Working from home lunch ideas

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I'm currently on maternity leave and my partner works from home, we always struggle with what to have for lunch and end up with a pasty or something similar.

Give me your best wfh lunch ideas that don't take ages to make!

I eat a lot of omelettes with mushrooms and cheese in, or ham and cheese.

Soup and cheese toastie

Leftovers from the night before

Fish finger wrap with salad / mayo in

Pot of hummus and things to dip in it

I'm not vegetarian but I do like the various frozen veggie burgers you can get. I quite often have two bean burgers and in last 5 mins in the oven I put a slice of cheese on top.

We do roasted tomatoes and onions with couscous and feta often (air fryer so it's pretty quick).

I buy those frozen itsu gyoza - sometimes we have them by themselves and sometimes I do with noodles and crunchy salad veg - spring onion, carrots, peppers etc.

Toasted sandwiches or if I'm feeling gourmet - Jamie Oliver's one pan recipe has a sort of bread cooked in a pan with toppings which we love.

Spaghetti with onion bacon and garlic or prawns in garlic butter.

Soup.

We have the same most days - roasted pepper and tomato soup followed by fruit. Love it. Some days we have leftovers. We make a loaf every day, and sometimes a sandwich or something on toast, but usually soup.

Summer, we have a salad with feta, seeds and nuts. Or tuna with red peppers. Or leftovers.

We have dinner between 6-7pm, so need something at lunchtime, but sitting around too much all day to be able to get away with too many calories.

Quick soup: egg noodles, stock, sliced ginger, chilli and spring onion. Done in 5 minutes.

Hot pastrami bagels
Falafel flatbread wraps
Feta and sundried tomato omelette
Eggs Benedict
Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel
Ploughman’s
Feta couscous salad
Soy salmon noodles
Quiche and green salad
Boston or Tamarind beans on toast
Pesto, mozzarella and cherry tomato pasta salad (or gnocchi, as it cooks quicker)
Pitta pizzas

I’ll often make a big pot of soup at the weekend with beans or lentils in it.
pizza toast
roasted veg and feta or halloumi
pasta and ham and mushrooms with crème fraiche
tinned soup
leftovers
fishfinger wrap
freezer surprise

Fried rice or noodles with whatever is in the fridge

we usually have spring onions, spinach. Peppers knocking around

This week I've had:
Sliced tomates with mozzarella and a drizzle of olive oil
Tuna salad
Cheesy crumpets.
Soup
Leftovers

Others I have often
Cheese and biscuits with olives
Beans on toast
Boiled egg and soldiers
Omelette

What's wrong with a sandwich?

i often make a big pan of lentil and veg soup which lasts for three days if you refridgerate it.
Bagel thin toasted with poached eggs then fruit
leftovers

Nobody said anything was wrong , why be rude?

When I worked from home I would often have a panini (obviously you need a flat panini press for this). Usually with Brie and onion chutney, tuna and cheese, ham and chutney, cheese and tomato purée pizza style, whatever I had laying around really!

Salmon and couscous
Chicken caesar salad
2 of my favourites. I usually make the salmon in the air fryer and make the couscous separately.

@SweetDehlia I was at rude at all .. just confused why everyone eats so much at lunchtime .

I barely eat breakfast so the thought of a meal at lunchtime and dinner is a bit alien to me .

That's all 🤷‍♀️

It's not really eating 'so much by asking for alternative options to mix it up .... OP didn't ask for 3 course options!

sorry but I think your food shaming now :)