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15 Quick and Easy Lunch Ideas for Taking to Work

Jun 4, 2017, 16:56 PM by Fiona Nagy
It can be hard to find inspiration for lunches during the work week. We tend to be short of time, so we have curated this list of quick and easy ideas for you.

Bringing lunch to work is a great way to help save money, and watch your waistline, but with our busy lifestyles we often lack time and inspiration to organise a homemade nutritious lunch. We've put together some ideas we hope will inspire you.

Salads - Healthy and not (necessarily) bland

Try adding a meat source, swapping pasta for quinoa or replacing vinaigrettes for pesto if you want to make variations. If you've ever felt sick of eating the same thing over and over, changing the veggies can give an old overused recipe new life!

  1. Pasta Salad

    Try this easy Greek pasta salad with red wine vinaigrette




  2. Beetroot, Green Bean and Chickpea salad






  3. Moroccan Beef Salad with Green Beans



Oven meals – Make your meals in bulk

The great thing about oven recipies is that you can easily make large quanities of food and make lunch for days in one go!

  1. Stuffed Potatoes






  2. Crustless Mini Quiches






  3. Broccoli, Walnut and Cottage Cheese Pies






  4. Stuffed Capsicum



Jar meals – no spills here

Putting a meal in a mason jar might sound strange but they're a great way to control your portion size and transport food. You'll never have to worry about getting mince juice through your bag or car again.

  1. Asian Noodle Soup






  2. Deconstructed Sushi






  3. Burrito Bowl Jar



Slow Cooker Dishes – So you can literally go about your day

Cooking in a crock pot is a slow process, but the good thing is that the process is so slow and the heat is so low that you could run a bunch of errands while your food looks after itself.

  1. Crock Pot Roast






  2. Wine & Tomato Braised Chicken






  3. Crock Pot BBQ Ribs






  4. Mixed Bean Vegetable Soup






  5. Minestrone



Hopefully we've shown that being busy doesn't have to affect your wallet and your waistline, and ideally we've inspired you to pack a lunch or two next week!