but making them is so much cheaper as they normally start a £1.99.:mad:

On the packet it says to heat in microwave but is it ok just to use them without heating and put a filling in them.

Also what would be a nice filling?

:beer:

My kids have tortilla wraps quite a lot, I make them without heating them up first but heating does make them roll up easier.