Michelle Darmody: Savoury lunchbox recipes

At times it is hard to see past a sandwich for lunch. Not everyone chooses to eat bread each day. Things such as fruit kebabs and salads or sushi style rice-balls are good bread free options, but here are a few other sweet and savoury lunchbox suggestions, with a difference.

The date cranberry and fig bars are a good afternoon pick-me-up, this is a no bake recipe, you just need to blitz the ingredients in a mixer and then press the resulting paste into a lined plastic container or lunchbox. The paste can get sticky as you are liquidising, so finely chopping the fruit beforehand helps. The bars can be cut into whatever size slices you like.