Quick and easy to make meals for lunch at school:O

Well, how about wraps or a salad with dressing in a little Tupperware container? Wasa crispbread and spreadable cheese with fruit?

Boil (in the broiler, not a pot of water....Ive heard people doing this and it scares me) some chicken, slice it up, add it to a salad with a hard boiled egg, baby spinach (more nutritious than lettuce), an ounce of mozzarella cheese and some low fat dressing. I find dipping my fork in the dressing instead of pouring it on gives me the taste in every bite like I like, without using too many calories. With this, there is no need for a microwave!!

I have a similar situation. At work I have to bring my lunch and I'm completely burnt out on sandwiches. Now I mainly pack fruit and some low cal snacks. Do you have access to a microwave? If I did I'd bring some left overs.

I like to make wraps with laughing cow light cheese wedges spread as a base, some basic sandwich meats, a little calamata olive tapenade, sprouts, carrot strips and spinach leaves, drizzled with a little balsamic vinaigrette. They pack easy in a ziploc once they are cut in half, keep very well in a lunch box with a cooler pack or a frozen juice pouch. I add cut apples sprinkled with lime juice for a dessert, or other fresh fruit and a small salad in a tupperware container with a spot of dressing in a separate container. When ready to eat, poured the dressing on the salad and shook the bejesus out of it so all the greens had flavor.

Or a cheese wedge or two with some crackers, some turkey pepperoni and veggies with dip ( I use light balsamic vinagrette) and fruit with yogurt and walnuts or pecans.

hummus and pita bread

cheese and crackers

lettuce roll-ups with lunch meat and cheese inside

2 hard boiled eggs with a little bit of salt

add some fresh veggies and fresh fruit to any of the above and you have a meal. Good luck!

- Parfaits with greek yogurt, blueberries, sliced almonds and fiber one cereal
- Grilled chicken, spinach and tomato slices in light whole wheat pitas
- Salad with grape tomatoes, shredded carrot, peas, turkey bacon slices and grilled chicken
- Lunchable style meal with grilled chicken squares, baby carrots and peanut butter and whole wheat crackers
- PB&J with light wheat bread, all fruit spread jam and natural peanut butter
- Homemade chicken salad with grilled chicken, light mayo/greek yogurt, mustard, sweet relish, chopped onions and celery
- Tuna salad
- Egg beater sandwich

Depending on what you have available to you, you could take a nice slice of quiche for lunch. It just needs a 90 seconds in the microwave to be just the right temperature. If you don't have a warming device, if you have a cool pack you can prepare a fruit salad, some protein-heavy yogurt (Greek yogurt), and maybe some granola. If you can't prepare a fruit salad check out some of the canned fruit mixes that are in the fruit juice or in light juices. Don't choose something in heavy syrup!

There are many options to your sandwich too... just go shopping with the person who does the grocery shopping to see all the options for different breads that might make your lunch sandwich more jazzy!

I just found Arnold Artisan Flat bread... it's an interesting twist and you can choose to make a flatbread sandwich or fold in half and have a sandwich sandwich! Today I had this with dijon mustard, romaine lettuce, fresh baby spinach, 2 oz. of Deitz & Watson Buffalo Style Chicken breast, 1 oz. of Cooper Brand Sharp Cheddar cheese and 1/4 of an avocado. I ate it flat because it was too huge to fold! Yum!

Good luck!