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SANDWICHES TEND TO be the height of lunchtime cuisine, particularly if you’re making lunch for yourself.
It’s just so easy to throw some cheese, or ham, or whatever you fancy in between two slices of bread and away you go.
The only problem is…it just gets a bit boring after a while. And as lunchtime is the highlight of the work day (oh – is that just us?), we decided to round up some tasty options for lunch – no bread allowed.
So let us know in the comments below if we’ve inspired you to shake up your lunchtime.
Now, a wrap by any other name would probably be a sandwich, but we’ve decided to include them here regardless. We’re just mad like that.
Just like a sandwich you can throw almost anything in there and roll it up, but here’s one of our favourite recipes for lunch. It’s a Mediterranean wrap with turkey slices, tomato, greens (spinach or lettuce) and roasted red pepper hummus – which is what elevates it from normal lunchtime fare. It can be prepared the night before and kept in the fridge.
If you’re into food prep at all you’re probably all over the ‘salad in a jar’ trend but if you’re not, let us break it down for you.
In an effort to make healthy eating as easy as possible, a big factor of that is to prepare your food in advance – thus always having something healthy to eat and no excuse to go grab something fatty at lunch (or any other time).
As salads are hard to prepare too far in advance – the leaves tend to wilt – some bright spark came up with the idea of layering a salad in a jar, keeping the leaves well away from the dressings, which is what causes it to wilt.
Voilà - a new dish is born. You can prepare a few of these in advance and have healthy lunch ready to grab from the fridge whenever you need.
This isn’t a recipe so much as a how-to guide, which works out well for you – you’re not limited by arbitrary recipe suggestions. Let your salad-making creativity go nuts.
We taught you how to cook soup here so you can’t tell us it’s too hard to do – it really isn’t.
If you’ve a microwave in work, soup is a great lunch to bring in and heat up. If you don’t, it might be worth your while investing in a thermos flask to keep the soup hot till lunchtime, or you could try a cold soup – gazpacho is one.
Here’s a recipe for a delicious cheesy broccoli soup - how could you resist?
Frittata, or fancy omelette as it’s known around these parts, are a great lunch – you can eat them hot or cold, so no microwave required, and you can pack it full of ingredients like chorizo and potato making it really filling.
Here’s a recipe to get you started, but the fritatta world is your oyster – although we think maybe not to add oysters…but that’s just us.
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How awkward would it be to eat a salad out of a jar?
The point is that it can be pre-prepared and stored in a fridge and then transported without much hassle or mixing. You dump in a bowl at work.
ever hear of a lunch box.
That’s what lunchboxes are for. This whole eating/drinking stuff from a jar thing is overrated, it’s about as exciting as eating your Frosties from a cup when you were a kid, just for the novelty like.
#WeWantPlates
Yup the jar is just blatant hipster move
Who has soup without a big cut of brown soda or a crusty roll?
Me.
There’s always one.
Spice bags are good.
Are wraps not worse than bread ?
Flour wraps maybe. Depends on what grain they’re made from.
Point of Note: WRAPS ARE BREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gluten free steak is essential. I only eat Gluten free steak.
What about Beef Wellington?
i better never be given a salad stuffed into a jar in a restaurant…sounds more irritating that food on chopping boards in pubs or ‘gastropubs’
Some good ideas there. I usually eat my left overs as lunch..I tend to cook a slightly bigger dinner. Minimum waste. Cold Pizza is always good too.
Han and cheese sandwich. Why bother with anything else.
That’s just ham and cheese then, this is about dropping the bread.
Obviously curly – for straight chips you need a ghd
Salad in a jar ! No …
Just hold the lettuce and add couscous, celery,nuts,extra toms,feta or .. anything instead.
Bread in the shops is full of chemicals I wouldn’t eat the stuff especially white..Get home baked if possible…
I would be more worried about the amount if carbs in the bread than chemicals. The chemicals are in such small amounts they won’t cause a problem unless you eat a huge amount of bread.
Denise what about Cumbernauld sausage ?
No NaHCO3 in your bread then Denise?
Never heard of them but most sausages are rubbish I never touch them.
if your worried about carbs in bread,your not doing enough exercise
Denise, you’re entirely made from chemicals.
grew up on sausage sambos and still alive. strange that!
frittata is gorgeous with chips(done in a hairdryer)ham everything, peppers and onions etc
chips in a hairdryer? Would they be straight or curly?
if you didn’t know this, I’m surprised you have a job!
Would love a piece on varied school lunches. Looking for inspiration! I’m
Shop for the lunch week:- tomatoes, lettuce, low fat potato salad, smoked salmon, olives, buffalo mozzarella, pesto, avocados, Riveta crackers.
Keep ALDI Gluten Free porridge in work.
All adds up to about €18 = €3.60 per day. Wraps can be a good addition, or instead of potato salad, gluten free pasta.
pigs cheek
If you’re worried about carbs, stay away from sausage, 30% or more carbs via rusk or other grain.
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