Easy Lunches

I have been taking frozen dinners for lunch. Lean Cuisine, Smart Ones, Healthy Choice, etc. We actually bought a small chest freezer in order to buy a lot more in bulk. This time of year the companies are putting out coupons for these items. By watching for sales, we have been able to get these pretty cheap. The last trip to Kroger we were able to stock up on 40 Smart Ones for $1.19 each. I want to eventually get away from these because of the sodium content, but they are working for now.

I love those Starkist tuna pouches. I put it on top of salads or put just a bit of mayo, mustard, and relish for an easy tuna salad. You can put in on crackers or whole wheat bread.

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I take frozen dinners to work for lunch. I like Smart Ones, they seem to be lower in calories, fat and sodium than a lot of others, and their three cheese pizza is freaking awesome

^^ Agreed! Smart Ones pizza is awesome!! Smart Ones also has a lot of other tasty choices too - I eat these most days for lunch. Sometimes I'll have a salad with some chicken and low-cal dressing as well, along with some fruit!

Sandwiches. You can have them different ways when you get bored. And you can even switch out bread for a wrap or lettuce leaves.

Deli - turkey, ham, beef, chicken, mushroom.... with a variety of toppings
PB & ___ - Grape Jelly, Strawberry Jam, Peach Preserves, Honey, ect.
Tuna - Plain tuna, tuna salad, mayo & tuna, lemon pepper tuna with pepper jack cheese, ect.
Egg - Egg slices, egg salad, scrambled egg, over easy, sunny-side up ect.
BLT - classic bacon lettuce tomato or deluxe it up with more toppings. Try apple! That one is yummy.

Pair your sandwich with a salad. If you're worried about how long it takes to make a salad, try this: http://www.neatpins.com/2012/03/mason-jar-salads.html

Classic Iceberg - iceberg lettuce, carrot, red cabbage
Garden - romaine, spinach, tomato, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower
Caesar - romaine, parmesan, caesar dressing
Spinach - Spinach with strawberries, raspberries, mandarin oranges and/or almonds, walnuts, pecans & fruity dressing
Spring - Mixed spring greens, alfalfa sprouts, cheese, carrot, green onions, bell pepper, tomato, green beans, asparagus
Cobb - Any greens, tomato, bell pepper, celery, carrot, egg, avocado, bacon, cheese, blue cheese or ranch dressing


Add a fruit. Find what's in season or try new things. If there's fruit in your ^salad, add some veggies to nibble on. Carrots, green beans, celery, bell pepper, broccoli, cauliflower.

Just bring leftovers from whatever you made for dinner the night before. I add a green salad on the side, and bring a piece of fruit and some nuts or chocolate to snack on later.

I usually take the morning of one of my days off and make a few different things for the upcoming weeks lunches. A few examples-->

Turkey Taco Chili Soup
Spinach Manacotti
Spinch Tortellini Soup
Lighter Chicken Salad

All of these are from Skinnytaste.com and make enough servings to get my through 5 work days. I love to cook so this is easy for me. If you're not a big cooker Tuna in a pita or on its own is always good and quick. You could take slices of turkey and roll them up with a slice of cucumber and cheese in the middle. Or like most are saying any kind of sandwhich can be quick and delish!!

Good Luck!

Most days its soup. Its quick to grab in the morning and if you are careful with what you grab most are healthy. I like the progresso soups, alot of them are less then 200cal for the can. Then I take snacks, like carot sticks, an apple or granola bar cause I will get hungry again before I get off.

I'm a huge lover of my leftover dinners. I bought little glass containers to help with serving size and try to eat the protein and veggies for lunch, leaving out any leftover carbs like potatos. Also, relating to an earlier reply, doing all the work for the week on Sunday has proven to be really helpful. The lazy Sundays I have really make the rest of the week more work.

I make all my work meals on Sunday, I usually make five sandwiches wrap them in saran wrap, throw a couple pickles in a baggie and weigh out my snack, this week it's low fat pringles so I have five of each and getting ready for work takes all of 30 seconds which means no excuses to hit the drive thru!

This week it's turkey, ham and swiss on WW pitas but you can really do anything. Tuna is my fav I think.

Also makes it that much easier to add into MFP!

My lunch usually consists of assorted raw veggies, a piece of fruit, some precooked chicken breast (with a little hot sauce!), a couple of olives and a string cheese. Sometimes yogurt too or a few crackers.