Lunches??
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Topic: Lunches??
Posted By: Beachy
Subject: Lunches??
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:02pm
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I am a little stuck for ideas for lunches... especially lunches that can be taken to work & eaten on the run (I'm a secondary school teacher).
Any ideas? 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:11pm
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I love chicken breast in a pita with hummus and salad topped with some plain unsweetened low fat yoghurt and unsweetened chilli sauce. When I was preg I used to chop up my salad veges in advance then wash them again just before eating (I was possibly a bit pedantic).
Another good one is homemade soup with wholemeal toast. Or if you can't be bothered making your own soup get some watties condensed tomato soup with diced tomato's. Tomato soup is full of antioxidants. I also love baked potato's (made the night before and reheated in the microwave), you can fill with: * cheese and chopped chives * sour cream sprinkled with paprika or chilli * homemade gravy For a really really quick option have wholemeal toast topped with sliced tomatos or avocado or unsweetened jam. There you go, that's 1/2 a week of lunches sorted -------------  
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Posted By: Beachy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:15pm
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Great, thanks MrsMojo
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:22pm
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Another thing that I like is cheese on toast with marmite, made the night before and eaten cold. Yummm!
And No. 9 likes boiled eggs. Lots and lots and lots of boiled eggs!  ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 12:57pm
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LOL Ginger. Mine was potatos. Plain baked potatos were pretty much the only thing I could stomach from week 7 - 14 and DH teased me that our baby would look like a potato. -------------
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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 1:34pm
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i worked at subway so i just ate vege delights all the time with diferent sauces to give them different tastes. But i got bored of that and started using the bread and cheese and taking som sgetti or babked beans in the lil tins and toasting them yummy so missing subway now. ------------- Sarah Mum to, Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel  07/08/2014
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 4:28pm
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What about slices of quiche?
With you on the egg thing Ginger, every day egg sammies!! I suppose at least we have moved on from processed cheese now! -------------  
 
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Posted By: Beachy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 5:52pm
Ooh I do love egg sammies! YUM! 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 6:10pm
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I asked the same question last year lol!
I'll see if I can find the thread for you. 
Edit: Sorry I obviously gave the thread some random name so now I can't find it. Bummer! There were some great recipes in there. -------------  
 
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Posted By: Aprilfools
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 6:43pm
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Bobbie your topic was called 'Lunch ideas'. Perhaps someone can put a link on here?? I'm a tech spaz sorry. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kat70
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 8:25pm
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Hi there!
I am trying to be good taking my lunch into work (especially in the last week!) have been taking leftovers from dinner (and heat up v thoroughly) How about a small tin of tuna and some rice? (cook up some and freeze in portions) blast in m/wave at work and add some tinned tomatoes and some veges? If you have a toasted sandwich maker at work, how about cheese and tomato toastie? or spaghetti and cheese? |
Posted By: Beachy
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 8:45pm
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Sounds yum... but isn't tuna a bit of a no-no at the moment (because of high amounts of mercury)??
Usually I adore it!
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Posted By: Kat70
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 8:51pm
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Good point. I love tinned tuna too and there are always different opinions depending on what website/brochure/book you read. I think I read in the little booklet I got from the doctors (the bounty pack?) was in the food safety one..that tinned tuna or salmon was okay but I would be keen to see what everyone else thought too?
Looks like left over Beef Casserole for my lunch tomorrow! |
Posted By: happymumma
Date Posted: 04 June 2008 at 9:10pm
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I just checked the NZ food safety authority website and this is what is says about tinned stuff - including seafood...
Eat immediately after opening tin (hot or cold); store uneaten leftovers covered in fridge and eat hot (never cold) within two days I'm not totally sure but I thought the mercury issue was only if you ate heaps of it! |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 8:04am
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Here's the link to Bobbie's thread: http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7877&KW=lunch+ideas - lunch ideas -------------
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Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 8:42am
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I lived on Tuna when preggy as I would just buy and chuck in a drawer at work so only had to take bread. You can have 3 small cans a week. -------------  
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Posted By: Beachy
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 2:35pm
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Great, thanks for posting the link, MrsMojo.
And I think I am going to have tuna every so often. My wraps are just not the same without it!!
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Posted By: KABJ99
Date Posted: 05 June 2008 at 3:01pm
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Just make sure that anything that is protein or dairy based is refrigerated and that if you are taking leftovers from dinner the night before that you cooled them very quickly and refrigerated them and then the next day for lunch make sure that they are reheated the whole way through and are piping hot.
Pregnant womman are a lot more suseptible to food poisioning and it's not worth the risk. Remember the saying ' If in doubt, throw it out, if unsure, show it the door' ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 09 June 2008 at 3:50pm
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I find trying to get the right food for lunch is a mission. I never know what to eat. Hopefully some of the ideas here I will like and become everyday favs. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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