What does your work lunch usually look like?

maaaasha
maaaasha Posts: 23 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Do you make it at home or buy take out?
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  • tryett
    tryett Posts: 530 Member
    I usually get take out. Steak salad from qdoba, farmhouse turkey salad from Arby's are a couple of my favorites.
  • cdahl383
    cdahl383 Posts: 726 Member
    Usually bring my lunch, go out once a week maybe. Turkey sandwich w/ cheese, handful of nuts, some fruit, some crackers, and a yogurt.
  • BigBadVanna
    BigBadVanna Posts: 65 Member
    I bring the same lunch to work everyday: PB&J and salad with baby spring mix, greek yogurt-based dressing, shredded cheese, and sliced almonds.
  • AbiiReilly
    AbiiReilly Posts: 14 Member
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  • tamms_1965
    tamms_1965 Posts: 38 Member
    Since there are only two of us at home now, it's always leftovers (just a much smaller portion). If there are no LO, I make egg salad or have an Amy's or Red's burrito from the freezer. I also take soup from the freezer.
  • cecsav1
    cecsav1 Posts: 714 Member
    Quest bar. Quick and easy.
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    Some sort of leafy green (spinach or romaine), cut raw veggies (bell pepper, cucumber, sometimes mushroom), cheese, some sort of dressing, half an avocado, and a protein on top (tuna or chopped ham or an egg or some chicken). I usually have string cheese too. Normally keeps me full until 5-6 PM.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    About 8 oz of chicken breast on flatbread, apple, orange, some almonds and baby carrots. Sometimes swap out a ham and cheese or peanut butter sandwich for the chicken.
  • RoseTheWarrior
    RoseTheWarrior Posts: 2,035 Member
    Bring my own. Salads or tuna melts usually. Plus snacks.
  • Tricia7188
    Tricia7188 Posts: 135 Member
    Meal prep! I keep 3-4 different meals in my freezer ready to grab. Mexican chili, Asian chicken and green beans, turkey spaghetti sauce, etc. So much cheaper and using the recipe builder here I know exactly how many cals, protein , etc in each one.
  • littlechiaseed
    littlechiaseed Posts: 489 Member
    Usually a chickpea salad wrap or sandwich or a veggie patty with avocado or something and portioned chips or sliced bell pepper and hummus. Sometimes left over stirfry or pasta
  • caradack1985
    caradack1985 Posts: 254 Member
    I used to bulk cook on Sundays, something like honey mustard chicken or mixed veg in couscous, then also bring a little pot with salad veg in.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    Chicken, rice and veg.

    or

    Chicken, noodles and veg.

    I have chicken, rice and noodles in my drawer ... I bring a bag of veg every day.
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    edited August 2016
    Soup - bought at our company cafeterie. The manager aways makes it fresh with lots of vegetables.
    Huge salad. My salad box hold 1.2 litres and is always packed full. Dressing is just one tablespoon full and also homemade; lots of vinegar, herbs and spices and a little oil.
    closed slice of bread with cheese, no butter. Home made

