Lunch - Y U SO BORING!?

HideNGeek

Is it just me that finds lunch to be inherently boring? It's done at a desk more often than not, it's leftovers, or salad, it's just dull. Anyone got any interesting lunch ideas in the 400/500 calorie range? I tend to try and eat clean, so as little processed ingredients as possible please?

saires_au

I struggle with variety for lunch some ideas are

Making a large batch of soup and freezing individual serves with a side of hard boiled eggs
My favourite at the moment is a BLT sandwich which comes in just over 500cal including avocado and cheese
Left over dinner in smaller serves

RodaRose

Small grilled steak sandwich for 368 calories:
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/grilled-steak-sandwiches/

Or cheesy broccoli and chicken with pasta for 514 calories:
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/cheesy-chicken-broccoli-pasta/

cwolfman13

My lunch meal is pretty much strictly fuel...a lot of times it's leftovers which are usually pretty good, but sometimes it's just a sandwich or something. Dinner is where I typically get creative. I really don't care about lunch other than the fact that I need to eat...I'm generally at my desk working and I just need fuel.

auddii

cwolfman13 wrote: »

My lunch meal is pretty much strictly fuel...a lot of times it's leftovers which are usually pretty good, but sometimes it's just a sandwich or something. Dinner is where I typically get creative. I really don't care about lunch other than the fact that I need to eat...I'm generally at my desk working and I just need fuel.

This. And when I'm creative at dinner, it means better leftovers for lunch (although usually a little smaller portion plus an apple and a vegetable).

skinnyforhi

I had to make my salads more interesting to enjoy them. I tend to cook with olive oil, so for salads I'll use a different oil like walnut oil as a salad dressing base, or I'll use EVOO but add a fun flavored balsamic vinegar like fig. I add things like steamed yellow beets, apple, pomegranate seeds, and crumbled feta or blue cheese for a big flavor boost. Different kinds of berries can be good, depending on what else is in there. If I want carbs in my salad I experiment with adding black rice or quinoa to the mix. This may not be what you're looking for, but I can eat kale salad for weeks on end in this way.

Sabine_Stroehm

You're eating at your desk, I've been eating on my way to my noon workout. I figure: eat how the Mexicans did: PORTABLE (i.e. burritos). So I put fun stuff in lower carb or whole grain tortillas. Sometimes I make a big crockpot of something (chicken and green chile, pulled pork and red chile roast beef and green chile...) and use that, sometimes I just use basic stuff like ham and cheese and pesto.

Sometimes I go totally vegetarian: cucumber, sprouts and hummus in my little wrap.
You name the left over (curried lentils) I can shove it in a tortilla.

cheers

HStheBusyBee

I like to have filled pitta breads for lunch. Now I'm vegan, I usually fill a wholemeal pitta with hummus, falafels and salad. Before I would have ham with sliced boiled egg, salad and mustard mayo.

Steff46

I keep canned chicken (I like Tyson Premium White Chicken) on hand. It's 300 calories a can. I like to add a can of Rotel (or any canned diced tomatoes) to it also. That is maybe 45 calories a can. I also bring cut up fruit and veggies from home; watermelon, mango, apples, strawberries, bell peppers, cucumbers. I do like to bring leftovers as well. My job is boring and I eat at my desk a lot so I try to make lunch interesting.

Machka9

This week I've been having noodles, steamed veggies and chicken.

Most of the time I have brown rice, steamed veggies and chicken.

Sometimes I mix it up with a LaZuppa soup (various flavours, whatever I'm in the mood for), noodles and steamed veggies.

Maybe about once a week I have a MugShot (various flavours, whatever I'm in the mood for) with steamed veggies and chicken.

Now and then I'll do a sandwich ... whole grain bread, chicken, cucumber.

Sometimes I swing by the fresh fruit and veg market and pick up snowpeas or something ... I love snowpeas and I'll add them to the usual steamed veggies.

robininfl

I mostly do leftovers. Also I put more calories in lunch than other meals, if I can. It's the mid-day and my energy over the day seems best if I do small breakfast, big lunch, small supper.

Today it's tostadas. Tostada shells, black beans refried, shredded cabbage, cheese, fresh jalapeno slices, avocado, tomato, chipotles en adobo. Not boring

Lounmoun

I have dinner leftovers a lot for lunches. My dinners are not boring so my lunches are not boring.
I have sandwiches or wraps or salads. You can make a lot of variations on those.
There are tasty flavored tuna pouches that are great on sandwiches or salads.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10270725/things-to-go-in-salads/p1