Getting sick of turkey sandwhiches for lunch at work. Any suggestions for make-at-home lunches to bring to work to save money?

Go to shops and buy one of the millions of items and make a sandwich , or go to a takeout place . You could also go to the canteen if have one , could be cheaper there . I hear fruit is nice cheap and tasty :)—so is the neighbours dog made into doggycicles .

I think you should make a simple pasta
Step one: boil and drain pasta
Step two: put it in a fridge
Step three: Add mayo, or mustard
Step four: add meat

I’m still a sucker for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Peanut butter and honey.
Chicken salad.
Tuna.
Cheese, crackers and pastrami.
Last night’s dinner in a reheatable container.

Make lasagna that’ll be good for a couple days!!

Ramen, Mac & Cheese, Pasta Salad, Grilled Cheese

Peanut butter and cheese!!! Love it!!!!

Buy a hot pizza in the Costco food court for $10. Eat on it for a week. They’re huge!

Make big dinners and take leftovers. Pasta reheats well.

With turkey, you can also “spice it up” a bit. Try different cheeses or breads. Mustard, mayo, etc. Lettuce, tomato, hot peppers. My favorite is whole wheat, turkey, deli mustard, swiss cheese and hot peppers.

Tuna or egg salad are easy and cheap ways to make sandwiches. You can also buy the imitation crab and make a quick crab salad with mayo and red onion. It will seem like you got an expensive sandwich when you roll in with a crab salad sandwich, but you can make enough for 3–4 days for less than $5.

Why is it always turkey? Do you like ham, roast beef, corned beef?

I like soup for lunch. Make your own or buy some.

There is also egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad. (I love turkey salad sandwiches.)

How about chicken?

I take hummus on whole wheat pita with tomatoes, letttuce mix and thinly sliced cucumbers. Delish!

I’m with Rob. When I have worked at places with a fridge and microwave I usually went with a couple slices of pizza.

Here’s an easy dish from the chef I work with. Great for this time of year:

Summer Corn Salad
8 ears corn, cut off the cob
½ red bell pepper, diced
½ red onion, diced
½ pint grape tomatoes, halved
⅔ cup edamame beans
1 Tbs. marjoram, chopped
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
2 Tbs. lime juice
1 Tbs. sherry vinegar
⅔ tsp. jalapeño, minced
salt and pepper

Heat half of the oil in a large sautè pan over medium heat. Add corn and cook for two minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.

To a bowl, add corn, bell pepper, onion, tomatoes, edamame beans, marjoram, jalapeño, remaining oil, lime juice, and sherry vinegar. Gently toss and season with salt and pepper.

@cprevite : All that chopping in this heat? I would eat the corn, cooked, on the cob, eat the tomatoes and peppers and etamame beans raw ,and squeeze the lime into ice water

I buy a big piece of uncooked smoked meat. Boil it for 2 hours, then shave it. I buy Ciabata buns and make sandwiches with the whole thing, and freeze them. It costs me 20$ for the whole thing and I can make sandwiches for 17–18 days. Cheap, easy and delicious.

Cheers!

There are many other forms of lunch meat besides turkey, some of which are even fairly healthy for you. When I was in school we alternated between peanut butter and jelly, liverwurst and mustard, and Lebanon baloney and cream cheese on different sorts of breads. Later on, I would use leftover steak, a mix of cottage cheese and salsa, home-made pimento cheese, tuna salad, smoked salmon, sardines, and all sorts of pickles along with a bit of butter or mayo, or aioli, or Zataran’s mustard, or some other interesting spread. Basically, you can put almost anything savory on various types of bread, add assorted condiments and enjoy it.

If you have a microwave at work then leftovers from the night before can work very nicely. Where I used to work, lots of folks would bring in their “doggie bags” (take-home boxes) from various restaurants to have for lunch. Depending on where they had eaten, this means the lunch room could be redolent with all sorts of fun spices.

You can even bring a banana, some milk, and a serving of cold cereal to have for lunch, or a container of your favorite soup.

Use your imagination! Life is too short to eat boring food.

@gailcalled: What? There’s very little cooking involved and you could always use the food processor to chop. Or perhaps give Milo a knife and let him go to town.

@cprevite: MIlo says to talk to his sous-chef.

turkey sandwiches can get boring. i do understand. especially if you are trying to make healthier choices, turkey or chicken seems to top the list.

try this: buy boneless skinless chicken breasts. not the ones that are individually wrapped by purdue chicken, but a real breast from the meat section. butterfly the chicken breast and season with sea salt and ground pepper. add paprika for color and extra flavor. for extra taste, marinate in a house italian dressing. heat up the charcoal grill and lay flat on indirect heat. breasts cook fast and get tough and dry, so keep an eye out. when the juice run clear, the meat is done.

to dress: find quality bread, dijon mustard, lettuce (not iceberg), tomato and onion thinly sliced and maybe even a pickle. build the breast with the aforementioned. wrap in foil and deli paper for “the look” when you open it at lunch the next day. coworkers will definitely ask, “hey where did you get that sandwich?”

takes time and effort, but hey, sandwiches deserve time and preparation.

OR, find the time the night before to make a ground turkey meatloaf. prepare and bake just like you would any beef meatloaf. allow to cool and then place in the fridge. slice thin the next morning and lay on good wheat bread.

meatloaf sandwiches are so so SO GOOD and they keep for days. you will definitely enjoy the texture of meatloaf in your mouth from the daily deli slice rut.

Uncle Ben’s has a packet of rice in many different flavors that is microwaveable in the package. I like several of the flavors and it is more than enough for lunch. Read the packages though, as some are extremely high in sodium. I also fix a salad a couple times a week.