Lunch ideas
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Topic: Lunch ideas
Posted By: Bobbie
Subject: Lunch ideas
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 9:03pm
Righto ladies I'm heartily sick of toasted cheese sandwiches so I bow to all those on the board with more experience and pose the question....
What on earth do I have for lunch?
Please feel free to post all ideas that work for you. I'm sure some of you must have become creative
My current workplace has a microwave, fridge, freezer, zip, panini maker and toaster
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 9:22pm
Wow - you are lucky, we have a kettle and a dodgy microwave. I am kind of in the same boat - its really tricky as all the places around my work sell sandwiches and salads, none of which I would be overly comfortable with. We have lots of 'asian' food places as well, which normally wouldnt worry me but at the moment I dont want to risk it. I am also surrounded by sushi places which is really tough!!!
I too have been surviving on cheese toasties from the cafe next to our work, but am getting very bored of these now....we dont often have leftovers to take, and I know I should be more organised and be taking lovely healthy lunches....but dont seem to have the energy! So - any ideas from those of you that have been thru this already would be hugely helpful for us hungry mummies-to-be!!
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 9:30pm
My favourite packed lunch ever was pasta salad - not as great in winter but still a yummy change:
cooked pasta shells (soft)
tomato, diced
capsicum, seeded and diced
cheese, diced (small)
mayonaise and water mixed 50/50 for scant dressing
Serve cold.
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 9:34pm
Something I made up for work (years ago) and now make at home is a tin of flavoured tuna, some pasta (whatever you have or feel like) cooked and then mix together and if at work just heat it up. Or take the tin of tuna with you to work along with the cooked pasta and mix it there.
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 9:46pm
Cottage cheese and tomato on crackers...boring but easy
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 9:46pm
It says in my pg book you're not supposed to have mayo?
I sometimes bake batches of mega muffins with broccoli, cheese, other vege in them. Will be doing this a lot so that I can get some vege in with my good old carbs (all I seem to be able to eat at the mo)
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 10:46pm
bought mayo is ok as it has been pasteurised. It is the freshly made stuff with raw egg that you arent meant to have. dont know about the ol fashioned stuff made with sweetened condensed milk though
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Posted By: ffudehtpu
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 7:58am
I'm so confused on the food thing, are we allowed cottage chese? Also i thought Tuna was ment to be avoided because it was high in some mineral. I too have ben living of cheese tosties for lunch. so will eagerly await the replys.
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 8:10am
I may be wrong but I would have thought cottage cheese was ok as it is pasteurised in NZ. soft cheeses like brie and camembert etc are the dangerous ones due to the bacteria that can be in them.
as for tuna, I think a moderate ammount is ok as it gives you lots of vitamins and fattyacids. I think it only gets dangerous if you were eating buckets loads!!!!!
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 8:27am
DH makes his lunch now (and I did when I was still working) and we used to make filled rolls and buns etc. It only takes up an extra 5-10 mins in the morning to make them and everyone at work was always jealous that they looked so nice and fresh. I just buy freshly made buns at the supermarket every saturday morning and freeze them straight away and they are always really nice when they are unfrozen when we need them.
I also use to take pasta snacks if I didn't mind making it at work in the microwave and soups. And if I felt like being extra healthy I'd take along a fruit salad. Mostly just stuff outta a tin thrown into a plastic container with a couple of extra fruits added.
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 8:30am
Baked potato's -you can do them in the microwave at work or make them up at home. Top with cottage cheese, cheese, tomato, bacon, capsicum or whatever.
Fruit with yoghurt for desert
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 8:41am
Tuna - I think once a week is ok. The problem is they feed on other fish, which means they have higher levels of mercury in them. If you want to eat fish more often, you need to eat bottom feeders, but I don't know what they are.
Lunches - my favourites became reheated leftovers, so try cooking a little extra at night. Otherwise I just had cheese and salad sandwiches, but that was because you dont' really get much of a lunchbreak in teaching and I couldn't always make it to the staffroom to eat let alone make anything!
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Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 9:24am
Soup is great, filling when eaten with a piece of bread - so easy and can be homemade or from a can...
