Healthy Lunch ideas for SAHMs

Hi girls,

Well after eating egg sandwiches for lunch today - boring :rolleyes: - I was wondering, what are your favourite healthy lunch ideas for when you are at home?

Or even for those of us that work (I work 2 days a week) what are some healthy lunches that you pack for work?

Some of my staples are:

Tuna salad (basically a garden salad with a can of tuna mixed through)
Cruskits with cottage cheese and tomato
Cruskits with tuna, mayo and tomato
toasted sandwiches
cuppa soup and cruskits/saladas

As you can see, I need a bit of inspiration!

I am really interested in this thread because I never know what to have for lunch.

I generally have a frozen sausage rolls cooked in the oven, left overs from dinner or rice cakes with philadelphia cream. I never have sandwiches because I never have the fresh stuff to make them!! In fact I have to go out today to buy bread LOL.

I usually have sandwiches... that is if I feel like eating.
Today I had salmon with onion, mayo on wholemeal bread.
I love to have lavash bread with lettuce, tomato, grated carrot, cucumber and grated cheese... it tastes so yum and I love the fresh taste.
Otherwise, I munch on fruit because it is all so yum at this time of year.

I have a fave that I used to have for lunch when I was on WW. I still have this every now and then. Neil loves it!
6 cruskits with extra light philly cheese, tuna in springwater, tomato and pepper (or salsa instead of tomato).
Really yum.... low in fat AND high in protein for energy :)

I have;
tuna on rice cakes - great for work!
Salad Sandwiches (when I have fresh stuff!)
Wraps - love wraps but again you need fresh stuff.
Whatever Marnie doesn't eat - which is usually finger food.
Salad
Leftovers!

I think I'll have an egg sandwich tomorrow after eating this thread!

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after eating this thread!

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Food on the brain hey Renee?? hehehehehe ;)

Today I had 2 pieces of toasty I then smeared them with mashed avocado & spread a tin of tuna in sweetchilli on top & then some cracked black peper! Mmmmm yummo!

*Fletch anyreason for doubling up??? LOL

Im boring and usually have toasted sandwiches but i got a new toastie thing for xmas and i am loving it !!

good ideas

rice crakers with basil petso dip & cherry tomoatos (yum getting some now)

Banana roll (I want one now)

Baked potato with sour cream & grated cheese (the other day)

cut square of cook puff pastry cut it in half and fill it with leftovers(last week spag bolognaise meat)

Today - Last nights leftovers (roast lamb sandwich with djon mustard and vegies/broc/cauli whiet sauce)

I tend to make sure we have something leftover like schnitzel so I can make yumy sandwiches or rolls if I can too.

do you think watching cooking segments and cooking shows all day is making me hungry all day !

OMG I am feeling like a baked potato now Trish, do you microwave them (or buy them) I need to find out how to microwave them... YUMMY!

Tracey - I bake the potatoes the night before (I usually have them for dinner then have them the next day) then just zap the leftovers. Yum!

Tracey -I scrub the skins clean and then p r i c k them with a fork about 4-5 times. Sometimes I just zap them - microwave has a setting for jacket potatos but never quite right - start with 4-5 mions for med to large potato and then in 1 min bursts.Soft shell and soft tato.
Or if I plan ahead I have microwave - convection oven I bake on hottest setting for a crispy shell and soft middle about 40 -50mins again depends how big a potato you use.

my fav are leftovers or i make alfredo pasta, and cutt chicken into little cubes, and chuck it in with some cooked peas, corn and ham... very yummy, and the kids actually eat it (even the pasta's good for them, according to supernanny!!)

Banana and sugar sandwiches are my fav... but have only just had my first one in a long time, they were too expensive for a while there!!

I generally have the standard toasted sandwich, leftovers or soup.

But I did have a banana sandwich the other day - yummy! I hadn't had a banana in what felt like years, and it was sooooooo good.

I've just bought the New Glucose Revolution (the original GI book) and according to their tests, Burgen bread is the best bread to have, the best is the Honey and Oats? one followed by the Soy and Linseed. We usually get the S&L but have swapped :)

Yesterday I had tuna and chopped celery with mayo, no butter and it was yummo :) I can post some more ideas if you like the GI stuff. Thing is even wholemeal breads are processed - grainy breads are the best. I have really taken a liking to them, just decided I would change one day and thought it would be harder but it wasn't :) Start small... :)

The best rice if you have rice for lunch is doongara rice followed by basmati.

Ooooh banana sandwiches - I looooove them! I'd totally forgotten about them though because like Simone, we haven't brought them for such a long time. Now that the price has gone down we've been buying them again.

Kelly, we switched to the grain breads a few months ago and are loving them! I don't like wholemeal at all, has to have the chunks in it! We usually get the 9 grain varieties - I love the pumpkin seed one, DH loves the mixed seed one.

We've switched to Helga's (is that a good brand?). We get it for $2 a loaf at our local greengrocer!! It's brilliant!
Neil is in LOVE with the bread and it keeps for SO much longer than the regular bread. I reckon we're all healthier for it too.
We get the soy and linseed and anything else "grainy" though they make a nice white bread too that I get occasionally (makes yummy toast!).

We just have leftovers from dinner the night before. Easy and tasty! Most recipes make 4 serves, so we dish up 2 serves for our dinner and 2 serves go into containers for lunch the next day.

