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    Lunch for Work?

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    edited February 23 in Recipes
    What are you guys' go to lunches that you take to work, or even just eating at home. I get sick of taking salad every day, but it's always like the easiest thing to make in the morning. I also feel like I sometimes don't bring enough. What is everything you guys will bring, including snacks?

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    • Posts: 308
      Get a foot long at subway or fill a shaker bottle with 1000 calories of protein powder/cereal/bananas and add water and chug it haha.
    • Posts: 9,562 Member
      Bring leftovers from the day before.
    • Posts: 255 Member
      I find lurking food diaries gives me great ideas. To keep it interesting, I do the bento box idea, small servings of several things make lunches really fun. You can google to find ideas. :flowerforyou:

      Sláinte :drinker:
    • Posts: 47 Member
      I am always creeping on people's food diaries. Gives me great ideas :)
    • Posts: 3,628 Member
      I bring an assortment so I don't get bored ......

      Dinner leftovers, boxed soup, raw veggies & hummus, cheesestick, apple, nuts, popcorn, dark chocolate, and water :drinker:

      Once or twice a month I have pizza with my coworkers ...... one slice & a large salad ...... yum !
    • Posts: 193 Member
      I bring leftovers, a salad, a protein bar, and 2-4 snacks (varies).
    • Posts: 9,834 Member
      todays was quick.

      1 500g cottage cheese, 45g peanut flour, cinnamon, sf maple syrup. (all stirred together)
      1 banana
      2 carrots

      I also use the slow cooker a lot. Put in a heap of meat the night before. Take meat along with frozen veggies and cheese. Nuke at work.
    • Posts: 2,407 Member
      I enjoy pita wraps, or soft wraps with tuna/lettuce, or meat/cheese/tomato/lettuce, sometimes the lean cuisines, a sandwich, stew.
      One of my absolute favourite go-to meals/snacks is oriental veggie mix with shrimp stir fried, with rice. YUM.

      Snacks
      - jello with light cool whip
      - vanilla yogurt with any fruit
      - carrots/dip
      - fibre 1 bars
      - chopped apples with cinnamon
      - chopped banana with chocolate
      - almonds
      - cheese/crackers
    • Posts: 4
      You can broil salmon or grill up shrimp to add to salads, or even quinoa and veggies! Sandwiches with protein and lots of veggies are also so satisfying!
    • Posts: 1,893 Member
      On days I am running behind on time I usually take a can of tuna and an avocado. It's simple, delicious and pretty healthy. Other than that it is usually leftovers from dinner
    • Posts: 12,344 Member
      string cheese
      apples
      greek yogurt
      hummus with various things to dip
      skinny cow chocolate pouches
      sometimes I'll get a bunch of chicken breasts and cook them up in advance
    • Posts: 2,067 Member
      i take a piece of fruit and a sandwich everyday to work. leftovers sometimes as well but only if they need to be eaten up and theres no sandwich supplies left in the fridge
    • Posts: 777 Member
      Bring leftovers from the day before.

      This. Or I find an interesting recipe and make enough on Sunday night for the week. This week is the herb frittata that I saw in Runner's World (6 servings @ 175 calories per) and I'll supplement that with some veggies or a small slab o' meat, depending on what the day's workout plan is.
    • Posts: 530 Member
      I actually eat out a lot during lunch. I love the 1/2 size apple pecan chicken and strawberry fields salad at Wendy's, also their small chili. I go to the cafeteria some also. They usually have grilled chicken and onions paired with a salad or veggie. I also make chicken salad with added apples, grapes and walnuts when I have then, adding in some mayo (the kind with olive oil) on a nice whole grain (this week I have seeded rye).
    • Posts: 61 Member
      I grill up a chicken breast and bring along some fresh pineapple salso to put on top.
    • Posts: 237 Member
      I find an interesting recipe and make enough on Sunday night for the week.

      Ditto that! I usually make 2-3 servings of something on Sunday and have that for lunch. For the other days, I have soup or stew that I will make about once a month in a big batch and freeze.
    • Posts: 7 Member
      anybody have any good quinoa recipes?
    • Posts: 561 Member
      I purposely cook my dinners to have leftovers for weekday lunches. Way cheaper than take out and way easier than packing something different all of the time.
    • Posts: 9,562 Member
      I use boxed vegetable broth in the rice steamer with the quinoa. I add whatever vegetables I have--- sort of like this:

      http://www.instructables.com/id/EASY-ONE-POT-Rice-cooker-COOKING-RiceQuinoa-Veggie/
    • Posts: 227 Member
      Today lunch is:
      Two lettuce wraps filled with cracked pepper turkey, bacon, avocado, green apple slices, pepper, squeeze of lemon, wrapped in wax paper, waiting for me! Snack is 100 calorie greek yogurt :)

      (lowering carbs and watching sodium today as I had a weekend full of carbs and sodium and want to level it out!)
    • Posts: 268 Member
      anybody have any good quinoa recipes?

