wraps are always good - have frozen chooken in the freezer (just simple oven bake stuff), pita wraps in the cupboard and salad in the fridge - works a treat. if you're not wanting a heavy lunch, you can do them without meat
we also do this with burritto mince - make it in bulk, freeze in small portion, and defrost for something different at lunch...
we always cook too much of whatever we have when doing a saucy based dish (spag bol, braise anything like that) and freeze in meal sized servings too
-home made sausage rolls (you can add onion and carrot to it) - i find most shop bought ones uninspiring flavour and texture wise
-baked spuds are good - with bacon onion cheese etc (you can keep most of it in the freezer)
-egg salad sandwich
-wedges with bacon, onion and cheese (sour cream if you fancy it) - divine! we do this as an easy feed when the boys are working - filling, but not too heavy
-steamed/bbq'd dim sims
-quiche is always good
-ommelette/scramble
-meatloaf - sausage meat, mix through some veg (we put onion and capsicum), form into a neat little shape, whack it in the oven - usually we top it with a tomato sauce/mustard glaze
-simple vegie stir fry (don't need to add meat, but can if you're needing the protein hit)
-toasted sandwiches! the best - cheese, ham, pineapple or whatever you like. the best ones we have are the ones with left over burrito mince and cheese - sooo yummm!
-nachos - simple - chips, salso, cheese (sour cream and stuff if you like) - if you want it a bit more bitey, use nacho sauce instead of salsa. if you want it "heavier" - use burrito or taco mince. the best way we've done it is left over mince, melted cheese, top with a nice salsa. yummmmm (neither DH nor i do sour cream or guacamole, but you get the pic) - if you're not big on cornchips for a meal, you can replace the chips but you can use wedges instead. take a bit longer though. when we make tacos or burritos, we make HEAPS and then freeze lots of small portions ready for stuff like this.
umm, DH has been home a few days so we have been eating other simple lunch foods and it's inspired me again!
You could make pizzas using pita bread as the bases. I do them all the time and they are far tastier when you make them youself.
Your 8 yr old might even enjoy creating his own with various toppings??
I do a hawaiian one and then another one which has ham, salami, mushrooms on it... yum, feel like one now actually!!
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