Give Me Your Lunch Box Recipes

[Groucho]

A cold tin of rice pudding

I used to take Ambrosia rice pudding to parties when they said bring a tin.


Lovely stuff.

 

[equationgirl]

You could make wraps:

Barbecue chicken & Bacon wrap:

Spread the middle third of a tortilla with your favourite barbecue sauce. Top with lettuce & chopped tomatoes (and any other veg you like) then add cold cooked chicken, and some pieces of cooked bacon or pancetta.

Roll up and scoff.

 

[astral]

wraps with cream cheese and roasted pepper.

pitta with hummous and salad.

baked potatoes with salad and feta cheese.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Granny smith apple with a hunk of cheddar is lush for lunch or part of...

 

[astral]

paté and crackers

 

[spanglechick]

i've given up eating bread at lunchtime - same for pasta / potatoes etc - carbs were making me sleepy and i'm pretty sure they made me hungry faster (tho i'm not about to go atkinsy).

For lunch now I have half a bag of spinach, watercress and rocket salad, topped with either prawns / seafood cocktail / chopped up lean chicken breast, which I've covered liberally in a low fat salad dressing (like the honey and mustard chicken tinks was eating at the picnicic.)

I put the chicken or whatever in one of those self seal sandwich bags with the dressing in the morning, then by the time i have lunch it's soaked in to the chicken a bit, but hasn't been able to make the salad go all soggy.

just as quick as sandwiches.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

I certainly am!

You've lost your steering wheel, mate. Probably under all that crap!

 

[SubZeroCat]

I'm lazy and unimaginative so I make sandwiches and a small salad (to put in my little tupperware boxes aaww)

But I know that eating sandwiches everyday is a bit crap.

I know what I need to do - I need to keep a small file with simple, easy recipes and flick through it when I'm stuck for ideas. Sad but effective

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

Try le bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[rennie]

Ryvita is a good alternative. I love with with halloumi!

 

[SubZeroCat]

The problem with me is that I have a huge appetite and need to eat substantial stuff. Even a well filled sandwhich and salad doesn't feel like enough....

Big rice, pasta, couscous etc salads with plenty of veg and or meat etc....methinks..

I'm really hungry now even though I had a croissant at home and then a yoghurt earlier

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

The problem with me is that I have a huge appetite and need to eat substantial stuff. Even a well filled sandwhich and salad doesn't feel like enough....

Big rice, pasta, couscous etc salads with plenty of veg and or meat etc....methinks..

I'm really hungry now even though I had a croissant at home and then a yoghurt earlier

Croissants are crap for filling up on though, I used to have to eat about six hot croissants in the morning and I'd still feel hungry by the time I got to work. I'd be in pain by lunchtime. Plus they're well fatty.

 

[Main Street]

Zuchini/courgette sliced and fried, throw half of it into tupperware add an avocado and black pepper. Cool while you are eating the other half for breakfast.

Boiled eggs boiled the night before - with salad or in sarnies.

Tinned fish but not tuna unless you like stinky breath.

Big pot of something tomatoey, and green veggies with noodles.

fruit is a must at teabreak, lunch

water water water

flask of coffee with cream

muffin for breakfast from coffee shop.

 

[foo]

cheese and tomato sandwhiches with a pinch of salt.

and marg.

classy.

 

[sheothebudworths]

((( foo )))

 

[Masseuse]

I'll fill you up this weekend foo.

 

[foo]

I'll fill you up this weekend foo.

<dutty chuckle>

i'm banking on it!

shall i pack a wind-sheeter thing and a flask of hot tea?

<visions of massy n foo doing the old lady thing on the beach>

 

[sheothebudworths]

I'll fill you up this weekend foo.

(((((((( foo ))))))))

 

[foo]

(((((((( foo ))))))))

gerroff!!!

 

[sheothebudworths]

))))))))))))))))))))))))))) foo ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

 

[foo]

<slurp>

 

[Masseuse]

Pugin's house is doing a grand opening (stoppit) and Vale Square church is having a festival of flowers.

Just tell me to stop when it gets too exciting.

 

[Masseuse]

We can take a lunchbox with couscous and roasted peppers. Maybe even chickpeas.

 

[foo]

Pugin's house is doing a grand opening (stoppit) and Vale Square church is having a festival of flowers.

Just tell me to stop when it gets too exciting.

i'm stupidly excited.

or perhaps just stupid.

whatever. we'z gonna have fun Massy!

i've bought a brolly (with flowers on) incase it spits.

 

[foo]

Maybe even chickpeas.

steady on there!!!!

 

[Masseuse]

Such faith in the great british beach weekend.

Bring the brolly then gel. I'll be doing my sundance.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I used to take leftovers from the night before, and my colleagues used to say my leftovers looked more appetising than the sandwiches they had made.

There's a Nigel Slater recipe for lemon chicken. You can use big chicken legs (I think that's what the recipe calls for), or just use chicken thighs and drumsticks (more economical). Olive oil in the bottom of a casserole/over proof dish, some fresh garlic, just bash a few cloves and put in the dish, place the pieces of chicken on top of the garlic, so the chicken absorbs the flavour better, pour a glass of white wine over, and halve and squeeze a lemon over, and put the lemon halves in the dish as well. I can't remember how long you're supposed to cook it for but ten minutes before it's ready, you're supposed to add some fresh basil.

You cook that for dinner, making sure you cook extra chicken so you have enough leftovers. I usually serve with boiled new potatoes and salad.

Next day, put in a tupperware dish with some leftover new potatoes (I quite like them cold, but if you're fussed, you could chop them smaller, add a dollop of mayo and some chives or something to make a potato salad). Throw in a few salad leaves (my usual was some spinach and watercress) and some cherry tomatoes, halved. Drizzle with a bit of leftover dressing from the night before...

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Another vote for pasta salad too.

Again, if you're cooking pasta with bolognese or another sauce for dinner, instead of spaghetti, cook something like fusilli or pasta shells. Make sure you cook plenty so you have enough leftover. Keep in the fridge overnight. Next morning, put your cold pasta in a tupperware dish, add a can of tuna and some random salad stuff, whatever's in the fridge, some chopped tomatoes, slices of pepper, cucumber, a can of sweetcorn, etc., etc., drizzle with some dressing, and you have a healthy tuna pasta salad...

You could use chicken or other meats. E.g. either roast or get one of those ready roasted chickens from the supermarket rotisserie counter, have it hot for dinner the night before, then use the leftovers for a chicken pasta salad with mustard...

You can easily throw leftover stuff like this together while you're making/eating breakfast in the time it would usually take you to make a sandwich.