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?

Rye bread, Philly and smoked salmon open sandwich

Baked sweet potato with burrata and spinach. I bake them when I'm cooking in the evening so I only need to heat them up at lunchtime

Today I had left over roast chicken in a roll with some "baby" leaves from a packet and garlic mayo. I might have a yoghurt about 3.30.

Tomorrow will be the last of the chicken and roast potato, chopped, added to a frying pan with a couple of eggs and a handful of frozen peas.

I just try to have nice leftovers from evening meals and switch up how I use them.

Or I make a massive bowl of this!
Delicious and gets better through the week
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/classic-bacon-broccoli-salad-recipe/

I keep wholemeal pitta bread in the freezer, one toasted and filled with anything, hummus, cheese, meat, feta, and salad. There's nearly always something in the fridge to stuff a pitta!
Or, omelette. I also always cook extra veg, portion it up and freeze. If I buy a bag of jacket potatoes I cook them all, and freeze. You can cobble together a healthy lunch cheaply.

Tin of chickpeas, olive oil, salt and pepper, chopped spring onions, tomatoes, cucumber, feta
You can swap the feta for tuna and use different flavourings such as chili flakes, garam masala, ras al hanout depeending on what you fancy

I do for 3 days at once:
Fry onions, mince (pork, turkey or chicken at lunch time). Add tin of toms and fajita spice and any veg to bulk it out Leave it to simmer for 15 mins.
Take little time and v tasty just for a lunch.

On WFH days I make myself a single portion of really simple soup sometimes.

We always have a bag of frozen mixed veg in the freezer. I chuck a couple of handfuls in a saucepan with half a stock cube. Boil gently for 10 minutes. Blend with a stick blender then add half a tin of kidney beans and warm through again. Season and done.

Jacket potatoes, like a PP says either put in the oven or air fryer mid morning or you can batch cook them, freeze and microwave them from frozen in a few minutes.

Not a hot meal but I like making myself a mini cheeseboard at the moment. M&S do individual portions of various cheeses that are 5 for £4 and I like having those with some nice crackers and fruit e.g. today I had brie with oatcakes and raspberries.

Waiting to find out that this fills you up so much you couldn’t possibly have another thing until breakfast the following day. Love the competitive undereaters food threads bring out.

OP, I tend to just have leftovers. Today was chicken supreme.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spicy-cauliflower-halloumi-rice

Today I had:
Lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot with half a pack of spicy micro rice & some chopped chicken with sriracha mayo. This also travels into work quite well.

I also like smoked salmon, scrambled eggs & a bagel.
Omelette.
Chicken and cranberry bagel.

I feel I'm just naming foods now.

Ive been having the same thing on repeat for weeks.

Wholemeal toast with peanut butter, sliced banana and cinnamon. yum....

Mostly a pitta bread with fillings like salad with chickpeas, beans, tuna, chicken or feta, or with a homemade soup. Usually lentil.
Then some fruit.

Natural yogurt, seeds, sultanas, blueberries, banana. Massive bowl. Biscuit or granola on top if I want texture.

I also like getting good quality bread, toasting it and then mixing up the toppings each day so there's some variety e.g.

Poached eggs

Mashed avocado

Hummus and zataar

Cottage cheese and chopped spring onion

Goats cheese and chilli jam

Mango chutney and bacon

Smoked salmon and cream cheese

I roast a tray of veg (peppers, red onion, courgettes, bns, and garlic) with a tin of chickpeas and a drained tin of peeled cherry tomatoes with harissa. Stir through some cous cous (cooked with veg stock, seasoned well and with lots of fresh chopped herbs and a squeeze of lemon juice). I prep enough for three days at a time. Nice both hot and cold.

I make a big batch of soup every few days and have that for my lunches. It’s super healthy, packed full of goodness and just needs a quick heating up.

Today I had 2 hard boiled eggs, 2 slices of buttered wholemeal bread, lettuce, cucumber, grated carrot, red pepper and spring onions.

Not very exciting but it was delicious, very filling and pretty healthy. 🙂

I often have a similar lunch with tuna, ham, smoked salmon, hummus, roasted chickpeas etc instead of eggs and vary the salad veg to keep it a bit more interesting.

I also make soup, favourites are leek and potato, roasted tomato and pepper, pumpkin, lentil and bacon, or just made from whatever needs eating up!

Yum!

I slow cook chicken breast with loads of paprika, oregano and chilli flakes, salt, and a squirt of tomato paste. When it’s done I shred it, and add a tin of black beans and some sweet corn. I have it for lunch with a bit of salad each day.

poke tuna/mackerel bowl.
so rice, fresh veg/salad all finely sliced/julienne, tuna (with flavouring of your choice) followed by an egg (boiled or pouched to give a ‘sauce’)

takes 15/20mins. And I think relatively healthy.

I had this as a slightly-hungover breakfast the other day and it was perfect. Popped frozen folded flatbread in the toaster. Whisked up 2 eggs and chopped-small tomatoes in a deep bowl. Microwaved for a minute. Added thin layer of grated cheese (50% fat) and micro for 1/2 min more. Squirted a bit of mayo on flatbread. I did pop a smoked mackerel fillet in the side. Perfect! Very tasty. Very filling ❤️ Pretty healthy.

200g macaroni pasta cooked and cooled
1 tin tuna drained
1 tin mixed beans drained
red onion chopped
gherkins chopped
jalepenos chopped
All mixed together with a bit of mayo.
Kept in fridge.
Does me for 4 days at home. 😀

Or a tortilla wrap, top with a bit of tomato passata. Add a bit of whatever pizza topping you like. Eg ham, sweetcorn, chilli flakes and grated mozzarella. Cook in oven for ten mins. Slice like a pizza. 😀

I used to batch cook soup and take that. Now I have a child and no time, I have a tin of tuna and two spoons of coleslaw each day. Atrocious I know! But I rationalise it's protein and veg so it's ok!