You need probably 10 plastic containers with lids, so you can do a cook up, freeze and forget ... In my DH lunch bag, I have a plastic plate, small bottle of tomato sauce/ little salt and peppers, and an ol' Knife and Fork and a spoon, I know this sounds corny and I think I need a baby desperatly, but I also have a little packet of wipes .. (lol) I have everything seperated in snap lock bags, so they dont spill, as he has god knows what else in his bag ...
I dont stress hugely about variety with hot lunches during the week, as I say to DH, it's like a production line, and I will mix dinner up, to be more varied ..
Winter Time;
Curried Sausages -
Pies
Pasta Bake's
Rice Bake
A tin of Spagetti or Baked Beans, with Bread to toast, (that's a slack day) I love mushrooms on toast
I bake a tray of muffins each sunday, freeze individually wrapped
Sometimes I make Pizza's from Muffins, topped with Strass/Capsicum/Tomato Paste and Cheese, cook them the night before, wrap them in foil
Or I buy a plain or topped BIG Pizza Base, and top that, with extra vegies/meat, and divide it, for those days you feel like a yummy lunch
I just bought the el cheapo containers, and froze heaps of stuff, b/c my DH has a tendancy to leave his container at work, or in his lunch bag unwashed, and they get a little smelly
I always ask DH what the other guys bring, and he says all of the above, and left over meals from the night before. I try and give him all the carbohydrate rich foods for "smoko", and more vegie based meals for dinner
Oh and I bought him a $10.00 sandwich press, you know the ones, where you butter the bread on the outside, fill it, and close the lid, it was from coles, so if he leaves it at work, its no biggie...
you can pop an egg in, and you have toasted egg sandwiches ..
with my xh I used to do lunches for him when he was doing a 12 hour shift at work - so not only lunches I had to do snacks as well.
Lunches:
pretty much anything that we had for dinner the night before, I also used to do up things like macaroni cheese, lasagne, stir fry, steak & veges, tuna pasta bake, etc & package them for re-heating in takeaway food containers.
For the snacks, I used to do three or four different batches of bikkies on a sunday and package them up. Or cheese & crackers (I used to slice up cheese into thin blocks for him & he'd take some crackers from home), he also used to take those small tins of tuna.
I'd also give him an iced coffee, plus coffee makings in the cooler bag.
ooh yeah - I freeze most things in old jars - jam jars, Kan Tong jars whatever - DH HATES reheating plastic, and the jars are easier for him to eat out of on the go
Just remember not to overfill them - you need to leave room for the food to expand as it freezes or it will break
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