What's in your lunch box?

[basil]

Anyone like me that struggles to find alternatives as to what food you take take to work day in, day out?
I drive for most of my work.
I do allow myself a once a month junk food layby bacon and egg roll but apart from that I try to eat healthily. I always take fruit with me but that can be tedious at times.
How do you vary what food you take when working on the move?

 

[enfieldspares]

When I did I used to take packet soup. Or canned soup heated and kept in a thermos flask, Then I looked to see how much salt they each contained. Bananas were a favourite as easy to eat.

 

[Marchman]

Hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, cucumber, tinned mackerel, tinned salmon, cheese, cold meats, onions, gherkins etc etc.
Any thing really to avoid mundane sandwiches.

 

[NP435]

Nuts, beef jerky, banana's. Peanut butter sammiches, and some snack crackers or chips. I don't eat all of it in one shift. exceptions are when we get snowed in and unable to get home for a couple days. Almost anything I will eat I can bring but the bounce and vibration mean taking care on night shift to keep the heart burn controlled.

 

[vmaxphil]

Round of cheese and pickle sandwiches, home made bread ofcourse, home made scotch egg and homemade cake to finish, aeropress coffee for liquid

 

[Camdig]

My daily is 4 Scottish morning rolls with various cold meats with tomatoes and cucumber followed by couple boiled/scotch eggs.
My misses is good at mixing it up so I don't get fed up with same thing all the time.
Dried sausage in pocket when stalking just to keep hunger at bay until back to motor for piece.

 

[Morkai]

Longley Farm Chive Cottage Cheese.

I can eat tubs of that like a savoury yoghurt or I have it on some rice cakes.

 

[Phil fox man]

I'll say it first" I've got a big sausage in my lunch box"

 

[Tazz]

I'll say it first" I've got a big sausage in my lunch box"

Be careful closing the lid then

 

[opticron1]

Anyone like me that struggles to find alternatives as to what food you take take to work day in, day out?
I drive for most of my work.
I do allow myself a once a month junk food layby bacon and egg roll but apart from that I try to eat healthily. I always take fruit with me but that can be tedious at times.
How do you vary what food you take when working on the move?

I feel your pain on this one......for years I worked twelve hour shifts, daytime wasn't too bad as we had a fairly good canteen, but night shifts got more and more of a struggle. You can only have so many different sandwich variations. Always went with fruit, either singly or a decent fruit cocktail depending on what was available, sandwiches had to have something with a bit of strong flavour such as sun dried tomatoes, olives (and as mentioned above pickles/gherkins). However by the end of a long stretch of night shifts I always ended up falling into the habit of chocolate bars or stodge!
Pasta is always a good fall back as you can always add whatever sauce/treats to it and it usually tastes ok even cold, but I was always desperate for good fresh food by the time I got back into the "normal" world!

 

[eldon]

Tinned mackerel in tomato sauce makes a nice tasty snack plus you get a challenge to open the lid without getting it everywhere..... still can't manage it, it's always the last bit that throws it on your lap

 

[Morkai]

I also like some cold curry and rice at work.

 

[Sampo]

Something I have enjoyed in the past is what I learnt from a friend. Blood sausage in bread and into the sandwich maker. It toasts and cooks the blood sausage and comes out as two halves that can be frozen, eaten cold or even warmed up. Stays good for a while. If you are out, can always have a camping stove or at least a flat pack rocket stove with a pan, a kettle and a gallon of water. You can always pick things enroute or find things in the wild at times. I believe a few in here have their own semi kitchen in their car/ truck.

 

[McKenzie]

Salami, taleggio & rocket is this weeks favourite. I like to make sandwiches as I need them as the amount I eat depends on the level of the day’s activity and sometimes lunch is offered so there’s no wastage if there not made in advance.

 

[Dave31]

I know you said lunch but...

I sometimes batch cook scrambled eggs and make sausage patties from decent sausage (and or bacon) . I then put them in wraps or toasted English muffins with cheese. Toast the complete product in a dry pan then wrap in greese proof paper and freeze.

Take out the night before to defrost, then a few minutes in the microwave whilst doing the coffee. Nice warm portable breakfast for the cold days ahead.

 

[sauer]

jetboil type stove or trangia always in back of pick up along with freeze dried pasta stuff just add water to , or packet of supernoodles or tin of spam , buy some bread or rolls when out ....do have some MRE heat in bag meals as well..... do like a well made sandwich but the rest maybe not healthiest, but there for back up ... emergency / connivence.
must admit to being partial to a fried spam sandwich

Paul

 

[Shootgun]

Fruit and salads... Feta cheese salad, smoked mackerel salad, smoked salmon salad, venison salad, prawn salad, caesar salad etc...
Al preped at home (tomatoes, cucumber, avocado, spring onion, hard boiled eggs, your choice) and put in a sealed lunch box.

 

[potshotpat]

Pre- cooked cowboy breakfast. sausage, beans, bacon, black pudding, mushrooms, scrambled eggs and hash browns. In portions for one day or two + on any type of heat. Pack in a chiller box, at a push its eatable cold.

 

[eggy74]

big breakfast, couple of bananas during the day, and a decent dinner.

 

[alberta boy]

For tomorrow , yoghurt , a banana , apple , a moose sirloin , sharp cheddar and pickle sandwich , a container of homemade pea soup ( lots of ham ) , a granola bar and a large container of orange juice .

AB