100+ Slimming World lunch ideas

Do you find it difficult to find tasty healthy easy Slimming World lunch ideas that are not using syns or cost a fortune? Here I share some great ideas for work or home.

Just Average Jen is an independent blog not connected with any weight loss plan. Please check nutritional values and/or syns yourself.

Choosing lunches for weight loss

If you follow Slimming World, Weight Watchers (WW), Noom or any other weight loss plan you can usually count the ingredients within these recipes in your allowances. If you are a driver, or carer or need a lunch to take to work on the go then my work lunches on the go guide should help.

Slimming World Lunch Ideas – Cold packed lunches for work

Taking a packed lunch doesn’t mean you have to use bread and take a sandwich. I have so many unofficial Slimming World lunch ideas for you here that will help keep you interested in healthy food for lunch.

Sticky Chicken Salad

This Sticky chicken salad can be enjoyed hot or cold.

Sweetcorn Fritter

This is a lovely lunch as you eat it cold! This sweetcorn Fritter could be adapted to make other fritters quite easily.

Mango couscous

This mango couscous is a tasty option to consider in summer.

Vegetable couscous

My vegetable couscous recipe is great for work and the lentils make it very filling.

For a more Mediterranean flavour try my roasted vegetable couscous with feta.

Your own recipe Couscous

Mixing up some couscous with a salad like diced peppers, cherry tomatoes, diced cucumber, diced onions and a little fat-free vinaigrette can make a tasty lunch without all the syns/calories of a shop-bought similar meal.

It can be made more filling with chunks of chicken or other meats.

DIY Pasta Salad

Simple and easy just boil some pasta, strain, and allow to cool. Then add in some halved cherry tomatoes, cubed cucumber, diced peppers, some pickled red cabbage in its juice (this helps make the pasta salad less dry), some diced onion and whatever else you fancy!

Fruit pasta salad

If you fancy something fruity and filling my fruit pasta salad is perfect.

Make a unique salad

A salad doesn’t have to just be leaves, tomatoes and cucumber there are so many great things you can put into a salad.

Ideas include eggs, chicken, Quorn, baby corn, mangetout, sugar snap peas, peppers, beetroot, pickled onions, cottage cheese, pineapple, ham, onions, celery, spring onions, rice, pasta, couscous, apple and so much more the list is really endless so the salad doesn’t have to be boring!

Honey salmon salad

Honey salmon salad can be cooked before work or made easily at lunchtime if you prefer.

Piri Piri chicken salad

Making this delicious Piri Piri chicken and adding it to a salad is a great choice for an easy lunch as you can cook the chicken the night before.

Nigerian Jollof Rice

This is so tasty and full of flavour. My Slimming World Nigerian jollof rice recipe is perfect to batch cook.

Vegetable sticks and dips

If you fancy a lighter suitable for Slimming World lunch, then vegetable sticks and dips with some cooked chicken or crab sticks too can be really easy and not require any kitchen equipment. I have some great healthy dip recipes so the choice is yours.

Quiches

There are so many tasty crustless quiches you can make on the Slimming World plan. These are my favourites – Caramelised onion mini quiches.

If you prefer a quiche with a bit of a crust but that is healthy then how about these pepper quiches?

Sandwich

You could use your healthy extra b choice and have a sandwich for your lunch. There are so many sandwich fillings to choose from or you could also use your healthy extra a choice for cheese. Another option is mushroom pate or cold doner meat?

Falafel

My easy falafel recipe is great for Slimming World lunches in a wrap, perhaps with some mango chutney, or on their own with a yoghurt dip.

Spinach and pea frittata

This spinach and pea frittata is full of iron and other nutrients.

Curry Loaf

This curry loaf is easy to make.

Rice salad

For an easy work lunch how about this easy chicken rice salad?

Hot lunch ideas for work or home

Slimming World lunch ideas – Soup

Taking soup in a Thermos Flask is an easy option, some keep food hot for 24 hours. It is usually perfect for Slimming World if you make it yourself too!

Check out my yummy soups guide full of tips to make the soup more filling and lots of different recipes. Here are some popular ones:

• Tomato soup that tastes like Heinz
• Mushroom soup
• Minestrone soup
• Hearty vegetable pasta soup
• Celery soup
• Broccoli and Stilton soup
• Italian meatball soup
• Butternut squash soup
• Red lentil soup

Slimming World lunch ideas for work – Leftovers

If you have access to a microwave at work or work from home then this is perfect for a filling and easy meal at lunchtime.

It is so easy to just make a bit extra and saves so much time the next day! Check out my recipes for lots of ideas! Pasta meals are particularly good to reheat.

