- Stock your work ‘pantry’
Dedicate a small shelf or a drawer to lunch things and kit it out with the basics.
- Stock up with the tools you’ll need
Depending on your work set-up, you might like to include a little chopping board and a pocket knife in your work lunch arsenal. If cutlery and crockery are scarce it might be a good idea to get a little lunch bowl and fork or spoon.
- Figure out the best storage options
Most workplaces provide a fridge you can store your lunch. But if not, consider investing in a little chiller bag. Or if you have access to a good food shop nearby, maybe allow time to pick up whatever you need in your lunch hour.
- Allocate the time you need
Not only will keeping some easy recipes around at work save you time but it is also a good way to save some money.
Stone Soup also has a great cookbook available in PDF format.
Good suggestions, but pretty obvious really. Something else I've always kept at work is a few condiments - some small salt and pepper shakers, and a bottle of tomato sauce etc.
Nice article... Perhaps a follow up on advanced cooking? I have scrambled eggs in the microwave every breakfast and a cooked lunch every day...
find some great how-to video recipes on homemasterchef.com
I've seen the sandwich press being used as a frying surface for eggs. You could probably use it for an omlet.
We have a kitchen on one of our floors with an oven, and we are always joking about bringing in a pot roast for a communal lunch.
there is a little oven in one of the kitchenettes in our office, one day i did in fact bring in prechopped potatos, pumpkin, carrot and a roast. I put it on at 10:00 and by 12:00 me and some friends where enjoying a fresh roast lunch.
I also had to bring in my own tray, alfoil, tongs, etc... Even with the door shut and extractor on there was a little bit of smell leakage.
The exec where not thrilled but as far as i can tell everyone took it in good spirit, glad i did it but i haven't done it since and it was a good 6 months ago.
A good hint is that most meeting rooms are not booked over lunch so we booked the corner board room for the 7 of us.
Dave,
Thanks for sharing my post! Really appreciate it.
And Stephen,very impressed with your work lunch roast. I hadn't even thought to take lunch time cooking to that level...