I don’t know about you but given the choice I would take a packed lunch over a shop bought one any day. With so much nastiness going into our food these days it is nice to know what we are actually eating. This means making your own food from scratch from good quality locally sourced (if possible) ingredients.
A lot of people don’t prepare their own lunch. When asked why the most common answer would be lack of time and energy, lack of ability to actually cook or simply a lack of good will. Making your own lunch can be fun 🙂
A few days ago I prepared a quick and easy Mexican chicken which we used as a filling in our lunch sandwiches.
All you need is 15 minutes and you can have a tasty fresh chicken sandwich on your plate.
Ingredients:
- 2 skinless chicken breasts
- ½ cube of Knorr chicken stock
- 1 Mexican Knorr flavour pot
- 4 tbsp oil
- 2tbs of mayonnaise
Method:
Heat up a heavy bottom frying pan.
Cut your chicken into desired size – 1cm x 1cm cubes work for me.
In a medium size bowl mix oil, chicken stock and flavour pot.
Add the chicken chunks into the bowl and mix well massaging the flavours into the chicken.
Fry on the well preheated frying pan for 10 to 12 minutes; stir and toss well to ensure that all pieces of the chicken are cooked.
Remove from the heat and allow it to cool down a little.
Add mayonnaise and mix gentry.
Serve with your favourite bread or as an addition to salad.
My Mexicans Chicken went into a sandwich. As it contained mayonnaise I didn’t even butter the thins 😉
Then my Mexican Chicken sandwiches went into The Wrapper… a brilliant product perfect for packed lunches.
The Wrapper is a reusable sandwich wrapper. It costs £5.50 and it comes in many lovely designs. I totally love the idea behind it; no more wrapping our food in foil or paper. Now everyone has their own personal wrapper to keep their food fresh for longer.
The Wrapper is extremely easy to use:
And if it gets dirty you simply wipe it clean 😉
Not only is it perfect for packed lunches but it also doubles as an eating mat. No more crumbs in the car; no more eating from the dirty table in the park and no more unnecessary rubbish.
I hope that The Wrapper idea takes off and it becomes a must have product in every household. Can you even imagine how many tons of rubbish we could avoid if everyone swapped to it and simply wrapped their food in The Wrapper?
What do you think? Would you use The Wrapper in your own home?
oooh great recipe and how cute are those wrappers
I love the wrapper idea - anything to minimize waste. At my kid’s school here in Canada they ‘boomerang’ all lunch waste home - wrappers, scraps, everything - so it remains in the interest of the family to limit rubbish. We have those clik-lock reusable plastic containers in all sizes and reusable water bottles and once you separate out our recyclables (paper, card, glass, tins, plastic and compostable waste) we one to one and a half black bags a month - and we’re a family of five!
What a yummy scrummy filling! I love the idea of the wrapper too, I would definitely use it
Lovely to hear that you love the Wrappers! Free postage runs out today but if you mention you’d seen the Wrappers on the Bark Time Blog on my twitter @rewrapit or Facebook page re-wrap-it then I’ll extend the free postage for you.
Have a good easter.
Thank you for this Shona 🙂
Loving the look of the chicken and the Wrapper. Looks so much better than cling film.
Am always on the hunt for new ideas for lunch and these look lovely
That wrapper is a genius idea. Would be interesting to see how it washes.
just give the inside a wipe with a cloth and if the outside gets grubby over time just give it a rinse in the sink like a rag. It’s a poly cotton outer layer so no shrinkage issues!
I love this, what a great idea. I always get cross at how many sandwich bags we use so will be looking out for this.
What a great idea, they look delicious! xxx
Great idea! I don’t make sandwiches for lunch often but when I do I would definitely use it 😉
I am loving the Knorr Flavour pots! I’m using them in all of my cooking too, love your chicken recipe, must try it.
I like how you have wrapped up the sandwiches, much more appealing then tin foil!
I love that wrapper, what a great idea, I would definitely use it. We are trying to make as much of our food as we can - after a trip to Italy to see how they make all their own food we are trying to make changes!!
We use boxes but the wrap sounds like it would take up a lot less room
Sounds delicious and I’m loving the wrap me pouches
I love these, what a fantastic idea
I think I need you to make my lynch for work, what a fab idea x
Great feedback for the Wrappers! ( And the sandwiches of course!) Thanks so much. I’ve a huge range of colours so something for everyone!
Thank you Shona.
You’ve created a truly amazing product!
more fantastic inspiration from you!
I love the idea of not having to use cling film! the sandwich looks soooo tasty it has made me hungry!
I really like the sound of this, such a good idea on so many levels, cling film is so fiddly and who needs all that waste! 🙂
Love love love the look of those sandwich wrappers. I’m always trying to cut down on waste we throw out so these are perfect!
You sandwich looks very tasty. I’d certainly use a wrapper, I get tired of cling film and this makes an excellent alternative
This looks yummy. I get so bored with the same old lunches but seriously lack inspiration! The wrapper looks like a great way to take your sarnies out too!
Loving the look of those lunch wrappers - they are so me. We try to reuse stuff, but cling film often comes into the equation. I make packed lunches for hubby and my son most days, so nice to get some new ideas.
oh what a fab idea, i hate cling film and often curse getting it wrapped up so this is such a fab idea!