Savoury baking for lunchboxes?

[CharlotteBronteSaurus]

What do you make? I would like some recipe ideas as we are all getting bored with sandwich/veg sticks/babybel. Ideally stuff that last well or freezes.

Mini quiches made with ready made puff pastry in muffin tins are pretty simple - if you knock up a batch of 6 or 12 with varied fillings they'll keep for a few days
Seedy/veggie/savoury muffins also good

ooh i like the sound of mini quiches. I am a novice though - do you have a recipe for the eggy bit (probably can manage the ready made puff pastry )?

Mini savoury pasties again using ready made pastry, cheese straws are fool proof.

Funnily enough I do mini quiches and savoury muffins for lunch too. I use the recipe from

http://justbento.com/handbook/guest-post-articles/bento-sized-mini-quiches. It is very easy and freezes well too.

They look fab - am definitely going to try those. Thanks.

Sausage rolls

Yes, I use ready made puff pastry and sausagemeat stuffing. lush.

cheese scones

Cornish pasties

Cheese straws
pasties
cheese scones
spinach muffins
little quiches
sausage rolls

potatoe rosties, pizza, any leftovers from dinner the previous day, really.

cheers for the ideas, and especially the quiche recipe, which looks perfect.

Pastry that has been sitting around in the frudge or freezer is IMO very unappetising - soggy sausage rolls, soggy bottomed quiche, soggy pasties. Unless they have been freshly baked I wouldn't want them in my lunch box.

I would go for savoury muffins/scones or a savoury bready type of thing like empanadas or pizza. Or how about slices of spanish omelette.

I freeze cheese straws cut out in biscuit shapes uncooked, then get a few out to cook at a time. They just need a few minutes to defrost a little and then popped straight in the oven. Cooked cheese straws do not keep/ freeze well, they taste dry!

I freeze vegetarian sausage rolls (made using the fresh pre-rolled puff pastry from the chilled cabinet rather than the frozen) uncooked too, it works a treat, no soggy bottoms!

Oh and cheesey scones freeze really really well uncooked too, I have some fruit ones in the freezer right now to cook up for pudding tonight with jam and clotted cream!
They sometimes need a little longer in the oven than the recipe says...

We like cheese flapjacks

Leftover uncooked pastry with parmesan and or sesame seeds/ paprika sprinkled on then roll it out again, cut into slices or squares and bake. Really nice. Homemade pretzels are amazing too if you've time. Loving these suggestions.

try nigella's mexican lasagne (google recipe) is yum, and slices up well when cold

Pasties - you can make mini size ones. Current fave is the swede and potato pasties in the Veg Everday (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall). If we have pizza at the weekend, I make extra dough and make pizza buns - roll out the dough, spread with the tomato, sprinkle toppings & cheese then roll up, slice and then bake. They puff up into tomatoey filled buns

There's a great recipe on MN for goats cheese and watercress muffins. They are delicious and freeze/thaw really well.

I Can Cook's Popovers are quite good.

This isn't a "savoury baking" suggestion, but if you are having rice / pasta /potato for an evening meal, cook a bit more, then mix with veg (e.g. peas/sweetcorn/carrot/chopped cucumber/pepper...) optionally meat (e.g. ham/chicken) and mayonnaise for something a bit different to a sandwich.