Lunches??

I love chicken breast in a pita with hummus and salad topped with some plain unsweetened low fat yoghurt and unsweetened chilli sauce. When I was preg I used to chop up my salad veges in advance then wash them again just before eating (I was possibly a bit pedantic).

Another good one is homemade soup with wholemeal toast. Or if you can't be bothered making your own soup get some watties condensed tomato soup with diced tomato's. Tomato soup is full of antioxidants.

I also love baked potato's (made the night before and reheated in the microwave), you can fill with:
* cheese and chopped chives
* sour cream sprinkled with paprika or chilli
* homemade gravy

For a really really quick option have wholemeal toast topped with sliced tomatos or avocado or unsweetened jam.

There you go, that's 1/2 a week of lunches sorted

Another thing that I like is cheese on toast with marmite, made the night before and eaten cold. Yummm!

And No. 9 likes boiled eggs. Lots and lots and lots of boiled eggs!

i worked at subway so i just ate vege delights all the time with diferent sauces to give them different tastes. But i got bored of that and started using the bread and cheese and taking som sgetti or babked beans in the lil tins and toasting them yummy so missing subway now.

Ooh I do love egg sammies! YUM!

Bobbie your topic was called 'Lunch ideas'. Perhaps someone can put a link on here?? I'm a tech spaz sorry.

Sounds yum... but isn't tuna a bit of a no-no at the moment (because of high amounts of mercury)??

Usually I adore it!

I just checked the NZ food safety authority website and this is what is says about tinned stuff - including seafood...

Eat immediately after opening tin (hot or cold); store uneaten leftovers covered in fridge and eat hot (never cold) within two days

I'm not totally sure but I thought the mercury issue was only if you ate heaps of it!

I lived on Tuna when preggy as I would just buy and chuck in a drawer at work so only had to take bread. You can have 3 small cans a week.

Just make sure that anything that is protein or dairy based is refrigerated and that if you are taking leftovers from dinner the night before that you cooled them very quickly and refrigerated them and then the next day for lunch make sure that they are reheated the whole way through and are piping hot.

Pregnant womman are a lot more suseptible to food poisioning and it's not worth the risk.

Remember the saying ' If in doubt, throw it out, if unsure, show it the door'