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I'm rather unexciting i'm afraid. It's normally just sandwiches, filling is dependant on whatever is in the fridge and I take an apple and a small chocolate oat bar.
If I make pasta pesto the night before and have been organised enough to make more, then I take that for lunch the next day. Or, if i've see a ready made lunch meal, like a Thai noodle spicy pot reduced in the supermarket then i'll buy it and freeze it and take in to work sometime for lunch.
I forgot my lunch at home which would have been a sandwich. I just might go get one from Subway.
leftovers from the night before, or yeah, a sandwich. i always have an apple or an orange too.. but i do end up giving up and getting something from the vending machine...
i usually eat leftovers or microwavable soups. i'm too sleepy to make a sandwich or anything else in the morning besides coffee. didn't have any leftovers from last night so today it's an orange and campbell's select harvest mexican-style chicken tortilla soup lol
Sometimes soup, but usually just a mix of things that are usually side dishes.
I'm not a fan of lunch meat and I know that I wouldn't make a sandwich every morning. I'm just too lazy.
So usually I take 4-6 of the following: string cheese, yogurt, applesauce, cottage cheese, canned peaches/pears/mandarin oranges, V8, crackers, apples, bananas, pears, strawberries, grapes, granola bars, hard-boiled eggs, carrots, celery/peanut butter, raisins.
edit: oh, I'm not really a fan of meat in general, which is why all of this is vegetarian (aside from the eggs)
Oh it varies... Leftover dinners
I bake a lot of chicken at the beginning of the week so I can add that to salads (all sorts), veggies such as fresh green beans and tomatoes I can micro, leftover roasted veggies (I make these in very large quantities as well)
I keep boca burgers and canned beans on hand to mix with veggies as well or make a mexican salad out of it.
tuna made with red wine vinegar and/or yogurt instead of mayo
I like to make a large casserole purposely for lunches. Thsi week it was a veggie lasagna with onle two layers of whole wheat noodles and replacing the other noodles with strips of zuchinni, low fat ricotta, mushrooms, onions, spinach, seasoning homemade tomato sauce and a bit of shredded cheese on top.
I also like to make soups.
If I get sick of eating what I make I freeze it so I often have single servings of casseroles and soups in the freezer I can grab later for lunch.
EDIT Types of salads
shredded cabbage and chicken vietnamese salad with vietnemese vinaigrette
mexican (salsa, bean, avocado, veggies)
strawberry pecan goat cheese on spinach
blue cheese and chicken or leftover steak
"normal"
avocado and grap[efruit, cuc and red onion with a poppyseed grapefruit vinaigrette
etc...
When I go into the office, we don't have a microwave, just a refrigerator. I eat a lot of salad, pasta salad, sandwiches, and wraps. Nothing exciting. :-(
We have a dorm size fridge and a microwave from before I was born. Haha
I make Fi's lunch everyday but 8 times out of 10 it's a tuna fish sandwich and a can of whatever condensed soup I bought.
I do a lot of salads, soups, leftovers...and the occasional sandwich. I know--so exciting ;-)
Today's is a salad with romaine, leftover grilled chicken breast, diced shallot, a little shaved parm (about a teaspoon), some olive oil, and black fig vinegar.
Tomorrow's is sitting in the fridge at home, ready to go--quinoa with toasted walnuts and edamame; I'll probably take a side of lemony sauteed chard if we have leftovers from tonight.
I usually have a mid-day snack, too; anything from a luna bar to string cheese with a piece of fruit to fage with berries (to a couple cookies and a cup of coffee, whoops).
I'm trying really hard to make this week my get-back-to-being-healthier week, so I'm trying to plan out lunches and snacks so there are fewer of those cookies or tortilla chips days!
I do heated ham and cheese on english muffins or wraps with lots of lettuce, cheese and that precooked chicken from the grocery store, plus a lot of fruit. Sometimes I make "baked" potatoes in the microwave and I used to do tuna salad on crackers.
Once I ate an entire can of peas for lunch (with butter salt & pepper) - I'm really lazy about packing lunches.
Today I have Progresso Soup Light Savory Vegetable Barley! It's only 1 ww points plus per serving and it's delish!
Almost always leftovers, we usually make enough for lunch the next day. Unless we were both starving during dinner for some reason.
