Office lunch ideas at 300 calories or less?

have you considered wraps?
dempsters has whole wheat or whole grain for 100kcal per wrap
then add an eggwhite, mustard, and a few pickle slices OR you can do a slice of turkey breast, mustard, tomato, and bit of lettuce
=150kcal so you can make 2 and that leaves me more than satisfied

bump for more suggestions as well. Thanks OP!

I love this recipe for Cuban Pork & Rice; I don't add the shrimp but I do add extra veggies because I love them. This makes a large batch that freezes well (I wouldn't eat any food that's been in the fridge for 4+ days). I portion it into single serving containers and put it in the freezer. Pop one in the fridge the night before and microwave to reheat.

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/cuban-style-pork-rice

Chili! I made chili in the slow cooker with ground turkey and it's perfect to bring with (assuming you have a microwave/fridge at work). And it's under 250 cals.

1/2 cup of pinto beans, 1/2 an avocado, 1 corn tortilla. That clocks in around 280 or so.

I know you said no soup, but this is amazing, low cal, low fat and low sodium. Really easy to make in advance and it almost more stewy than soupy:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1499/moroccan-chickpea-soup

Don't listen to the "lots of restrictions" comments, they have just as many themselves. I am fairly similar to you in that I rather eat less of something good than a giant bowl of veggies/salads.

Chicken will get you really far at lunch time. I make crockpot salsa chicken on Sundays and it lasts all week. I can eat it plain, on a wrap, or mixed with veggies.

Wraps in general are good, there's some healthier options for the shells. Try to stay away from lunch meat and come up with some fun mixes of what you like. I do a lot of black bean, cheese, corn and avocado wraps. They taste good microwaved into quesadillas too.

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OOH!!! What is salsa chicken? is it just chicken with Salsa? Sounds heavenly!!!

I like to have 4 ounces of ground turkey (160 calories) with half of a cup of brown rice (75 calories) with half of a cup to a cup of diced tomatoes (30-60 calories) with 2 spoonfuls of sauteed onions (15-30 calories). That's 280 - 325 calories. It's almost like a spaghetti to me. I love it!

One of the things I make and love to have for lunches is spinach lasagna made with fresh spinach and whole grain noodles, lots of cheese and if you need meat use ground turkey breast.

Breakfast casserole is another option, you can put all kinds of goodies in that and you don't have to eat it for breakfast.

If you're looking to avoid sodium you'll really want to avoid processed meats as well as many of the bread/wraps you'd use to make sandwiches.

It's just chicken, lots of salsa, and a packet of taco seasoning, cooked for 6 hours in the crockpot. We've omitted the seasoning before and it was still good!

292 calories
Caesar Chicken Salad (not the salad, more like egg salad, etc)
3 Multigrain Flax Seed Fladbread crackers
.25 cup of blueberries

I love to grill up pork chop, steak or chicken (weighed) and toss it on a bed of lettuce. This can easily be under 300 calories if you weigh your meat and use no dressing.

Leftovers from dinner

Sandwiches (can vary, whatever you like) I use 1 slice of bread, no cheese.

Turkey Sausage & rice

Turkey Burger (Jennie-O) no bread. 1 slice of 2% kraft cheese single, lettuce & tomato

I'm sure there is more, but that's all I have at the moment.

Sometimes I'll just have crackers, a 70 calorie brie cheese wheel and a bowl of fruit. I'm not a big fan of salads either.

*Two pieces of 40-calorie bread (I like the Franz brand, but there are others) - TOASTED
*Spread a small amount of light mayonnaise on top of toasted bread.
*Cut up one hard boiled egg onto each piece of toast (so, two eggs total).
*Salt as desired (or not).
*Enjoy

Approx 250-275 calories depending on how much mayo used, and how large the eggs are etc.

Almost every day for lunch, I eat chicken (boneless-skinless breasts cut up and cooked in a skillet with cayenne pepper and garlic powder), quinoa or brown rice, and green beans or broccoli (I buy the big Kroger Value frozen bags).

On Sundays, I make 8-10 lunches for my fiancé and I and we eat it all week.

4 oz. of chicken, 1 serving of quinoa, and 1 serving of green beans comes to: 325 calories, 220 sodium, 6 fat, 31 protein, 2 sugar, 36 carbs.

Swap the quinoa out for Minute brown rice and it comes to: 295 calories, 230 sodium, 5 fat, 27 protein, 2 sugar, 39 carbs

You are getting a lot of great stuff up there. I'm not sure why you are only doing 300 cal. for lunch but have you thought about eating more calories at lunch and less at dinner unless you eat the same at dinner? You can google meals for 300 or less calories if you have the time. If you have a microwave at work you can bring a hamburger patty and some condiments. Here's my calorie count for today having a burger:

Ballpark - Flame Grilled Beef Patty, 1 patty 85g 230 0 19 15 470 0
Village Hearth - 100 % Whole Wheat Bread, 1 Slice 70 13 1 3 160 2
Heinz - Ketchup, 0.33 Tbsp (17g) 7 2 0 0 53 1
Helman's - Mayo, 0.33 tbsp 30 0 3 0 30 0
Vlasic - Kosher Dill Baby Wholes, 1 oz (pickle) 0 0 0 0 280 0

If you omit the mayo it will be even lower. I'm not sure if it's less calories using your own ground beef but I like the convenience and the burgers are so tasty. It was so yummy and very filling. Did you know pickles are 0 calories? I didn't know and I am so happy because I can snack on them!

Pinterest is another great place to get ideas. Skinnytaste.com has great stuff too! have you been to the recipe board here? I could go on. If you want add me and I can give you more ideas. I'm lazy and don't want to do a lot of preparing and I am getting better at planning.