Looking for lunch and snack ideas

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banana and peanut butter

I usually try to go with fresh fruit, especially now that spring is here.

Right now I have a big bag of clementines that I'm working my way through.

I also like carrot sticks with hummus.

I usually keep a fiber one brownie in my purse in case I ever get hungry on the go. I find them to be pretty filling for a snack.

For snacks, sliced apples with sunflower butter or hummus, homemade granola with almond milk.

Orowheat pocket thins Italian Herb bread (100 calories)
Foster Farms southwestern chicken breast strips 1.5 ounces - dice them up small and mix with some Dijon mustard (about 70 calories with the mustard)
Dice some tomato and shred some lettuce (I just use scissors to snip the lettuce to small pieces). About 40 calories. Mix with the dice chicken, then use a spoon to shovel it into the pocket thin. GREAT tasting.
Have a side of asparagus or brussel sprouts or banana squash (I love all of these roasted - put coat them with a dash of olive oil, add some garlic paste and mix, and some Trader Joe's brand of Balsamic vinegar (it is very sweet) and then roast for 15 to 40 minutes depending on how carmalized you want the veggies).

I eat various things including some or all of these:
hard boiled egg
weight watchers smoked mozerlla string cheese (50 cals)
Fage plain greek yogurt (to which I add ground flax seed and fresh berries)
hummus with grape tomatoes, celery, bell peppers (yellow red and orage) and carrots
orange
banana w/ 1-1.5 Tbsp peanut butter
leftovers from dinner the night before (stir fry, lentils, etc)
spinach salad w/ whatever veggies are on hand and low cal kefir based dressing

The yogurt is 26g protein per 8oz, the cheese has 6g protein, the egg has 6g protein and the veggies and hummus all have like 1-2g protein, so all of that helps keep me full so this kind of lunch works for me. Plus the veggies have lots of fiber and volume for a small amount of cals, which also helps. The banana and PB add up the calories so I don't have that every day but it's delicious and gets you good healthy fats and protein which keeps you full!

My sister, who is still a commuting/cubicle prisoner, has started taking homemade soups she makes on the weekends.

Oh and another one is chicken salad. I get chicken in those pouches like tuna salad and mix it w/ greek yogurt and then whatever I'm feeling - sliced almonds, diced onions and celery, garlic powder, black pepper, onion powder, curry powder once, etc. Then I eat it at work for lunch by scooping it up w/ celery sticks! Lots of protein punch for the cals

Anything I make for dinner I'll try and make enough for lunch the next day, or at least whatever I'd eat for dinner I'd eat for lunch.

A lot of snacks I eat are fresh fruit, coconut chips (unsweetened coconut chips that have no sugar, you can add cinnamon and a bit of salt and dry them out in the oven to make them crispy - http://www.theclothesmakethegirl.com/2011/06/13/carmelized-coconut-chips/), turkey bacon (add cracked pepper when cooking and it ees delicious), low sugar yogurt (still on the search for one I really like), a pickle, hard boiled egg, a small serving of nuts (mmm pistachios), homemade applesauce, mix it up!

Lunch has always been my enemy. I hate most sandwiches and salads... and soup everyday just gets old eventually. I had an "aha moment" when I realized I don't have to eat a normal lunch. I now just snack on a bunch of different things and that is my lunch.

Those things are: yogurt (Mediterranean coconut is amazing), boiled eggs, bananas, chick peas, almonds (habanero flavored...mm.mm..), string cheese, apples, oranges, grapes, cherries, laughing cow cheese, whole grain crackers, left over veggies from the night before, fig newtons, apple sauce, trail mix, and Special K cereal.

When I want something more filling, I like banana/peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread. There are some whole grain ramen noodles in the organic section of my grocery store that are pretty good. Trader Joes has some amazing frozen thai food dishes. I got into a lean cuisine kick for awhile, especially their tortilla encrusted fish.

The best dieting snacks are the ones who offer the most satiation for the calories they give you

i wouldnt buy any stupid cereal bar

Casein shake(not whey) it provides more filling than whey
Apple
Kiwi with the skin still on it
FULL ORANGE, not juice
baked potatoe sweet or white