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Ideas for meals that are nice cold next day

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ifonly4 · 14/10/2015 10:03

One day a week DH is leaving at 7am and returning at 10pm (for the foreseeable future). He has sandwiches & banana for lunch. There's no microwave/kettle facilities, so I'm struggling to think of what else he can eat cold. So far I've done a tomato pasta and quiche followed by grapes. He did say he'd eat spag bol cold, but I wouldn't fancy that myself. Also, needs to be something he can eat picking at with a fork or spoon, as he'll need to continue working while he eats.

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ToastedOrFresh · 19/10/2015 02:58

Salad nicoise is good for picking at. It's cooked green beans left to go cold. Add quartered hard boiled eggs, anchovies, olives, croutons, lettuce. Google a recipe in case the one above isn't quite correct.

I like cold lasagne but I think that's already been suggested.

I used to go to two evening classes on a Monday night. The second one was a forty minute drive from home. I used to make chilli con carne, leave it to go cold, cook some rice and when that had gone cold I mixed them together. It was tasty, not perfect but it meant I didn't go hungry.

Same deal with pasta Bolognese. Cook some pasta shapes i.e. quills or shells leave them to go cold and mix into the cold sauce. I used to put mine in a freezer bag as the seal did not leak then eat it out of the freezer bag with a spoon in the car outside of the first evening class before driving to the next evening class.

I also made a curry, and cooked the rice. Left both to go cold, mix them together, put it in a zip lock freezer bag then eat it out of the bag with a spoon.

I've made frittatas before now. Breakfast frittatas I called them. They had bacon and mushroom in them. We were driving a long distance and wanted to stop somewhere at our convenience, not either to early or to late dependent on whether we could stop in a town and would they still be open ?

Make up a snack box of cubes of maybe, cheese, chunks of cucumber and carrot, grapes, apple, pineapple, tomato, raisins, kidney beans maybe quarters of hard boiled egg so he can just pick at these as the day goes by.

Would he eat tinned ravioli cold straight from the tin ? Or soup straight from the tin ? I've done this when there's been no microwave and no staff rest area at work.

HelenF35 · 19/10/2015 03:07

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1841643/harissa-chicken-traybake-with-peppers-and-feta

This is amazing cold next day. I have it with cous cous (which is also good cold) mad with chicken stock and chilli flakes. The only change I make to the recipe is that I use normal sweet peppers instead of the ones from a jar.

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