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I love our weekend lunches
of soup and good bread,
cheese and fresh fruit
when we have time to sit and chat.
Weekdays are quite a different story
and I had an unpleasant experience on Friday.
I went into one of the catering outlets for lunch,
looked at the limited choice of baguettes and ciabattas,
and felt overwhelmingly nauseous.
It was quite unexpected and I had to leave quickly.
I got my lunch off campus and as I ate it
I knew that I wouldn't be buying sandwiches again.
After seven years my body has rebelled.
I know that the solution is obvious:
to make my own lunches
but I'm fighting it.
I truly hate preparing packed lunches.
If you have any recommendations
for recipe books or websites
which will give me a kickstart
I would be very grateful.
So...
watch out for my forthcoming post on Bento boxes...
sigh.
of soup and good bread,
cheese and fresh fruit
when we have time to sit and chat.
Weekdays are quite a different story
and I had an unpleasant experience on Friday.
I went into one of the catering outlets for lunch,
looked at the limited choice of baguettes and ciabattas,
and felt overwhelmingly nauseous.
It was quite unexpected and I had to leave quickly.
I got my lunch off campus and as I ate it
I knew that I wouldn't be buying sandwiches again.
After seven years my body has rebelled.
I know that the solution is obvious:
to make my own lunches
but I'm fighting it.
I truly hate preparing packed lunches.
If you have any recommendations
for recipe books or websites
which will give me a kickstart
I would be very grateful.
So...
watch out for my forthcoming post on Bento boxes...
sigh.
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There are only three lunches I can pack:
ReplyDeleteFage yogurt and fruit and granola
peanut butter and jelly
ramen noodle soup packets.
sigh.
The secret is in the accessories. Get yourself a wide mouth thermos flask and then you can take all manner of leftovers for lunch. Or soup. But doing it every day is a pain. Can you find a packed lunch buddy and take enough for two, but only have to do it every other day?
ReplyDeleteHave a look at Hongkiat blog - I'm sure you could come up with some lovely bento!, My DH uses Black and Blum's bento boxes and food flask - a bit expensive but a pleasure to use. He won't do sandwiches but takes leftovers and cheese and crackers, soup, couscous etc.
ReplyDeleteAlice, I've just been catching up on your blog. What an absolute treat the last minutes have been.
ReplyDeleteI am off to search for radish-carving tutorials for you....
Here's something I never had to do: packed lunches. So my dear Alice, no help from me, I'm afraid. But fear you not as I know you'll find exactly what you need wiht the help of your web friends.
ReplyDeleteI think embracing leftovers, and/or preparing your lunch at the same time as the evening meal is the only way. nothing worse than a mad rush in the morning and nothing more exciting than a banana to show for it.....
ReplyDeleteI don't know what a bento is... am I very ignorant?
ReplyDeleteAs for your lunch conundrum, make extra soup at the weekend?
Try 101recipes.com or Heidi Swanson's Super Natural cookery books - wonderful pics and really different healthy recipes. I have given up on sandwiches and white bread - buy some Lock'n'locks and take a selection of interesting mixed salads. Every couple of days we make two or three - each will keep for a few days so you can mix and match, and don't have to make lunch every single day. And a little tub of home salted and roasted mixed almonds and cashews (add a little citric acid for a nice tang) - very nutritious and sustaining. Some homemade hummus and bits of red pepper, celery etc, or oatcakes for dipping is also nice - one batch will last all week.
ReplyDeleteYou will definitely feel much better for eschewing all that factory made white bread and boring fillings, and look forward to lunch instead!
Pomona x
I don't know what a "bento" is either, but perhaps we don't have them (it? he? she?) in Sweden?
ReplyDeleteMy personal solution for weekday lunches is vegetable soup; I make a batch every Sunday and it will last me til Thursday. A bit boring perhaps, but convenient.
I shall whisper this - I have a secret passion for small Japanese cute food picks and baran and pretty lunches. I have books. I have boxes. I pretend I am doing it all for my children but really, it's for me. I am so ashamed. Not.
ReplyDeleteI sympathize. I don't think there's a solution.
ReplyDeleteI love to make soups and make them in large quantities - and I have a good thermos that keeps whatever I put in it hot until lunchtime. Besides, I'm too cheap - er, frugal to buy lunch.
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