What do you have for lunch?

[BigPaperBag]

I’ve always found lunch the most difficult meal of the day for some reason. It just seems to be sandwiches or....nothing! I’ll eat pretty much anything apart from baked beans and ham. Anyone got any good ideas? Thanks.

@Changingwiththetimes

I'm a big fan of itsu and would probably have it every day if I lived near one. Waitrose sells Taiko sushi and other Japanese things and I had one of them today. Or it's a sandwich. Or it's half a sandwich and soup.

Have you seen their cookbook? Soups look really quick and easy, some of the other things less so, but you can always batch cook and a lot of the stuff is livened up by dressings that can be made and kept for a few days.

I need to get my arse into gear finding some of the less common ingredients and then will definitely try a few of the recipes.

Lunch is the best meal to use up leftovers from dinner the day before. I like easy lunches so I eat a lot of wraps, soups, grilled chicken salads, and lots of ramen

Gawd I think soup is so disappointing. I wish I liked it but I find it either thin, watery and not filling or thick and vomit textured. I never feel full after soup. So annoyed that I don't like it.

Calorie counting so usually a hearty soup (homemade if I have the time/inclination) Eggs/spinach/mushroom/tomato’s with hummus with ryvita and marmite or a bagel with avocado/cream cheese. Rarely I have salads but I don’t enjoy them much

I relax at weekends so poached eggs and avocado on toast/breakfast wrap/turn whatever veg I have into fritters/A blooming good or foodologie (all your 5aday in one dish) pot with crusty bread/frozen itsu gyoza kit/pizza bagels/pasta salad/meal deal/leftovers.

Poached eggs on toast today.

Sainsbury (some of the bigger stores) have a fresh sushi counter. By far the best of any supermarket sushi I've ever tried. I'd eat that for lunch every day if I could.

Today, an apple, edam cheese, 2 strawberries and a yoghurt. Am in office though which limits things.

Home made veg soup. I make batches and freeze it

I often make soup, sometimes avocado and a poached egg, or frittata with leftover vegetables, today we had sautéed leftover toast roast potatoes, ham and salad.

@SirenSays

Sainsbury (some of the bigger stores) have a fresh sushi counter. By far the best of any supermarket sushi I've ever tried. I'd eat that for lunch every day if I could.

Sushi Daily? A lot of Waitroses and the occasional Asda also has them.

I often imagined if I wasn't working I would make fabulous lunches.
I've pretty much been furloughed for a year ( I'm a chef ) I have crisp butty or a bounty because I really can't be bothered. 😀

Today I had a Sainsburys skinny burger in a roll, with tomato, onion and a tiny bit of cheese, for the bargain calorie count of 415. Or I might have a BLT wrap, or a lamb kebab in a wrap with lettuce and garlic sauce.

Leftover gousto box haddock chowder from dinner last night for dh and I today.
It made gallons of the stuff so good job we enjoyed it !

A huge salad, with lentils, some falafel or vegan sausage, or maybe quinoa, toasted seeds, sauerkraut, houmous. I love my lunchtime salads.

Can never be bothered with getting anything for lunch, so I don't really bother. May have a banana if there is one there.

I normally wait for tea time and have something then.

Working from home has inspired me to be more adventurous with my lunch choices - previously it was soup, salad or a sandwich.

Here are a few recent menu items:

• Quick stir fry with straight to wok noodles and veg
• Lentil cottage pie (ready meal - I pick these up cheap at the supermarket when on date and freeze them)
• Samosas
• Veggie burger with salad or steamed veg

If I don't have time to cook anything I have an instant pasta or noodle pot, or soup.

For those of you that are sushi lovers, I got a kit for my birthday and have been making it weekly ever since.
I can’t believe how much I’ve been paying for the over-priced supermarket portions when I could have been making it myself for a fraction of the cost. Cooking the rice is a bit of a faff but then only a few minutes to roll and cut.

I only work PT 6 hours a day so don't get a lunch break, so usually has to be something quick that I can eat at my work desk. Usually soup in winter, in summer I have stuff like Ryvita thins with some cheese, cold cooked chicken with some spices and cous cous, salad. At home at the weekend I like an omelette with mushrooms and spinach or tuna salad (I don't eat tuna at work, a bit too anti social!)

Lunch is the most boring meal of the day for me.

Salad pot from canteen every day at work with either cheese, egg or tuna.
Weekends usually have poached eggs or grilled tomatoes on toast.

I bought a soup maker (it was mentioned on a thread on here) and I love it as it's so quick and easy and there are great recipe books on Amazon. Today I made roasted tomato & chilli soup and it was yum. Plus I have enough left for tomorrow's lunch.

(I'm trying to limit the ridiculous amount of toasted sandwiches I've been eating 😂😂).

@withmycoffee I was exactly the same, but have been converted by Yorkshire Provinder soups. They are thick, with actual roast chicken, lentils and veg. I've hated soup forever, but regularly have it now!

I tend to have put a bread and carrot sticks with hummus or some sticks of cheese or salami.

Sometimes boiled egg with tomato and avocado or a tin of soup.

Dh does us cheese and ham toastie.

Quiche and veg/salad

Pasta parcels and shop bought tomato sauce between 2.

Gnocchi and pesto with broccoli

Shop bought frittata

Easy and quick

New top recipie: egg wrap - beat 1-2 eggs per person (3 large between 2 people perfect). Brush frying pan with oil. Pour in egg mix, reasonably thin but covers bottom of pan, sprinkle cheese, let it set a bit the push a tortilla down on it, let it cook a bit more and flip over, cook the other side of tortilla, sprinkle on any other cooked or uncooked fillings then wrap. So yummy! I add chives and spring onions to the egg mix, grilled tomato and added those to the wrap. Some variants have cooked bacon, mushrooms or avocado.

microwave spicy rice and a tin of mackerel in brine

Left overs

Mashed sardines in tomato sauce on toast

Veggie sausages in a tortilla wrap

Bruschetta

Poached eggs on toast

Soup, toast (with avocado or cheese or scrambled eggs), crumpets with cheese, crackers with cheese, some sort of salad thing, mexican flavoured microwave rice packet.

Today I had chopped banana, cereal and Greek yoghurt followed by bbq flavoured hula hoops.