Then we usually throw together some kind of "breakfast" for our lunch. Like a bowl of cereal, a granola bar and a fruit for lunch. :D
We might do lunch meat once every couple months but only if we were going to the deli already for Reubens or something like that.
I join in with the leftover camp. If I don't do leftovers, then its a PB sandwich, fruit, and yogurt.
I work 12 hour shift work and I NEED to plan healthy meals, or I would never make it through a shift. I eat a healthy breakfast before I leave at 6:15 am - usually Kashi cereal or a whole grain bagel. I eat a "second breakfast" on my first break, which is at 9 am, and is usually yogurt and a hardboiled egg, or whole grain oatmeal with sliced apples or some other fruit. Lunch at 12:30 is as above. Dinner break is at 5:30 pm, and eat a "mini supper" of a granola bar and fruit, or yogurt with trail mix. I leave work at 7 pm and eat my "real dinner" with my husband at 8 pm. I eat slightly less on night shifts (7 pm - 7 am), but still keep it healthy.
If people are too tired to make lunch in morning, I suggest putting it together the night before - it works for me, and I always have a good lunch.
Generally, if there aren't leftovers (which there rarely are... ) I end up going out and buying something. I'm trying to work on bringing lunch more to save money (and because it's a pain in the butt to have to go buy something). Today there's leftover whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce and an arugula salad, but tonight my fiance has a dinner with his department so I plan to make something that will give me a few extra servings. When I do get around to that, I tend to make stuff like chick peas, greens, and tomato sauce over grains. Maybe escarole and beans. Or if I'm feeing uncreative, a bag of salad greens with some stuff thrown in.
I've been eating a lot of soup lately - the kind in the little microwaveable plastic cup. They went on sale, 2 for $3 two weeks in a row, so I snatched up quite a few cups :)
I usually bring leftovers from the night before. I used to bring a sandwhich everyday... but it got to be so boring, and I really would like to eat something hot for lunch. It keeps me going through the day :) If I don't have either of those things, I just go out to lunch with everyone else.
I usually pack either an Amy's burrito, an Amy's meal (Tamale Verde), leftovers from dinner the night before or soup. I also pack a fruit like a banana or an apple, a piece of cheese and some nuts or some other sort of snack.
Mmm, your quinoa dish sounds delicious.
I usually do a cheese, lettuce, and sundried tomato spread sandwich or PB&J with a piece of fruit. Every once in awhile we'll have leftovers but we usually eat it all. :P
@Valhalla: Wow, you're like my lunch hero!
FI makes my lunch every day (awww) or I would probably starve or spend a fortune on buying lunch. It's usually a lunchmeat/cheese sandwich or leftover. Not very exciting, but he writes me sweet little notes, so that makes it better =)
i cant do leftover meat. i wish i could!
I usually have fit and active southwest vegie sandwiches from aldis and carrots and humus. YUMMY! But I also like to do soup and sandwiches like everyone else.
I snack on fruit and yogurt and almonds throughout the day. Sometimes I break down and get a candy bar or something. lol One of my fav snacks when i need something sweet is rice cakes (plain) and Better than Peanut Butter!! SO GOOD
I usually eat leftovers for lunch. I go home on my lunch break to walk my dog and will just eat whatever is there, or eat cold cereal or something. The dog is at doggie daycare today, though, so I was forced to make myself a salad with baby spinach, half an avocado, tomatos, chunks of pepperjack cheese, with a tbsp of salsa on top.
I eat a salad for lunch almost everyday. Usually a frittata for breakfast (I cook them in the big muffin tins), and for snacks I have string cheese or carrots and laughing cow cheese. I usually cook just enough for dinner so we don't have leftovers because SO doesn't like to eat leftovers, and there would always be too much for me to eat by myself if I made a whole recipe, so I would have to throw food away, which I hated. So now I just make sure I cook enough for 2 people for dinner, and I always make my lunch/breakfast the night before because I'm definitely not an early riser.
I hate cold sandwiches but love tuna. so I make up a big batch of tuna salad for the week, bring some into work, and eat it on whole grain crackers. SO easy and healthy!
Depends, I ususally eat a salad, a turkey sandwich, or chicken with brown rice and veggies. I am trying to eat healthy so I can lose weight for the wedding. For luncg today I brought a turkey sandwich, a cherry yogurt, and an applesauce.
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So I normally just end up with some kind of cold cut sandwich unless there is leftovers from the night before.
What do you bring?
Any yummy inexpensive suggestions?