Please share your lunch ideas.

Sometimes I have a banana and some greek yogurt.
Now and then a Lean Cuisine type meal.
Eggs.
Bowl of cereal.
I like breakfast, can you tell?
Sometimes I just have a protein bar and some almonds.
Often it is leftovers from the prior night's dinner. I usually make enough to have at least one meal of leftovers.

I'm not very good at cooking yet, but when i cook i try to make it simple
my favorite new grain i found out is spelt. You just cook it put anything you have in your fridge in it! Vegetables, sauces, meat, anything! And it's very healty! And delicious
i love to make gigantic salads also i put all kinds of things in my salad so i don't get hungry fast. Pasta, tuna, chicken, you name it
hope i inspired you to make some yummy dishes!

I'm very boring and eat yams, sweet potatoes almost daily for lunch, that and yellow squash.

I have access to a microwave in work and prefer hot meals. I have:

- spicy lentil stew
- sausage casserole
- spicy bean soup (loaded with all types of pulses, veg)
- chilli con carne with brown rice
- homemade meatloaf with salad
- curried quinoa with salad (super yum, my new fav)
- spanish omelette with leftovers in it
- beans with baked potato

I cut out alot of bread in my diet, not a concious choice to be honest but I suffer with IBS problems. Get sick of sandwiches anyway and I always want a bag of crisps with one anyway!

I make big batches of soup or veggie dishes (like spicy ground turkey "spaghetti" that's way more veggies than pasta" and freeze them in Pyrex 2-cup bowls. Perfect serving size for lunch, and if I make something different every weekend, I get a nice variety in stock (since each batch makes 12-14 servings) so I don't get bored.

I have a jacket potato at least once a week, normally with tuna mayo or cottage cheese. If you want a less carb heavy option then a backed sweet potato with a healthy option on top.

I got quickly bored of soup even different options. I do sometimes have veg pots but they can be expensive unless you can get them when they are reduced before their date goes.

I quite like wraps for a difference or filled pitta breads. You could fill them with warm fillings, I like haloumi cheese grilled in mine with a bit of natural pesto, which is easy to make yourself.

Couscous can be warm when you buy the single serving packs, but after making my own which I eat cold at work, I found the little Ainsley Harriet pack far too salty, so much so I couldn't eat it. With couscous you can use any flavours you like really and I add loads of different veggies to it, simple simply griddle peppers, courgette and other beg to serve with it.

I eat a good hardy breakfast later in the morning.

For lunch I have 2 cups of cauliflower and either a hard boiled egg or pickled egg if I'd made any the week before. It's only about 100 calories so have plenty of ammo for either breakfast or dinner.

I started with MFP 10 days ago and have lost about 8 pounds. I feel better than I have in years!

I make my menu on the weekend and then on Sundays I do lots of food prep. I cook everything in advance to make it easy in the mornings to grab out of the freezer and go. I make turkey burgers, Jamie Eason's turkey muffins, I bag up veggies, almonds, etc.. in serving size baggies.

Monday: Tuna sandwich on Ezekiel bread with raw carrots as a side.
Yesterday: I had a turkey burger on Ezekiel bread w/ mustard, spinach, and pickles. My side was raw cauliflower.
Today: I'm having Jamie Eason's meatloaf with some roasted potatoes and squash.

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For small hot meals, I like:

boiled eggs
a small stir fry
a small baked potato (or sweet potato) with cheese and baked beans
quinoa and lentils with veg

If you like something hot and sweet, a lovely filling meal is porridge with cooked apple - when I make this, I chop up an apple and a pear, and boil them in a pan, leave to simmer for about 20 minutes and then I add porridge oats and simmer for a few more minutes. Sometimes I also add raspberries or blackberries. I don't add any milk because I don't like milk, but I imagine you could add milk too if you wanted. I add a pinch of salt rather than sugar, because I don't have a very sweet tooth.

It depends what you have access to at work and how much time, money and effort you have to devote to it! I have no time, little money and absolutely zero motivation to prep meals, so here's a few things I do;

I save Chinese containers (which are very handy) and take in leftovers from dinner to microwave.

In the winter I make a few different soups, broccoli and stilton is my favourite, and they only come out as 75 - 150 calories per serving. The plain veg one is nice and only takes 1 potato, 1-2 carrots, 1 onion and a vegetable stock cube and about 10 minutes at home to make 3 or 4 servings, I use a hand blender to make it thicker.

I also sometimes take in bagels or English muffins to pop in the toaster with a small pot of low fat cream cheese or jam.

Porridge is quite good and you only need a kettle for that. I put the oats in the chinese container, along with a spoonful of cocoa, jam, honey and cinnamon, or flaked almonds, add boiling water and give it a stir, put the top on for a couple of minutes and it cooks itself. Doesn't have to be Ready Brek or anything expensive, I use the supermarket value bag!

You can also make up single fajitas, which can just be microwaved until hot.

Edited because I just realised you said you are at home not a work - sorry!

Jez there's a topic on MFP called something like "35 quick and healthy lunches" ... if you search on 35 it might bring up the thread, there are some great ideas there I pulled from as well )