What are you taking for breakfast and lunch at work next week?

[Workyticket]

I'm writing my shopping list - fed up with the usual overnight oats followed by a cheese and ham sandwich!

I only get a half hour lunch and need to leg it from my classroom to the office and back again plus factor a wee in so needs to be something I can take with me rather than make at work

Might be time for salads but I'm always a bit stuck with dressings

When I brought in packed lunches I had:
Pasta spirals with pesto that I quickly cooked that morning and packed in a Tupperware. If I felt fancy I added mini mozzarella balls and cherry tomatoes, rockets, pine nuts that sort of thing
Whole avocado which I then halved and had with crackers, cheese and ham
Tin of tuna and bag of salad, tortilla wraps which I made wraps with. I had mayo in the office fridge
Bagel with any sandwich filling (just for a change from bread)

I tend to have

Protein - chicken, ham, lentils
Grains- half of one of those packets
Plus either a salad or roasted veg

Also sometimes make the mackerel supergreen salad on the BBC food website

dressing in a Sistema pot

For breakfast I have porridge in the microwave so not much help to you

Chickpeas salad
Use a very big bowl. Chop about 5 tomatoes, 400g carrot, 4 courgette (and/ or cucumber) as much celery as you can tolerate (in my case not a lot), and spinach, and add a tin of chickpeas. Mix separately (i use a jab jar) 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 1-tablespoons red wine vinegar, 1-2 teaspoon mixed herb (i use cheap dried mixed herb, fresh parsley or mint (not necessary but nicer), harissa mix (optional) and mix with the veg. Separate into 4-5 roughly 450ml-500ml airtight food containers as required (they will be filled to the brim) (save/get people to save those plastic takeaway containers). Serve with wholewheat pitta (warmed in microwave or toaster if you can). Lasts beautifully, smells divine and copes with the salad dressing being mixed in.

Also dhal, made in the slow cooker

Porridge pot that you make with hot water and a banana or fruit in yogurt with honey and a handful of almonds.
Lunch is a chicken wrap, I buy a packet of wraps and cook some chicken add some peashoots or rocket, a smear of mayo and hot sauce to the wrap.

Pesto prawns from aldi. Lots of chopping up raw veg (peppers, olives, cucumber. Tomato etc), some cubed up cheese (feta), a packet of crisps and a chocolate bar! X

I feel.ur pain I end up with 20m.once dismissed class and gine fir a wee. I gsunin so.much weight so try to.take tasty salad,sprinkle with prawns etc,sometimes add low cal hummus to it. Onli problem is they take ages to eat. Have u thought about buying some nutritional yeast,it cheesy flavour. U could keep at work and sprinkle on ur salad

Dp went to work with 2 small Lidl sausage rolls, a bag of quavers, an Easter brownie and an apple. I had the same at home but a satsuma instead of an apple. We’re trying to save money though so it’s nothing amazing/luxury 🤷‍♀️

Ooh @Icedlatteplease I've just dug a tiny of chick peas out of the cupboard. I bought then ages ago but they're still in date!

I've literally never used them! Think I'll use some in a dressing like you and I've just watched a tiktok video on crunching them up in the air fryer for the rest 🥰

Half an hour school lunch breaks make healthy eating so difficult.

I tend to take the same thing for a whole week, so I don't have to think about it. Next week will be bagels with cream cheese and cucumber pickle, plus natural yoghurt with figs and walnuts. Pretzels in the drawer for snack attacks.

I take breakfast to the gym for after my workout and I too got fed up of overnight oats! So now I just take fruit salad and fruit or Greek yogurt

Lunch if I'm feeling adventurous is roasted veg, hummus and flatbread. Otherwise it's a ham, salad & homemade coleslaw sandwich

Weirdly I've just made a vat of coleslaw. I love it but bloody hate grating the carrots!

I've taken some chicken out of the freezer to cook with some nandos sauce stuff (I need to get better with seasonings and dressings)

Planning jar salads with coleslaw on the bottom, cucumber etc and chickpeas (if I like them once I open marinade/ toast them) and chicken

Roasted veg and houmous sounds good - might go for that next week!

I like fritata, you can but anything in, I like roasted peppers and onions or butternut squash roasted with sage. You can add meat, cheese, etc if you like it.
I really enjoy salads too, marinate chunks of chicken breast in a mix of tandoori paste with natural yoghurt, mango chutney and nigellas seeds. Kept in the fridge it lasts 3 days. I just eat on a really simple salad of bagged leaves with some chopped red onion, celery and cucumber. I take a dressing of fat free yoghurt with mint and cucumber in one of the Sistema little pots.

I'm making a big bowl of Thai noodle salad-red cabbage, peppers, carrots, cucumber, noodles, coriander and peanut sauce made with peanut butter and lime. Think it will last three days with DH noshing some too.

For breakfast, I have the same thing everyday: (microwave) udon noodles in miso broth (made with the kettle) and I add whatever toppings I want/have (fresh or dried chillies, fresh coriander, tofu, spring onions, a boiled egg, sometimes nothing).

Lunch is almost always leftovers from night before or I do boiled/scrambled egg on toast.

I like a food thermos, just reheat some of last nights dinner, put it in the thermos and have that.

Chicken, bacon and Mayo wrap
Southern fried chicken, coleslaw and salad wrap
Crackers with cheese and pickle
Bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches
Cous cous with roasted veg

I'm planning to have egg salad with homemade soda bread for this weeks lunches.

Other weeks would have tuna salad with crackers or a slim bagel with chicken and small side salad.

Always have crackers/yoghurt/ satsuma for picking in the morning/afternoon.

I'm at my desk most of the day except for the 10 mins I take to have lunch, so the above is what I can manage in that time.

I cook up a bag of frozen blueberries once a week to store in the fridge and have a spoonful every morning with Greek yoghurt. With granola if I have any. Keeps fine in a Tupperware until I remember to eat it.

Lunch I like roasted cherry tomatoes with feta, green beans, pine nuts. Some smoked mackerel sometimes too.

Or some roasted veg and cold chicken

Yesterday I had couscous with chopped apricots, chopped mint, and crumbled feta. It was delicious and took about 3 minutes to prepare. My 8yo loved it too.