Home made for me.
I never really 'did' lunch, but nagging from the OH and me mum that I should have something during the day, got me into taking sarnies to work.
I'm a bit stingy about buying a sandwich; I don't see the value in paying (sometimes over) two quid for two slices of bread and some filling when I can knock up something in a couple of minutes to my own taste.
One can buy a nice sliced loaf for less than two quid, which lasts a few days.
I have a bit of a grubby palate, so all sorts get shoved between my slices of bread.
My favourite is cucumber and marmite, which the OH thinks is manky, but she keeps quiet; because it was enough of fight for me to take lunch in the first place and she doesn't want to put me off doing it
Otherwise I tend to work whatever we had the night before into them; meat left from the slow cooker stew works well, or left over chicken.
Or when I make my own meatballs, I make enough for my lunch for a couple of days, sliced up cold in a sarnie they are well tasty.
Wandering down memory lane; when I was a kid, one of the town butchers, back in the day, a traditional butchers with sawdust/sand on the floor* did epic faggots, not the mushy things in gravy you get in supermarkets, but a the solid ones that one could use to hold a door open
One day during the week, mum, who worked part time would come home from work with these faggots from the butcher and it was faggots and mash night.
I always preferred them cold, whereas the rest of the tribe liked them warmed with gravy.
Knowing this mum bought extra, and the following day I had sliced faggot and HP sauce sarnies to take to school for my lunch.
The best sarnies I have ever had.
*If any FM's are from that area, it was the butchers on Bridge Street, Newbury, right by the bridge over the canal
I never really 'did' lunch, but nagging from the OH and me mum that I should have something during the day, got me into taking sarnies to work.
I'm a bit stingy about buying a sandwich; I don't see the value in paying (sometimes over) two quid for two slices of bread and some filling when I can knock up something in a couple of minutes to my own taste.
One can buy a nice sliced loaf for less than two quid, which lasts a few days.
I have a bit of a grubby palate, so all sorts get shoved between my slices of bread.
My favourite is cucumber and marmite, which the OH thinks is manky, but she keeps quiet; because it was enough of fight for me to take lunch in the first place and she doesn't want to put me off doing it
Otherwise I tend to work whatever we had the night before into them; meat left from the slow cooker stew works well, or left over chicken.
Or when I make my own meatballs, I make enough for my lunch for a couple of days, sliced up cold in a sarnie they are well tasty.
Wandering down memory lane; when I was a kid, one of the town butchers, back in the day, a traditional butchers with sawdust/sand on the floor* did epic faggots, not the mushy things in gravy you get in supermarkets, but a the solid ones that one could use to hold a door open
One day during the week, mum, who worked part time would come home from work with these faggots from the butcher and it was faggots and mash night.
I always preferred them cold, whereas the rest of the tribe liked them warmed with gravy.
Knowing this mum bought extra, and the following day I had sliced faggot and HP sauce sarnies to take to school for my lunch.
The best sarnies I have ever had.
*If any FM's are from that area, it was the butchers on Bridge Street, Newbury, right by the bridge over the canal
