To ask what you eat for lunch

[LemonSherbetFancies]

I need some inspiration as I eat the same boring sandwiches every day and always fill up on crisps, biscuits and chocolate alongside it which is making me pile on the pounds. Any ideas welcomed

Today I'm having a Tesco meal deal because I've just done the food shop and couldn't be bothered with the hassle of lunch to! Other days we have things like:

Homemade soup
Omelette
Wraps spread with sweet chilli sauce and either ham or chicken, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and sweetcorn
Leftovers
Beans on toast
Pitta bread with continental meat and some nice cheese, haven't had that for a really long time though
Sometimes just a ham salad roll

• lunch TOO! Just noticed my silly phone thought it knew best and left the 2nd "o" off!!

I love my WFH lunch which is Sainsbury’s nuts and grain salad with a salmon portion in garlic and oil (microwave for 3 mins from Iceland), a small baked potato and some extra cashews or avocado thrown in. It is a big meal but I don’t eat in the evening. I pretty much have this every day. Occasionally I make a turkey mince chilli and have that instead with rice or jacket potato.

@happymummy12345

I don't have breakfast or lunch. I just have dinner in the evening. I don't see how people can eat 3 meals or times a day

OMG, you eat? In the evening? All I can manage is a few specks of dust. I don't see how people can eat food at all.

Chop up red pepper, courgette and tomato, (or other veggies. Spinach, sweet corn, squash, mushrooms, all good.) Cook in frying pan till browned, season, break in two eggs, sprinkle chilli flakes, lid on until the yolks are set, dollop Greek yogurt, eat.

If not veggie you can add bacon or chorizo. Love it.

Soup with homemade bread
Carrots, broccoli and chicken cooked in a sweet chili sauce
Big salads with apple, sweetcorn, cucumber and tahini dressing
Avo on toast with chili flakes and chili oil and sometimes a poached egg
baguette with chicken, lettuce and mayo
All kinds of paninis or grilled cheese
Tortillas are just as filling as bread but don't make me feel as heavy.

I make a graze box with small amounts of cereals (things like cheerios you can eat dry), crackers, grapes, dried fruit, nuts to snack on throughout the day. Or I'll have a nutri-grain bar for a quick treat snack. I've found chopping up fruit and veg and keeping it in the fridge makes me more inclined to eat it. And eating veg with a dip is better than no veg at all!

Today quick noodles with added cooked chicken and stir fried vegetables.

Today I treated myself as actually had to leave the house for a meeting so popped into M&S and bought a salmon poke bowl (raw salmon, sushi rice, edamame beans, etc) ad it was yum.

Usually it would be a wrap with chicken and salad or similar with a packet of lower cal crisps. Sometimes soup but I am picky with soup and only really enjoy pea and ham hock or parsnip. Hate watery and/or tasteless soups.

I pretty much always have eggs atm, 2 soft boiled with toast or scrambled with avocado and chilli flakes on toast and some cherry tomatoes, then I have an organic yoghurt with it too

In summer I like salads but they can be expensive and time consuming

Omelette yesterday, soup today

Only two pages in for the competitive under-eating.

Some days I have leftovers, other days pasta or something quick

Today we had falafel and home made chips
Tomorrow I will have a pizza bread from Lidl

In the past couple of weeks we have had pesto pasta, left over curry and rice.

My DP roasted a massive chicken on Sunday and we've been eating leftovers from that this week. I've made a stock from the carcass which I'm gonna make lentil and veg soup with for tomorrow and Friday. I also made a green curry with the leftover chicken and lots of veg which we've been eating this week. If we don't have leftovers like that, I have an egg or cheese on toast, or I roast some veggies and have those with hummus and feta cheese. Or souped up baked beans (fry an onion with some garlic and chilli and add the beans).

Ugh. Hungry now.

... and I've just discovered Tim's Dairy yoghurts. They are the 💣.

Agree that salads can be time consuming!

I'm trying very hard to be a bit more varied, without taking too much time. So soups as others have said - some home made, sometimes just a tin of tomato soup, usually with some sourdough bread on the side.

This week I also had tuna mayor with avocado and just one slice of bread. Another day I tipped all the slightly dodgy tomatoes into a roasting dish with one onion I'd quartered and roasted them and ate with couscous and feta cheese.

I do try to do a salad for me and Dh at least once a week usually a big green one, with avocado and chicken.

Those hot smoked salmon fillets from the supermarket are expensive but work brilliantly heated in the microwave and served with some wilted spinach (also in microwave) and left over rice/pack of instant rice. we do that once every few weeks after a supermarket run. We also do smoked mackerel with salad which is cheaper but more effort.

Also jackets once a week. Usually just with cheese/beans.

I occasionally do a chicken salad tortilla wrap for lunch, but I rarely make sandwiches with normal bread to eat at home. A lot of lunches are leftovers from the previous day’s dinner, other things I have are a baked potato, quiche, smoked salmon and potato salad, smashed avocado or mackerel pate on toasted sourdough, omelette. I have one snack a day, either mid morning or mid afternoon, today I had a turkish delight, sometimes I have a banana.

@ViciousJackdaw that made me lol

Weekdays: Corned beef sandwich, sometimes with butter, sometimes mayo and sometimes mustard. If I can't get the corned beef (astonishing how often it is sold out) I'll get ham instead. Plus a bag of McCoys (Steak or Cheddar or Salted or Salt and Vinegar) and a Cup-a-Soup (currently on Heinz ones, chicken or oxtail or tomato or minestrone).

Weekends: toasted cheese sandwich or a baguette with cheese and ham or a sausage roll/cheese and bacon turnover. Plus the McCoys. Not usually the Cup-a-Soup.

Mumsnet cliche ‘huge salad’ (it is though!) - plus chicken, salmon, ham, mackerel or tinned tuna, plus some roasted or steamed veg to make it more fitting, plus dressing.

When it’s v cold a small veg soup rather than the roasted veg.

Mashed potato with some beef and veg stew.

I tend to just take a few gulps of air throughout the day. My sense of superiority keeps me going until dinner.

Sometimes it's leftovers from the previous nights dinner - today I've got some herby chicken chunks in the fridge so I'll make a wrap with some garlic dip, some tomatoes and avo that's also lurking around the fridge. Other times it's beans on toast, scrambled egg, super noodles, cheese and ham quesadillas. If I can be bothered I sometimes like to make a guacamole, fry or scramble eggs and then dry fry a tortilla and top with the guacamole and the eggs, grate some cheese over and smother with sriracha. As lush as it is though I rarely have the energy! Cheese and ham quesadillas are our usual fall back these days.

Tesco do a lovely 3 bean chili soup, in the fresh section. It's really tasty and very filling too, and only about 150 calories a portion. That's become a WFH staple during the winter, often with a piece of cheese on toast on the side.

Soup
Salad - usually with mixed beans, leaves, cucumber, tomato, spring onions, sweetcorn, carrot, maybe some olives
Mediterranean veg with pasta, bulgur wheat or couscous
Falafel in pitta bread
Toasted pitta bread and hummus
Jacket potato/sweet potato