I was curious what you guys eat for lunch while at work. I usually eat those frozen meals (lean cuisine, smart ones, healthy choice). I was curious what everyone else eats! Thanks!!!
I work from home, but I can still answer, can't I? I love to eat a tortilla from La Tortilla Factory (Low Carb, high fiber, 5g of protein, 50 calories each) and I stick a warmed up Flame Grilled Boca Burger (100 calories). This fills me up for a very long time and I will eat it with baby carrots. Just an idea.
I eat a sandwich made out of Brownberry Natural Flax & Fiber Bread, Avocado (spread thin, not chunks), sliced Roma tomatoes and thinly sliced onion. I also have a small sized Stonyfield organic yogurt and some fruit, like a few organic strawberries. Later in the afternoon, I have a small organic apple.
A whole variety of things. I tend to plan out my meals on Sundays (in fact that's what I'm doing now - planning my week). This week I plan to have:
Monday - leftover grilled chicken and an avocado on baby spinach salad.
Tuesday - tuna salad (made with low fat mayo and dijon mustard) on wasa crackers and watermelon
Wednesday - eating out wiht a friend - prob go to Chipotle and have a veggie salad bol
Thursday - veggie potstickers (steamed in the office microwave)
Friday - 1/2 a pbj sandwich on whole grain, apple w/ Dubliner cheese, maybe more watermelon
All of this is stuff that can be packed up the day before and then I just grab it and go on my way out the door!
I'm bad for lunch...I usually eat an apple or a peach and then an hour later, I grab a piece of whole grain bread and maybe an ounce of cheese. Some days, I eat a yogurt and a salad...i'm not one for a big sit-down lunch. I have a full dinner and pretty much graze the rest of the day and night on small calorie things.
I have been eating the Betty Crocker Bowl Appetit lunches. They have between 230-360 calories and are really good. The lean cuisines got really old really fast for me, I HATED the chicken in those, all fatty. I like these ones, they're not technically "Diet food" but my luinch limit is 400cals so this is just under and I can still have a little fruit if I want.
Today I forgot my lean cuisine and was in a jam. I ended up having a BLT on rye toast with no mayonnaise which was flavorful, satisfying and surprisingly not too caloric (3 pieces of bacon). Looking forward to the VERY DELICIOUS Kashi frozen dinner tonight, though. They are incredibly filling and relatively healthful for people like me who need rigid portion control...
Tomorrow I pick up my veggies/fruit allotment from the farmer's market and am hoping for some fresh eating for a few days.
I make double portions of my dinner meal, then package them up in tupperware. Every day I have leftovers, and so long as my dinner the night before was on plan, my lunch will be too.
If I don't have leftovers for whatever reason, I will take an Alternative Bagel, top it with a small can of tuna, sprinkle on some cheddar cheese, and cook up in the toaster oven.
Yesterday: 1/2 pbj sandwich (organic pb and organic spreadable fruit on whole grain bread), watermelon
Today: 1/2 pbj sandwich, apple, v-8
(yeah, I'm on a pbj kick this week, but tomorrow I might be a crazy woman and have tuna on a wasa cracker - and it's so not what I planned earlier ... but I'm craving pb)
Last edited by PhotoChick; 06-24-2008 at 05:10 PM.
I eat a half turkey sandwich made with pumpernickel bread and I spread on a wedge of Laughing Cow light swiss cheese. I usually eat it with applesauce or a cup of fruit (watermelon today).
I find that i do enjoy the lean cuisine meals because i know how many calories i am having with out having to worry about it. I will usually suppliment them thu with carrot sticks from home and its a lasting lunch for me. Plus they arent too expensive.
I like either the Lean Cuisine pannini's, or an organic bean burrito from Amy's (under 300 calories and very filling). When I'm really cutting my calories, I eat a boca burger (flame grilled) with a Low Carb La Tortilla Factory tortilla (50 calories) and some veggies inside too. That fills me up and is very low in cals, although I know all my choices are very high in sodium.
what's for lunch?
I love to eat a tortilla from La Tortilla Factory (Low Carb, high fiber, 5g of protein, 50 calories each) and I stick a warmed up Flame Grilled Boca Burger (100 calories). This fills me up for a very long time and I will eat it with baby carrots. Just an idea. 
Whats for lunch..