Things like:

• pasta
• curry and rice
• stir fry
• brown rice and vegies (if we had steak the night before – I don't like re-heated steak so I cook up some brown rice instead and sprinkle grated cheese on top)
• frittata and salad
• soup

On days we don't have leftovers for whatever reason, I eat sorta junky things like 2 Minute Noodles, tinned soup, packet mac & cheese etc. Or maybe a toasted sandwich with tinned spaghetti or baked beans. Or just cheese on toast.

I have become addicted to this stuff my mum used to make when I was little - I have it on toast or biccies or on its own

Cottage cheese
chopped up apple
raisins or sultanas or currents or dried apricots or dried prunes or dried figs

mix it all together

It's really great and I am pretty sure it's healthy!!

mmm, I do the whole nuked potato thing too. Might do that after this post. I usually have them split in half with butter, thinly sliced cheese so it melts, and black pepper. Sticking them in the microwave is also a good shortcut to roasting them, when they are just done, cut them up into normal roasting size, then fry up in some hot oil, herbs and stock powder to make them crispy. Its a fave in this house, along with small pieces of bacon if we have any.
Left overs like bolognese go well heated up, then spooned on to bread, topped with cheese and under the griller.. So does tinned spaghetti, baked beans, all that...
If I'm home, often I'll have fish finger, hot sauce and cheese sandwiches.
When I'm out meeting the Man for lunch at those terrific industrial lunch shops, I like (as long as I'm not feeling sick!) a hot roast beef and gravy roll, with cheese and hot mustard, sometimes with fried egg. That's not a pg food either, I have that anyway!

Banana sandwiches - yum!

My favourite lunch at the moment is turkish bread rolls lighted grilled then spread with hommus, advocado, sliced tomato, mesculin lettuce, little bit of mayo, sliced olives, sliced tasty cheese and leftover cooked chicken if I have any. I also like making BLTs with chicken and advocado.

Oooooh BLTs! I love them too. Can't believe I forgot to add them. They are probably my fave.

Kel, i had to start eating Burgen bread when I had to change my whole diet cause of insulin issues (Hypoglycemia) I have a book on low GI foods and have to follow it as strictly as possible or I feel terrible
I LOVE their pumpkin seeds bread, the very thought of eating any other bread now is gross.

I usually eat left overs for lunch or soup. I've never really been into sandwiches

I too am a toasted sandwich fan.

Ham, cheese, tomato
Cheese, tomato, avocado
Tuna, cheese, spinach

Most of the time, I just make up some kind of salad and put a tin of tuna or salmon through it.

I also love leftovers. I try to make extra the night before so that I can relive the joy the next day.

Today, I cooked some rice and while that was boiling, chopped up spinach, avocado and grated some carrot. When the rice was cooked, I stirred through a packet of salmon with lime and cracked pepper along with the vegetables. I then added a tablespoon of soy sauce and a tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce.

I had a great idea last night, tried it, and it taste great!!!
Am not yet a SAHM, but, i like to take my lunch to work, to save money, but, i dont like really having leftovers - big listeria fear that i got instilled into me. Which means what i have for lunch is a huge drama. But, i will cook something at night, and eat the next day, but no longer then that...anyways...just dribbling now.
But, yesterday, at the shops i brought one of those pasta packs in the cold section, with like spinach/feta, cheese/bacon type fillings. I got the beef/tomatoe one, that serves 2.
I split the pack into 3, froze the other 2 serves, and with the remainder, cooked it up in water. When the pasta was nearly done, thru in a handfull of small frozen veges, (i used brocolli). After it was all cooked, i chucked in a couple of diced mushys, and a tin of tomatoe with garlic & basil. Heated it all up at work today, and it was really nice. Surprising so.

I had a nuked Jacket potato today with sour cream some melted cheese and some bacon....mmmm was so tasty.

I have recently started making my own Sushi, as I am totally addicted to it- very delicious.
Another good one is some pasta, with either fresh or tinned tomatos, mushies etc maybe some bacon or ham and a sprinkling of cheese.
I love to make an omelette for lunch sometimes with heaps of stuff in it, mushrooms, tomato, spring onion.
DH makes a really nice dip that is sardines in Tom sauce, with a bit of extra tom sauce a finely diced red onion all mixed together, it is yummy on toast, or with veggies or rice crakers and very healthy too.
On the weekend we make up antipasto plates with whatever we have in the fridge, boiled eggs, tuna, cheese, ham, veggies etc- often we will buy a loaf of fresh bread for lunch ont he weekends too.
Something that you can make ahead of time is mini egg and bacon pies in muffin tins, and freeze them. They are so simple cut out some puff pastry to fit in your muffin tin, chop up some bacon and tom and onion, beat up the eggs with a little bit of water and some herbs, put it all into the pastry in the muffin tin and bake int he over to egg is set. Really yummy and healtheir than quiche.

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Thought I'd bump this thread as I sit here eating my 2 min noodles for lunch :rolleyes:

I'm a full time SAHM again and can never think what to have for lunch - it's even harder when prg because of the 'can't have' listeria foods.

A recent fave to add to my list is jasmine rice cooked in the mircrowave with flavoured tuna (usually tomato & onion) and grated cheese stirred through. Add some salt & pepper to taste and it's really quite yummy! I'd eat this every second day if I could but have to watch my fish intake.

Another fave at the moment is tin spagetti on multigrain toast...yum!

Any other ideas?