Your go-to lunch?

Generally dinner leftovers - I bring them to work in a tupperware. Or soup, if I've made a big batch that week.

I keep porridge at work too (the single serving sachets), to make on days when I don't bring anything in.

Qty 4 of jamie easons turkey muffins (225 cals..i make mine smaller than she reccomended) a small Greek yougurt (100 cals)...a cup of raw spinach (10 cals) sometimes I mix all those ingredients up like a salad! The yougurt makes a great dressing!!....a lot of times my lunch is post workout so I add a homemade protein bar as well...love his lunch!!

I use last night's dinner often-times, too, but if not, my latest has been two smoked turkey slices, a little goddess dressing, and as much salad (baby spring mix) as I can jam in there for nutrition's sake. I hate forking a salad...seems to take forever, but a wrap can make it easy. I save vegetable soup for afternoon snacks.

also, my brother taught me to make up a big batch of roasted veggies for the week, and then you can have them for along side your eggs in the morning or your sandwich in the afternoon. I taught him the recipe, he taught me how to use it.

There aint nuttin' sexier than a pan of roasted vegetables....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man!

Summer Squash, Zucchini, Eggplant, onions, whole cloves of gahhhhhhlic, red and green bell peppers ....


****walks away to go take a cold shower over this food porn

On workout days, I make a nice turkey (2-3oz) sandwich on Arnold High Protein Bread with lots of veggies and spicy mustard. I cut the sandwich in half and refrigerate one half for later. I enjoy half of the turkey sandwich with a salad at lunchtime, then look forward to the second half at around 4pm on the way to the gym. Gets me through the workout, until dinner later around 7:30 or 8pm.

I highly reccomend a high protein, whole grain bread, if you're going to make a sandwich.

I tend to go for an easily put together sandwich, usually:
Lettuce, ham, pickles, cucumber and mustard
Chicken, pesto and roasted red pepper
Light (garlic) cream cheese and cucumber
Lettuce, ham, hard boiled egg and tomato
Or when I feel like having something sweet, I opt for a jam and chicken/fig preserve and cheese sandwich.
Home-made tuna/salmon salad is nice too (works on a sandwich as well as with salad). Parfaits are easy to bring if you don't mind a sweet lunch (or you could have a cracker and some veggies as well).

Bump! I just decided to let go of the free-but-unhealthy lunch at work in favour of the less-convenient-but-less-likely-to-give-me-a-heart-attack lunch brought from home. Thanks for the ideas everyone!

There's a roast beef with blue cheese sandwich I can get nearby... I eat it almost every day.

I love making tuna wraps. I use whole wheat wraps and spread a thin layer of pesto and then add some cucumbers and lettuce and some canned tuna and it's delicious!

This sounds delish!! Thanks for the idea!

I LOVE Innocent Veg pots. They're pre-prepared little bots of veg and sauce in different combinations (Mexican, Thai, Indian) that you pick up in the chiller aisle. They're under 400 kcal and actually very tasty as well. Trouble is they're far too expensive for what they are, so I have to wait until they're on special offer!

Other than that, celery sticks and reduced fat hommous- crunchy and tasty!

Bump! I always need help with lunch ideas. A lot of times I spend a work day driving around in the car and always looking for "neat" lunches I won't drop all over my lap!

Shaved turkey or leftover chicken breast on a wrap with loads of various veggies tucked inside. Sometimes I use half an avocado as a spread on the inside, sometimes a few spritzes of the Wishbone salad spritzers dressing. Sometimes I eat some fruit on the side or more veggies like baby carrots.

Or I eat a salad, sometimes with left over chicken breast. Sometimes It's just chicken and greens (romaine and spinach) or it's greens with veggies and the chicken, and sometimes I make an apple chicken salad. Greens, chicken and a cut up green apple. Yum!

These 2 are what I typically have for lunch ... everyday.

my main lunch consists of: 4+ cups of Romaine Lettuce, 2 roma tomatoes, half an english cucumber (for crunchieness), 5.5 oz baked salmon (i usually buy a whole filet from Sams club for $16, slice it and it makes 6-7 pieces, bake it with spices and then take a piece with me for my lunches for most of the week) and the wishbone 1 calorie spray.

If i dont have salmon, i usually use Jenny-o turkey ham. I can cube about 4-5 oz and its only 150 cal or so.

If you want to add more flavor, i like to add feta cheese crumbles or shaved parmesean cheese...be careful of those cause they can jump the fat/sodium/calorie level if you dont measure out the serving prior.

lunch can be 300-450 cal depending if i add cheese or not.

Also, if you want to add a different level, Mccormick has the salad supreme you can sprinkle on for some flavor but no calories. I know there are other salad seasonings out there to add as well.

Honestly, I have leftovers almost everyday for lunch. It's cheap and (usually) delicious.

I teach so by the time I drop my kids to the cafeteria I typically have a 20-25 minute lunch. I have fallen into a nice routine of baby spinach, baby carrots, 2 tbs of light ranch dressing, weight watchers cheese, diced up, and oven roasted turkey sliced/diced. My dessert is usually a cutie or some other fruit and if there is time a Jell-o or 60 cal pudding! Since beginning my weight loss journey this has been the healthiest I have ever eaten!