Lunch ideas

my fave lunches are i make a salad with
tined tuna with sundried tomatoes or tined samon
lettus
tomatoe
cheese
pear
grapes
carrot
celery
and heaps of mayo

and every monday night i make a bacon hock soup and serve it for tea and the left overs feed DH for lunch for a week and i have it the next day for my lunch (dont like to eat left overs after a day)
soup=
1 potato
1 kumera
1 carrot
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
2 sticks celery
1/4 pumpkin
1 leak
1 bacon hock
1 packet of kings soup mix
saute veges in a little butter just till onion is soft then add 10 cups of hot water add soup mix and bacon hock and cook for two hours, remove bacon hock and take the nice meat off the bone and put it back in soup (i like to wizz the veges so the kids dont know what thay are eating before putting the meet back)

Thanks girls - these ideas are awesome. Have a few days off now so will have to start trialling those recipes. It's certainly given me some food for thought (haha I crack myself up)

Hopefully others will find this useful too. Urgh if I see another cheese toastie in the next month it will be too soon.
-and yes sunshine I know what you mean - I really miss my cold chicken sandwiches (not sure I could keep them cold-cold on the way to work so I err on the side of caution)

Oh and DH says thanks - since he's been helping make the lunches for me.

Edited by Bobbie

Soft cheeses made in NZ are fine in hot things (like paninis) as long as they are at the melting point. I'm so stoked with this as I couldn't imagine going 9 months without a chicken, cranberry and brie panini!

Its the rice in sushi that we are not supposed to have I think.

Interesting article in the aucklander today - rates of food poisoning have doubled and in some cases even tripled.

When eating out it seems they say things like chicken are really bad, but I know food hygenists say that cold rice is the worst offender, closely followed by salad - the problem is that they are washed and then bacteria grows in the water molecules. That, aand cross contamination (no matter how well they try to avoid it) is why I don't have Subway - but boy do I miss my subway ans sushi!

yeah must admit that the subway I used to go to seemed to be a bit dodgy in its food practices - But being 'old iron gut' I just ate there anyway (oh how times have changed).

BellaB if you really really want sushi you can do your own homemade stuff - so long as you eat it immediately. That's according to my NZFSA handbook and that thing takes safety to the extreme! Apparently it's the rice that's the issue with sushi - so even if you go vege sushi you aren't going to escape.