Light lunch ideas please

My favourite is avocado on toast. I slice the avocado, cover it in snipped spring onions, sliced baby tomatoes, salt and lots of lemon juice. Pile onto toast and if hungry top with a poached egg. Heaven.

I am not a particular fan of bread I tend to have bowl of Greek yoghurt with fruits. Feta with watermelon or smoked salmon topped onto cream cheese. If I am busy usually in the garden I eat while working I will open pilchards or beans with chilli sauce mixed in. Mackerel fillets straight out the packet.

I like all sorts of cold fish with salads. So tuna, smoked fish of all sorts, salmon etc are all tasty, nutritious and easy.

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Toasted bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon - my favourite and usually only on Sundays. Pastrami and tomato on other days.

We had smoked mackerel pate on toast today.

I’m naughty I enjoy a cake and a banana.

We like those fish cake things with the cheesy sauce in the middle. Most supermarkets do them. In the air fryer for 17 minutes, then onto a plate with some rocket, watercress, baby tomatoes or whatever else we fancy/have in the fridge and some Branston usually.

I had cheese spread on Ryvita.
Also like pate on toast.
Smoked salmon sandwiches - and at the other end of the spectrum, sardine and tomato paste sandwiches.
Ham baguette.
Kids size pizza. M&S do mini ones.
Sardines on toast.

Today I made a caprese salad and had it with a slice of Spanish omelette I made earlier in the week.

Tomorrow, more omelette with potato salad, also already made, and green beans in a herby oil.

Wednesday will be cold chicken or something I haven’t thought of yet. Maybe a cold avocado soup.

I’m really not very interested in cooking,

Beef tomato and mozzarella. OH went out to get me some basil! Now I’ve decided I would like toast instead.

The removal of my gall bladder has messed my appetite up! I feel hungry but have become fussy about the thought of what food to eat.

We had watermelon and feta salad today. First had it in Greece years ago when it was really hot. Absolutely lovely and refreshing, so long as the watermelon is nice and ripe - not like the one we had to day which was tasteless.

Hummus and flatbread.

Pate( liver, fish, vegetable), toast and a side salad.

Any cold meat, cheese, fish, eggs etc etc wit salad

Staffordshire oatcakes folded over cheese tomato and basil into a semi-circle shape ... or mushrooms in creamy sauce in the oatcake..
I heat then in a little butter in a frying pan and flip them over 1/2 way.

Also, olive or mushroom pate is nice for lunch with whatever breads you fancy

Thank you everyone some great ideas here that I will introduce to our lunches to try and make them more interesting.

Sometimes I do a plate with sliced apple, slices of cheddar, a couple of dates a few nuts and a few olives.
Often an omelette varying filings.
Salad bowls a mix of chopped all sorts, with either sardines or tuna on top with a little olive oil and vinegar.

Rice cakes with avocado and smoked salmon, lemon juice and black pepper ?
Homemade potato salad, smoked mackerel and a mixed salad
Tomato and mozzarella sliced and dressed with olive oil, wine vinegar, salt pepper and basil leaves
Bulgar wheat salad
Mixed bean salad with salami, cucumber spring onions,feta and tomatoes
Omelette with cheese and ham, frites and mayonnaise ?

For a cheap and healthy pate to make at home.

Chicken Livers, pat dry when defrosted, fry lightly in a small amount of butter. When cool, chop as small as possible. Do NOT put in liquidiser to do this. Best (and easy to do) by hand.

Hard boil an egg - chop or crumble the white in with the cooked chicken liver

Sprinkle the egg yolk on top.

Eat on any sort of cracker.
(Can also do some onion with the livers if required)

A quickly prepared one, ideal if just coming in on a cold day, but good any day (except in a heatwave).

2 minutes in the microwave cooker for a 250 gramme pack of microwaveable rice. I prefer Tilda basmati.

Empty the heated contents into a pyrex jug or a bowl of some sort.

Add 250 millilitres of Alpro chocolate soya drink, (that has been stored at ambient temperature, not chilled) either on top or round the side, as you choose. (The drink arrives in a pack of 3 individual units, each of 250 millilitres)

Warming and delicious - and prompt.

Half a pack of halloumi, sliced and fried (just the merest film of oil in the pan) with either sliced apple, peppers and cucumber/any other salad, or a lot of spinach (fresh or frozen) with lemon juice.
Anyone who hasn’t tried lemon juice on spinach, please do! It makes all the difference.

Two halves of an avocado, stone removed, cut side down, cut slices into the “back” of each half and insert slices of mozzarella,
Drizzle with a flavoursome vinaigrette.

Pitta bread, lightly toasted under the grill, until they begin to “rise”, cut to open (a bit like an oyster) or alternatively halve then open up, fill with guacamole and chopped tomatoes or taramasalata and chopped or sliced cucumber.

There are some great ideas on this thread. I always plan dinner then am stumped when it's lunchtime and I haven't considered what to have.

For those with air fryers - halloumi is lovely cooked 'hasselback' style. Just cut deep slashes in it but keep the bottom of the block intact, then put it in the fryer on 180 for 10 mins or so (no need for oil) until it has opened like a fan and the top has browned. I cut it in half lengthways for ease of serving.

I often do that with a pack of mediterranean vegetables also cooked in the air fryer. It's a quick and easy lunch and relatively healthy.