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[Pbusby]

Sorting out cupboards and writing a shopping list but struggling, I very rarely eat breakfast as I'm dairy intolerant and need to think of interesting packed lunches to have at work. Any ideas greatly appreciated xx

[Hidden]

Isn't their anything you can eat for breakfast?

[Pbusby in reply to Hidden]

I do have rice milk butI think I've got into the habit of no breakfast which leads me snack, I would rather eat something at 10 than before I leave for work at 7am, So ideally need suggestions of something I can take with me

[TheJuggler]

Hi. How about fruit salad. I have been making this recently. Am buying the fruit at the weekend then prepping and taking a big pot to work and decanting. You could always have a piece of toast at home and then fruit salad at work (or vice versa!). We have a toaster and microwave at work so if I'm not taking a sandwich it would be pasta, soup, jacket potato or pitta/oatcakes with crudités and dips. Or leftovers of whatever we have had for tea (if there are any leftovers!). Good luck.

[Pbusby in reply to TheJuggler]

Thank you for the ideas xxx

[Weight-be-gone]

I have fruit for breakfast, usually melon (water or cantelope) but not exclusively. Bananas are good because they are very filling.

Pack lunch wise I would have lots of finger salad foods, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, beetroot, spring onions, carrot sticks. With some lean meat, like chicken breast or lean ham. You could put it in a wholemeal roll if you wanted to.

I'm sure there are many more options, like making a pasta salad - depending on what sort of diet you are doing. I'm not a fan of pasta myself, but you see them in the supermarket. Not sure about their calorie count though.

[Pbusby in reply to Weight-be-gone]

Thank you. I'm rubbish at calorie counting so I'm just swapping to healthier options or cutting out completely and see how I go x

[lucigret]

My husband doesn't eat breakfast as he leaves the house before 7am. I give him a Fusili bar and a banana in his lunch box so he can have it around 10am. He then has ham and salad wraps or sometimes I do cold meat and salad and a boiled egg for him. I sometimes do him pasta with a sauce with cold left over meat and peas and sweet corn which he could heat up, but he likes it cold. He has almonds and sultanas and an apple.

[nteapea]

Whole meal toast with peanut butter is very filling and low GI

[geniii]

Proper porridge is made with water so should be OK for you. Making a single portion in the bowl you eat from is quick and easy in a microwave, and eliminates the otherwise horrible saucepan to wash up. It is very filling. I have been eating this for years and sail through to lunch without feeling hungry. I have a teaspoon of honey and some seeds as well.

All the best, whatever you do.