A bag of salad and some precooked meat with a nice creamy dressing is my go-to lunch in a hurry.

I always have plenty of hard boiled eggs on hand. Great for egg salad or just plain with a little salt. Add avacado, also with a little salt, and it makes a nice little lunch. Portable too.

Nuke some frozen spinach and top it with butter, lemon juice (or olive oil) and feta. (protein of your choice, but I often do a pulled pork roast in a slow cooker, portion it out in freezer bags, and just grab and go.) Another good side is broccoli (frozen or fresh) in the microwave for a couple of minutes to steam it, and then add olive oil and cheese of your choice. Cheddar is good, parmesan is also good, and I am always a fan of feta, soooo . . . also - if you have the carb allowance - nuke a dozen baby carrots for a couple of minutes, butter and garlic salt. Easy sides.

Welcome.

Those mini binges get better. If it is mini then you are already on the right track.

My old binges used to include a family bag of M&M's or jelly beans (I am embarassed to right) but now my binges include a small bowl of icecream if I am off track, or a too big bowl of snap peas when I am on track. It's a mini binge but it is easier to recover from and keep going than the pound of candy from yester year.

Just keep chuggin along.

I am the worlds simplest cook!
For lunch, it's almost never a hot food unless it's leftovers.
Things that I tend to have are
Salami and cream cheese roll ups
Pepperoni and cheese either snack style or I'll make a crustless pizza by putting a thin layer of cheese on parchment and topping with pepperoni and maybe even olives or whatever else sounds good and put under the broiler til the cheese browns. Let it cool a bit and you can peel it right off the paper and tear up to eat.
Eggs in any number of ways... As an omelet or scrambled or fried or hard boiled. Whatever I'm in the mood for. Maybe even some bacon with it or even by itself.
Smoked turkey deli meat with Swiss and avocado mayo between two romaine leaves. Even better with some bacon and maybe even some sliced avocado if I'm feeling fancy. lol
Pretty much any deli meat made as a lettuce sandwich is good. I've also had salami and Colby cheese. Yum! I only buy ham or turkey if it's NOT honey glazed. Waste of carbs.
Rarely, because I'm mostly carnivore, I'll have an actual salad. I always add some kind of meat to them. Either leftover meat or my favorite salad consists of romaine, pepperoni, green olives, Parmesan cheese and Italian dressing.
That's my typical lunch. I tend to eat the same stuff all the time. I don't like cooking complicated things.
I've also just had fatty coffee with protein powder on occasion too if I'm pressed for time or it's more convenient for some reason. Or even just a protein shake made with water because I wouldn't be home and it was just easier.
I am not typically a fan of the "meal replacement" type food products and shakes but I do find the Primal Kitchen brand, though expensive, to be very good without pushing it in food quality. I use them so rarely that the cost isn't a problem but I doubt I could use it daily.

Shadowmf023 wrote: »

While I'm on this thread and I don't want to start another one - how do you go about getting enough fibre on a lchf diet?

As someone that has had IBS since I was about 14, I started Keto thinking I would need to get good fiber and I did that by eating celery, broccoli, brussel sprouts and other green veggies at least twice a day. Then, after many months of enjoying Keto and feeling like my IBS was gone, I tried a month of carnivore and I had only 2 or 3 servings of veggies the whole month. I felt even better. I didn't realize that the constipation that I had been blaming on cheese and protein was actually caused by the veggies/fiber that I was eating. I went from taking very high dose magnesium to go a couple times a week, to going daily with no issue just by getting no more than a few grams of fiber a day. Like maybe 3-5...

High dose magnesium gals. That's the most productive solution I found when it was my problem.
Or try carnivore..

There are actually decent ways to get fiber on keto. Chia seeds in food (I put 2 tbsp in a Light and Fit Greek yogurt) gives me 20% of my daily. The yogurt is 9 grams carbs, chia seeds 0 net carbs. For dinner I eat 2 Carb Sense tortillas, another 20 grams fiber (80% daily req) with 6 grams carbs. Since the rest of my diet is eggs, cheese, chicken, bacon and sausage I was finding GI problems to be fairly common till I added the fiber.

dmariet116 wrote: »

Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »

High dose magnesium gals. That's the most productive solution I found when it was my problem.
Or try carnivore..

Second the magnesium!!! I take 2-3 500 mg capsules at bedtime for sleep and constipation relief! @Sunny_Bunny_ I am debating on going carnivore. Did you have any initial problems switching from lchf to this WOE?

Not at all. I almost immediately noticed things were better. Very similar to when I first went low carb.
I even lost weight after having been stalled for months. Though, I've actually put that back on. I am eating more vegetables than that first month of carnivore though. But not as many as before. Since I actually do like them, and can handle them in small amounts, I keep eating them to a point. So, I think I have a bit of digestive inflammation that explains the weight, though not enough to keep me from eating vegetables completely.