What do you eat for lunch when at school?

[rollonthesummer]

I've always had sandwiches/rolls, but could really do with losing a bit of weight and feel like having toast for breakfast and rolls for lunch might be too much bread?!

I only get about 10/15 minutes 'eating' time these days and often eat at my desk, so what else can I eat that isn't bread, isn't messy, can be eaten quickly and doesn't need heating up?! And contains zero calories

[seven201]

I went though a phase 2 years of eating either bran flakes or crunchy nut cornflakes. This was mainly down to laziness though. Sorry I can't really help much as I mostly eat sandwiches or left overs or cereal about once a week. I am luckily I'm that I'm near the food technology room so can stash stuff there!

[happyelf]

I take soup in a thermos flask or salads

[DelphiniumBlue]

Soup or salad, plus some protein like hardboiled egg or fish. Maybe a yoghurt or banana.

[Thegiantofillinois]

2 slices brown bread with Philadelphia. Make itwhilekettle boils in the morning, eaten in seconds.nuts/ raisins for pudding, unless someone's nipped out to Asda.

[noblegiraffe]

I'd switch the toast for breakfast rather than the sandwiches for lunch, just because it's hard enough to eat lunch while working without having something that requires a fork or a microwave. Weetabix? I find it fills me up and keeps me going way more than other breakfast options.

[Thegiantofillinois]

I put more weight on making wraps etc cos of the filling :-/ sauces I used.I think.

[rollonthesummer]

It takes me ages to eat soup- I must be a really slow eater!!

I like the idea of a nice salad, but need to be organised and have stuff in and then remember to actually make it!!

[wobblywonderwoman]

Banana and yoghurt most days

[leccybill]

I find wraps a bit less bready and quite quick and easy to eat.
I'm normally finishing my apple well into period 5!

[Jaimx86]

A boiled egg at break, then an
Egg and a tin of tuna for lunch. Plus a Greek yoghurt if I have time

[DandelionAndBedrock]

I have porridge or bircher museli most days (normally at about 4pm ). Porridge reheats in the microwave quickly, or you could just get instant sachets and make them up in a big mug.

[Oldwestaction]

Something like a pasta salad, (prepped at home the night before) followed by fruit and yoghurt. I'm a TA so usually take my full lunch break, so usually have time for left overs from the night before warmed up and some fruit/yoghurt or a cereal bar.
If you're not wanting to eat bread twice could you have eggs or something for breakfast and bread at lunch? For breakfast I sometimes boil eggs the night before and then have them cold in the morning with some ham.

[PinkFluffiUnicorn]

I put salad in a jar, dressing at the bottom, pasta, carrot, beetroot, peas,pine nuts etc then whatever leafy stuff, spinach or lettuce on the top, then I just shake for a nice freshly tossed salad

[Rosieposy4]

I am one of the evil sort ( according to the unions) that swaps a lunch duty for 5 free lunches. I like it, i spend every lunch time with the kids anyway so may as well get some grub for it.
We have a huge choice but i usually choose something like tomato and mozarella salad or chicken salad. It comes with a tray bake or fruit, this term i will deny myself flapjack and munch on melon ( sad face our kitchen staff make the best fruit and seed flapjack in the world)

[TwllBach]

I am of the salad persuasion too - make it the night before while prepping dinner and it's good to go! Otherwise I fall into the trap of either school dinners (cook does MASSIVE teacher portions) or going to the (shit) shop off site and buying sausage rolls carby goodness

[MrsGuyOfGisbo]

houmous or cottage cheese and oatcakes.

[Goldrill]

My biggest problem is not having fresh stuff in at home or remembering (being bothered) to do anything with it.

My emergency solution is:
packet of instant couscous with flavour of some sort
frozen peas (microwave)
half a block of feta chopped up (feta keeping for several decades in the fridge)
... and if I am feeling really enthusiastic I might even fry off a courgette and bung it in.

Not very exciting but requires no effort, and when you find it two days later in the fridge because you forgot to take it, it is still edible.

(PS: The Little Book of Lunch is worth a read too!)

[DameDoom]

I buy a bag of rocket and a bag of watercress which I keep in the staffroom fridge for the week. I have a stockpile of tinned mackerel in tomato sauce in my cupboard and have that with the jar of capers and cornichons.
I have the tinned mackerel for 2 days and then cottage cheese or an avocado on other days. I also keep hard- boiled eggs in my desk drawer. Stinky.
A varied lunch menu, I do not have! I low-carb so I am rarely hungry these days. If I'm not, I just don't eat.

[MauriceMoss]

Our school is opposite a fish and chip shop and also a shop that sells corned beef pie and chips with gravy & mushy peas.

I go there on the (rare) occasions I get a lunch break where I don't need to mark/photocopy/do boosters.

[CharleyDavidson]

I have 2 work lunch choices through the year. Lunch is not a meal for variety and interest, just filling a hole and stopping me being hungry.

In warm weather it's always salad. In colder weather it's soup. But in a mug so it's quicker and easier to drink from the mug rather then using a bowl and spoon. I do finish it off with a cereal bar and some fruit but am trying to ditch the cereal bar habit.

I don't eat breakfast either.

[ninnypoo]

Usually I alternate between a bagel with Philadelphia or instant cous cous with some feta. Or buy a jacket potato from the shop over the road (though that is slowly bankrupting me!)

[RevealTheHiddenBeach]

Our school (primary ) we get free school lunches if we eat with the chn. I find it forces me to sit down for 10 mins and eat properly, and as long as I stop the lovely kitchen staff from piling the plate high then it's a relatively healthy option!

[BizzyFizzy]

I have school lunches. I try to avoid breakfast and tea, but the flesh is weak.

[phlebasconsidered]

I make a vat of soup every weekend with veg and pulses. It lasts all week and I just microwave it in the morning and stick it in a flask. If it's a staff meeting late night I take bread to eat with it.

If I don't do this I eat all the doughnuts in the staff room or pot noodling. I have to eat a good lunch. If I eat sandwiches or pasta I am too sleepy for afternoon teaching!

[OneOfTheGrundys]

Salad. Hard boiled egg, a pitta and hot sauce.

Home made thermos soup in winter. Plus pitta.

I keep a tin of tuna or veg/bean soup and miso sachets in my locker for emergencies.

I have Bircher style muesli for breakfast. Keeps me full til lunch at 12.30 but I am ready to kill if I don't get my lunch by 12.31.

I am overweight though. So perhaps my dietary advice is not so good!