    It is very very rare to deviate from this on a workday. I love it, it is filling and hovers around 400 cal - the total sort of depends on the soupchoice
  • skmonak
    skmonak Posts: 88 Member
    I take my lunch and it has to be easy to eat as I do it on my way from the office to the beginning of my route. Chicken or turkey deli meat, honey Dijon mustard on Eziekel bread...290 calories.
  • AndrewD315
    AndrewD315 Posts: 57 Member
    Easy .5 piece multi grain low cab flat bread, two pieces of fruit eat one before lunch one after and left over protein from night before around 5 to 6 oz depends.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    edited August 2016
    Leftovers from dinner the night before typically.
  • MelissaPhippsFeagins
    MelissaPhippsFeagins Posts: 8,063 Member
    Leftovers. :smile:
  • slogan1271
    slogan1271 Posts: 5 Member
    A frozen meal like healthy request and a piece of fruit. Sometimes a can of Light Progresso soup and fruit, and sometimes a sandwich and a piece of fruit. I hate prep work I have 4 kids and a husband so this is easier for me. I also also do the same at dinner but add extra vegetables to it.
  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
    I usually have a peanut butter and honey sandwich, greek yogurt and cereal.
  • coolfry
    coolfry Posts: 48 Member
    I'm a meal prepper! I work long shifts and carpool to work so I can't go out for meals and need plenty of food. I typically pack a packaged breakfast, like a burrito, and have cut up veggies, a yogurt, a small treat, and a seltzer in my bag for snacks. This week I have a baked sweet potato with a fig bar, yogurt, and pumpkin seeds!
  • bdgfn
    bdgfn Posts: 7,719 Member
    A big, healthy salad. My wife makes both our breakfasts (overnight oatmeal) and lunches the night before, and adds a piece or two of fruit, depending on size, for a snack later in the day.
  • shinycrazy
    shinycrazy Posts: 1,081 Member
    salad or a sandwich with meat or fish, a fruit, and usually nut thins (almond crackers) for something crunchy.
  • amongato4
    amongato4 Posts: 3 Member
    i alwayssss bring my lunch--saves tons of money! typically I will have a small spinach salad with carrots and celery, then a 1/2 cup of brown rice, and a can of tuna. Super satisfying and i'm full most of the afternoon. I eat some carrot and celery sticks around 3, then have a handful of almonds and an apple before the gym and im good until dinner time!! :)
  • lalee115
    lalee115 Posts: 185 Member
    Usually bring lunch with me. I have some lunch containers that are sectioned that I like to use. Usually has in it a wrap with turkey, laughing cow cheese and mustard and some fruits and veggies for sides. For veg, I'm partial to carrot chips, sweet bell pepper slices and cherry tomatoes (ok, so that's really a fruit...) For fruit, I prefer plums, grapes, pears, cuties, sometimes an apple or peach. I like to put frozen strawberries and blueberries in, and they are sorbet-like by lunchtime. I like fruit. lol.

    Today, however, I did not bring lunch because I didn't make one when I made my son's last night. So I'll probably walk across the parking lot and get a salad from the sub shop.
  • walpy27
    walpy27 Posts: 34 Member
    Tuna sandwich generally, sometimes chicken breast or steak w/ sprouts.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    edited August 2016
    Mostly my own. I used to buy at work (university) but the local choices were all eliminated and there's only so many times a year I could choke down subway or chick-fil-a.

    I tend to put chicken and something (chile etc) in a crock pot on sunday, then wrap it up in a lower carb/calorie wrap.
    I tend to put tuna and avocado in the wrap

    Sometimes ham and cheese

    Whatever the wrap, I usually have raw veg on the side

    Sometimes I pick up a kale, quinoa and chickpea salad from a coffee shop near by.

    Hubs prepares salads for a week for himself, so sometimes I do that as well.
  • laur357
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    I try to bring mine as much as possible, for caloric and cash reasons.

    Some of the regulars:
    Lean cuisine, apple, Babybel
    Veggie salad with shredded chicken and spicy ranch or chicken and corn/black bean salsa as dressing
    Fritatta with veggies and cheese, spring mix with lemon and olive oil
    Chili with cheddar and sour cream (full fat, yo)
    Salmon patties with salad, lemon and olive oil. Maybe some olives too.
    A giant bowl of fresh berries and who cares what else (summertime!)
    Roast beef and thin sliced cheese on wheat toast with greens, tomato, and horseradish mustard
    Chicken and broccoli stir fried with a little general tso's sauce and rice
    Whatever pot of soup I made over the weekend, an apple, and some crackers/cheese

    If I go out, I sometimes get an Egg McMuffin from McDonalds, soup from Panera, sushi, giant chopped salad from the salad place, a burrito bowl from Qdoba (high cal, but so filling I pretty much don't need to eat the rest of the day). There's a great sub/cheesesteak place I eat at once every month or two - I eat half for lunch and the rest for dinner.
  • chunky_pinup
    chunky_pinup Posts: 758 Member
    90% of the time my work lunch is leftovers from dinner the night before. I do a lot of meal prep on the weekends, so dinners are almost completely made, and I portion enough to cook so that I will have leftovers. On the occasion I don't have anything, I keep some "backup" foods in one of my drawers at work - Amy's canned soups, those 90-second microwavable packs of quinoa or wild rice, and some bags of steamers frozen veggies in the work freezer. If I'm feeling like going out, I'll walk up the hill to Chipotle and get a Veggie Bowl. I justify it because it's about a 3/4 mile walk, so going there and back gets me off my butt for a bit ;)

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