What does everyone have for lunch?

[Laur89]

Hey all, looking for some lunch inspiration please! We have a baby and a 3 year old so it's a busy household, what do you all eat that's quick to make and filling too?! Thanks!

I’ve had a sandwich and a bag of crisps

We've just had cheese and ham pitta breads, my 4 year old's favourite lunch, with little side salad of peppers, cucumber and tomato. Easy and delicious.

We just had chicken shwarma (we had marinated breasts for BBQ last night but DH brought home spare ribs so we ate those instead), which I fried in the pan and served in brown baps, with yoghurt, quickly picked red onion and onion. DH had coronation coleslaw on the side.

Quiche (with green salad) - normally made in batches and frozen. Sometimes shop bought!
Sausage rolls - ditto. Sometimes microwaved
Cheese scone - ditto. (With tomato relish or marmite)
Savoury flapjack - this is my go-to recipe www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/baking/cheese-and-onion-flapjacks
Omelette
Soup and roll
Beans on toast
John West tuna toppers on jacket potato

I keep making this at the minute but I add tomatoes and cooked mushrooms

I like to spend a bit of time roasting some veggies and then that will do me a few lunches with some cous cous (just pour over boiling water) and feta. Things you can batch cook and then use over a period of days (Crustless quiche, pasta salad etc) are always handy.

Other quick and filling options are omelettes, microwave jacket potatoes, soup and bread or toasties.

I love a quick salad at this time of year. Today was peppered mackerel (straight from packet) with lettuce, beetroot and radish.

I keep going for ripe mashed avocado on toast with black pepper. Dead easy & delicious. And loving fishfinger sandwiches too.

BLT
Can't beat it!

Left overs from the night before. Or batch cook a nice cottage pie and portion it into little tubs.

I've just had some leftover roast pork in a sandwich and a banana.

My DD loved eggy bread or a pean burger at that age.

I mostly have salad. I get out my salad drawer from the fridge, chop up some of everything I've got, add some avocado, some tinned mixed beans or chickpeas and add some cheese/tuna/cold meat (leftoveror bought) and a squirt of dressing or spicy sauce or just a bit of olive oil and lemon juice. Only takes 5 mins and gets a massive whack of different veg into my daily diet.

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I’ve had a sandwich and a bag of crisps

Same - bit of cheese savoury in a warburton thin and a packet of bacon frazzles

Tuna mayonnaise salad! It's so so so good.

Leftover steamed new potatoes sliced and fried. Leftover thick sliced steak, also fried. DH had potatoes and some steak but mostly a leftover chicken skewer which hadn't been cooked so threw it in the oven.

Tonight, it's leftover BBQ beer can chicken reheated in a jar of tikka massala sauce with rice and probably puppodums.

So proper salads again tomorrow. Or any leftover chick still left.

We are pretty samey with lunches. Sometimes leftovers, otherwise needs to be quick & easy and something the kids will actually eat!

• Tuna & sweetcorn pasta
• cheese on toast
• soup/bread/cheese
• sandwich & crudités
• houmous, breadsticks, crudités
• eggs with toast

I might make myself a salad but the kids won't eat that (although DS has been known to suck balsamic dressing off lettuce leaves...)