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 9:55am
I totally agree - even though I am at home it is tough to find things to eat - filled rolls are boring without meat
I found bagels and cream cheese nice and easy
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Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 10:15am
Reheated left overs are definately great as are baked potatoes! As I travel for work I am really limited to what I can eat and I don't have a microwave in my car or in my rental cars, so I have been having Subway Veggie Delights! As boring as they can be without meat in them, I find if you add a few different sauces they can actually taste REALLY good! I always make sure I go in at 12 or 12:30 so everything is super cold and fresh for the lunch time rush.
In my first few weeks of pregnancy I was super cautious, but I actually got to the point of being ridiculous, so once I got past the 12 week mark, I have started to relax a bit and pretty much eat anything now, but I am super cautious with chicken still as always!
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Posted By: arohanui
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 10:35am
The food I've been able to stomach has just been cheese and tomato sandwiches (just take it as a cheese sandwich and add the tomato at work so it's nice and fresh) and plain pasta with a bit of grated cheese.
Quite boring so I'm also getting alot out of this thread! Very useful. The baked potato sounds yum. The thought of tuna makes me feel quite sick so don't think I could do that one!
YUM Subway sounds good. Mmmmm.
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 10:37am
Yeah I am still really cautious about chicken and meat
When we go to restaurants I always get veggie meals - am now a fan of tofu.
I went out for lunch yesterday and had a chicken salad - thought it would be ok but after eating a couple of peices decided not to eat the rest - my freind who is also preggas thought I was strange.
It is weird we all have our own lil things - she wont eat from thai restaurants (I love thai just make sure I get veggie) yet she would eat the chicken and she eats soft chesses - we are all so different
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Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 11:30am
My consultant midwife said that New Zealand Brie and Camembert was ok (but only NZ). I didn't go into detail with her though because I hate cheese and won't be eating it anyway. I've been having lettuce (washed at home) and marmite sandwiches or the pots of noodles that you just pour boiling water into.
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 1:18pm
I think cottage cheese is okay. I was told that tuna is good for iron. Chicken is ok if you cook it yourself - make sure it's cooked well, and eaten hot-hot or cold-cold. Pack it separately to put in your rolls if you like - I am alo a fan of meaty rolls Left over roast meat/corned beef is also easily sliced for a roll.
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 1:40pm
Meet in filled rolls would be ok if you had cooked it yourself and chilled it well. But i'd probably only feel ok having it cold the next day or 2. i wont eat it from the deli and i wont buy it in a filled roll.
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Posted By: megrac
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 2:18pm
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)
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Posted By: sunshine
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 3:40pm
bagel and soup from a tin!
Egg sammies are always good! even better with avocado. althouhg i must admit am missing my ham sandwiches! and sushi!
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 10:08pm
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.
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Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 10:30pm
What about muffins - savoury or sweet fillings?
I'm making a batch of sweetcorn, cheese & chutney as we speak. Good to have in the freezer too.
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 11:05am
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!
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Posted By: BellaB
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 11:12am
Can we really not have teriyaki chicken sushi for our whole pregnancy? I'm really struggling with this
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Posted By: BellaBoo
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 11:19am
Its the rice in sushi that we are not supposed to have I think.
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Posted By: justme
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 1:21pm
preggie ladies are warned off just about anything from the deli area in supermarket.
If we eat chicken or any other meat - it has to be hot. It is definitely the "cold chicken in sushi that you aren't supposed to eat. If anyone can help me explain..? - it's the food poisoning that you can get from chicken & other meat that is extremely dangerous for baby when carrying.
Also mayo or aoli & any sauces like that - because they are made using raw egg yolk which is also dodgie for baby..
We are even warned off eating salads while we're out as well because many are not rinsed in the kitchen of cafes & restaurants - which leaves risk of taxoplasmosis - found in soil. We must wash all root vegies as well for this reason
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:22pm
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!
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Posted By: YvetteandElla
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 5:28pm
Yeah I wont touch subway with a 10 foot pole or salads that are premade - never really thought about salads from restaurants dont know why I never thought of that.
I will only eat vegetarian meals at restaurants though have been naugthy a couple of times and eaten chicken from restarants I trust - but only 2-3 times.
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 01 June 2007 at 11:11am
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.
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