Work Lunches - What do you take?

breakfast- orange, apple or banana

lunch- Weight Watchers Smart Ones $1.80 or $5 footlong (ham on cheese) eat half

snack- same as breakfast or the other half of my Subway sub

drinks- water and one coke Zero

When I leave the house in the morning I have the following (basically) to last me until 5:30 PM Dinner. So this list includes mid morning snack, lunch, pre-workout snack and post workout nutrition.

2 Giant Carrots
2 Apples
24 Almonds (1 serving, raw, no salt, non roasted)
Red Seedless Grapes (maybe 15 grapes?)
Energy Ball (pre-workout, recipe & nutritional stats on my blog http://geoffpoitras.com)
EAS Advantage Carb Control Protein Shake
Sandwich (4 oz deli meat, bread, mustard)
24oz water

A few notes:

My goals currently are weight loss while preserving as much lean tissue as possible. I simply cannot go into dinner with anything less than 800 calories or I get worried. So I shave calories in areas where I feel comfortable. I go with no cheese as it's almost always high calories that I don't feel I benefit nutritionally from.

Bread is another one, there are some good whole grain breads out there but they are high calorie. I go for the Sara Lee Delightful bread at 45 calories per slice without the diet bread taste.

Sodium has been a big challenge for me so I always go for Boars head low sodium deli meat. Currently I'm using the Deluxe Low Sodium Roast Beef. I think it has the least sodium out of all Boars Head products.

Your sandwich would be high calorie for me, try it without the cheese, or half the cheese and spread it out some. Maybe go halves on a slice of your current bread with a slice of the Sara Lee?

My lunches at work are pretty boring. Maybe one day per week I'll grab a 6" subway on wheat, again with no cheese but all the fresh veggies that will fit on it.

Usually every sunday, I bake 2 chicken breasts, and then make a chicken soup, with low sodium chicken broth, frozen corn, can of diced tomatoes (with spicy red peppers) green beans, and sometimes add a 1/2 cup of brown rice.

2 cups of soup, normally ranges between 150 and 180 calories. I add an apple and a silhouette yogurt. My lunches are usually less than 300 calories

Hi, I take a garlic tortilla wrap with extra light mayo 2 slices of ham or chicken, lettuce tomato and spring onion also I take a fat free yogurt or banana which comes out less than 400 cals. Hope this helps x

Today I brought a 100 cal low fat cottage cheese single, about a cup and a half of fruit salad, half a slice up cucumber and a cup of baby carrots, also 3 eggs, .5 cup of raw baby spinach, and an ounce or so of swiss cheese.

For lunch I will be making an omelet with 2 whole eggs and one white, adding some cheese. I found a microwave omelet cooker at wegmans, so i will be beating my eggs, zapping for a minute then adding cheese and spinach and zapping for another minute.

I usually try to steam some veggies the night before or bring leftovers from dinner. If I dont get around to that then I just make a small salad or a sandwich. Today I put a hebrew national 97% fat free hot dog cut up in my salad. Might sound gross but it's pretty good and took away my craving for meat.

If I'm working earlies I take a home made salad, lettuce, tomatoes, cucmber, peppers, carrots, red onions, with either tuna or ham or cheese. Plenty of snacks for throughout the day as well, such as grapes, banana, orange or apples and yoghurts.
If I'm working lates, I'll take a a weight watcher's ready meal and a few snacks.
If I'm working nights, I'll take just snacks such as fruit or yoghurt or nuts.

If you still want some sort of sandwich for lunch, why not change up the bread for a tortilla wrap instead? x