Full Timers: What's your favorite lunch to bring?

wraps.

small taco wrap - 90
1/4 cup rice- 50
1/4 cup beans -50
2 oz chicken or tuna or egg etc... - 35-55 cals
half a slice of cheese - 35 cals
1/4 cup of veggies if I have it - 15 calories

230 to 250 cals each (I usually bring 2)

I add a piece of fruit to that

and a yogurt before I leave work and usually go straight to the gym.

usually grill a bunch of chicken breasts and make a big salad on the weekend, bring them into work and mircowave the chicken then throw it in the salad.

also have some have way decent and low cal tv dinner type things in my desk if i forget to bring something in. not the greatest but much better then starving.

also have almonds, dehydrated fruit, jerky, and protein powder and few other suppliments in my desk.

i'll also bring in carrots or fruit daily

My lunch is generally whatever is leftover from the night before, especially this time of year when I tend to make big stews and the like. Otherwise, PBJ...tuna salad and spinach...sometimes Turkey breast or pork loin with some type of veg side...and some kind of startch/carb.

Snacks: Greek Yogurt, strawberries, blackberries/blueberries, apples with peanut butter, avocados, nuts, whey, etc

I eat practically the same thing every work day. The only meal that changes is dinner.

Every work day:

Breakfast:
Homemade steel cut oats (I make a weeks worth sunday nights) - 1/4 raw or 1 cup cooked
With 1/3 cup frozen organic blueberries and a bit of unsweetened almond milk
and a green tea.

Morning coffee: a piece of fruit

Lunch: A salad (about 2 cups) with homemade dressing and some protein
Salad contains any combination of but not limited to: peas, snap peas, organic spring mix, carots, grape tomatoes, chia seeds, hemp seeds, mini cucumbers, blue berries, raspberries, black berries, mushrooms, bell peppers.
The protein: is prior nights left over, chicken, 1/2 can tuna, smoked oysters, turkey, hard boiled eggs.
Dressing: some vinegar & oil combo (1 tbsp of each)... usaully balsamic vinegar and olive oil

Afternoon snack: fruit or cut up veggies

My biggest hints: Make enough oat meal for the week sunday. I buy my veggies at costco so mostly cut up and washed and ready to go, if not I prep them too sunday night, make chicken and turkeys and roasts often and freeze lunch size portions in ziplocks. If the veggies are ready to go making a salad is as simple as adding a handful of this and that. For the dressing I have those little tupperware containers.... I fill one (oil or vinegar) to the 1/2 ounce and top up with the other. The seeds, put them in an old spice shakers and sprinkle some on.

I'll give you an example of a typical day:

Breakfast: 1 Bagel Thin, All Natural Peanut butter, 1/2 a banana, Pomegranate Green Tea, 2 Truvia Packets

Mid Morning snack: Trail Mix

Lunch: Home made Spring slalad with grilled chicken wrap... using a low carb whole wheat tortilla to wrap it. A side of baby carrots, and laughing cow cheese as a dip, a Cutie Mandarine Orange .... and if I want it a nice low fat dressing, or home made balsamic vinegar dressing!

Afternoon Snack: Half an oats and honey bar, and 1/2 a banana...

I prep everything the night before so I don't impulse buy at lunch time!

I usually make something on Sunday. Shepherd's Pie, chicken and veggie casserole, eggplant rollatini.... enough for the week at work. As soon as it cools I put it in serving size containers and take one every day.

Breakfast is almost always cereal and half a cup of whole milk. I pack it the night before.

Snacks are usually fruits/vegetables that I take in at the beginning of the week.

I keep popcorn, crackers, peanut butter, and some type of granola bar at my desk.
I always bring in frozen fruit.
And I drink water most of the day. When I need something else to drink it is coffee, with a little milk & splenda.

I have mini bags of popcorn at my desk. And i keep yogurt, low fat mozarella sticks, and spinach pancakes in the fridge at work as well. Sometime's I'll bring an apple or berries and have it with cottage cheese or peanut butter.

How do you cook Quinoa ... sorry I know a bit off topic.

If it hasn't already been cleaned, I clean/rinse it and then boil (not really boil...more like a medium to high heat) it in water or broth for 10-15 minutes (kinda like you'd do with rice). You can probably Google it and get a more complete answer.

all good ideas! i like 90 cal special k bars, fruits - clementines, pears, plums, apple, orange, etc., hummus, carrots, greek yogurt, granola (but keep it to a minimum b/c that stuff adds up), graze snack box, and most of all herbal TEA!