What are your quick but satisfying, reasonably healthy lunches

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At home. I like something hot, or maybe it's that it's that someilthjng "nice" but cold, like a proper salad or interesting sandwich, is actually more trouble, but seem to rotate between beans on toast and egg on toast. What else?

Soup with buttered roll. I sometimes buy shop soup but of course it's healthier to make your own in advance and then heat up portions for lunch.

I also have a lot of beans/egg/cheese on toast. Sometimes a quesadilla.

Or leftovers from yesterday's dinner, since sometimes we end up with a lunch sized portion that won't do another dinner.

DIY pot noodle https://rivercottage.net/recipes/diy-pot-noodles/

I will batch make something on the weekend, like a veggie chilli, and then just have that every day. I rarely get bored of it and like not having to think or make a decision on anything until teatime, but I can always change one week if it takes my fancy. I appreciate not everyone wants to eat the same thing every day but it works for me.

If this is for wfh what about a jacket potato? I put one in the oven when making my mid-morning coffee and it's ready by lunchtime and you can then have it with tuna/ham//cheese/whatever you fancy plus salad on the side. Obviously I recognise this doesn't meet the "quick" brief if you're not otherwise at home though!

Or you could batch cook things like quiche, Spanish omelette etc to have with salad on the side.

A tupperware of sliced strawberries, mango and melon with some almond nuts on the side

Omelette with mixed peppers and mushrooms. Maybe cheese and bacon too!
Tuna Niçoise salad.
Smoked peppered mackerel (bought ready prepared) with salad.
Warmed mix veg quiche.

This, by itself, is not a healthy lunch.

Nice! Or a flake of tuna, perhaps, or half a sardine.

Salad with crumbled cheese and peanuts

Jacket potato and cottage cheese.

DIY your own microwave green veg pots.
Leek, Savoy cabbage, cavolo Nero, chinese leaf, Pak choi, sliced Brussel sprouts, curly kale, tender stem broccoli all work.

Shredded / sliced. In a plastic bowl covered by a plate 5-6 mins in the microwave. You don't need the butter but you could add chopped garlic or serve with soy sauce.

Roast veg. Like a pp, pop in the oven at coffee break. Ready by lunch time. (You can get trays of them ready chopped for speed.)

Brie and cranberry on wholemeal roll. (Not so healthy but bloody gorgeous and quick)

Crackers and a banana, I don’t eat big lunches at work though as they make me feel tired

Omelette. I find a 3-egg omelette cooked in a little butter is extremely filling and, very much to my own surprise, I don't need bread or any other form of carbs with it to make me feel full. I follow it with salad and fruit. The omelette takes about 2 minutes to make from start to finish.

One of my favourites, which doesn't take long to make and keeps well in the fridge is tonno e fagioli, i.e. tuna and beans. I use cannellini beans but other beans or chickpeas would work just as well. All I do is slice either red onion or spring onion quite finely and place in a bowl with a tin of tuna canned in olive oil, including the oil, and a tin of beans (drained). Plenty of salt and pepper, a good deal of lemon juice, extra oil as required, lots and lots of chopped parsley (I have some ready chopped in the freezer). I have this with ciabatta or other nice bread to mop up the juices and rocket, lettuce or other salad leaves if there are any to hand.

Omelette
1/2 bag of cooked lentils with roasted veg and goats cheese
quick stirfry with some ham or prawns
fried rice with whatever is lurking in the fridge.

Individual egg bites, basically beaten eggs, mushrooms, red peppers, red onions, feta and herbs, mixed together and seasoned and poured in to individual muffin sized baking trays or moulds and baked in oven, eaten with a rocket salad. Good recipe on BBC good food. They keep for three days. Can re-warm gently . Good for lunches or breakfasts.

Upside down kilner jar salad with layers of dressing first, then chick peas or lentils, roasted veg, salad leaves, dressing, then turn out upside down to serve and eat.

Proper Niçoise salad

Frozen fish filet with veg baked en papillote in oven.

Home made pot noodles. With Chinese veg, strips of cold chicken, Asian veg and flavourings.

Soups: vichyssoises, minestrone, chicken or beef broth

Hearty salad with mix of leaves, cucumber, warm new potatoes and shavings of a gammon ham or an oily fish with a mustardy dressing

Lamb or beef brochette taken off skewer and cooked in air fryer served with small flatbread and salad

Warm lentil pouch with poached egg and salad

That's a snack, my friend.

Big bowl of broccoli, carrots, spices smoked mackerel from the tin

2 boiled eggs with butter
minestrone soup

Green dhal with some cumin and curry seasoning

It's so freezing cold today I made a big pot of Turkish red lentil soup. It only takes 30 mins to make. Enough for tomorrow and the rest goes in the freezer.

www.themediterraneandish.com/turkish-lentil-soup/

Quick Panzanella made with torn-up toast, evoo, tomatoes, mozzarella, balsamic vinegar, oregano and onion powder.

Pan-fried halloumi in a wrap with salad
Sautéed mushrooms and melted cheese on toast

Probably not that healthy but very satisfying

For a hot lunch at home I would almost always default to a tin of soup with buttered toast or bread - I often buy a load of different flavours and have one every day!
If not soup, I'd most likely have a 3-minute fresh pasta with pesto, or something like you have already said - beans/cheese/spaghetti on toast, or a ham and cheese toastie etc.
Now the weather is warmer I've been making a lot of salads - I also take these to work in a tub - basic salad veg plus ham, coleslaw, grated cheese, and those little bacon bits / crispy onions that you can get in the likes of B&M. Or occasionally I make up some prawn cocktail and have that in place of the ham and cheese.
I can't be bothered making sandwiches, so never have those.

@SonoPazziQuestiRomani it does make quick though with 5 minutes in microwave and 8 minutes in an airfyer and crisps up beautifully -

Humous and carrot sticks. Humous and tomato sandwich.

Can’t beat an omelette. I take this to the office with two unbroken eggs in it and a small wrap with salt/pepper/oregano, and then some ham, cheese my top tip feta and cherry tomatoes. Ready in 90secs once you’ve broken the eggs and mixed.

I'd probably have this for lunch dessert!