Packed lunch ideas please

[mamhaf]

I've posted this in legal/money matters too.

DDs (15 and 12) have £10 each a week for packed lunches...around £80 a month for us.

We're thinking of saving money by all having packed lunches instead...do you reckon it's worth it? (Dh and I already tend to do this).

And if so, any ideas for lowish cost packed lunches for four people?

tia

Our lunch boxes usually consist of sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt and a drink of tap water. You could perhaps allow yourself a treat in there as well and still save money.

Or you can make up salads. I make a potato salad with bits of onion and ham in, and use aromat for seasoning. Combined with a green salad and some coleslaw, it can be quite filling.

Home made quiche, leftovers from a meal (sausages cooked on a BBQ, that sort of thing), pasta/rice salads.

Does this help?

Yesterday I took

Marmite sandwich, carrots chopped into sticks and a golop of humour, apple, banana, two cherry tomato, and two digestive biscuits and a toffeee yogurt.

Tuna and mayo with coriander.

cream cheese and beetroot.

egg and mayo with black pepper.
grated cheese, onion chopped and cherry tomato.

grated carrot and french dressing with sultanas.

grated carrot and humous

Salad boxes
pasta, pesto, sweetcorn cherry tomato

noddles(the fine noodles you put in water for about 5 mins to cook then drain using your hand and the colinder other wise the noodles go through the colinder)
sweetchilli sauce, baby corn or sweet corn, mangetout, cooked chicken or tuna mixed together.

lettuce, grated carrot, tomatoes sliced, beetroot, corn, mangetout, peas - sugar snap peas, with egg or tuna.

I think I eat to much sorry only first line was what I took yesterday.