I need quick low carb lunch ideas. I don't have a lot of time to prepare lunch and need something besides cabbage soup.

When I make dinner each night, I just make a little extra to prep for lunch the next day. I'm almost always some kind of protein (pork chop, chicken, steak, salmon, etc.) and a salad.

I typically do the same - make extra protein and veggies, and pack the leftovers for lunch the next day. When in a pinch, I keep cans/tins of tuna on hand and make a quick tuna salad. I always make my lunch the night before, so it's easy to just grab & go.

For Easter, we had a rib roast (mmm), asparagus, and rice. And corn, but I skipped the corn. I limited myself to only a half cup of rice, I can tolerate that much.

Breakfast today: 2 sausage patties, hard boiled egg, and 1 T. of almond butter
Lunch: leftover rib roast & asparagus.
Dinner: I took some chicken breasts out to thaw, but haven't decided what to do with them yet (probably grill them if I don't come up with something else). And some kind of veggie. Anyone have good ideas for the chicken??

My parents are doing low carb now, yay!! Mom made the most delicious dessert I have ever tried...She called it Pistachio Fluff.

She said she used sugar-free pistachio pudding mix, 1 cup of half-n-half and 8 oz of cream cheese, blended it all with the mixer and done! OMG. I NEED to go buy some SF pistachio pudding mix soon. Not sure what the carb count is but is was worth it.

So today I went for lunch with a friend, & panicked over the menus when we walked in. Paninis, bagels, baked potatoes, cakes, pastries. I triumphed in the end, having the scrambled egg & smoked salmon bagel, minus the bagel & with some fresh spinach. They had some amazing sounding sandwich fillings, so I reckon I'll go back there armed with a low carb wrap & ask them to fill & grill it for me.

Has anyone else done that before? I was very paranoid at first about asking for a burger without a bun, or if the coleslaw had any sugar in, but people are actually really helpful so I guess wouldn't mind preparing something in a wrap I bring. The more I eat out without encountering problems, the more I think low carb eating will be long term sustainable for me.

Just a heads up....

Its against health code standards in most places to allow any food from an outside source to be handled or prepared in the establishment. (I'm in the restaurant industry) So you will most likely not be able to have them prepare anything that you bring. You could most certainly wrap it up after they make the rest for you though!

Sorry to burst your bubble. Just wanted to save you the disappointment!

So today's dinner will be a bit different. Super Target (Archer Farms) brands has several entrees in the ready-made section that are happily very low carb. Tonight I'm trying (but am tempted to make on my own) beef pinwheel steaks with garlic herbed butter, spinach, and parmesan cheese. The beef appears to be ground beef - so it shouldn't be that hard to make.

They also have a bacon and cheddar stuffed pork chop - omg yum!

The only down side is that these are fairly high in sodium (for sitting on grocery shelves), so this may motivate me to make my own.

Yummo

So today's dinner will be a bit different. Super Target (Archer Farms) brands has several entrees in the ready-made section that are happily very low carb. Tonight I'm trying (but am tempted to make on my own) beef pinwheel steaks with garlic herbed butter, spinach, and parmesan cheese. The beef appears to be ground beef - so it shouldn't be that hard to make.

They also have a bacon and cheddar stuffed pork chop - omg yum!

The only down side is that these are fairly high in sodium (for sitting on grocery shelves), so this may motivate me to make my own.

Yummo

Hmm, I think I'll have to go to Target...

Today a 2 egg omelette with cheese, green peppers and bacon and a side of sausage.
Lunch went awry with a stop for Chinese - I had beef with broccoli and one and a half of those chicken on a stick things on buffets- high carbs <sad face>
Dinner was good though - I made a "cheeseburger salad" - a bed of lettuce tossed with a 'dressing' made from a table spoon of mayo and a tsp of yellow mustard, topped with a 6 oz beef hamburger patty sprinkled with some chopped 'bread and butter' pickle - my grocery carries a no-sugar-added variety - and an ounce of fresh grated colby cheddar cheese melted on top of the patty. It was quite yum.

For the rest of the week:
Monday L: pork stuffed bell pepper and salad
Monday cheeseburger on an oopsie bun with a side of sauteed summer squash
Tuesday L: leftover stuffed pepper with a small salad,
Tuesday salmon and sauteed summer squash
Wednesday L: rotisserie chicken with broccoli/cauliflower cheese bake
Wednesday stuffed porkchop for dinner with small salad
Thursday L: More rotisserie chicken with broccoli/cauliflower cheese bake
Thursday stuffed porkchop and salad
Friday: L: rotisserie chicken with salad
Friday beef fajitas!

Just ate a yummy dinner, thought I'd share:

I tried to recreate one of my favorite thai dishes, yellow curry noodles with chicken:

I cooked a bag of the tofu shiritaki noodles as directed in the thread on the recipes forum (dry-frying), then took them out of the pan and sauteed a half cup of red pepper slices, and a quarter cup of onion for a few minutes, then added a tbsp. of madras curry powder. Added a little bit of chicken broth to deglaze the pan, then a half cup of heavy cream, and a half cup of coconut milk. Once that was boiling I put in a sliced chicken breast and let it cook and soak up the flavor. Once the chicken was done, added a handful of frozen broccoli, and put the noodles back in. Yum!! I ended up with a lot of the sauce left, because the noodles didn't soak it up like rice noodles would, but other than that, it was a success! Net carb count is 11g, but it's not low-cal at about 370 calories.

Decided to try an intermittent fast (IF) day today, so no breakfast.

Lunch: huge salad - half a bag of romaine salad, add a grilled chicken thigh, 1 strip of bacon, half an avocado, 2 small campari tomatoes, 1 hard-boiled egg, and I made an olive oil & rice wine vinaigrette dressing for it. And a string cheese for dessert

Dinner: I grilled some burgers last night along with the chicken, so I'm planning a cheesebuger on a lettuce wrap, side of cottage cheese & tomatoes, and some plain yogurt with strawberries for dessert. I might have a pickle and maybe some baby carrots, since dinner is light on the veggies.

Thanks for the Deer recipe idea. I am going to try it.