Lunch Ideas

[bilsat]

Try a Couscous salad...............


Pete’s Moroccan Couscous Salad

Serves 2
2.5 Syn/each

Ingredients

100g couscous
½ tsp cinnamon
200mL boiling vegetable stock
10 pieces/56g ready to eat apricots, chopped finely
100g cucumber, chopped finely
2 tomatoes, deseeded and chopped finely
Zest of a lemon
1 celery stick, chopped finely
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp fresh mint, chopped finely
1 spring onion, chopped finely
* Pre-cooked chicken
* Runny honey

* Optional extra’s


Method

Place the couscous in a large bowl and add the hot stock. Mix with a fork, cover with cling film and set aside for 5 mins.

Fluff up the couscous and add the other ingredients, add seasoning.
* Add chicken if you want.
Cover and put in the fridge to cool until required

 

[starryskittles]

Thanks for you replies

 

[BuzzyBee]

Excellent idea to search for "work" lunch ideas as it's roughly the same.. though unsure if you have access to a kettle/fridge/microwave.

Besides couscous with different spices/additives (roast vegs, feta, cucumber and tomatoes, chickpea..etc)
you can have things like:
Pasta or rice salad
Pasta with tuna and sweetcorn
Spanish tortilla (or crustless quiche)
cut up into wedges/slices.
a sandwich made from bread within allowance
leftover dinner (pasta bakes..etc)
greek salad or tuna nicoise (tinned tuna in water and a boiled egg with salad, olives and cheese if liked)

 

[ermintrude]

Make extra of dinners at night time, nuke them in the morning and store them in one of these:

or these:

 

[maddison2009]

where are those cool lunch boxes from?

 

[gunsandbanjos]

Those bento boxes look fab! Need to get myself one for uni.

 

[Missjlouise]

Red day lunch crisis

I left the house in a hurry and didn't prepare my day very well!

Its my first day on an original day any ideas for lunch.

I'm stuck in the office until 12:00 with a hi fi bar

I work near a sainsburys and a tesco any suggestions?

 

[*EB*]

Buy some precooked chicken and remove the skin. Buy a prepared salad and serve with that! if you need to - grab some low fat mayo and syn that!

OR

Grab a low cal soup and syn it.

x

 

[PamK]

Hey All SW Peeps,

I'm needing some ideas for lunch time, something quick, I've bn on SW for 5 wks, it's going well at mo but wud just like to know what every1 else has.

Thanx
Pam

 

[PatchworkPuss]

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/173056-whats-lunch.html

 

[PamK]

Thanks will check it out.

 

[billie1007]

Help - newbie needs packed lunch ideas.....

Hi All,

I don't mind having the same few things for lunch each day so I just need three or four ideas that I can call upon and the rules are as follows..... no soup, little chopping, can eat at my desk, little/no time to prep.

I would really appreciate any help as I go back to work tomorrow and need some help from the Pros!

xx

 

[kingleds]

Get a bag of pre packed salad & some cherry tomatoes. Buy some cook from frozen salmon fillets (2 for £3 in aldi at the mo), or a tin of tuna. Put together in a tub with whatever free dressing you want. Add a hard boiled egg if you fancy. Done!

Or

Buy some already cut up frozen mediteranean veg, cook. Add to cooked cous cos with mixed herbs. Take in tub & eat cold. Add some cooked ham or chicken.

Or

Leftovers from the night before in a food flask if you don't have access to a microwave.

 

[BeckyT]

You say you can't have soup, does that mean that mug shots are out of the question?

Why not try alternating what you put in a salad? You could have tuna, couscous, pilchards in tomato sauce, Sainsburys do a tinned lean ham that is free.

Another option would be to cook some pasta the night before and have it cold if you don't have a microwave. Oh and you could always make a slimming world quiche the night before too

 

[kingleds]

You will get more efficient as well so food prep doesn't take up as much time. After 8 months on SW i can now cook dinner, make my lunch & breakfast for the next day in 45 mins total x

 

[felicity62]

rice salad, cooked rice/peas/onion/ low fat dressing and if you can spare a hex a add feta and if you have a hex b have a small brown roll or ryvita with it

 

[PatchworkPuss]

There are loads of threads on this already - here are just a few of the ones that comes up when you do a search

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/141272-ideas-lunch.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/156307-packed-lunch-hungry-man-lol.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/157071-help-lunchbox-type-food-please.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/155574-lunch.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-wo...acked-lunch-not-salad.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/170604-what-do-you-take-work-lunch.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/202844-quick-easy-lunches.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/203062-packed-lunch.html?highlight=lunchbox

http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world/189722-lunch-ideas.html?highlight=lunchbox (this one has over 200 replies)

 

[AnnaFaraday]

Are you sharing an office? In which case, fish and hard-boiled eggs might not be the best choices.

 

[alexisemma31]

The obvious is quick and painfree; salad with chicken/tuna/cottage cheese etc.

Cous cous with roasted veg is delicious, I've just made some for my lunch tomorrow.

A good idea, which is what I try and do is make extra when I am cooking a main meal and save some for lunch the next day.

 

[JackieN]

sw quiche think i'm addicted to it and all of my family pinch it too