Hello!
What are you having for lunch at work today? Work lunches are the demise of all people everywhere I have discovered…or maybe just me? I worry and stress all afternoon and night if I know that I don’t have anything lined up for lunch the next day. This generally means that a lunch time purchase is inevitable, which I try to avoid at all costs (literally), but where I am working at the moment is surrounded by delicious temptations! Sushi, noodles, soup, fried food and sandwiches are some of the temptations I generally fall for, when I leave my delicious lunch sitting alone at home, when I have no lunch organised at all or when a less than exciting one fills the space in my lunch bag.
I think the trick is to stick with easy to create options (obvious?). But my trouble comes main from not spending the last night’s dinner at home so there are no leftovers to take! This is my downfall lately so I have had to create a meal in its own right for lunch each day, which is a very intense thought process for me. I’m trying to create something easy, nutritious, filling and try and use as many things from my pantry and fridge all at the same time! As much as I complain about it being painful for my brain to take all these variables into each lunch, I enjoy trying to think of things and finding inspiration from others and their choices.
But today, I think I’m on a winner!
Situation: Fresh brilliant veges in the fridge, lots of miscellaneous items in the freezer that I only identify as dinner choices and staples such as pasta, rice, breadcrumbs, herbs, spices and tinned “delights” of all kinds in the pantry.
Solution: 11pm at night…(after a whole afternoon and evening of thinking about lunch the next day) I struck gold when I started looking at the individual Tassal frozen salmon in the freezer as a feasible and easy option for lunch (MICROWAVABLE!!). Then my brain started trying to make a side dish or something to accompany salmon for lunch. Basil pesto and the most delicious S&W light mayo are the two things that caught my eye……
Execution: Straight away I flew over to the kettle and put it on, burst into the pantry and before I knew it, some shell pasta was on the boil. Cut up some veges and threw them into the boiling pot toward the last 2 minutes of the pasta’s time. Drained all of that and put it into two containers (Two days’ worth of lunch! Score!) mixed one teaspoon of pesto and one of mayo in the pasta mix and shoved it in the fridge! DONE! At work today, I put my frozen salmon in the microwave for 3 ½ mins as it said on the packet and put my pasta in for 1 min. Then put my pasts into a bowl and popped the cooked salmon on top!
Lunch doesn’t need to be hard, uninspiring or unenthusiastic all the time (occasionally I just go for the least effort required option too J). But for me, it brightened my morning knowing I had a great meal waiting for me in the fridge and freezer when lunch time fly’s around.
Xo
NJC
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