Lunch at Work/School

I struggle with this, I'm a school teacher and get bored of taking lunch all the time so I'l be checking back to see others ideas. My favourites are:
Rye Crackers with humous and cucumber or
making a big salad or
I roast a chicken on sunday and use it for wraps and salds throughout the week!
Good luck!

I bring a tuna(in water) sandwich on whole grain bread, eat it with an apple on the side and a bottle of water

I eat a chicken wrap made from canned chicken that I add a small amount of wing sauce to it. I wrap it up with a low carb high fiber tortilla (only 71 calories!) and I will put some ranch dressing on it (I have started using the lighthouse yogurt ranch dressing which is about half the calories of regular ranch and tastes awesome) and sometimes I will add a little cheese or spinach or even the other day I put half an avocado on it and it was delish! I will also have an apple with this and sometimes a pickle spear or one of those 100 calorie snack pouches. I love this because it has a ton of flavor in it without going crazy on the calories at all, plus it is super simple to make and I can make up a couple at a time, put them in the fridge and then grab and go.

I freeze all leftovers in one cup plastic containers. I indicate the month and year on a sticker. Everyday, my husband and I each take one to work and zap it in the microwave. I usually add a yogurt and a fruit or vegetable.

My family loves this because:
1) we eat real food, not cafeteria or restaurant food for lunch
2) we don't spend any money on lunches
3) we cook a fresh meal every day as all leftovers are frozen
4) we get lots of variety as we pick and choose from several months meals
5) we sometimes rediscover a meal we'd forgotten about

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Leftovers are always good but I definitely try and make sure they are measured out so I can record the calories correctly. However, most of the time I take a salad with lots of veggies cut up in it (and maybe some chicken strips)...it fills the whole paper plate and makes me think I'm eating soooo much when in reality it is very low in calories. That leaves me more for the evening when I have dinner with my kids. I find it harder to keep dinner calories down to a couple hundred:)

my current kick is

3 oz hummus
1 oz pita
half cucumber
6 strawberries
10 cherries

It's super healthy, and a great lunch. It's super hot where I am (already summer) and this is cool and refreshing. I am planning on adding 10 olives and some fat free plain yogurt.

If I don't have a lot in the house for lunch food I usually turn to a whole wheat english muffin with2 egg whites and some low fat chesse; its really yummy!!!

I take my lunch to work 95% of the time, and like others have mentioned, I usually bring leftovers from previous dinners. I have also made my own frozen dinners when I lived by myself - who can cook for just 1 person?! I'd cook enough for 2 or 3 servings (sometimes more, if it was something like soup or chili) and freeze the rest in containers, so I had pre-made meals. The key I learned here was to label everything I froze, haha. One time I thought it was pork (already cooked, then frozen) - nope, turned out to be turkey cutlets!

Anyway, for examples...today I have leftover grilled chicken from last night with a little bbq sauce, leftover couscous (I cooked extra last night), and leftover broccoli. Leftover cooked chicken is good to make a variety of things - sandwiches, wraps, burritos, fajitas (I just keep the chicken & peppers in a separate container & re-heat then put in a tortilla), on a salad, etc. When it is cooler weather, I like leftover chili for lunches. If I don't have any leftovers, I'll make tuna or chicken salad from a can of tuna or chicken. I've also made like a tuna melt, mixed the tuna & light mayo in a container with some cheese, then microwave it. I've eaten it right out of the container, or put it on ww bread or triscuits. Or, I'll bring a lean pocket (I try not to eat these too often, as the sodium content is high) and pair it with a salad.

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