Take Along Lunch for work

Leftovers. Since I prepare a heatlhy and tasty dinner every night anyway, I just make a little extra.

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Fruit

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I stick pretty much to the same thing every week. Brown rice or Sweet Potato, with Tuna, chicken and spinach.

I make up a salad box but also take my emergency rations Salt and vinegar rice cakes, weight watchers caramel mallows, boiled eggs or as others say last night's leftovers. My handbag looks like a picnic hamper most days!

I bike ride to work, so here is what I carry with me:

Snacks (I eat these through out the day after I eat a bowl of oatmeal)
Almonds (24)
Greek Yogurt
Orange
Apple
Cottage Cheese (http://www.friendshipdairies.com/products/1-lowfat-no-salt-added-cottage-cheese.html)
Banana

Main Lunch:
Green Drink Juice (Whole celery, apple, cilantro, parsley, peeled lemon, 2 cucumbers,2 broccoli stalks)

If I had a really hard ride into (against the wind or raining), I might eat an organic granola bar too.

Edit: With the wraps, be careful of the sodium content, I have seen some of them containing over 1000mg's!

Taco Salad - Lettuce, Tomato, Taco Meat (turkey or beef), Avocado, Cheese with Salsa for Dressing. My go to favorite!

I usually bring leftovers, or cook an extra piece of chicken or two (or turkey/chicken sausage) to have extras for packing my lunch and steam some veggies in the microwave at work the next day.

Here's a favourite of mine:

1/2 acorn squash (you can cook in your microwave real quick
2 breakfast sausage (links or rounds)
1 egg

I make the whole squash and 4 sausage the night before, so then I have two lunches, and cook the egg in the microwave at work.I

I also make a big batch of homemade granola (with a little protein powder) that last me a few weeks, and I take that to work for breakfast most days. Just leave a little bottle of milk in the fridge at work so I don't have to pack it into my lunch everyday.

I like to buy fruit/veg on the weekends and package it up in ziplock baggies for the week. I'll have the same things for my snacks all week long, and if I'm sick of it by next weekend I'll get something different. So every day I have 3-4 servings of raw plants, and add something else to it: yogurt, cottage cheese, string cheese (never get tired of any dairy), and a protein: egg, turkey dog, chicken, etc. Sometimes I have a carb, but if I'm eating some sort of grain at other meals I try to have one meal a day without. I also despise nuts, which is a shame as they are quite good for you but I just can't choke them down so they don't make it into my rotation.

When I go home for lunch, I sometimes eat leftovers and sometimes eat a sandwich (love Sara Lee 45 cal whole grain bread) or a wrap. Flavors change by week, but sometimes it's a garden wrap and sometimes it's meat and cheese. Whatever I have that sounds great that day. I have several types of mustards too, so I can make small flavor changes with minimal calorie differences.

Good luck!

My lunches are usually one item of protein, plus fruits and vegetables. I like bread, but it's not worth the calories for me. I'd rather eat other stuff, so I tend to avoid sandwiches.

Usually, on Sundays, I'll cook 3-4 chicken breasts at once, and bag them individually. I do the same for turkey patties. 1-2 days a week I'll put some shrimp in a baggie and bring another baggie of kale/spinach and put the two together. Then I always bring a baggie of mixed raw veggies (carrots, snap peas, bell peppers, tomatos, cucumbers, squasg) and a baggie of cooked vegetables (the night before or on weekends I'll microwave a large bowl of broccoli, brussel sprouts, beans, etc), plus some kind of fruit- usually an apple, orange, peach, or sliced strawberries, or all of them (or some combo of them). My new favorite fruit is sliced strawberries and sliced pineapple mixed together. I also usually have rice cakes, almonds and other nuts, and dark chocolate for snacking.

This new thing I have been doing is a modified chicken parmesan, and it's my new favorite lunch. I take boneless skinless chicken breasts, and lightly (like just a dusting) rolling them in breading- I use maybe a half cup of bread crumbs for 5-6 pieces, and bake them with marinara sauce on top. I make that in the evenings since my daughter will eat anything with sauce on it (seriously, I've dumped tomato sauce on her broccoli before and given it to her like spaghetti, she loves it!), and bring an extra piece or two for lunch.

My diet is mostly protein, so, I take cottage cheese, Wheat Thins and Hummus,protein shakes, deli meat and cheese rollups. I'm not a fan of leftovers. Have you ever looked up Bento lunches? There's tons of ideas on Pinterest. I'd like to do this once I get to eating more of a variety.

Another fan of leftovers here - I almost always try to make big dinners that will last for a couple of nights, and a couple of lunches - spag bog, pasta dishes, stirfry, soups, stews etc are all really good for this - plus, helps limit my dinner serving size if I put some away for lunch.
Otherwise, I'll sometimes nuke a potato or sweet potato, and dump half an avocado, a tin of tuna and maybe a splash of sour cream on top.
I'm not good at salads - they make me feel sad and unsatisfied - so I try for a hearty-feeling lunch, preferably hot.
Snacks - fruit, yoghurt, homemade muffins (lots of fruit/nuts/LSA/wholemeal flour etc), carrot, boiled eggs, nuts etc.

I normally take a few types of fruits to work in my cooler lunch bag for snacks. (grapes, watermelon, or apples)
For lunch I'll take either a salad or left-overs from dinner the previous night and a non-fat yogurt.