How to Make Frugal and Delicious Sandwiches and Other Lunches

Sandwiches are a favorite food for work or at home lunches, and they can be an inexpensive alternative to fast foods or eating lunches in a cafe or restaurant. To make your lunches even better, try some different and tasty ideas for sandwiches, don't limit yourself to just peanut butter and jelly or tuna sandwiches.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• recipes
• sandwich fixings
• saran wrap and lunch box cooler

1. Wrapped Sandwiches To Go
   
   Ingredients;
   Large tortillas, flour
   
   Fillings (you choose)
   rice, beans, and cheese
   crumbled veggie burger
   hummus, grated onion, grated carrots, spinach leaf
   cooked mashed potatoes, seasoned
   refried beans and grated cheese
   
   Top whichever filling you choose with your choice of:
   avocado slices, chopped lettuce or cabbage, sliced green or black olives, sprouts, sliced tomatoes, sliced onions or chopped green onions.
   
   Wrap tightly, roll it up like a rug, wrap in saran wrap, and take with you to work for lunch.
   You probably already have a lunch container that keeps your lunch cool, but if you don't, purchase one.
   
   Wrap can be eaten cold or heated in your work lunch room microwave.
2. Follow the above wrap lunch idea, except wrap your food in a large lettuce leaf instead of a large flour tortilla. This sounds strange, but they are really good. These are better eaten cold though as lettuce doesn't do well heated up in a microwave.
3. Make your own "fruit plate" for a nice change. Slice various fruits and put in a plastic cooler/container and bring to work, or bring the washed fruits from home, along with a kitchen knife, and slice and dice your fruit at work. Choose from fruits that are on sale this month, or are inexpensive, and if you like add a slice of cheddar cheese to your lunch fruit plate.
4. Make a super salad. This works especially well if you have a garden, but find a cheap source for vegetables and you're still saving money. Just wash, chop, dice, slice, peel and put your vegetables together, place in a lunch container and you're set. Don't forget dressing and salt and pepper. If you're feeling festive, bring a hard boiled egg, some sliced chicken slices, or whatever is on sale.
5. Fast for lunch sometimes, (maybe once a month?), and use the money you save to help feed the hungry, or add it to your savings.
6. Make your own soup and bring it to work in a plastic container you can heat up in the microwave. You are limited here only by your imagination. Check cook books to find some good soup recipes. Good lunch ideas are potato soup, and vegetable soups. Note: make a big batch and freeze some of them for lunches later on in the month. Be sure to label the container so you know what you're eating.

Tips & Warnings

• Get creative
• Ask family and friends for good frugal lunch ideas
• Don't overeat. Eat enough, but not too much.
• Don't forget to enjoy your food and your life, even while you're eating more frugally.