Lunch ideas EE

[Winny]

Hi all

I need some packed lunch ideas for work. We do have a microwave but i'd rather not use it as i'm sure it has it's own alien life force growing inside.
Today i had Tuna, pasta, red onion and sweetcorn mixed with a tbsp of extra light Hellmans.
I tend to use my HXB for breakfast too.

Any ideas gratefully recieved

Winny x

 

[Shrimpy]

I usually have pasta salads, noodle salad and rice salads. If i'm too cold for salads, I have left overs lol.

I like a nice noodle salad me- cooked drained egg noodles, courgette, carrot, scallion, peppers with soy sauce and mixed herbs. I also just throw stuff together- a pile of veggies and whatever base, sometimes with meat (chicken pieces, bacon, tuna etc). I'm lazy so it needss to be quick for me.

 

[shell_y]

Pre cooked omelette with salad, rice with veg.

 

[*honey]

Think with the cold weather approaching, i think i'd be inclined to give the microwave a good clean so i could use it.
Then heating up leftovers would be a good option ( purposly cook too much to incorperate 'leftovers')
*Jacket potatoes and beans and cheese HEA or syns or any other topping you like, tuna and sweetcorn mayo, chilli con carne,

*Frittatas and tortillias - cold or can be reheated

*homemade soups

 

[Winny]

Loving all the ideas! Thank you so much x

 

[Lexie_dog]

salads - not boring ones, add in chopped apple, figs, oranges, grapes to jazz them up

Leftover roast veggies and cous cous - all you need to do is pour water over the cous cous and come back in 5 minutes.

Cook extra new potatoes and mix with extra light mayo and yoghurt, herbs, veggies and some sort of protien, even your HEA cheese to make a potato salad for 1.5 syns (mayo).

Mix your HEA cheese in with quark the night before and in the morning grab some raw veggies for cheesy dip and crudités.

Take a flask with soup in, heated up in the morning before you leave for work

Invest in a food flask to keep meals warm, so you can take different things from soup if you really really dont want to use the micro.

Personally I would clean the micro, fling in a bowl of water with a slice of lemon in. Put on full power, it will steam and freshen the micro. Good scrub, bobs your auntie.

 

[Winny]

Wow Lexie dog! Lots of ideas there!
Believe me i have cleaned the micro many many times and am fighting a losing battle.
Loving the coucous with veggies and maybe i could try a special fried rice thingy?? That could work too...
Also.... are figs free?

x

 

[Lexie_dog]

Not only are they free, they are superfree and a Speed food! Fresh only mind, canned, cooked or dried would be synned.

I have once sliced through my salad for tomorrow.

 

[Mrscush]

i do a casserole in my slow cooker and bring portions to work to heat up in the microwave. I am also a fan of making a stir fry the night before, adding prawns / chicken / quorn to a bunch of veg - beansprouts, mangetout, mushrooms etc then chili, garlic, ginger and soy sauce. Its divine! Today i had without noodles or rice, but you could easily add them in on a EE day.

Other things i do is microwave omelettes, pasta n sauce reheated the next day is good too, cous cous (just add hot water!) packets of savoury rice with extra veg and quorn or chicken thrown in - the choices are endless!!

enjoy xx