Packed Lunch Ideas

Aside from the usual sandwiches and wraps, I like having cous cous with all manner of veg thrown in. you could do him pasta with pesto and chicken, thats filling and healthy. how about soups in the thermos? Or leftovers from dinner? I had leftover rice with chorizop and veggies in for lunch today - and yoghurt.

Mine have a drink, sandwich, fruit, cheese or yoghurt, crisps and something sweet.

Pretty much standard from what I've seen.

I like making fusilli pasta with chopped up peppers, sweet corn and onion with chicken and bacon and some honey mustard dressing. It's yummy!!

Also my H likes homemade soup in a flask with some bread.

Does he like white onion? In the winter I used to made chopped up peppers, red and white onion and sweetcorn and fry them (we had an actifry so it was healthy!) and let it cool, put a spoonful of spreadable cheese and heat in the microwave at work (also works in thoses flasks though) The cheese melts and makes it all goey and yummy!!

Nothing wrong with this. Plus, if you give him sandwiches, he can swap with mates (not sure he'll have much bargaining power with cous cous).

Also with what he has for lunch, it makes it easier for him to eat when he's walking round the school, playing football or at a student cabinet meeting. He very rarely eats in the canteen.

I want my lunches for school (work) made for me!

Today I had the worst cous couc in the world. Im still sad about it.

I'm boring and I'd just do the same as I do for H- sarnie, fruit, yogurt, banana muffin, crisps

Just asked Boy what he took for lunch - sandwiches (potted meat filling), crisps, fruit. He reckons if his Mam had given him pasta salad, he'd have been beaten up.

Whats this?

Imagine reclaimed meat (scraped off the factory floor) pasted with loads of salt and sold in little jars. You can buy it in supermarkets, in the jam aisle. It's like a really really cheap and disgusting pate. In mitigation, Boy says his was homemade by the butcher, so marginally better maybe. I used to have it as well, in beef and crab flavours.

Oh Paste!

The worst one is the crab paste which often has sharp bits in it. I image claws, shells or similar. Urgh- my mum used to out it in my sandwiches.

Even worse- my dad frequently trots of to work with Brawn sandwiches *voms*

Ooh beef paste, I used to have that. Maybe why I'm vegetarian now

Ha, me too. Maybe there is a higher incidence of vegetarianism in children of parents who feed them crap meat products?

It's called Potted Hough in Scotland. It is rank. We sell it in our shop and it is unbelievably popular. It's by a local butcher and apperantly lovely but I couldn't bring myself to eat it. My brother and the cat will eat it but that's it.

Some little cocktail sausages would be lovely. Its what I've been taking to work lately.

And yes, I've never had Potted Hough (looks ming) but MIL loves it.

I'm a sarnie and crisp kind of girl!!

Sometimes we do rolls with meat (ham, pastrami, ox tongue, beef) & salad or chutney. Also a couple of little tupperware boxes with nuts & rice crackers or sweet things like chocolate buttons & dried fruit.

Or a big box of salad with leaves, tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot, radishes, pepper, grapes, onion (red or pickled), meat, hard boiled egg (yum) & maybe some potato salad or coleslaw.

Have slightly changed our salad this week - made a big bowl of homemade coleslaw at the weekend (red & white cabbage, spring onion, carrot, peppers all shredded & a dressing of mayo, white vinegar & a tiny bit of sugar) then add meat, cherry tomatoes, rocket etc

Yummy but he might not survive long taking a salad to school!