What do you bring for lunch? (easy packed lunches)

I have been taking salads with chicken and croutons, and smart ones pizzas. On the weekends at my other job I will get a small thing of rice from Panda for 3 dollars.

I usually just go with sandwiches. Cheese and salad is a favourite. Often, especially in winter, I have toasted sandwiches: cheese and tomato or egg and ham (you can put egg in raw and the toaster will cook it, if you press the bread into the base first so there's a depression to hold it in). I take fruit, raw veges, or nuts for snacks during the day, or sometimes vita-wheats or oat-cakes.

When I want to mix it up or reduce my carbs, I'll have a boiled egg with salad instead of a sandwich, or sometimes microwave a frozen fish fillet (since I hate canned fish but feel I should eat some fish). Or heat a tin of soup, but the sodium content is awful, even in the "low salt" varieties. Dinner left-overs sometimes make good lunches, too.

Chicken salad, whole grain bread and a piece of fruit.

Whole wheat tortilla, refried beans, and veggies.

Greek yogurt, granola, blueberries.

Chicken stir-fry and brown rice.

Last night's left overs.

Lots of options for snacks.

I take one bag full of food on Monday and it covers my whole week's worth of food. I take:

1 package of La Tortilla low carb, high fiber tortillas
1 package of Applegate all natural turkey breast
1 package of Applegate cheddar cheese
A ziploc of romaine lettuce leaves
A ziploc with a sliced tomato in it
A ziploc of sliced onions in it.
A tiny tupperware container of Smart Beat mayo - about 1 tbsp total
A tiny tupperware container of spicy mustard - about 1 tbsp total
A bottle of tabasco peppers

Every day I make a wrap with a tortilla, mustard, mayo, 2 oz of turkey, 1 slice of cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and some peppers on the side.

It's a total of 227 Cal, 27 carb, 9 fat, 25 protein. You can vary the meat type (ham, salami, beef) and cheese type (jack, swiss, provolone, munster) which will slightly change the calorie count, but it's filling, cheap, nutritious and takes up very little room in the fridge.

Note: Every day I also pack snacks for before and after lunch - greek yogurt, strawberries, hard boiled egg, baby cucumber, etc.

I have a lunch bag that actually looks like a purse that I purchased at Target. It goes with me to work every day and always has the following main stay items in it that I may or may not eat but it's there if needed: one 3oz can tuna, mini luna bars, single serving oatmeal and some sort of fruit.
The reason I do this is because where I work free food comes in for lunch. The free food is not on my life style plan. (It's usually from the local mexican, chinese, italian restuarant). I figure I can add my tuna to a tossed salad if this is brought in from one of the restuarants and still feel like I am eating like my co-workers.
However, I do pack a healthy meal along with main stays in my lunch bag.

Tonight I just made three tupperware dishes with salad and chicken strips, one that had some baby carrots in it. Then two other baby carrot containers and three cute little containers of croutons. I have a bunch of small pineapple cups that I haven't started eating yet, so that is my goal for the next three days!

im terribly picky and dont like peppers or pickles, but what i think would be easiest is tuna ( i prepare mine with very little mayo-approx 45 cal for half a tbsp, i add red wine vinegar, onion powder and garlic powder, some black pepper and enjoy^_^) or what i have also done in the past is precook about 5 chicken breasts and i take one, slice it up in strips and add to a sandwich or a salad.

I usually bring wraps but keep the contents separate until it is time to eat and wrapping the tortilla in plastic wrap. Today I made a curry chicken salad with half a serving of crasins, half a serving of cashews, some mayo, onion, and curry powder, then topped with lettuce, it was great!

Deli-sliced Honey Turkey (Jennie O, or Sara Lee {or} pre-packaged), Blue Diamond Almonds, organic very vanilla soy milk, or organic horizon milk (in the cartons), FRUIT (all kinds: strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, etc. . .) grapes too, pb&j, celery stalks and peanut butter, "my recipe":(spinach, strawberries, grapes, balsamic vinigarette, sunflower seeds) pecans, water (flavors like crystal light pure in your water), pre-made salads, fiber one bars, SO MANY OPTIONS, I need to find more myself, lol {I've had all these as lunches b4)