What do you take to work for lunch?

I bring homemade soup in a thermos. Since I'm not on 1200 kcal a day I also bring some fruit, cheese and maybe crackers for snacks throughout the day.

2 low carb tortillas, black beans, avacado and tomato. Side of bing cherries to eat!

I'm back in school now, but when I was teaching I always brought a salad (usually spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, or whatever veggies I had on hand) and used either hummus or a salad dressing from Trader Joe's. I love the champagne pear vinaigrette! I also like the Bolhouse Farms honey mustard yogurt dressing. Along with it, I'd have crackers with Cabot 75% reduced fat cheese (I don't usually eat reduced fat things, but that cheese is SO good!) and an apple or pear.

I use to always bring sandwiches, but hate the way they taste once they've been sitting in my lunch bag all day. Cheese and crackers were a good alternative! Sometimes I also brought some turkey to go with it.

I take leftovers from dinner the night before. I eat 5-6 times a day, so most of my meals are all between 200-300 calories. I try not to eat more for any one particular meal. Usually, I have a lean protein and a veggie. If I don't have leftovers, I am really into the Chipotle burrito bowls! I get brown rice, chicken, salsa, black beans, lettuce and a little cheese. I can usually get 2 meals out of one bowl...

This is my go-to salad, I love the steamed lentils you can pick up at Trader Joes because you can just dump em in and go, but I'm trying to be better about just making my own. The little seaweed bits add some crunch, and if I don't use the dressing then I make my own with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and some mustard. Today I added in kale because I'm sitting on a pile.

Earthbound Farm Organic - Baby Lettuces, 2 oz
Trader Joe's - Sweet Sesame Seaweed Snack , 0.5 package
Trader Joe's - Goddess Dressing
Spinach - Baby, Fresh
Trader Joe's - Steamed Lentils, .5 cup
Mushrooms - Raw, 1 cup, pieces or slices

Take a boiled egg and a piece of double fiber bread. With some pickles on the side and an apple you can have an easy and healthy lunch!

a home made salad with lots of stuff in it. Things that crunch and squirt and have a lot of flavor, like pickles, cucumbers, cutie oranges, a tiny bit of avacado (too much fat), carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onion,, red cabage and some protien, like a boiled sliced up 1/2 chicken breast. Fresh fruit on the side. I use Wish Bone Balsamic Spritzer only 1 cal per spray for dressing.

you have to be very organized to pull this off.

the processed meals are not so good for you!

I love seaweed snacks!!

Stay away from the frozen meals if you can! They are highly processed and full of sodium and other garbage. I usually bring tuna with egg whites.tomatos. cucumbers and tofu - or a loaded romaine/spinach salad topped with the same and more goodies I always use balsamic vinegar as well I always make my lunch for work the night before so I do not have to worry about it in the morning!

If I dont have time in the mornings I also take Lean Cuisines. But usually leftovers from the night before....Chili (made with lots of veggies), Soup, Grilled chicken salad, Grilled chicken & veggies, tuna fish, I have also made oatmeal for lunch. & of course sandwiches.

Also, greek yogurt and fresh cut veggies with hummus or an apple

I bring literally the same thing to work everyday. Morning Snack: Half large Fuji Apple with 3/4 cups FF Plain Yogurt with Chia Seeds and Ground Flax. Lunch: 2 Jaime Eason's Turkey Muffins (I made mine smaller - they are about 200 cals for both) plus some steamed Greens. My other lunch option is Grilled Salmon with steamed greens. Afternoon Snack: Quest Protein Bar.

I'm one of those people who can eat the same thing everything for months on end. I never seem to get tired of it. And yes... my lunch bag is full of tupperware! lol!

First, I keep pistachios, a pouch of Madras lentils, a can of tuna fish and a kashi go lean bar in my desk for emergencies or additional snacks. The lentils are in case I only bring in cold food and need a warm meal. The HVAC in my office breaks at least once a semester. No excuses to go to the vending machine or across the street, where there is, ironically, a WIC office surrounded by a bakery, a coffee shop, a pizzeria, chinese and a bar and grill.

Snack:
Me: Fruit and nuts

Lunch:
Salad: 2 cups mixed greens, 2 flowerets cauliflower, feta cheese and tuna fish (or deli sliced turkey - turns out it has less sodium than even the low sodium prepackaged ones) sometimes olives. Sometimes I leave off the meat and have lentils or a lean cuisine - a lot more calories for when I need them. In our house, whoever gets moving first makes two of these. His has a little more of everything, always olives and a smattering of cranberries.

It's going to be a late night:
Lean Cuisine with an additional fruit or vegetable.

Lean Cuisines are high in sodium and added sugar, and all the ones currently in my freezer have some kind of processed soy, but darn they are convenient and they have a few that I thoroughly enjoy. Plus, there have been some really good deals on them lately.

My usual is ham or turkey sammie on 35 cal a slice bread with mustard. Sensible portions veggie chips, fat free tapioca pudding, water. Then for snacks celery, kelloggs pastry crisps brown sugar and cinnamon. I just discovered the flatout origanal white flatbread. I will be eating more of that.

I make sure to bring along 2 snacks for mid-morning and mid-afternoon (one is usually fruit, the other veggies...usually) and for lunch I have soup and a hard boiled egg, or a small can of tuna or chicken with a Tbsp of mayo, a stalk of celery mixed in, a little pepper, and a hard boiled egg. That's most days. Every now and then I splurge and maybe have something healthy eating out, but usually the stress of finding that one thing is too much and I just bring my lunch. LOL