Ok you lot, this might help the weight thread as well :) :)
I need a quick and easy lunch.
I have gone off sarnies after 9 1/2 years!!!!
What can I have instead that needs to be quick to make and last in a lunck box :) :)
Lea :) :)

cold pasta salad?

cook up the pasta and boil an egg the night before then through it all together in the morning.  takes minutes in the mornings but will happily last all day.

What else would you have with it?????
I do one with loads of different ingrediants, but ad salad cream which is pronbably not the healthiest!!!!
Lea :)

I chuck anything and everything in mine - just so long as the eggs and pasta are cooked the night before as that's what takes the time.  I kind of see what's in the fridge and throw it all in!

A lemon juice based dressing is really nice and fairly healthy!

Wraps or pasta salad :)

Pitta sandwiches or wraps with chicken or ham and salad?

Also we do a pasta with tuna, mayo, tomatoes, cucumber, spring onions, (and any other salad stuff), mix it together and I could snack on that all day!!!! :D

depends whether its something you want that is quick and easy to take to work or you could heat up?

:)

Something hot would be a nice homemade minestrone soup :)

>Something hot would be a nice homemade minestrone soup 

Ah but homemade soup is only good with fresh bread smothered in butter :D :D :D
Lea :) :)

Cant heat it as in a van for lunch LOL
Sounds like pasta is the way to go, as wraps I cant eat properly as cant bite on my front teeth!!!!
I dont like dry stuff so next question.
A nice dressing that I can make and put in a jar in the fridge and use when needed :) :)
I think salad cream or mayop is probably a bit to fatty for my dieting regime :)
Lea :) :)

Use a flask ;)

They do loads of fat free dressing in the supermarkets or make one up using extra virgin loilve oil as it is very good for you :)

Come on, your talking to someone who needs recipes as I am usless at thinking what would go together!!! LOL
I can cook but am not very adventurous with new things LOL
So what would you put with olive oil???
Lea :)

Here are a few :D

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,olive_oil_dressing,FF.html

I do like one I do with balsamic vinegar as such a lovely flavour

Just EVOO, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice and season well.

what about cereal?  you can get milk and take the cereal with some fruit in a bowl.  I prefer to eat cereal at lunch or for tea than in morning.  Could be a good time to do the special k challenge?

sainsburys do a really nice 3 bean soup, I take it to work in my food flask and eat it straight out of the flask.  There is loads of stuff you can put in a food flask, I take in veggie chilli, tuna pasta, curry from the night before.  Have a look on the weightwatchers website, there are some really nice recipies on there that are low fat.  We constantly use my weightwatchers cook books - had scallops with prawn pancakes last night :)

Food flask and soups...not 'cream of' type though, do try to forgo the bread.
The metalic flasks are best to use a lot safer.
Karen (who is failing miserably to diet)  :-(

cereal, greek or natural yoghurt and fresh fruit, really filling and sweet so less craving for sugar. maybe make yourself a risotto and keep in in a thermos (there will be recipies on the net). its not super healthy but would keep you warm and very full all day, you'll not need anything else, so how about stovies? (can't remember where your from...do you know the joy of stovies?)

oh!, also new covant garden do little pots of porridge you microwave. if you don't have a microwave at work a theroms is also good. porridge is cozy warm, filling and pretty good for you.

pasta has got heaps of calories in it!!!

More than bread and butter????
Lea :D

I weigh everything I eat, including pasta.  By following weightwatchers you can eat anything within reason.  I make a pasta lunch with tuna for about 6 points, and I get 18 points a day so not bad at all.  2 slices of bread is two points but no where near as filling.

Go for wholemeal pasta - it's miles better for you than the white as it is not as refined and so a more complex carb (or something like that!).
Filling and a slow energy release to stop you getting the muchies later on - in theory anyway!

What about cous cous?  i love it with pesto, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms :-).