Teacher's Lunch - Low carb, high protein, no heating, non-drip (clean hands), quick to eat...

With all of those restrictions I'd be prone to skip too! How strict are you with your vegetarian diet? Are you lacto-ovo? If so, hard boiled eggs and cheese would be the first thought to come into my mind, along with some cut up veggies (salad may be too much of a pain to eat) but strips of peppers, cucumber spears, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, etc would be easy to eat and fairly easy to keep cool with an ice pack.

Some people are grossed out at this but I like cold "meat" type things like hot dogs and hamburgers, after they've been cooked and are leftovers. So maybe you could get some meat alternatives like the garden burger patties and cook them ahead of time, and have it cold, with avocado or mushrooms or other veggies...wrapped in lettuce or something?

falafels are nice cold.

I've got similar restrictions. I eat at my desk at work and am vegetarian, I watch my carbs, but am not on a "low carb" or a really restrictive diet in that way, but here goes:
- Garden Salad add eggs and/or beans
- Half an avocado stuffed with egg salad (Hell maybe even eat both halves - they are good)
- Dried cranberries, cherries, blueberries and dark chocolate (more of a side dish/snack)
- 3 bean salad (Black beans, kidney beans, and black eyed peas with onion, tomato, a little olive oil, lime juice, garlic salt, cayenne pepper)
- Quesadillas are good cold
- Mushroom sticky rice bites (make sushi rice, add soy sauce, a little brown sugar, mushrooms, mix and form them into little balls, when they cool they turn into little bite sized delicious tasting nuggets. Not "Low-carb" per se, but not terrible either.)
- I make tiny pot pies and take them with me running, my wife eats them for meals (pie dough cut into 12 even pieces, use a muffin tin, I usually fill them with mushroom gravy, mushrooms, spinach, onion, and sometimes sweet potato, but you can fill it with anything you want really. Roll the dough into ~5-6 inch flats, line muffin tin, fill with premade stuff - generally takes about 2 tablespoons each, fold the overhanging pie dough over the top. Bake for 10-15 minutes) It's a lot less carbs than say a sandwich, but still has some carbs of course, but they are designed to be eaten in 2-3 bites, since they are for runners/cyclists to eat while running/cycling and they come out to 100-150 calories each. So you can eat 3 or 4 of them and have a full meal.
- Vegetable fritters (Onion, cabbage, carrot, salt, pepper, baking powder and just enough flour and water to hold it all together, pan fry until crispy, dip in one of the following sauces: Soy, Garlic, Plum. They are good hot or cold in my opinion)

I think I'm out of quick ideas for right now. Will check back later once my brain warms up some.

Why doesn't it need to be kept in the fridge if you have a lunchbox? Don't you have icepacks?

Because a low carb wrap with meat, cheese, and veggies sounds perfect otherwise.

And yeah, egg muffins are great too.

What kind of barbaric school doesn't give teachers access to a microwave or fridge? I've worked as a substitute for three years and I still pack hot lunch knowing the teacher's lounge at any school will have at least two microwaves.

I prep a big meal on Sunday and portion it out into tupperwares for each day. Breakfast is oatmeal with Sunbutter (no nut allergy problems!) and a piece of chocolate to melt in it. I use the hot/cold water dispenser in the lounge to cook it. For lunch I make rice with some kind of slow cooked meat/veggie combo in sauce. I know this doesn't meet all your requirements, but it's what I do. My only suggestion for you would be salad or lettuce wrap sandwiches.

gaelicstorm26 wrote: »

A lot of city schools (which is where I work) have extremely limited resources. For example, my office is in the old locker room. So I have working showers in here. We have no money.

I work in a large urban district as well. It makes me sad to hear about places with even less resources. It's inhumane. I don't work in a locker room, but our small resource room has 8 names on the door. We've gotten pretty good at sharing spaces.

Portable crock pot like this one target.com/p/crock-pot-lunch-crock/-/A-14024603?ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=14024603&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&AFID=google_pla_df&CPNG=pla_appliances+shopping&adgroup=sc_appliances_slow+cookers&LID=3pgs&KID=347ed01d-e80b-46d4-b7a3-d53fc93aa13b&kpid=14024603&gclid=CJzIw_rG28cCFQUMaQodqWoAug

You could probably use those hand warmers to keep stuff warm in your lunch box. Or a good steel thermos container.

I use an ice block but my go to lunch is:
Greek Yogurt
Cheese Sticks
Veggies - carrots, cucumbers, edamame
Fruit - tangerine, apple, plum, banana

You might search Pinterest for Bento Boxes lunch ideas. The basics of Bento is that it is no heat no fridge foods in a pretty presentation. I could care less about the presentation but the ingredients could be helpful. Here is a thread about this:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10043413/using-bento-boxes-for-lunches#latest



ETA the thread link and spelling