What lunches are you eating this week?

[SmokedHaddockChowder]

To accompany the 'dinners' thread...!
I always find lunches trickier as they can be a bit 'groundhog day'.
What are YOU eating, as I appreciate that lunch (particularly during the week) might be different for each member of your household.

Me:

• M - tuna nicoise salad
• T - tuna nicoise salad
• W - tuna nicoise salad (I eat it x3 as a bag of green beans and large salad bag is the right size for 3 portions! I cook 3 eggs and all of the beans in one go)
• T - egg mayo sandwich on brown bread (to take to the office on the one day a week that I go in)
• F - fried egg and brown sauce sandwich on brown bread (yes I apparently eat egg every day!! 🤔)
• S - fish finger sandwiches with oven fries on the side (made by DH - he makes the sandwiches more interesting by adding Chipotle mayo, cheese, onion and shredded lettuce)
• S - who knows, it's all to play for!

M - chicken and spinach omelette
T - Korean falafels and salad
W - overnight oats with berries and some sliced Turkey
T - lentil soup and crackers
F - oatcakes and beetroot humous

M,T, W, Th, F - nothing. Only eating one meal a day at moment as I am sandwiched between two holidays where food is a round the clock affair. Need to make sure there aren’t duplicate gains.

Ooh interesting, what are those holidays @CaronPoivre?

M Roast beef and anchovy sandwich
T Smoked salmon, avocado and sour cream open sandwich
W Salade Niçoise (Snap! @SmokedHaddockChowder )
Th Tomato and prawn mayonnaise
F Prosciutto cotto, cheese and avocado open sandwich
S Sausage roll and baked beans

Two trips a month apart - one with husband another with two daughters. Cruises, so 24 hour food and drink and high risk for extra rolls around the midriff.

I take sandwiches to work- today is peanut butter and tomato, an apple, a yellow pepper.
Tomorrow fish paste and cucumber, apple, dried apricots.
I'm very boring lunch wise and have those two or cheese on rotation!

Peanut butter and tomato sandwich?? 😵‍💫

Aah I see @CaronPoivre, I didn't know if you meant religious holidays like Eid etc.
Exciting!

@IHeartGeneHunt they are interesting sandwich combos!
I have another that you might like - Coronation chickpea sandwiches. I've eaten them recently and they're delicious.

@AdaColeman you've reminded me about the existence of cottage cheese - I must get some.

Pumpkin soup, chicken and vegetable soup, toasties. I don't plan each day, I just have a rough idea of what I have and use that stuff according with what I fancy.

Peanut butter and tomato is delicious! The tomato adds a nice freshness and counteracts the clogginess of the peanut butter. I have it on malted bloomer bread and it's honestly lovely.

I had no idea that people plan lunch in advance. I just open the fridge at lunchtime and see what's in there

Last couple of days have had a grilled foccacia with cheese and ham in the middle - sort of like a toastie. DH works from home and made it. Todays also had a bit of a lamb kofta in (left over from ladt night). Now it's a bit colder generally, we are having more soup and warm food) as well as just sandwiches. Often re heated leftovers from night before as well.

Yesterday was cold roast veg and rice (leftovers)
Today I had beef curry with rice. (Leftovers)
Tomorrow : chopped salad (leftovers)
Thursday : chicken salad sandwich ( not leftovers!)
Friday: chicken salad sandwich.
Saturday and Sunday : generally don't eat lunch.

I have very random lunches.

Yesterday cottage cheese on toast, banana, rhubarb yoghurt.

Today leftover cauliflower cheese, 1 slice granary bread and hummus, raspberry yoghurt.

I just take it as it comes, scrambled eggs, beans, homemade soup, salad, jacket potato.

Always a yoghurt and some fruit about an hour or 2 later as we don't eat our evening meal until 7ish

I'm not at work today so I'm having leftover ful medames (almost certainly spelt that wrong) with tomato, cucumber, spring onion, hard-boiled egg and mint sauce.

Soup Monday and Tuesday, today was a Pret Xmas Sandwich.....it really is the most wonderful time of the year! 🤣 Back to soup/fridge remnants tomorrow.

I make soup (usually lentil or roasted squash) at the weekend for weekday lunches. I also make hefty salads eg roasted sweet potato, avocado, tomatoes, feta and salad leaves with a lemony dressing . If I have ripe avocados I also sometimes make prawn cocktail.

I also have cheese toasties and beans on toast.

I generally eat leftovers with an egg or salad. This week I’ve eaten;

creamy lentils and sweet potato wedges
kimchi and egg
veggie chilli

And today no leftovers so I made a basic dhal for tonight and tomorrows lunch.

M: Pumpkin soup, feta and roasted pumpkin seeds
T: As above
W: Roast broccoli on toast with seeds and lemon tahini dressing
Tomorrow will be an omelette with spinach from the garden, and Friday will be black bean quesadilla.

I'm going to try it! What would we do without sandwiches?

Monday was leftover Spinach and chickpea curry.

Yesterday was an artichoke and parmesan dip with bread and celery.

Today I've had smoked salmon and cream cheese on toast with a latte.

Tomorrow will be tomato soup and croutons (batch made last week from the freezer)

Friday is my day off so I'll decide on the day when I do the big food shop.

This week I've had

Thai cup soup
Mushroom cup soup
Thai cup soup
Egg fried rice

I am the worst for eating lunch I don't do it unless I find something so I bought some cup soups to try and stop that happening and so far it's worked this week for me!

Monday: Tesco nutty quinoa salad and three Higgidy mini cheese and onion rolls
Tuesday: the same
Wednesday: left over homemade curry
Thursday: out to lunch at Italian restaurant so probably pasta
Friday: nothing as out to brunch with son
Saturday: homemade pumpkin soup (which I'll have for the next three days).