Just wondering what everyone else has for lunch, especially instead of bread. I feel that I eat too much bread in a typical day but getting totally scunnered with it - fancy trying something different.

This afternoon I have had a couple of oatcakes with farmhouse pate and a couple with cheese triangles and really enjoyed them.

Any ideas folks?

I like bread for lunch too

Alternatives would depend whether you are at home or somehwere with a kitchen, I suppose. I like soup with either pasta or rice in to make it a 'proper' meal. also pasta or rice or couscous bulked out with chicken/ham/quorn and veggies?

Rice cakes are nice but a bit lightweight... it is easy to eat too many because they are not very filling.

I try not to eat bread. I find it makes me crave more, and my tummy feels more blown up.

At 1st it is quiet hard to think of things to eat instead. We are such great sandwich eaters in this country it is often hard to find anything else.

I often have crispbreads, rice cakes etc. instead, I use extra light cream cheese, a slice of cold meat and sliced toms,cuc, beetroot etc.
But recently I have been trying to have a hot or warm lunch.

Using Pasta,riceand making it up as a salad or baked potato. Also a one egg omelette with loads of free veg to pad it out( peppers, onions, toms spring onions etc.)
There are quite a few in the PEP book and various S.S recipe books.

Good luck with a bread free PEP. Let us know how you get on.

SpeedyX

I only allow myself 2 slices of bread in a day, and I keep that for my lunch. I HAVE to have a sandwich for my lunch - dont feel like I've had lunch if I dont!! But there are loads of alternatives to bread, how about bagels, pittas or wraps - you can get all three in wholemeal versions. There are all your ryvita range, oatcakes, baked potatoes, pasta/rice/cous cous salads. Like Ginfiz said it depends whether your at home or not, but most of these things could be prepared the night before and stuck in the fridge to be taken to work the next day

I find it's not the bread but the fact that with bread, there's the spread and the topping. I eat cheesy oat cakes or crakers for lunch either by themselves or with cheese, tuna or bovril. I'm also finding a good way to add for carbs (and variety) is to have a mini muller rice pudding pot. They are only 4 checks and the perfect size.

I'm also trying M & S brioche for breakfast - they last for ages (so you don't need to worry about wasting them) and are just 5 checks. As they are a little sweet, they are lovely with just a little low fat butter.

I too am a bread lover!!! But today I had sushi bought from Morrisons for £2.49. Had it with a big salad - it was lovely and something totally different from what I'd normally have. Only 12 checks for my lunch yum yum . xxx

I sometimes like a salad wrap for a change, with wafer thin ham or chicken x

I like wraps too, with chicken or ham and salad and extra low fat mayo. If you have these toastie bags you can toas t them and they're really yum. I make them with some thin salami, lf mozz and toms then just toast in your wee bag. It works out about 14 cx. Or on Booster you can have prosciutto/lowfat mozz and toms and then it is just 7 ish fpr the wrap

I like pitta breads, wholemeal, with tuna mayo and a pile of salad and tomatoes. Of chopped chicken breast with 0 check salad. 0 check soup with bread. A wrap is a nice alternative too.

Thanks for all your replies, sorry for the delay in finally getting to read them, been awol.

I have discovered WW pitta bread and putting hummous and salad on it - love it mmmm. I am starting to love baked potatoes too, had gone off them for a while.