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Trying to stay off bread, got breakfast and evening meal sorted but finding lunch hard - usual alternatives of soup or salad I guess, but what else is there?

In reply to subtle:

Pot Noodle!

In reply to subtle:
Might help to know why you're avoiding bread. Is it gluten, carbs, wheat, or something else?

In reply to subtle:

Ginsters!

In reply to subtle:

Fish and Chips.
Pork pies
Chicken Tikka Massala
All day breakfast (without toast).

In reply to subtle:

Oatcakes and cheese

In reply to subtle:

Chocolate seems to work for me often enough.

In reply to subtle:

I have leftovers from the night before

In reply to goldmember:

Yup, left over risotto for me today.

In reply to subtle:

Rice and three, no naan, no chapattis...

In reply to subtle:

porridge

In reply to subtle:

Beer and Pork Scratchings. Healthy and nutritious.

In reply to subtle:

I have done the same although I do still have weight watchers wraps. I cook up some frozen pepper mix, onion and quorn with fajita seasoning. Bake or 1 cal spray fry. I have the wraps with salsa and 0% fat cottage cheese.

I make up packs of savoury brown lentils (Protein) and toss in some frozen cooked prawns for microwaving.

Dhal curry mix either the tin version or make my own and freeze portions.

Use those "Barenaked foods" rice packs as there only 18 calories compared with "Unclebenns" 360cals!

Barenaked foods do noodles as well at only 18 cals a pack compared to normal noodles packed with cals. There only available at "Morrisons" at the moment.

I make loads of soup n freeze usually on a pissing rain day/evening. low fat/ low cal versions.

The list is endless that you can freeze and eat with the above rice or noodles. It make a difference to start cooking your meals and have the packs to just lift each morning. We have a Chinese takeaway at the weekend and I recycle the plastic containers for use freezing.

In reply to subtle:

Fruit and nut mix, followed by coffee and cake. Or hot scotcholate, depending on if me/my partner makes it!

In reply to JayPee630:


^^ this.

Loads of people have got it in their head that bread is bad for you and fattening, which is basically bollocks, particularly if you eat good wholemeal. Even shop bought white bread isnt bad for you (just less beneficial nutritionally). Again both, but wholemeal is best, it's a good source of carbohydrates that break down slowly and keep you going longer. So ....why are you cutting it out?

In reply to subtle:

Sushi? Couscous/quinoa with stuff mixed in? Whatever you normally put between the bread slices, just without the bread?

In reply to nufkin:

Cous cous no good if it's wheat or gluten or whatever. Nor are Ginsters, cake, noodles, pork pies, etc etc. possibly either! Basically they need to tell us why they're avoiding bread!

In reply to subtle:

Make an interesting salad. For lunch at work I like to have: spinach (wilted for 1mn in the microwave) or salad, beetroot, spring onions, chopped pepper, baby tomatoes, houmous, olives, avocado. Stuff like that make up a tasty plate of food. Maybe some beef jerky or tinned mackerel to accompany for some extra protein. I'm lucky in that I have access to a) a fridge, and b) a microwave.

In reply to the sheep:

I'm on Chickpea Dahl

In reply to subtle:

Pearl Barley, sultana, peanut, kale and olive salad. Easy and quick to make and keeps well in the fridge.

In reply to subtle:

Try these no-carb noodles from the Far East - they're made from some kind of a yam...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirataki_noodles

In reply to Andy Morley:

That's what I'm microwaving for lunch this minute. The rice version with some Heinz dhal lentils.

Its right about the odour they do smell odd when you first open the pack and need rinsing.

In reply to Scarab9:


Yeah, right. Two slices of wholemeal bread raise your blood sugar levels more than two tablespoons of refined white sugar.

In reply to subtle:

I've just had home made soup and rice cakes. Yes, I feel better without bread from time to time.

In reply to felt:

and unless your diabetic this is a problem becaaaaaaaause? You do know that's what happens when you eat right? Wholemeal bread is medium level on the glycemic index which is fine, and actually have nutritional value....but you go eating your spoonfuls of sugar if you want.

In reply to subtle:

Rice cakes (Instead of bread) & left-over salad for me.

You get used to it

In reply to subtle:

Buns, I don't think they count as bread.

In reply to felt:


Really? What do you mean by 'more'- higher or longer? I'd be genuinely interested to know where you got this from.

In reply to Scarab9:
>Even shop bought white bread isnt bad for you (just less beneficial nutritionally)

I think that we need to make the distinction between highly processed bread i.e the cotton wool chorley wood type and the real bread that's left to ferment naturally.

In reply to subtle:

Today I had quality Sushi and a salad coupled with a rice cake topped with dark chocolate.

In reply to subtle:

Depends why you want to cut out bread as some of the ideas people will give might be similar to bread.

Miso soup with small cubes of tofu, a bit of spinach and maybe even some ready cooked prawns or noodles is good. The spinach just wilts in the hot water and you get sachets of miso soup that you just add hot water to. The tofu can take a bit of getting used to though.

Microwaving a sweet potato is good, they are better than bog-standard baking potatoes.

I eat a wholemeal wrap with some hummus, baby spinach, chicken pieces, tomato and some pumpkin and sunflower seeds.