What meals can you suggest that I can cook at home and eat cold at work as I am tired of sandwiches?

Question

My workplace has no microwace so I cannot enjoy warm food. The canteen food looks disgusting. I enjoy cookign so I want suggestioons either for nice sandwich fillings or food I can cook at home th enight before and then eat cold at work.

Answer 1

Chicken would be my favourite or hard boiled eggs with mayonnaise.

Answer 2

Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients

1 c chopped or shredded cooked
-chicken
1 tb (big) hellman's or best
-foods mayon; naise
1 ts (big) very finely minced
-sweet pick; le relish
1 ts very finely minced onion
1 pn salt
1/2 c (scant) coarsely chopped
-english wa; lnuts
1 thin-sliced white and
-whole-wheat s; andwich brea

Instructions

Combine the first six ingredients together. The secret here is to have both
the onion and the pickle relish cut so fine that people eating the
sandwiches have a very hard time figuring out what's in the sandwich. After
I dice the onion and pickle relish I smash it with the (flat & wide) side
of the cleaver. This nearly pulverizes them and they blend in beautifully.
I like to allow the filling to mingle flavors for a few hours in the fridge
and stir again before assembling the sandwiches. Spread the filling evenly
over the bread slice and top with the same kind of bread slice. I then trim
the crusts and cut the sandwich on the diagonal. Arrange the sandwiches,
alternating white and wheat sandwiches, on a serving platter and keep cool
until serving time. This recipe doubles, triples (whatever) beautifully.




Best Chicken Pasta Salad

2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
3/4 cup steak sauce
1 (12 ounce) package fusilli pasta
2 cubes chicken bouillon
1 Vidalia onion, diced
2 avocados - peeled, pitted and diced
1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
1 cup Ranch-style salad dressing
DIRECTIONS
Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat. Place breasts into a glass baking dish and marinate in steak sauce for 15 to 60 minutes.
Grill chicken until no longer pink and the juices run clear. Remove from grill, and chop into bite-size pieces.
To a large pot of boiling water, add bouillon cubes and pasta. Cook pasta until al dente. Drain, and rinse under cold water.
In a large bowl, combine chicken, pasta, onion, avocados and tomatoes. Mix in salad dressing, cover, and refrigerate until chilled.

Answer 3

Try making pasta salad. Or any salad for that matter. I like Taco salads. Make fruit salad chill a thermos and pack you salad in that. You can also use those gel packs to keep your food cold they work for me. Get yourself a thermos and take soup or stew to work with you. I know you are tired of sandwiches but how about wraps?
I once worked in an office with 4 other women and we all brown-bagged it. It got pretty boring, so what we did was each day we packed a lunch-and it went to someone else. I had some really good lunches and was able to come up with some pretty good ones myself. After all I was not feeding myself.

Answer 4

Quiche is nice cold.
Pasta salad
Veggie salad (like green beans in a balsamic vinegrette)

Personally I like a lot of chinese food cold, like chow mein or stir fry.

Cheese and a nice fruit salad

Sandwich fillings:
Falafel
Pear, blue cheee and nut butter/ham (not both, just one)
Roasted red pepper, feta, and chicken
Bocconcini and eggplant
Eggplant parmesan
Crab cakes
Avacado is awesome on many sanwhiches. Particularly with bacon (hehe heart attack on a bun)
Healthier avacado: Little mayo, old cheddar, tomato, bean sprouts, avacado, salt & pepper)
Muffaletta ( http://www.colorpro.com/great-sandwiches/muffuletta/history.htm ) Make a big one and freeze it. It will be nice even after freezing.

Also, if you are putting your food in a fridge, you may wish to leave it out. I prefer sandwhiches when they are room temp, they are icky if they are too cold.

Also get a thermos, a really wide one. And you can layer things in it.

Also, I assume you can get boiling water. Some of the instant soups aren't bad. Oatmeal for lunch would be nice, particularly if you jazz it up with fruit or whatever. Lentils can cook quickly.

Answer 5

I'm not sure what you mean by "canteen" food looking disgusting. If this is pre-packaged stuff or not. But, my exhusband was in the same situation, and I went to a local store and bought bowl type canteens, they were plastic, and insulated. I would heat up his food, and put it in there. I wouldn't put the rice or pasta in with the gravies, etc., just in a storage bag and he'd mix it up when he ate, the food stayed hot and kept all its flavor. Also, a home made soup in a regular canteen will hold its consistancy. But try your sandwiches on different types of bread, such as keisers, french bread, even large burger buns, they all have different tastes. Taking a chicken breast and coarsly chopping it up, adding mayo, a little dill seasoning, salt and pepper, finely chopped onions to your taste, and celery is great on a sandwich. Experiment on the weekend.

