Lunch Ideas?

Pepperoni Salad

lettuce (or greens of your choice)
tomatoes, chopped
green onions, chopped
mozarella cheese, cubed
sliced pepperoni (I use Hormel blister pack, and warm package in hot water or microwave, layer in single layer on paper towels and blot excess grease out)
salt/fresh ground pepper
salad dressing of your choice

We are typically too busy to do anything that takes a lot of effort. And with wrangling 3 kids and 2 dogs, I don't want to exert any effort at lunchtime.

We do sandwiches, but that gets old. We also have taco salad and often eat leftovers or just yogurt/fruit/granola bars.

We tend to keep it simple. If no sandwiches, then maybe some beanie weenies, Vienna sausages, potted meat, and saltine crackers.

Chili dogs
Bucket of KFC
Leftovers
If some folks are adverse to leftovers, use the same ingredients as the previous night dinner but in a different way. For example, if I make pizza for dinner, the onions, peppers and mushrooms can be used the next day for Philly cheesesteak sandwiches.

Leftovers. When the calendar is marked that we are heading out, I start to double up on our dinners and freezing half for the trip. There is usually enough for one dinner and lunch the next day, although I some times have to be really creative about stretching it out. Sometimes our dinners are the leftovers and occasionally even breakfast might be.

When I am on the road there is no setting up a BBQ to cook. I need ease of a good healthy lunch that doesn't require pulling out pots and pans and grills at a rest stop.

I buy one of those rotisserie chickens from Wynn Dixie. Pull all the chicken off of it and shred it. Put into a container.

Then I'll take some of the chicken and put it into individual containers with chicken broth, a couple with mayo and green beans, some with red sauce and rice, etc etc.

Pull one container out pop in micro and a warm lunch is served in 2 minutes.

Cook more than enough bacon in the morning for leftovers, if that's even possible. Use the leftover bacon to make a BLT with avocado on toasted potato bread.

Aloha ~ Todd

tonyandkaren wrote:
Toss the deli meat in a pan with a few sliced mushrooms, onions and green pepper strips, fry it all up, melt cheese on the top, slap it on your bread - boring no more!

Have done that with deli roast beef adding brown gravy instead of cheese. Open faced, and we are rolling. Takes ten minutes.

Sometimes, we just scramble a few eggs, and have toast. Must have protein at every meal!

Besides having the standard sandwich fixings available, many times we just have left overs from dinner the night before or even that mornings breakfast (usually involving sausage). We rarely spend much time or effort on lunch, too much going on usually.

I use the above recipe or something that is pretty close, but instead of the full-fat dairy, I use the fat-free half and half.

When we have a rotisserie chicken, I will freeze the leftovers in double wrapped freezer bags for use in this soup and others.