      Yes! Quinoa is awesome to cook with. You can pretty much sub it into any recipe that would normally use rice.

      One of my faves is this one.

      http://www.muscleandfitness.com/nutrition/recipes/spicy-quinoa-chicken
    • Posts: 1,553 Member
      I do leftovers a lot. I made some amazing chicken salad last night with tons of fresh fruit that I will stuff in a pita with spinach for the week. I also enjoy what my son calls a "snack plate." I'll do some ham rolls, maybe some cheese, crackers and fruit, usually grapes and a hard boiled egg and possibly some nuts. You can always do a PB&J :). A grilled chicken wrap or quesadilla. Also depends on what you have access to at work as far as reheating. We have a little oven thing (I can not remember the name!!!) so if you do as well you could make pizza on a tortilla, a grilled cheese lots of possibilities.
    • Posts: 5,396 Member
      I actually eat out a lot during lunch. I love the 1/2 size apple pecan chicken and strawberry fields salad at Wendy's, also their small chili. I go to the cafeteria some also. They usually have grilled chicken and onions paired with a salad or veggie. I also make chicken salad with added apples, grapes and walnuts when I have then, adding in some mayo (the kind with olive oil) on a nice whole grain (this week I have seeded rye).

      This is my go to lunch when I'm in town - Wendy's half size Apple Pecan Chicken salad. I get them to double my bleu cheese crumbles and bring along extra raw fresh walnuts from home to add. This is my lower carb/higher fat ratio meal. Dinner will be the opposite - higher carb veggies with pasta or rice or quinoa or potato or beans and my lean protein. Works for me.

      I also take leftovers fairly often.
    • Posts: 2,942 Member
      Add me and look at my diary. Note- I believe in staying within my calorie range (500-650 for lunch, 50-150 for snacks). If I brought a salad every day I would be so bored!

      Example of today's lunch:
      -egg salad sprinkled with dill
      -crackers (to eat egg salad)
      -baby carrots
      -hummus

      Snack:
      -2 oranges

      Previous and future lunch foods:
      -single serve mac n cheese
      -pita chips and tzitziki sauce
      -cookies
      -ice cream sandwiches
      -gourmet cheese
      -loads of spinach
    • Posts: 363 Member
      I make a big grain salad on Sunday (like bulgur or quinoa) and then put a scoop of that in a bowl every morning, top it to the brim with lettuce or spinach and some random veggies I have in the fridge and when it's time for lunch I slice up 1/2 an avocado and put it on the top, squeeze 1/2 a lemon on it and some pepper.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      Here are my suggestions. I am a calorie counter, so these are all low cal:

      Watermelon - 400g - 125 cal
      Cottage Cheese - 113g - 100 cal
      Jerky - 28g - 80-90 cal
      Blackberries
      Raspberries
      Baked Brocolli
      Baked Cauliflower
      Baked Radishes
      Canned V8
      String Cheese
      5 Prunes
      Garbanzo Beans
      Black Beans
      Corn
      Peas
      Celery Sticks
      Peeled Baby Carrots
      Hard Boiled Egg
      Rotisserie Chicken
    • Posts: 2 Member
      How do you do that, I'm new at this. I would love to see how others eat....
    • Posts: 756 Member
      I actually do a lot of simple things and change depending on time of year and mood:

      - Veggies burgers that can be nuked, with salsa or hummus
      - Weight watcher meals, adding additional frozen veggies
      - Trader Joe Lemon chicken
      - Canned soup
      - Veggies with dip
      - trader joe prepared salads, but I usually replace the dressing with my own
      - frozen veggies with tomato sauce and Trader Joe frozen turkey meatballs

      I have to go for the easy grab and go a lot. Time plays a lot on what I do. I try not to eat out too much for $ and I tend to not plan as well when I eat out.
    • Posts: 58
      Kashi Heart to Heart with almond milk
      baby carrots
      strawberries
      a couple of slices of deli roast beef
      saltine crackers
      cheese
      grapes
      tuna
      cottage cheese
      immitation crab
      hard boiled egg
      1/2 avocado

      I try to do a different thing every day so it doesn't get boring.
    • Posts: 17,299 Member
      Leftovers. It's the perfect lunch for me because it requires zero prep time.
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