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Home › Fuss Free Family Food Recipes › Light Bites › Lunch Ideas

Lunch Recipes

This selection of lunch ideas will satisfy your midday hunger – from speedy pastas to hearty soups, extra special sandwiches and even pasties.

You can choose your favourites for a picnic or packed lunch too.

Get stuck in! 🍽

A close up of an open hallloumi wrap before it's wrapped up, showing salad and halloumi on top.
Easy puff pastry tarts with tomatoes, cheese, goats cheese, caramelised onions and bacon

Lunch Ideas

Easy Puff Pastry Tarts {with 4 Topping Ideas}

A big bowl full of smoked salmon pasta with broccoli.

Under 15 minutes

Smoked Salmon Pasta {10 Minute Meal}

A close up of a big pan of tomato soup with green pesto on top, ready to serve into bowls.

Soup

Easy Tomato Soup

Loaded potato skins with bacon and cheese, topped with sour cream and chives.

Light Bites

Loaded Potato Skins {with Cheese and Bacon}

Easy Picnic Ideas for Kids with no sandwiches

Lunch Ideas

30 Picnic Ideas for Kids

Easy chicken pasta with green pesto, veggies and cheese

Under 30 Minute Pasta Recipes

Chicken Pesto Pasta

A close up of a bowl of courgette soup with croutons and chives, ready to eat on a set table.

Lunch Ideas

Easy Courgette Soup {with Parmesan}

healthy lunch ideas shown in individual compartment lunch boxes

Lunch Ideas

20 Healthy Lunch Ideas for Work

A bowl of green Broccoli and Cauliflower Soup with grated cheese and croutons on the top.

Lunch Ideas

Broccoli & Cauliflower Soup {Easy 20 Minute Recipe}

Carrot salad on a long oval platter topped with hazelnuts and dressing.

Side Dishes

Carrot Salad

Overhead photo of chicken kebabs on bamboo skewers on white plate.

Under 30 minutes

Chicken Kebab Recipe – For Grill, Oven or BBQ

A plate filled with fresh mackerel pate, salad greens and a wedge of lemon, ready to be eaten with a fork in the pate.

Under 15 minutes

Smoked Mackerel Pate {Quick, Easy & Healthy}

Slices of cooked crustless quiche.

Vegetarian

Crustless Quiche {Easy Vegetarian Recipe}

Homemade fish fingers being held on a plate.

Family Dinner Ideas

Homemade Fish Fingers Recipe {30 Minutes}

A pan of green Pea and Ham Soup with shredded ham on top, ready to eat.

Soup

Pea and Ham Soup {Easy & Delicious}

Chicken Satay recipe on a bed of rice and salad.

Under 30 minutes

Chicken Satay Skewers {with Peanut Sauce}

Overhead shot of a pancake with an egg cooked into the middle, chives on top on white background with a knife and fork.

Light Bites

Savoury Pancakes with Ham, Egg and Cheese

A week of no sandwich lunch boxes for kids (or grown ups!) packed in our favourite YumBoxes.

Kids' favourites

An Easy Peasy Week of No Sandwich Lunchboxes

Full English Breakfast Omelette - The easiest ever "fry up" breakfast, all cooked in one pan. Packed with sausages, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and eggs. Perfect for breakfast, lunch or brunch.

Breakfast

Full English Breakfast Omelette Recipe

Salmon burgers in a bun on a board.

Under 30 minutes

Fresh Salmon Burgers {with Tzatziki Dressing}

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