Sprucing up your packed lunch
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Shane Smith, good afternoon. How are you? So Shane, you're of course a chef and the author of Loaf Tin Bakes. Shane, we can all fall into kind of boring habits when it comes to making packed lunches. Yes. But they can be a lovely thing, not just for school, but for a day out, a picnic, the beach, whatever.
What are some common mistakes people make with packed lunches?
So you're going to help us make packed lunches great again.
There's weight on my shoulders now. Do you actually make packed lunches? I won't be a packed lunch person, but just like today when the sun is out, I have this grove for heading out and sitting in a field somewhere. I don't know, that's the country boy in me coming out now. But there's nothing like it. Food tastes so much better when you're outside in the sunshine.
Okay, now first briefly, what do we need to know about safety? Because food that's either heating up or cooling down, that's the dangerous one for food, isn't it?
You kind of have two categories. You have your chilled food and your ambient food. So the food that you kind of want to keep cold is the high risk food. So definitely the one thing to factor in, if you are going to be bringing something chilled, if you're heading out for a picnic, whether that's like a sandwich with a mayonnaise filling or something cream based, you have to keep it in an ice box or keep it cold. So what I always do generally, if you don't have those fancy ice packs is I fill a bottle, a plastic bottle of water halfway, pop it in the freezer and then you can kind of take that out and put that into a little box and then that'll kind of act as a cooling as well. So your kind of danger zone is above five degrees.
So you kind of want to ensure that whatever food you're bringing out, if it's going to be chilled, that you keep it as cold for as long as possible, just so it's safety. And mayonnaise is deadly. Yeah mayonnaise are kind of cream based ones so again you're kind of thinking of sandwiches straight away whether it's a coronation chicken or an egg salad or something you know the mayonnaise is high risk so if it's going to be sitting in a warm little picnic basket although that looks lovely it's not going to do you any favours in eight hours time if it's been sitting out somewhere warm so just keep that in mind just whenever you're planning whether you're if it's for family or friends just if you are going to be bringing anything that's high risk something that generally think about it what you'd have in your fridge at home if you're going to be taking it out of your fridge to put it into a box it needs to be kept cold.
Okay, so let's start with, so this would be an ambient one. Yes. Goat's cheese courgette muffins. Far from that, we were rared, I suppose. I know, yeah, yeah. Sounds good though, yeah.
These are really, really good. And savoury muffins, savoury scones are a really safe bet. So you don't have to worry about them. So this is a very simple, basic muffin mix of your flour, salt, pepper, raising agent, eggs. But courgettes are great. They don't add a whole lot of flavour, but they keep your muffins nice and soft and moist.
How can we ensure food safety in packed lunches?
So again, they're a good way of sneaking veggies in there as well. But then the goat cheese is really delicious with that. I've been making these ones for years. They add a lovely little hit of saltiness to the muffins as well. So kind of like a grown up muffin. So again, the same with a scone, you know, you can kind of jazz up savoury scones, whether that's with smoked cheese or herbs. Kind of think about outside the box slightly, you know. Cheese! cheese into anything, basically.
Yeah, yeah, cheese. You can see where this is going. Cheese is where it's at. Yeah, yeah. And once the cheese is integrated in, like, yeah. You're fine. I've never heard anyone getting sick from cheddar cheese. And a pizza muffin as well, you're saying, yeah.
So if you have, I suppose, younger people in the house or, you know, they want to kind of help you out as well, something simple, just like the courgette muffin that we'll be sharing, I believe, the recipes later.
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