Ways to use this list
- Plan the work week on Sunday: spin five lunches with Remove the winner on, shop for exactly those, and weekday noon takes care of itself.
- School lunchboxes: your child taps Packed lunch and spins the night before, then helps pack whatever comes up.
- Working from home: spin at half past twelve instead of standing in front of the open fridge for five minutes.
- Office lunch club: put a mix of nearby cafés and bring-from-home ideas on one wheel, then spin together on Friday.
- Clear the leftovers: add a slice called
Whatever is in the fridge *2and the wheel lands on it twice as often.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (36 entries)
- Chicken wrap
- Tomato soup and toast
- Jacket potato with beans
- Pasta salad
- Egg fried rice
- Cheese quesadilla
- Hummus and veggie plate
- Noodle soup
- Greek salad with pitta
- Cheese toastie
- BLT
- Falafel wrap
- Leftover curry and rice
- Bento box
- Poke bowl
- Bean and cheese burrito
- Chicken Caesar salad
- Pitta pizza
- Omelette and salad
- Tuna pasta
- Dal and rice
- Rice paper rolls
- Ploughman's lunch
- Crackers, cheese and fruit
- Couscous salad
- Pesto pasta
- Chickpea salad
- Sushi rolls
- Minestrone soup
- Pinwheel wraps
- Loaded nachos
- Paneer tikka wrap
- Vegetable frittata
- Rice and beans
- Halloumi salad
- Chicken noodle salad
Questions people ask
What are good lunch ideas that need no microwave?
Tap Packed lunch: pasta salad, wraps, rice paper rolls, couscous salad, a bento box and a ploughman's all taste good cold. Pack them with an ice pack if they sit in a bag all morning.
What is a ploughman's lunch?
A cold plate from British pubs: crusty bread, a wedge of cheese (often cheddar), pickle or chutney, an apple, salad and sometimes ham or a pickled onion. It packs neatly into a lunchbox too.
What can I make for lunch with almost nothing in the house?
Eggs, bread and cheese go a long way: a cheese toastie, an omelette, or egg fried rice from yesterday's rice. A jacket potato with a tin of beans needs only an oven or a microwave.
How is this different from the dinner wheel?
These lunches are smaller and quicker, and many travel in a lunchbox. For a proper evening meal spin the dinner ideas wheel, and for fillings beyond ham and cheese try the sandwich ideas wheel.
What goes in a bento box?
A Japanese packed meal in a box with small compartments: usually rice, a protein such as grilled fish, chicken or a rolled omelette called tamagoyaki, pickles and a few bright vegetables. The dividers keep wet and dry foods apart, so nothing turns soggy by noon.