is always a risky business! Far too many smell and texture fetishes!!

pasta salad would be the one thing I can think of easily. My two take pate, salami or ham in their sandwiches/rolls, but I've been known to do philly/ham wraps (when the bread was all mouldy!) or offer crackers with snack size peperami and a lump of cheese. Rice salad if you like it. Potato salad. Take care of the carb and add a chunk of cheese, salami or ham to cover the protein. It's like any meal - break it down into the component parts so you've got a carb and a protein, now add a piece of fruit or a tomato. Watch out for wet sandwich fillings because your bread will be soggy by lunchtime - put salad and/or cucumber on the side. If the kettle is easier than the microwave there are soups and even instant porridge as emergency back-up. They work particularly well for the morning you slept late and everything went wrong or those mornings when making lunch at breakfast time makes you want to gag!

Also, eat a good big breakfast if you can possibly face it. Start small and work up with practice because it will make all the difference if you can't get to lunch for any reason. You'll just scrape through till you can get home and cram something down. Porridge really is one of the best for substantial.

as much as I love tuna... I NEVER do it for sandwiches (too wet, messy and altogether not a good idea if you need to be social after lunch!). Don't know how it would fare in the pasta salad, but you can always replace it with small chunks of fried bacon or something. I'm not a huge fan of sardines - always had to be in the right mood and it hasn't come along for 20yrs or so... DD's the fish lover, along with DH.

my father always has cheese sandwiches and an apple (Golden Delicious). These days it's only once a week and rolls instead of sandwiches, but he did it day in, day out for 10yrs at Michelin.

Kerri.