What are some easy, healthy meals I could pre-prepare for lunch every day?

I'm all about meal prepping. I eat deli meat for lunch (sorry!) but I put together my yogurt mixture for my snack the night before as well as making my egg white omelet for breakfast.

Also, as soon as I get home from work I pack my food for the next day! My meal plan....

B - egg white omelet w/cheese, jalapeno, onions, and peppers
S - cheese stick and pear
L - wrap w/cheese, ham, and mustard - carrots and cucumbers
S2 - yogurt mixture (1/2c plain yogurt, 1/2c frozen cherries, cinnamon, chia seeds, and flaxseed

Another big thing I do is just take leftovers for lunch the next day. For me - my success depends on me prepping.

One weekend a month I cook up a batch of chili and a batch of wicked thai soup. Put them in 2 cup containers and freeze them End up with 9 servings of each so I alternate them along with fruit, carrots and snap peas. Means I'm good for a month with a lunch out once a week or so.

Do you have a fridge and/or microwave at work?

I usually make all my lunches on sunday night and stack them in the fridge so that I just grab and go. Lunch always includes a piece of fruit (usually an apple, but I have been eating clementines and mandarins since Xmas like crazy) and an individual size serving of flavoured yogurt.

This week I have frittata - onions and garlic, sauteed, then add zucchini, asparagus, mushrooms peppers - basically any veg you have laying around the house, some oregano and thyme and cook till soft. Then add 8 eggs lightly whipped and top with some cheese - I like the sharp flavour of feta. then cover the pan and cook on low for about 12 minutes, and if still not quite set, put the pan under the broiler in the oven for a few minutes (watch it the whole time to get the right shade of brown, and not the wrong shade or burnt!)

Then theres chili, or soup - even a can of Campbells vegetable soup is a good filler-upper.

Salads of course, but please note there's a lot to be said for a ham sandwich, which is one of my favourites on rye with lots of mustard!

You can also boil a bunch of eggs on Sunday night and just have them in the fridge for easy snacks - that and some veggies and a little dip might be enough to get you through the day.

Or recreate your favourite fast food meals - prepare some hamburger or chicken patties to reheat at work, and add a bun (or some lettuce leaves as a substitute), some veg and condiments and there you are! Cheaper and you control the ingredients.

And good old leftovers - whatever you can scavenge from the night before!

Hope this is helpful, cheers and good luck!

I use mason jars.

I made a few stews this past weekend and packed the leftovers in to the mason jars. I use them up during the week. Stews get better as they are reheated.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/25678/beef-stew-vi/

Pack a crusty bun and your stew and you have your very own home-made fast food.

I love to make a big bowl of a cold grain salad. Quinoa, farro, and barley all still have a nice texture when eaten cold. So I'll make a big pot of one of them, dump in a can of chickpeas, chop up some crunchy veggies like red peppers, celery, cucumber, and mix it all with a little lemon or balsamic vinaigrette. You could also use a bag of frozen corn or some shredded chicken, canned tuna, etc. Divvy it out into single serving containers and just grab one each morning.

This works better in the summer when a chilled lunch is inviting, not so well in the winter :drinker:

My family all works outside of the house. I work at home. We absolutely love the instant pot. It's a pressure cooker. Like a crock pot but fast and the food doesn't turn to mush. You can do any combo of meat with veggies and rice. If the meat is raw cook it then open and add rice or the rice will soak up all the water before the meat can cook.
Some combos:
Kielbasa, pepper, onion, black beans, rice

Ground beef, dirty rice mix, bell peppers

Beef stew meat, cook with beef broth, Italian seasoning and lemon juice, then remove, saute tons of veggies like garlic onion pepper zucchini, add back meat and add rice and cook 4 more minutes for an amazing
Mediterranean style rice bowl.

Chicken tenderloins or thighs, add jar of Indian sauce and cook. Separately cook rice.

You can do rice in 4 minutes in the instant pot. We do several of these 1 pot meals a week for dinner and then they take the leftovers. I am in love with my instant pot.i set it and forget it. Most meals take less than 30 minutes. You can do frozen meat in it too. Like I said like a crock pot but I don't have to remember to do it in the morning. Much less soupy texture too. I wish I'd had one 20 years ago.
I've also done like ground beef brown in saute mode with onions and peppers then add a jar of spaghetti sauce and some pasta and cook for about 5 minutes. I don't do pasta often but I think it's about 2c sauce for 16oz pasta.

There are Tons of recipes on YouTube and Pinterest for the ip but it's pretty easy to wing it with whatever is in the cupboard.