Answer 6

Why not make your sandwiches interesting by bringing your toppings separately (like lettuce and sliced tomatoes, mayo) and add them at work.

How about salads too. Do the same. In small or sectioned containers bring sliced cheeses, leftover, sliced bbq'd chicken, or leftover breaded veal cutlets or pork cutlets, bacon, ham, cold cuts, etc...cold shrimp even (or have that separate with seafood sauce, cheese and crackers.

A nice fruit salad too. Make a small batch of potato salad (boiled taters, a few boiled eggs, mayo, chopped green onions and paprika) or pasta and tuna salad (boil pasta, rinse cold, add tuna, mayo, paprika, salt and pepper). There's some great things come in jars these days like roasted peppers, hot eggplant ( you will love it! ) and I prefer to have those on their own on nice fresh italian bread. (Roast your own peppers when in season, slowly in the oven at 300 for 1 hour, cool then individually bag and freeze, clean when using...try with olive oil and halfed garlic clove..I don't eat the clove it's just for flavour.)

Try different breads too. Bring rusks and top with bruschetta. Bring pita breads and stuff at work (tuna or salmon or crab salads with lettuce, etc.) Pita wraps with some of those great spreads or philadelphia cream cheeses etc. Canned ham with some philly cream cheese, horseradish and parsley is great with crackers...use enough cheese to bind.

You have a kettle right? So you can always have an instant soup or noodles etc too.

You can buy those ziplock containers, put stuff in ziplock sandwich bags or buy containers at the dollar store.

Your imagination is the limit here. Just think healthy too and it will give you a good afternoon boost. Buy plastic drink containers too and bring your own juice, milk/chocolate milk, soya drinks, juice, whatever.

Make lunch a feast and you'll actually look forward to it each day and have some fun preparing it all too.

Buy some recipe cards and write down some of your favourite lunch ideas on each one so you don't forget and always have the list available for when you run out or have simply forgotten about something great you slapped together one day.

Answer 7

Here is a site with plentiful recipes for people who are "tired of the same old boring lunches." Sounds like it is just what you are looking for:

"Whether you're looking for a way to make your child's school lunch more palatable or trying to save some bucks by carting your own lunch to the office, we've got some wonderful ideas for you. Why settle for the same boring sandwich everyday when you can have a Fabulous Brown Bag lunch?"

http://www.fabulousfoods.com/features/brnbag/brnbag.html

Good luck and happy eating!

Answer 8

"Best-Ever Meatloaf" - 8 servings

1 (10 3/4 oz.) can condensed cream of mushroom, golden mushroom or tomato soup
2 lbs. ground beef
1/2 cup dried bread crumbs
1 small onion; finely chopped
1 egg; slightly beaten
1 tsp. salt
1/3 cup water

1) In large bowl, thoroughly mix 1/2 cup soup, beef, bread crumbs, onion, egg and salt. In 12x8" baking pan, firmly shape meat into 8 x4" loaf.
2) Bake at 350* - 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours until done. Spoon off fat, reserving 2 to 3 tablespoons drippings.
3) In 1-quart saucepan over medium-high heat, heat remaining soup, water and reserved drippings to boiling, stirring occasionally. Spoon over meat loaf.

A couple of sites that might give you some ideas...
http://www.cookingfor2.com
http://www.quickeatsplus.com

Answer 9

You don't say if you're brown-bagging it or have a lunch box. If you don't have one already, get a good insulated cooler and thermos. That will give you a lot more options. If you can boil water there you can make ramen noodles, or heat up sandwich meat you've put in a ziploc bag.

Answer 10

Fried chicken is good for lunches.

How about making homemade pizzas? They're not bad cold; or take out of cooler a few minutes before lunch time and let them warm to room temp.

Answer 11

I just went throught this myself. I started buying really good rolls, onion, poppyseed, etc. to make my sandwich with. Then I packed things like thin sliced onion, sandwich pickle slices, lettuce leaves, hot peppers, sliced cucumbers, red pepper rings & bean sprouts to put on my sandwich. Buy different kinds of cheeses. Get creative! Everyone thinks I have gourmet-style sandwiches!