Office menu: how to cook meals for the week ahead and make your life easier

Why take meals with them

You save money

Even if you cook for dinner the same that offers the closest room, it will cost you less. At least you will not have to pay for the services of the waiter and busboy, invested in wages accountant and general director of the cafe.

You know exactly what you eat

In his own prepared dishes will not foods to which you are allergic, or stale ingredients. And you can be sure that the vegetables are well washed, and the oil was used only once.

Or you will know that the stale dish yogurt and cucumbers, you do not wash, but it will be your choice.

You can make the dish healthier

Business lunch is designed for the average consumer, and cook a little interested in what you do not cook with oil and try to eat more vegetables. The composition of household dishes can be adjusted.

You control calorie meals

Theoretically, any cafe at the request must demonstrate the composition and caloric content of meals. In practice, you can kill the entire lunch hour in search of information that is "somewhere in the corner of the consumer". Calorie home dinner just calculate.

For lunch, it takes less time

Eating lunch out of the container takes a matter of minutes. And then you can go for a walk or do their business. Hiking in the cafe takes much more precious free time.

Homemade food tastes better

People are divided into two types: some praise homemade food with the words "in restaurant", others point out restaurant meals with the words "tasty like home." If you are from the second well and ready, lunches are simply not up to your level.

How to simplify the preparation of food for a week

Compose menu

Clearly, what to cook one dish and eat it all week easier and more profitable than the five dinners. In order for this strategy to work, you need to have a nice refrigerator in which food is to preserve the taste and freshness of the whole week.

For those who are not looking for easy ways, will have to think about the menu. For example, you will spend at the stove much less time, if the weekend will prepare the basis for meals and on weekdays will only add to it additional ingredients that every day there is something new.

Choose the right food

ideal Office food It possesses several attributes:

• Almost no smell - colleagues will thank you for the flavors of fish and borscht, impregnated office.
• It has a dense consistency - Have you dreamed of barely fill important documents soup or gravy.
• Simple and quick to prepare.
• It does not lose flavor after heating.

Buy products in advance

At the weekend you have the time, without haste and fatigue go shopping and buy products on the list.

Menu for the week: personal experience

In the short term it is difficult to figure out how to homemade lunches affect the health and weight compared to a business lunch. But you can check out how it will affect the purse, which I did.

To provide themselves with lunch for the whole week, I bought:

• 3 chicken breast fillet (purchased by weight);
• 1 dlinnoplodny cucumber;
• 1 cabbage;
• 200 g mushrooms;
• 1 jar of cream;
• 1 pack Funchoza.

The rest of the products were at my house, otherwise I would have to buy an additional:

• rice;
• sunflower oil;
• rice vinegar;
• soy sauce;
• eggs;
• flour;
• salt and spices.

Theoretically, if you face the goal to dine maximum budget, you can get by with a smaller set.

At the heart of my menu, two dishes: grilled chicken and cabbage fried with mushrooms. They can be cooked at the same time on Sunday to postpone or frying cabbage until Monday. Thus, on Monday, I cook all the chicken, and on Tuesday - all the cabbages.

Thursday: Grilled chicken and salad

Ingredients:

• 3 chicken breast fillet;
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce;
• 200 g of cabbage;
• ½ cucumber;
• 1 tablespoon sour cream.

preparation

Chicken cut into long thin strips and marinate in soy sauce (can be mixed with water). If you have time, leave the meat to soak briefly, then fry. I use an electric grill, but suitable and conventional pan. This meat is one of the foundations for the menu of the week.

To gather for dinner on Monday, set aside nearly half a chicken cooked in a container. In the second container is a salad. For him, chop the cabbage, cut the cucumber, mix, season with sour cream.

Grilled chicken rest reserved for Wednesdays and Fridays.

Thursday: cabbage fried with mushrooms

Ingredients:

• 500 g of cabbage;
• 150 grams of mushrooms;
• 1 teaspoon of sunflower oil.

preparation

Chop the mushrooms, chop cabbage, fry in butter. This dish can be easily transformed into a stew - just in the process cover the pan with a lid.

To gather for dinner on Tuesday, put in a container ⅔ of cooked cabbage. A piece of bread will not be superfluous, as the dish will turn out not very nutritious.

Remnants of the finished cabbage handy on Thursday.

Tuesday: Chicken with rice and mushroom sauce

Ingredients:

• ½ the remaining chicken;
• 50 g of dry rice;
• 50 g of fungi;
• 1 tablespoon of sour cream with a slide.

preparation

Chicken cut into small pieces. rice boil. Mushrooms cut and fry (you can add sunflower oil), when they are golden, add the sour cream and heat.

In the container, place the rice, chicken, pour it all mushroom sauce.

Tuesday: jellied cake

Ingredients:

• the remaining fried cabbage;
• 1 egg;
• 2 tablespoons of cream;
• 50 g of flour.

preparation

Mix the egg, sour cream and flour. The silicone mold lay out the cabbage, fill it with the flour mixture. You may have to distribute the cabbage fork to lay the filling in the cake evenly.

Bake at 200 ° C for about 30 minutes.

Friday: Chicken with Funchoza

Ingredients:

• the remaining chicken;
• 40 g of dry Funchoza;
• ¼ cucumber;
• rice vinegar to taste.

preparation

Funchoza prepare the way indicated on the packaging. In my case, it is necessary to pour boiling water for 8 minutes. Chicken and cucumber cut into slices. Mix the ingredients.

The dish can be eaten hot or cold. If you eat it cold, rice vinegar can be added at any time, including at home. If you want to warm up, better to take the vinegar and season with noodles before serving.

With the result that

On products for the preparation of meals, I spent 414 rubles, and I still had a quarter of a cucumber, some cabbage and Funchoza into four portions. If more, then I gave:

• 80 rubles for a chicken;
• 60 rubles for cucumber;
• 55 rubles per head of cabbage;
• 57 rubles for mushrooms;
• 53 rubles per jar of cream;
• 109 rubles per pack Funchoza.

If I bought lunches, five days would be spent around 1000 rubles. Even taking into account products that were at my house, I was able to save at least 500 rubles, because it took me only a few spoonfuls of oil, vinegar, rice, flour, and just one egg. So without fanaticism can save 2000 rubles per month or 24 000 rubles per year.