Jan 6 # 1 of 14
I know this isn't dinner, but I couldn't find a better cagegory.
I work from home and I am always trying to come up with lunch ideas for just me. I don't want to resort to those frozen dinners, yuck.
I have leftovers, when we have them, and lots of salads. I was just hoping you all had some good ideas.
Jan 6 # 2 of 14
We like to keep a bag of buffalo chicken bites in the freezer. These can be easily made for lunch in the oven or the microwave. We supplement them with celery and carrots sticks.
We also like to have Pot Stickers (Chinese Dumplings) for lunch. Easy to make just boil some water and cook them for about 8 minutes. The bags we buy even come with their own dipping sauce.
Another idea we like is to cook some Basmati rice with several links of Chinese sausage on top. When rice is cooked just slice the sausage and mix with the rice. Add some soy sauce and enjoy.
Jan 6 # 3 of 14
I make a "fancy" Ramen Noodle dish with ramen noodles, chopped up leftover chicken, spring onions, and a can of low sodium chicken broth. If we happen to have some fresh bean sprouts on hand, then a 1/2 cup of them added at the end makes a nice meal. Sometimes I slice up a couple of the baby carrots very thin and add them too.
Jan 7 # 4 of 14
I'm at home all day, but don't have much time to cook lunch with my little "helper" tugging at me constantly. Lately we've been eating quite a bit of mac & cheese, quesadillas (both chicken & bean/cheese), grilled cheese sandwiches, frozen chicken strips/bites....anything that's fast is fair game.
Jan 7 # 5 of 14
For lunches at my house we eat alot of soup. That can get boring so we try to change it up from time to time by either making tuna sandwiches, quesadilas ( we use corn tortillas instead of flour) with black beans, picode gallo abd cheese, BBQ beans and cut up hot dogs and the microwavable mac and cheese.