What do you normally have for lunch?

inskydiamonds
inskydiamonds Posts: 2,519 Member
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What's a normal day's lunch look like for you?

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  • XtyAnn17
    XtyAnn17 Posts: 632 Member
    Currently 4 oz lean meat, 1/2 cup fruit and a just for onemsteamable with 12 oz water
  • ybodwen
    ybodwen Posts: 340 Member
    homemade salad and brown rice crackers
  • pdj1220
    pdj1220 Posts: 175
    Often whatever I have in the fridge that needs to be used up!
  • gooiyw
    gooiyw Posts: 114 Member
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  • Apocalypse_Meow
    Apocalypse_Meow Posts: 90 Member
    A healthy choice steamer or an Amy's burrito, or a big salad and I try to only drink water.
  • Brooklynhendricks21
    Brooklynhendricks21 Posts: 29 Member
    Right now I'm doing the 60 calorie, no sugar added, chocolate breakfast essential packs, with 3/4 cup 2% milk, ice, half of a banana, and 1tbsp of creamy peanut butter all blended together in a blender! It tastes so good and keeps me full usually until dinner time!
  • ExplorinLauren
    ExplorinLauren Posts: 991 Member
    Often whatever I have in the fridge that needs to be used up!


    LOL me too!!!


    Also, my new favorite is 4-5 oz of chicken, (or turkey breast) Fried in Olive Oil Pam, with garlic, pepper and Lime juice.... mixed with 1 cup of pico de gallo.... its 175 calories...and yummy :)
  • jallison12
    jallison12 Posts: 83
    Wholewheat wrap, turkey lunch meat, lettuce tomato and little oil/vinegar, from the deli. Counting as 270 cals from MFP db. Recently changed to m/wave noodle lunches and weight loss stalled a little. So reverting back to my exact formula when I was successfully losing weight.

    Tomorrow trying a homemade similar thing. From the supermarket a flax Roll-Up (110 cals), chicken breast deli meat (50 cals), lettuce (0 cals, I dunno ) and boars head horseradish sauce (15 cals). By my calc s/b around 175 cals.
  • sweetbeckymarie
    sweetbeckymarie Posts: 144
    Lunch for me has to be something light and low carb because I sit all day at work and it messes with my digestion. Plus if I have carbs they tend to make me feel sluggish and sleepy which I don't need while stuck at work. I like to make salads chock full of fresh vegetables, beans added to fill me up, maybe some avocado sliced up. Pretty boring stuff I suppose. Left overs also make for great work lunches.
  • jallison12
    jallison12 Posts: 83
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  • taichilass
    taichilass Posts: 301 Member
    I munch on spinach salad with a hard boiled egg, a little cheese and a little balsamic vinaigrette. Oh and of course water
  • Anyaaaa11
    Anyaaaa11 Posts: 242 Member
    I usually just like to eat something quick and easy for lunch...

    - PB and banana sandwich with some carrots or hard boiled egg
    -turkey/ham/chicken & avocado sandwich. Lots of veggies
    - egg white omelet with a piece of toast if I'm lacking on protein for that day.
    -occasionally oatmeal
    -Tuna salad, bean salad, taco salad.
    -sometimes just some fish with some crackers
    - tortilla wrap with any type of lean meat.

    Not very creative but quick and yummy!
  • DaniKenmir
    DaniKenmir Posts: 387 Member
    I had a devon and cheese toastie and an apple
  • itaitu
    itaitu Posts: 3
    All winter long it's an Amy's Texas burger or a plain Quorn burger with a T or 2 of Trader Joes pepper spread and a big serving of frozen broccoli.
    Now it's something from the garden - this week mostly cabbage salads with various other veggies, a little home made tahini dressing and maybe some walnuts or cashews.
  • raystark
    raystark Posts: 403 Member
    Meat.
  • Lift_hard_eat_big
    Lift_hard_eat_big Posts: 2,278 Member
    Whatever my baby doll has prepared for me when I visit her during the weekend. Sometimes pulled pork, chicken chili, lasagna, etc. Or if I'm out of what she's prepared for me, I'll have a few cheeseburgers or an Al pastor burrito.
  • zozzabubba
    zozzabubba Posts: 137 Member
    I'm making lunch right now:
    Chicken breast in tinfoil wrap with garlic and herbs
    Broccoli and chopped peppers steamed with herbs
    Ketchupppp :) (tons of sugar though so limited!)
  • SamanthaAnnM
    SamanthaAnnM Posts: 143 Member
    Leftovers from the night before
    A big, nutritious smoothie
    Salad with whatever is in the fridge
  • melodyg
    melodyg Posts: 1,423 Member
    Usually leftovers from the night before or a huge salad (with chicken if I have it)

