I had enough of sandwich and pasta in the past years.
What Do You Have for Lunch While Working from Home?
tooblue on 12/01/2022 - 14:43
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I usually throw a frozen gozleme from Aldi in the sandwich press. Occasionally ill use the air fryer too (the Punjabi Samosas from Aldi are nice).
leftovers from dinner and heaps of chocolate for dessert (there is always something on 30-50% sale) :-(
Sehciwdnas
if my parents have been around then a tonne of fantastic Vietnamese that i ironically went out of my way NOT to eat growing up. If not, then we just have frozen food or sanga's
One thing I never had was instant noodles in the office, so been enjoying leftover chicken/meat with some instant noodles. If there's nothing I might duck out to the shops and grab sushi/subway/kfc to have at home.
KFC & Rice !!
Leftovers, salad from the garden, cereal or whatever fits in the airfryer. Also like 1/2 this thread it seems, the odd sneaky zinger.
Deliveroo most days.
If I can be bothered, I'll walk out to get takeaway.
Otherwise leftovers if I'm short on time.Came here to flex that my company has an in house chef that makes our lunches everyday. On the days I wfh, I eat out or leftovers from work or dinner.
Nice! What do you do for work?
I’m in marketing for a software company. Pretty good benefits and cost of food went down heaps but my weight went up
Salad + woollies chicken
Salad + Meat patty
Left overs
SandwhichOzbargin Tip
Buy the lunch special from local Thai - eat for dinner but make your own lunch
Salmon chunk (skin on) oven baked with tomatoes, brocolli, carrot slices and garlic cloves.
Squeeze fresh lemon juice over top before hunkering down.
You'll think you died and went to heaven.
A jumbo pack of mie goreng
Hummus, rye bread, toasties, some kind of good salads with different dressings, small amounts of cheese. Avo and tomato on toast (try adding a few pickled Jalapenos). Soup and toast. See if you can graze 2x in 3 hours around lunch instead of having a sustained large lunch break.
As long as you add some form of movement during the day (i.e. even a 15 min walk is better than nothing) you should be OK.
Keep the chips and biscuits away in hard to reach places (i.e. you'd need to stand on a chair to get it), natural laziness should then keep you away from them.
something i recently discovered. You can make your own japanese eel rice. Buy a whole frozen roasted eel from colesworth ($11). Put it in oven or rice cooker, serve with rice. Delicious.
Can of soup, heated in a microwave save container…
blows up occasionally and makes a mess of the microwave if you don't do it in 3x 30 second intervals with standing and stirring in between.Other than that, so easy though
Mi Goreng 🤪
Salmon Poke Bowl
Japanese Curry with cheese
Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls with Hoisin/Peanut Sauce
Pad See Ew 😋Spiced couscous + tinned salmon + diced cucumber/avacado + plain yoghurt. Takes about 5 min to make from scratch
Hmmm, sick of pasta, sick of sandwiches, what about… pasta sandwiches?
Make a dense pasta bake and slice it to the desired thickness for sandwich filling.
Oats and fruits.
Noodles tuna
last nights leftovers usually
Get bananas in, and tomatoes. Banana and peanut butter sandwich is delish, and tomato sandwiches are nice too. Bananas are good for a quick snack.
Jaffles!
Get yourself a Sunbeam or Breville jafflemaker for $60 and get yourself Woolworths fresh baked pana di casa with jalapenos baked in, thick sliced.
Jaffle inventory of:
Cans of creamed corn
Cans of spaghetti with sausage (slice the sausages)
Shredded four type pizza cheese
Cans of wild caught tuna (springwater)
Roast chicken
Tomato relish
Pickle relishAnd make yourself a wide variety of jaffles.
Having bread for breakfast and then lunch 5 days a week plus sometimes weekends is abit too much! On-site I just walk and get takeaways, have replaced walk with drive. It’s the highlight of my day.
Salads, soups, smoothies, anything you wish.
Anything I wish?
Brown rice + 2 dishes contains enough veggie and meat I guess I am healthy
For awhile it was katoomba roti paratha but someone has been buying all the stock at my local Coles.
Eggplant cheap again so doing fried eggplant with salt and rice again.
Told myself no dominos delivery this year if i want it i have to go physically get it and only value range everything else is not worth it imho.
Can't cook meat in a veggo home but really want to do easy scrambled eggs and schnitzels ah well can't win em all.
Try the roti parata from Aldi. I find it less oily than Katoomba. Except for a bit of stock issue around 2 months ago it's usually there in the freezers.
I gave it a shot bought quite a lot actually since it comes in only like an 8 pack or something.
Not bad but definitely different to the katoomba roti paratha.
It is a good last resort but im holding out for the katoomba brand as i like the taste much better.
Human flesh
Too much junk, seem to have a knack for finding good delivery deals.
Need to make more food for myself but seem to be in a constant state of stress.
I did do liteneasy for a bit but my housemate sabotaged my delivery by not putting it in the fridge/freezer straight away =/