Work Lunches - What do you take?

Celery with peanut butter or tuna salad
yogurt
apple
strawberries
almonds
pudding (haha)
carrots

Usually I bring a turkey sandwich with some fruit or raw veggies on the side. In cold weather, I'll bring tomato soup.

Then I switch it up a couple times a week and bring a salad with chicken and a whole grain bagel. Put the right things in the salad, and it's barely any calories!

I usually take chicken sandwiches on low calorie bread with light mayo, a yogurt and a piece of fruit or cereal bar.

For me I need quick and easy food. I take a applesauce, and a veggie snac pak. I found the ready snac paks at Meijer. They have different ones. Veggies and either a ranch dip or humus. pitta rounds with pepperoni and cheese. Yogurt and fruit. Sometimes half a sandwich. Raisins and dried apricots are a good energy mix. I like to change it up every few days so I don't get into the same old, same old routine. Triscuits and whole wheat crackers are good with the applesauce too.

I take a whole can of tuna and mix with 1 tbl light mayo (put in small container - makes 1/2 c)
Put some spinach on each of the halves of an Earthgrain Thin bun and put half of the tuna on each bun and eat the buns/tuna open faced - makes it seem like more

It's actually very filling at only 242 calories

I love bread, but it really is high in calories. Now I use light italian bread and it's only 80 calories for 2 slices. I usually make a sandwich with that bread and bring either a light Activia yogurt or a 100 calorie snack pack with a bottle of water. Fruits are pretty filling too.

Usually a sandwich and soup....there are 40 calorie bread slices by Natures Own. So essentially getting 80 calories for 2 slices

I like salad works mandarin chicken salad. It is expensive so i make the same thing at home. I get romaine lettuce, raw spinach, red cabbage, shredded carrots, canned sugar free mandarin oranges, craisains, and chicken breast. I top it off with light ranch dressing. I measure everything it out.

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers are very healthy. They taste good, too! They usually average between 200-300 calories a meal.

If I am in the office and can use the microwave I sometimes take a can of soup, my favourite at the moment is Heinz Minestrone at 128 calories a can, I also take either two slices of Hovis best of both at 175 calories for the two, and a Hartleys low calorie jelly (jello) which is 9 calories a pot, a banana (90 calories) and/or Quavers at 88 calories.

If I am out and about I take a sandwhich of the Hovis best of both at 175 calories, filled with some wafer thin roast chicken (10 calories a slice) low calorie mayonaise, some cucumber, plum tomatoes, spring onion, a low calorie jello and some quavers and a piece of fruit. I like to be around 500 calories for my lunch, but I don't sweat it.

I get in work early most days so I tend to eat breakfast there too. I can't just take 'lunch', it simply doesn't work for me I normally eat it all way too early .... ooooops!

I am now in the habit of taking a range of light snacks so that I can effectively graze all day, not all of my choices are healthy but within my cal range so for now I'll keep with it. Usually there's some fruit, maybe a yoghurt, some crackers or weight watchers bread, cottage cheese with tomatoes/red onion, Babybel Light, some Quorn, a salad and recently a Cup a Soup Light to take the edge off

I make 12 chix breasts once or twice a week (6 breasts cut lenghthwise so each is about 5oz)

i bring 1/2 of then in a tupperware to keep in the office fridge
i also leave at the office, a bag of salad mix & veggies ( this week is streamed asparagus, chopped tomatoes & sliced cucumbers in seperate containers)
I also bring some homemade sauteed mushrooms & onions (or mushrooms onions & spinach)
and a pack of flour tortillas

When I'm hungry at work I make myself a wrap, using whatever i feel like, if i dont want a wrap i just do chix & mushrooms & onions in the microwave.

I also bring some of those 100 calorie sandwich rounds & keep them in the fridge and yogurt as well. I eat evey 2-3 hours so it's quite common to see me doing data entry with one hand and noshing on a chicken breast with the other lol

I prep it all on Sunday tupperware it and put it in a bag in the fridge. On my way to work I grab the bag & go.

I also leave some lean cuisine, smart ones or healthy choices (whatevers on sale) in the freezer, for change & I can always add some salad to it. The smart ones mini pepperonni pizzas are tasty with a salad. I usually replenish on Wed or Thursday.

I have the exact same thing in the fridge at home, so I dont eat everything in the house while Im cooking dinner.

My kids have starting eating better that way, "Hey Mom, can I have some of your chicken & tomatoes?" LOL

I bring lots of leftovers from our dinners. I know what the calorie count is going to be and can easily adjust my portions. Or I bring a lean cuisine. Or sometimes I just grab a combo of 'snacks' (ie yogurt, hummus, pretzels, veggies, fruit, crackers, string cheese, etc) and eat whatever sounds good and adds up to appropriate amount of calories for lunch that day. I love the variety. Even though it's leftovers I don't eat the same thing everyday. For me that works.

I have two 15 minute breaks so I generally bring an apple, carrots, yogurt, string cheese, welch's yogurt covered fruit snacks, fruit leather, that kind of thing. Lots of little low calorie things that I can eat quickly but still feel I've eaten.

I work on a busy psych ward so I do my own sandwiches, lean pockets, trail mix, Extend or Luna bars....some time I barely have time to get water!