A Meal Plan To Make Your Work Lunches Significantly Less Shit: Part 3

It’s back. Your brand new weekday work lunch meal planner with a lighter, summer twist.

Same rules apply: This meal plan will give you four different meals from one set of ingredients you buy on a Monday then stash in your work fridge to dip into the rest of the week.

None of these meals require any home prep, just a few store cupboard staples thrown into your bag to hide away in your desk draw. This means that rather than slaving away over a tray of sweaty roast veg, you can spend your Sunday evenings in the pub. Where they belong.

If these recipes aren’t your bag, have a look at these other meal planners that might be here and here.

Shopping list

Tin of green lentils (sounds weird but they are tasty and loads cheaper then pouches)

1 pack of rye bread or pumpernickel

1 pack of smoked mackerel (if you don’t like this smoked salmon slices will do)

1 tub of cream cheese

1 bag of watercress

1 bunch of parsley or basil (whichever you prefer)

1 apple

1 lemon

1 bag of nuts from the snack aisle (almonds or walnuts would work well)

To bring from home and stash in your desk draw

A plastic freezer or sandwich bag

1 clove of garlic

Oil

Pepper

Grainy mustard or horseradish from your Sunday roast

Monday - Kind of Waldorf Salad

Tuesday - Mackerel Smörgåsbord

Wednesday - Pate and Dippers

Make sure you have got the oil, garlic clove and sandwich bag from home to use in tomorrow’s lunch!!

Thursday - Pesto and Lentil Salad

Ok, warning, today reaches peak weird work kitchen prep, but it’s Thursday, surely your colleagues will have got bored of saying “ooo, what are YOU having for lunch today?” by now...

your bashing implement if you are paranoid about noise.

Friday

Eat the remaining pack of rye bread all in one go in homage to all things Nordic….or go for falafel.

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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.