Quick and Easy Lunches :)

I cook on weekends and freeze stuff in individual servings and just grab out of the freezer in the morning and go to work. I let it thaw at my desk and by the time it's time to eat it's almost completely thawed out. Skinnytaste.com has lots of good freezer receipes.

I love chicken as well. I usually cook a couple of chicken breasts in the crockpot on the weekend and make shredded chicken, I mix in Quaker Steak buffalo wing sauce with the shredded chicken (I like the spicy taste and it is low sodium as well). Then throughout the week I use it on a small soft taco shell with a slice of Sargento ultra thin swiss cheese and lettace. It is easy to throw together each day, filling, and around 200 calories.

For a super fun lunch make your own "Bento box"- fill a tupperware container with small amounts of different foods (I seperate the food by placing it in silicone Cupcake liners). You can also buy real bento boxes in stores or online. I throw in some of the following: low fat cheese, cut up veggies, cut up fruit, hummus, almonds, low fat pasta salad, chunks of whole wheat pita, a low fat deviled egg, chunks of roasted chicken, low fat wheat thins, Quaker oat squares cereal, salsa, whole grain tortilla chips, black bean salad, a couple Dove dark chocolate squares, fat free spinach dip, pickles, low fat macaroni salad, light tuna salad, olives, light feta cheese, a stuffed grape leaf, couscous, guacamole.

You get the picture, haha. Generally I throw in anywhere from 4 to 8 different things. Since you are just eating small portions of different foods you can put in as many as you want. This kind of lunch is never boring and the possibilities are endless.

http://spoonful.com/recipes/asian-chicken-slaw

I use this recipe, with no sugar and replace the peanut butter with P2B.

Throw in extra veggies I have on hand that would taste yummy in it.

Keep the protein out of it, either tuna packets or chicken breasts.

Take a portion to work with my protein.

What is P2B? Ive been seeing a lot about this?

Love pita pizzas - Pita, marinara, mozzarella, favorite pizza toppings, bake until cheese is melted or toasty, depending on how you like it.

I've recently started keeping a bunch of (small; think Yukon Gold or similar size) baked potatoes in the fridge. I just grab one or two of those (depending on how many calories I have to play with), a 1/4 cup (61g) scoop of low-fat cottage cheese, and some combination of the following:

a cooked, crumbled slice of turkey bacon
dices or strips of sweet peppers and onions
50g broccoli or cauliflower
a crumbled turkey sausage patty
half a flavorful chicken sausage link (two favorites are artichoke/fennel and apple/Gouda), sliced into coins
hot salsa or sriracha
leftover grilled chicken or steak

If you keep everything on hand, it's really easy to throw this together on the way out the door. Having all the topping possibilities on hand also makes it easy to protein-ize a basic salad or jazz up a canned soup.