Adult "Packed Lunch" ideas?

There's a couple of people on instagram/tiktok 'boredoflunch' and 'tamingtwins' who post pretty good lunch ideas.

2 liters of water for lunch

Batch cook on a weekend. Make up things that can easily be turned into other stuff. A large pan of mince can be made into a chilli, bolognese, tacos, burritos etc box them up, freeze them and pull them out the night before work.

a large pan of rice is great, you can make a nice dirty rice out of some of it, chicken rice and veg, tandoori chicken rice etc

Always get the good bread and good fillings! It’ll always be cheaper than buying lunch somewhere. Buying bakery bread instead of basic supermarket bread makes a huge difference to lunch sandwiches





Marinated chicken and rice is another one I like (edited)

Pasta sammich?

Not a Cheese baguette...lol (edited)

Ain't got time for Lunch but some of these are tragic.

I take a big soup in a food flask with some bread

I have two salads I make for lunch.

Caesar Salad, chicken, lettuce, carrot, cabbage (You can buy a mix in Asda or Tesco which is better than buying various different veg - and less prep lol), a few cherry or Plum tomatoes and a Caesar dressing. I skip on the croutons but you can add them if you aren't on a weight loss journey like I am.

Ham Hock salad, pretty much the same as above but I put some grated cheese in with it and use a Honey Mustard dressing.

Obviously you can have a bag of crisps or some fruit along with it if this isn't enough (Calories ranged from about 300-500 for the salad on it's own).

I don't have a microwave at work so this does me good and I try not to eat too much bread.

Peanut butter sandwiches for me. Not ideal as these get rather dry by 14:00. I prefer mayo and meat or home made pizza reheated. I used to take a sandwich maker with me to work but it dropped a few times and now i don't take the car in. I would say a lunch is better than high calorie snacking

Cheese and crackers, overnight oats, porridge,noodles

Good quality cottage cheese i like not the watery stuff.

How about cooking off a bit of meat at the weekends (pulled beef / chicken etc?) Then add it to a salad for lunch or make fajitas. Alternate days with soup/ salad and sarnies.. jobs a good un

A melon (honeydew normally), a fresh pineapple and some grapes. Chop the melon and pineapple into bitesize pieces and chuck in the grapes, instant fruit salad. It lasts about 4 day. Occasionally add some chunks of cheese in for a different flavour.

Humuz (plus sweet chilli sauce maybe) crackers and maybe grapes or carrot sticks