Simple and Easy Chicken Work Meals

Leftover chicken is quick and easy to make for lunch. You can also use leftover chicken to make your work meals. Work meals do not require that many ingredients or spices, especially if you have a thirty-minute lunch break. Depending on your schedule at home, you can prepare basic lunch meals in advance for your lunchtime at work. For example, these two chicken meals can be made one day before and put together the next day.

If you like chicken or want to celebrate National Chicken Month, then you will enjoy making these lunch meals. Cooked chicken can last approximately three days and spaghetti can last up to four days in the refrigerator. I save spaghetti without the sauce in the refrigerator. However, use your sense of smell for your leftovers to make sure it is fresh or get another person's opinion. Here are the recipes. 

Ingredients:

One packet of chicken

Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip

One apple

Baby spring mix

Bread

Olives with pimentos

One box of Spaghetti 

Mozzarella cheese

Swiss cheese

Butter or extra virgin olive oil

Chicken bouillon or chicken broth

Black ground pepper 

Lemon juice 

 

Preparation and Cooking Time:

Follow the instructions from the spaghetti box. In one pot, add water and the spaghetti. While the spaghetti is cooking, prepare the chicken. Add chicken broth or water with chicken bouillon. Then add black ground pepper to the chicken. 

Wash and slice one lemon. Squeeze the lemon slices with a juicer. Next, add lemon juice to the chicken. After that wait approximately forty minutes before cooking the chicken in extra virgin olive oil on a skillet. Cook the chicken and wait for it to turn golden brown. 

Once the spaghetti is ready, use a strainer to remove the excess water from the spaghetti. Serve the spaghetti, chicken, sliced olives, and mozzarella cheese in small bowls. Save the leftover spaghetti separately from the chicken. Add the sliced olives and mozzarella cheese in separate containers. In the morning, toss the chicken, cold spaghetti, sliced olives, and mozzarella cheese in your lunch box or Bento box. 

Another work lunch meal is an apple chicken sandwich. Wash and slice one apple. Remove the core of the apple. In one bowl, add the sliced apples, shredded leftover chicken, and mayonnaise or Miracle Whip. Then toast your bread and add baby spring mix and Swiss cheese.

Use a spoon to spread the apples and chicken onto the bread. Slice the sandwich in half. Add green olives with pimentos on the side. Then, add the sandwich with the olives in your bento box or lunch box. Prepare this sandwich in the morning before going to work. 

Make your lunch meals simple and easy to make in the mornings before going to work. This will allow you some time to relax without rushing and without worrying about what you will have for lunch. You can eat the chicken spaghetti cold or microwave it at work in a microwavable container. Make iced tea, lemonade, or hot tea to take in a thermos with your lunch box. Happy National Chicken Month!

 

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