Lunch Envy
Amy Fleming wrote in the Guardian Online yesterday that “one of the secrets to hassle-free packed luncheoning seems to be to cook stuff for tea that you’ll want to eat again, at work, the next day.” Spot on. Using up last night’s supper means you can pack up your lunch without having to think – always a bonus – just open the fridge, grab and go.
The Queen of Free-lunching
My cousin takes a packed lunch to work every day. I make it for her when I am doing the kids’ lunchboxes. (Family duty prevents me from telling her to move out of my spare room and make her own flaming sandwiches…) So when she sits down in the staff room at lunchtime, she has no clue what she’s going to get. It wouldn’t be so bad if she was a shy retiring type, content to lift the lid and just nibble away self-consciously in a quiet corner somewhere. But no, she feels the need to broadcast far and wide exactly what she has in her lunchbox and take all the credit. In other words, she deliberately tries to provoke lunch envy in her colleagues and claim the ‘queen of free-lunching’ title.
Who’s got the best lunch today?
If you needed any more encouragement to jump on the free-lunching bandwagon, lunch envy is another brilliant reason to use up those leftovers. But my cousin won’t be wining the “I’ve-got-the-best-lunch” badge today and you might want to make your own sandwiches, just to be on the safe side. Boiled egg and marmalade, anyone?
Leftovers…I do this all the time if we have a nice cooked meal for tea I just pop the rest in a lunch box for dinner the next day. It does actually cut down on how much you eat to as you want enough for dinner the next day you tend to cut down on the amount you eat for tea so you are not starving the next day. So can be a bit of a result you may lose a few pounds over the month.