more on dinners ... we used to be in a really great routine (when we had teenagers living with us) where on a Saturday, I'd make 2-3 really big batches of good quality home cooked foods ... a massive veggie and beef/chicken/lamb lasagne, chilli con carne, thai chicken curry, beef rogan josh/korma/etc, tuna bake with veggies, stirfries, casseroles, stew, stroganoff, etc ...

whatever worked, with wonderful fresh ingredients, limiting any unnecessary fat and salt and oil ... but not eliminating it altogether!

and focussing on things that could be tubbed up and frozen, and reheated for lunches or quick dinners.

and then I'd make massive pre-prepared salads and store them in airtight tubs, so that all that was needed was for the main food to be reheated, some lettuce to be shreaded and some of the pre-cut salad to be chucked in a bowl or on the plate. taa-daa!

I'd sometimes also do some pre-boiled eggs etc, so there was an easy protein options available too - but some weeks the kids would inhale 12 eggs, and other weeks they would go completely untouched ...

but our plan is to get back into this habit - because it means that we have wonderful healthy lunches to take every day to work, and we know what's in it