Tell me about your lunch! What do you usually pack?

I pack a lot of sandwiches, and never get burnt out on them.

I'm a vegetarian, so I stuff them full of veggies, and I replace the lettuce with baby spinach - it's less soggy, more filling, and MUCH healthier.

I'm also addicted to green smoothies. I have a Magic Bullet at home, so I make mine the night before. I usually just do 1 cup of almond milk, a huge handful of spinach, 3/4 cup of frozen blueberries, and a third of a super ripe banana. I've also made a huge batch of these, put a single serving in freezer bags, and then I take out a bag and let it defrost in the fridge overnight.

Some other lunch ideas I rotate:
-- Babybel cheese (or string cheese, cheese sticks, etc..) and pretzels
-- Tortilla chips, hummus, and guacamole
-- Yogurt with granola
-- Celery with peanut butter
-- Salads - I use spinach (shocker!) as a base, and then add whatever I feel like... my favorite at the moment is spinach, shelled pistachios, goat cheese, dried cranberries, and low-fat raspberry vinaigrette

And I always, always have a TON of extra fruits and veggies on the side. Baby carrots, tangerines, apples, cucumbers, grapes, anything!

Hope this gives you a few ideas!

Homemade chili. Three pounds of ground beef, three cans of black beans rinsed, two chopped onions, a whole bag of carrots chopped and diced, a jar of salsa and spices. Last batch made 9 servings of about 560 calories per serving. Used the recipe tool to track it.

Don't make excuses for not planning. Planning is the key to controlling what you eat and not letting it control you.

Egg Salad (sometimes on it's own sometimes in bread depending on how many cals I want to spend on lunch)
Mini pitas with sandwich meat and cheese
Noodles and alfredo sauce
Pulled Chicken (sometimes on it's own sometimes in mini pitas or something)

Those are my main go-to lunches.

i eat very simply--like i'm still in 5th grade! i like to bring snacks rather than a meal so that i can just kind of graze all day. Snack ideas:

cheese stick
whole wheat crackers
grapes
apple slices
peanut butter
strawberries
cheese slices wrapped in turkey and lettuce
pudding cup
pretzels
pita chips and hummus
cuties
little tomatoes
carrots and ranch
broccoli
etc.

Lite Progresso has great soups in many good flavors. You can add a sandwhich.

Make a vegetable lasagna and cut sections and place in rubbermaid containers for the whole week, or freeze a few for next week.

Today:
* Ciabatta roll with 1/4 avocado, a sprinkle of cajun seasoning and 50g smoked salmon
* 2 plums
* 600 mL bottle of coke zero.

i have rice with veggies and spices a lot (if you eat chicken then maybe with chicken/turkey too)
I also have falafels with hummus in a wrap a lot

I usually bring in a Healthy Choice, just because it's so convenient, and a yogurt.

My average workday lunchbox contains:

Carrots:35 cal
Apple or grapes: 80-100 cal
Fat free turkey or low-fat bologna sandwich with light cheese and fat free mayo: 240-250 cal
Reduced calorie Pringles snack pack OR reduced fat Cheez-its: 100-140 cal
Sugar free Jello cup: 10 cal
Fiber One brownie or chocolate chip cookie: 90 cal
Water bottle or sparkling flavored water: 0 cal

I average 600 cal or less at my meal (my target intake is 1750 cal/day, although I've been staying well under that and will probably drop 200-250 starting next week). It really is quite a bit of food and it takes me a long time to eat it (around 30 minutes of my 60 minute lunch break, much better than when I used to grab a Lunchable, chips, soda, and mini fruit pie and scarf down 800+ calories in under 10 minutes. Plus, the protein and fiber stick with me much longer than the high sugar foods I ate before. I wouldn't go back for anything, I don't even miss the junk food because I always include a low-calorie treat (the jello and Fiber One bar) so I don't feel like I'm missing out.

One of my favorites lately has been this:

Grilled Chix
apple &/or grapes
PB2
All wrapped up in a lettuce leaf

You can add almonds, other fruits, etc to fit into your goals

At work we have no fridge, kettle or microwave, so I'm quite limited. Today I have a Thermos flask of lentil soup, a cheese roll, a handful of pretzels and a cereal bar.

If I have a dinner that I can eat cold too, like penne with pesto, tuna and olives, I'll make extra to have for lunch the next day.

I work in one of those annoying places with no microwave or facility for heating your own food. Since I can't have anything hot unless it's made with boiling water, I have a stash of cup-a-soup in my desk drawer. Usually one of those with two Krisprolls and a cheese triangle sees me through lunch. When I know I won't fancy that, I take a tupperware bowl of cold pasta salad (tuna, sweetcorn and onion, usually) and one of tinned fruit (I'm into grapefruit at the moment, but also love peaches and pears, as long as they're in juice and not syrup). The other thing I love is wraps. Chicken, avocado, cherry tomato and a little bit of salsa.

If I had a microwave I'd be taking leftovers from the previous night's dinner. Or if there was a toaster I'd have Vegemite and avocado on toast.

Wow, now I'm hungry!

I generally take a thermos of soup (about 400ml) in every day, from a huge batch I make every Sunday. This week's soup is Spring Vegetable Miso soup (with asparagus, peas, chinese cabbage, and shiitake mushrooms) for only 78 calories a serving. Then I have 15 almonds, about 3 prunes, carrot/cucumber sticks, a banana and drink at least 7-8 cups of green tea during my work day.

salad containing radish, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, celery, courgette and some form of protein like ham, crab, cheese, egg and avocado. I also have either a banana or apple as a snack sometime during the day. I make the salad up in the morning whilst my egg is poaching, toast cooking or bacon grilling. Definitely multi-tasking. I am never organised enough to make it the night before!

It took a while to get over the mindset that avocados are fattening. I find them delicious and filling and count them into my daily cal allowance with no trouble.

I often make wraps, so with turkey, veggies, and mustard. Or salads, I will add a can of salmon, some olives and capers and it's pretty tasty. I also love making homemade soups, so I have a few recipes and sometimes on the weekend I will make a few batches and then I will have a variety for when I don't feel like making my lunch.