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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.
A bowl filled with creamy parsnip soup, with a spoon in and garlic croutons and halzenuts sprinkled on top. The bowl is on top of a white tablecloth.

Lunch Ideas

Parsnip Soup {Easiest Ever 20 Minute Recipe}

A crusty homebaked loaf cooked and ready to serve, in a pan with baking paper for the recipe No Knead Bread.

Comfort Food

No Knead Bread {Easiest Ever Overnight Recipe}

Quick and simple cream cheese pasta on a plate with peas and parsley on top. Ready to serve.

Under 15 minutes

Cream Cheese Pasta {10 Minute Meal}

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}

Easy tomato soup recipe with a swirl of pesto in a white bowl.

Lunch Ideas

Easy Tomato Soup {Storecupboard Ingredients}

A big pan full of Shakshuka, ready to serve, with crusty bread on the side for dipping.

Breakfast

Shakshuka Recipe {with Chorizo}

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

A white plate filled with tuna pasta salad, with dressing to the side.

Under 15 minutes

Tuna Pasta Salad

Easy chicken pasta with green pesto, veggies and cheese

Under 30 Minute Pasta Recipes

Chicken Pesto Pasta

A bowl of Courgette Soup with toppings of chives, creme fraiche and croutons, with another bowl slightly in shot, both on a white tablecloth.

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}

A white platter serving Carrot Salad, on a table with wooden salad servers, salt and pepper pots and a small bowl of hazelnuts to the side.

Side Dishes

Carrot Salad {with Simple Zesty Dressing}

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 white bowl with chopped Greek Salad, with utensils around the side.

Side Dishes

Easy Greek Salad

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