What to do for lunch?!?! HELP

Is this for a lunch to pack and take with you, or is it something you'll cook and eat at home? Do you have a full kitchen (range top, oven, microwave, refrigerator, freezer)? What kind of staples do you have on hand?

There's no rule that you have to have special "lunch" food for lunch. If you have lots of ideas for breakfast and dinner, you can have another breakfast or dinner meal for lunch. Do you have leftovers from your dinners? You could eat those.

I feel like I'm just throwing out random ideas without you're being a little more specific, but here are some easy things I've had recently:

Avocado, tomato, and cucumber on wheat bread, with ramp mustard and mayo. And a banana.

Fresh mozzarella, sun-dried tomato aioli, basil on ciabatta. And an apple.

Tuna salad (small can of tuna, lots of chopped onion, a tablespoon of mayo, fresh lemon juice) . Spread half of it on a small pita with sliced cucumbers; spread the other half of the tuna salad on the other half of the pita, top with a slice of tasty cheese (I used something called steakhouse onion cheddar) and microwave (or broil, but that tends to burn the edges of the bread) until cheese melts. With six ounces of orange juice diluted with seltzer water.

Leftover peanut butter-coconut milk curry with beef and chickpeas. (Make a batch of curry, stew, hearty soup, chili, casserole etc. for dinner when you have time, and you'll have days of leftovers.)

Cook spaghetti or other pasta (or cook extra when you have some for dinner, then reheat in microwave with a little water and drain); top with leftover or canned chili; add black beans, chopped fresh tomato or canned tomatoes, onions, and nonfat greek yogurt.

my favoriat 130 calorieste lunch is hummus and vegetables. I cut the veggies up beforehandand feel good about what I'm eating for lunch. If I get stuck and I don't have food prepared, I have Bob's Red Mill 10 grain cereal in my desk. at 130 calories, its a good emergency standby. I also keep nuts and dried berries at my desk. Good luck

You can never go wrong with tomatoes!!!

Hello, well I have been finding it quite hard myself with the food report not going over the sugar! I am okay with calories but the sugar is what gets me! Even if I do eat "healthy" foods, I still end up going over my sugar. I eat Special K with berries in the morning, sometimes a banana, then for mid-morning snack, low fat strawberry activia light, then for lunch I will have a sandwich just turkey colby jack and honey wheat bread with baked lays, granny smith apple for snack, then for dinner either a salad with grilled chicken, baked chicken with veggies, or anything in portion. But by half of my day, I will have passed my sugar intake. It is crazy! So my favorite cereal and fruits are gonna have to go! It is tough, but hang in the program. I have seen results. Good luck! --Missy

Just a note on the sugar side of MVP, my dietician told me to only look at the calories as everything else is hard to measure as some sugars are natural and some aren't. She also said the only reason to watch sugar is if you are diabetic and well if you are, you need to be seeing a dietician or diabetes specialist.

Just focus on calories and ignore the rest.

I have no real help for lunches as I am terrible with them but I tend to halve my dinner and have it the next day or have cruskits with ham, tomato and avo with fruit. It is hard to think of different and interesting things to have for lunch

You seem enthusiastic about tuna -- it's delicious mixed with a little mashed avocado and diced beets, then stuffed inside a tomato and served on a bed of greens. Other than tuna, you could season cottage cheese and either have it with fruit (if you season it sweetly, like with honey an nutmeg) or on a bed of veggies (if you went with savory, like basil and pepper). Try simmering chicken in a slow cooker with your seasoning of choice, then shredding it and stuffing it in cabbage leaves or using it to top a salad. Grab some smoked salmon, bagel thins, and Laughing Cow cheese for a delicious lunch treat; have it with some good olives and a dark green salad.