Thanks for all your ideas! I hadn't thought of taking a flask (duh), but did so today with tomato soup (tesco posh soup, by which I mean New Covent Garden style, as opposed to tinned ). I have ordered one of those wide-mouthed flasks, then I'll be able to take my homemade chunky veg soups.

Dunno about making my own pate - I keep buying houmous even though there are perfectly good dried chickpeas that have been lurking in my kitchen unused for months. I am not good at anything requiring forward planning For the same reason, meat sits frozen in my freezer for months because I can never decide in advance what I might want for dinner. I need to get myself organised (now how many years have I been saying that?) I've just bought some chickpea pate to try though, maybe with Ryvita for tomorrow I think.

Anhata, thanks for the website, looks like there are plenty of ideas there.

Kerri - porridge?? You Have Got To Be Joking. Weird gloopy wallpaper paste