    A sandwich with fruit/veggies and string cheese if I'm away from home
  • Woly1
    Woly1 Posts: 16
    I think I've eaten scrambles eggs with veggies and meat for lunch every day for like two weeks, haha. Actually it's more like scrambled veggies with eggs...:) It's very filling, I recommend it.
  • Sappy320
    Sappy320 Posts: 77 Member
    1/2 cup gorbanzo beans or other beans
    1/2 cottage cheese
    or
    green salad with grilled chicken and a vinigerette dressing
    or
    chicken with green beans/corn/carrot sticks
    or
    canned tuna with spicy brown mustard (I can't stand eating tuna plain!) with some sort of veggie
  • rose313
    rose313 Posts: 1,146 Member
    Salad, maybe mixed nuts and raisins, low fat/low cal pudding or jello.
  • tennesseeleigh
    tennesseeleigh Posts: 169
    Right now it's homemade vegetable soup with a little cheese melted in it. Super filling and not high calorie so long as you avoid most of the high carb vegetables.
  • kehuizenga
    kehuizenga Posts: 151
    I eat the exact same lunch every day right now. A salad made with spinach, chunks of grilled or baked chicken, grape tomatoes, and a drizzle of light dressing; an apple; and fage greek yogurt. It sounds boring but it is really yummy--the key is seasoned chicken and a very crisp apple (pink lady is my current favorite).
  • gracieabem
    gracieabem Posts: 211
    Because I only cook for myself, I am big on leftovers.
    Today will be Parmesan Oat chicken with roast veges (sweet potato, pumpkin (skin on - yum!!), brussels sprouts)

    I will occasionally make a salad wrap with chicken, egg, tuna or salmon.

    Sometimes I'll steam veges and add protein. Sometimes a can of baked beans and veges. I've even been known to just bring an assortment of raw veges to work to nibble on and finish with fruit and yoghurt.

    Very rarely I'll have my 'breakfast' for lunch - oats, cereal, yoghurt etc.

    But leftovers are the biggest one for me. I so look forward to them!
  • MurphysLawTD
    MurphysLawTD Posts: 310 Member
    Leftovers, slightly less than what I had the night before for dinner. if I have 6-8oz of chicken/beef/ground turkey the night before, I'll bring 3-4oz of it for luch with a salad or leftover greens from the night before. I tend to stay low/no carb as far as the "meal" is concerned b/c I like to snack at work! I have a weakness for honey wheat pretzels :blushing:
  • MurphysLawTD
    MurphysLawTD Posts: 310 Member
    Leftovers, slightly less than what I had the night before for dinner. if I have 6-8oz of chicken/beef/ground turkey the night before, I'll bring 3-4oz of it for luch with a salad or leftover greens from the night before. I tend to stay low/no carb as far as the "meal" is concerned b/c I like to snack at work! I have a weakness for honey wheat pretzels :blushing:

    Wow, I used "night before" waaaayyy too much, here.
  • smartfitmom3
    smartfitmom3 Posts: 11
    I usually have a black bean quesadilla(whole grain tortilla), oatmeal with fruit, or Shakeology, maybe even a PB sandwich on whole grain bread...
  • raystark
    raystark Posts: 403 Member
    Leftovers, slightly less than what I had the night before for dinner. if I have 6-8oz of chicken/beef/ground turkey the night before, I'll bring 3-4oz of it for luch with a salad or leftover greens from the night before. I tend to stay low/no carb as far as the "meal" is concerned b/c I like to snack at work! I have a weakness for honey wheat pretzels :blushing:

    Wow, I used "night before" waaaayyy too much, here.

    And then you reposted all of them....:happy:

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