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Hummus with grated carrots; Pork haslet with salad and piccalilli or pickle; prawns and thousand island with mixed lettuce; cooked chicken with mayo, sweetcorn and bacon; brie and grape; marmite and chedder; taramsalata, hummus or any dip really - with pitta bread and crudites; falafel in pitta with tzatiki; mexican cheese or cooked chicken with guacamole and salad; BLT; fresh/ tinned soup with bread or rolls; pasta, rice or cous cous salads; greek salad...

I love lunch time!

Why not try one of these?
Cheese spring onion and light mayo
Prawns in safood sauce Tastes lush on brown bread!
egg mayo mixed with chopped up bacon
if havig chicken or turkey try some cold stuufing with it (yum yum)
tuna mayo with cheese mixed
I used to work in a cob shop and these were very popular

ok I will confess, my OH is not too interesting on the sarnie front.

I've known him for 10 years and he will only eat three kinds of sarnies and that goes way back to the previous 10 years too.

He eats peanut butter, blackcurrant jam or tuna paste.

Now as unappetising as that sounds, there is worse news to come.

He eats the same filling for around 2 years (just realised thats almost to the month actually) then changes for one of the other two, the next one in the cycle of course, then 2 years on he goes for the last one before starting again. I just can't tempt him with any other filling.

I love chicken salad wraps - they are not so stodgy as bread. How about sausage rolls, pork pies or quiches with a slice of bread and butter for a change. You could have a hunk of cheese with an apple or turn it into a full ploughmans lunch with a chunk of bread and a little tub of mixed salad (and don't forget the pickle!)

There is a chapter on sarnies in Jamie olivers latest book, think there is also a little bit about packed lunches

Make some fresh soup and take it in a flask. My daughter does this a few times a week for school and makes a nice change. What about getting some pitta pockets and making spicy chicken or those deli wraps and you could put sausage and mushrooms as this is nice even when cold.

SARNIES Was a bad word inmy book until I married and started to make my own lunch. You have to think ahead. So if you are making a meat pie for dinner make two small ones to take to work. Can be eaten hot or room temp. other choices

Macaronni salad
rice salad
leaf salad
meat pies
curry rice (can also be eaten at room temp)
Fried green peppers with olives and onions (take a nice roll with you and make others jealous with the aroma
Sarines can be filled with egg salad or any salad.
If you have a left over slice of cube roll from supper stick it in a bun with a slice of cheese and microwave it at work. Cheese melts as it warms up.
Sausage rolls
come on be creative so many ideas..

Sandwich fillings are my worst nightmare usually go for a way round them if I have to have a packed lunch.
Toasted bread (cold) with homous dip or crackers with it, egg mayo, prawn mayo, chicken in a curry mayo (mayo with a sprinkling of curry powder) or even bacon and egg or sausage and egg.
As tina suggested how about making a pasta salad the night before and eating cold with either egg, prawn, chicken or tuna could add a few peas, sweetcorn, peppers bits or peanuts.

but i dio love a good hobz bi zeit, but i shall let boneyapper (adrian) introduce you to those

i don't normally eat sarnies as i am not to keen on them, but for my eldest and when i have foreign students, i put some sweet and crunchy salad, mayonnaise, either ham or chicken, cucumber, salt and pepper and butter on the bread, i normally get a thumbs up, oh and with the ham ones i put a smidgeon of english mustard

how about making a pasta salad the night before, do you have microwave facilities where you work? if you do what about jacket potatoes, with your favourite sandwich filling

I do my OH a lunch box every day, But different filling evey day, he has peanut butter, sausages breded meat cold meat, and try puting some mayo, some days he will have sardines in tomato sauce and I add blackpepper and a bit of vinager mash with a fork and fill your sarnie or roll. If using tuna try it with sweet corn and mayo. feefee the list can go on. hope this is of any help

hi feefee, if you put sarnie fillings into the search bar at the top and look in chat, we discussed sarnie fillings a while ago and you may find some usefull info there!good luck, happy eating.x