Jacket Potatoes

If you have a microwave at work could you take a potato and the filling separately and microwave a potato at work? There are over 20 different jacket potato filling ideas in my jacket potato guide.

Slimming World lunch ideas in a Flask

If you have a food flask then there is nothing stopping you from taking foods like this in it and keeping it hot until lunch.

Depending on the consistency of your meal you can sometimes use a drinks flask too if it will pour out of the neck.

A few recipes I can recommend for a food flask are:

• Italian meatball soup
• Turkey chilli
• Chilli Con Carne
• Mixed meat paella
• Vegetable and chickpea paella
• Chicken and bacon carbonara
• Spaghetti bolognese
• Butternut squash risotto
• Mushroom risotto

Tuna poke bowl

This is an easy and quick recipe for lunches if you like something a little different then the Tuna Poke bowl could be perfect for you.

Quesadilla

This tasty quesadilla recipe would be great to make the night before as a low-syn work lunch. A nice change from sandwiches and leftovers.

Stuffed peppers

Stuffed peppers are great hot or cold!

Roasted vegetable salad

If you want a warm salad with a difference then this roasted vegetable salad could be perfect for you.

Shakshuka

An easy hot lunch recipe all the family can enjoy together. My Shakshuka recipe could be perfect.

Lunch on the go & healthy lunches to buy

If you are looking for the syns of products you could buy for lunch, here are some Slimming World lunch on-the-go ideas and their syn values.

If you are looking for easy Slimming World lunch ideas to buy for work these could be perfect. All syns below are approximate and should be checked for yourself.

Batchelors Pasta n Sauce syns

• Chicken and mushroom 65g – 1 syn
• Tomato and basil 65g – 1.5 syns
• Spicy arrabbiata 65g – 1.5 syns
• Rich bolognese 65g – 2 syns
• Cheese and broccoli 65g -2.5 syns
• Cheese and pancetta 65g – 2.5 syns
• Mac n cheese 65g – 3 syns
• Big pots 85g Chicken and mushroom – 1.5 syns
• Big pots 85g Cheese and Broccoli – 3.5 syns
• Big pots 85g Mac n cheese – 4 syns
• Big pots 85g American style mac n cheese with bacon – 4 syns
• Big pots 85g American style mac n cheese with garlic mushroom – 4 syns

Mug Shots syns

• Korma rice (60g serving) – 1.5 syns
• Mexican rice (60g pot) – 1.5 syns
• Creamy cheese pasta (68g pot) – 3 syns
• Minestrone pasta (60g packet) – 1.5 syns
• Sweet chilli noodles (60g packet) – 1.5 syns
• Teriyaki Noodles (60g packet) – 1 syn
• Cajun pasta (60g packet) – 2 syns
• Chorizo and olive rice (60g pot) – 1.5 syns
• Jalfrezi rice (60g pot) – 1 syn
• Cheese and broccoli pasta (68g pot) – 2.5 syns
• Pulled pork noodles (56g pot) – 1 syn

There are lots of other flavours with varying syns up to 5 syns a pack for wild mushroom flavour soup. These work well as Slimming World lunch ideas if you need something easy and are happy to use syns.

Bachelor’s Super Noodles syns 75g pots

• Chicken – 7.5 syns
• Curry – 7.5 syns
• Bacon – 7.5 syns
• BBQ Beef – 8 syns

Batchelor’s cup a soup to go syns

• Tomato 33g pot – 6.5 syns
• Chicken 23g pot – 4.5 syns
• Cream of vegetable 38g pot – 8.5 syns
• Chicken and vegetable with croutons 34g pot – 7 syns

Batchelor’s Super rice and sauce syns

• Chicken and mushroom 60g pot – 1 syn
• Mild curry 60g pot – 1.5 syns
• Sweet and sour 60g pot – 1 syn
• BBQ beef 65g pot – 1 syn

John West lunch on the go syns 220g pots

• Mediterranean style tuna salad – 5 syns
• French-style tuna salad – 5.5 syns
• Italian-style tuna salad – 5.5 syns
• Moroccan style salmon salad – 3 syns
• Thai style salmon salad – 2 syns
• Mild curry tuna salad – 6 syns
• Tuna, lime and cracked black pepper salad – 6 syns
• Tuna, tomato and black olive pasta salad – 5 syns

Other articles you may find helpful

If you are looking for a new diet to try and are still undecided, check out my full weight loss guide with lots of different plans.

Many of these plans would fit well with these unofficial Slimming World lunch ideas as they are essentially just healthier choices!