They all love chicken in sandwiches so yesterday when I did my shop I bought a small chicken in Aldi for £2.69 and slow cooked this. It works out to be a very economical sandwich filling if you get chicken this way rather than slices of prepacked stuff. I stripped all the meat from the carcass and popped the carcass back into the slowcooker last night to make some stock. I got a lot of meat from the chicken and this will be used for sandwiches for my lot over the week. Last night I cooked off a couple of smokey bacon rashers and chopped them with some chicken into mayonnaise. This was their sandwich filling for today. I will use some with sweetcorn and mayonnaise for another day and will make a coronation chicken filling too. I will portion the chicken up into bags and freeze after today to keep the chicken fresh. I'm sure there will still be plenty to make a chicken salad sandwich at some point. These fillings will be alternated with tuna mayonnaise and some of the fillings I've listed below this week. These are things I regularly make for packed lunches -
Ham & tomato
Ham, salad & mayo
Chicken, smokey bacon & mayo filling
Chicken, bacon,sweetcorn & mayo filling
Chicken, sweetcorn & mayo filling
Tuna,sweetcorn & mayo filling
Tuna, onion & mayo filling
Egg mayonnaise filling
Boiled egg, lettuce, cucumber & tomato
Cheese, lettuce, cucumber & tomato
Cheese & tomato
Tomato & tuna pasta salad
Tuna & sweetcorn pasta salad
Cheese, onion & potato pasties
Mini Cheese, tomato & onion Quiches
Slices of homemade pizza
Homemade sausage rolls
Had some leftover mashed potato from yesterday and a little pastry from Sundays pie so made a cheese, onion & potato pastie for daughters lunch tomorrow. Popped it in the oven to cook whilst my bread was cooking.
Can you think of anything else I could make for packed lunches?
WEIGHT LOSS
Breakfast - Small bowl branflakes, small banana, skimmed milk
Lunch - 2 slices toast, 1/2 tin pilchards, large grilled tomato & shredded lettuce
Dinner - Medium portion pasta, quorn bolognese, little sprinkle cheese
Work packup - Crabstick salad sandwich, apple & a cup-a-soup
I am using tortilla wraps a lot more these days - they keep the filing enclosed and providing I soften them for 15 secs in the microwave before rolling, they don't split - and if the filling is moist, they dont need butter so are less fattening.
ReplyDeleteToday's lunch was made with leftovers. I chopped up the end of a cucumber, half a small carrot, two small pears and the final quarter of a lettuce. Mixed with small handful of peanuts - more xmas leftovers - made a sauce from mayo, yogurt and a spoonful of curry paste. Then added a flaked fillet of smoked mackerel. spooned that between 2 wraps and bingo, lunch for both of us.
If we are eating lunch 'out' I wrap the wraps in clingfilm, if we are at home, I spear them with a cocktail stick to hold them together on the plate.
A warmed wrap spread with nutella and filled wit chopped banana - and a few chopped nuts if available - is good too.
I love pate with some crusty bread/ french stick. I buy it in the small tubs from S'burys or Asda - it's around 65p for a tub , and as it does a few lunches it's very economical - suitable for a lunchbox too. KL often 'can't be bothered' to make tuna/mayo either!
ReplyDeletepacked lunches won't get boring with all those sandwich fillings. My kids aren't big fans of sandwiches. Eleanor enjoys taking things like pizza, chicken legs or sausage rolls to school instead of sandwiches.
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