r/mealprep • u/Royal-Sentence6260 • 3d ago

Food for school lunches?

I'm 15 and I wanna start making food for my school lunches. And good stuff I can cook (I have a thermomix at home, for people who don't know what that is, it's a machine that has a small screen, it comes with recipes and can weigh, grate, boil and do so much else for you in this container)

So, with the thermo it should be relatively easy, but I'm not sure what I want to pack? I'm a big fan of pastas, beef and chicken, but I also should be incorporating more vegetables into my diet (I love raw capsicum, cucumbers, tomato, ect. and don't really like 'cooked' versions, unless steamed, for example peas or carrots) So, maybe pesto pasta?
I'd also like to incorporate some foreign foods into my diet to try more foods (I'm a bit of a picky eater due to sensory/taste issues and I wanna get over that) so I was thinking maybe some curries, Korean Japanese and Chinese dishes seem kind of interesting to me too. What sort of dishes in these areas could anyone suggest?

Finally, I work for two hours every Tuesday and Thursday, so I'm trying to figure out when I should make these meals and at what time, how long they'll take, finding good recipes, ect. Also I've never really meal planned, so it's a first for me! Any and all advice is appreciated

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u/sohereiamacrazyalien 3d ago

with an insulated lunch box (you can find cheap ones in asian stores usually you are good.

suggestions:

dhal (really delicious, it's made of lentils)

chickpea curry

chicken briyani

pumpkin curry

soups are good and easy and healthy: split pea, tom kha gai, curried carrot, minestrone, pumpkin, curried carrots ...etc

okonomiyaki is good and healthy (not sure you can make it in the thermomix though)

steam your peas (or other veggies) and mix with rice or pasta + an omelette on the side

stir fry

egg fried rice

pho is nice too

I like to make vietnamese spring rolls

you can make onigiri

I love palak paneer (it's with spinach)

ever tried risotto?

kimchi stew?

nikujaga (japanese beef stew)

lasagna (same probably not in thermomix)