I have seen recently a lot of people asking for lunch and dinner ideas over on Instagram. I think where normally children either have dinner/lunch at school, so we don’t have to plan or think about it too much or if they do take their own lunch into school it tends to be sandwiches.
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I don’t know why but I feel I have to provide something different and a little bit more exciting for lunch to the norm!
Maybe its more to stop my boredom of making the same thing everyday that makes me want to prepare different things or maybe its because I have a little bit more time on my hands than usual, so I can experiment a bit more!
I don’t know but I thought I would share some of the lunch ideas that we have been eating. We don’t really eat meat much so the ideas don’t contain meat but obviously you could add some to ideas if you wanted.
- Jacket potato – we usually have this with just butter or coleslaw or beans and cheese but you could also add some chilli or tuna mayo or coronation chicken.
- Omelette – we usually have this with some oven chips and a side salad. We have mushroom omelette but you could also have ham or bacon.
- Cheese on toast
- Beans on toast
- Scrambled egg on toast
- Boiled eggs and soldiers – Dippy Egss
- Hot cross buns or teacakes
- Sausage sandwich – maybe with a fried egg added too – yum!
- Wrap pizza’s – This has been one my personal favourites. Wholemeal wrap with a splodge of BBQ sauce spread over it, topped with mozzerella and add sliced mushrooms and some tinned sweetcorn and pop in the oven at 220 degrees for 6 mins.
- Pitta pizzas – similar to above but on pitta bread instead.
- Houmous and crudités – we like to have cucumber, carrots, pepper, sugar snap peas and celery.
- Pizza twists – made with puff pastry and very tasty.
- Avocado on toast – One of my favourites!
- Nachos
- Quesadillas
- Cheese and tomato toastie
- Cheese and mushroom toastie
- Butternut squash soup
- Tomato soup
- Pea and mint soup
- Pasta Salad
- Quinoa Salad
- Baked Sweet potato
- Halloumi salad wrap
- Houmous and falafal wrap
- Bagal and cream cheese
- Quiche
- Hotdogs
- Baguettes
- Ravioli
- Cheese and peanut butter toastie – according to Chloe this is amazing!
- Mini Frittatas
- Cornish pastie
- Couscous
- Orzo salad
- Buddha bowl
- Rice cakes – we top ours with houmous, cucumber, tomato and basil.
- Pancakes
- Burrito
- Pasta bake
- Sausage rolls – We use The Happy Pear recipe
- Veg and halloumi skewers
- Spanish omelette
- Golden rice – One of those 2 min pouches
- Egg Mayo sandwich
I hope you enjoy trying something new for your lunch.
Amy
