One of the hardest things for me when I’m trying to eat healthily is finding something to fill me up at lunchtime. It has to be easy to prepare, portable, cheap and not too messy to eat at my desk! I’m not a big salad lover and there is only so much soup I can eat.

I love sandwiches but one is never enough which kind of defeats the healthy objective! One thing I have found which seems to fill me up is a bagel, delicious with many different toppings and can be eaten as a sandwich if on the move or open if you want more toppings or it just to last a bit longer.

Bagels have a very special place in my heart. When I was aged 5 (back in 1984) and living in Blackpool I used to help out on a Sunday in my Dad’s delicatessen. It would be my job to count out the bagels for the many Jewish customers that came in, I was quite the novelty, and had my favourite customers! Shortly before my wedding Dad found a newspaper cutting that mentioned that first career of mine!

The New York Bakery Co. sell 6 different varieties of delicious bagels – plain, cinnamon & raisin, sesame, onion, wholemeal and multi-seed. With typically less than 2% fat they are perfect toasted for breakfast, as a great snack or a filling lunch.

Last week, in my first full week back at work since Christmas I set myself a challenge to have a bagel with a different filling every day for lunch.

I started most days with a toasted cinnamon & raisin bagel and a spread of low fat margarine and then for lunch had the following all on plain bagels: egg mayonnaise, chicken, bacon and sweetcorn, tuna mayonnaise and rocket, seafood cocktail and ham, cheese spread and rocket. Have a look below for the calorie content on each lunch.

It was surprisingly easy to be honest and really enjoyable. I found that Aldi’s sandwich fillers were fantastic value at around just 85p for enough for 2 or 3 days and bagels themselves cost around £1.35 for a bag of 5. You can get New York Bakery Bagels in all supermarkets. They freeze really well but a good tip is to slice them before you freeze, then if you are making a sandwich up do it whilst still frozen and wrap up – then they are lovely and fresh at lunchtime.

Some of my fillings took the calorie content fairly high, but I didn’t feel that I needed anything else, I wasn’t craving a packet of crisps or chocolate bar and so the little extra was worth it – even still they came in at much lower calories than many shop bought sandwiches and much much tastier!

I have just restocked the breadbin with New York Bakery bagels for next week’s lunches and can’t wait to try out some more exciting fillings!

This was a review post. I received bagels for the purpose of writing this. My review is honest and in my own words.

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