Need ideas: No prep healthy lunches
 

I could really use some ideas and I'm hoping you CCs can help me! I took a job out-of-state for four weeks and I'm living in a hotel room for the duration of my job. I don't have any space to cook, or any equipment like a hot plate for that matter, but I do have a microwave and a mini-fridge.

I need some ideas for somewhat healthy (I know the sodium content may get me) lunch ideas that I don't have to prepare before work. So far I've been doing the Kraft Mac & Cheese cups, 80-calorie tuna cups, cans of Progresso Light (sheesh those are heavy!), string cheese, mini V8 cans and I am clear out of ideas.

Is there anything (other than sandwhiches b/c I am sandwiched-out) you guys recommend??

THANKS!:hug:

The sodium is up but I like the lean cuisine and weight watcher frozen meals.

I also like Del Monte Healthy Selection meals (not frozen). You can always do salads with the oscar meyer ready made chicken for some protein content, etc.

These are things I do for lunches/dinners when I can't be home or just don't have time to do something more.

The sodium is up but I like the lean cuisine and weight watcher frozen meals.

I also like Del Monte Healthy Selection meals (not frozen). You can always do salads with the oscar meyer ready made chicken for some protein content, etc.

These are things I do for lunches/dinners when I can't be home or just don't have time to do something more.

I would run the market and grab 3 bags of different types of salad. then grab a marinaide, not a salad dresseing. FAR less calories, and they taste great, I love Kens and Lipton. Or maybe oatmeal.

Steph

Non fat yogurt, sugar free jello, sugar free pudding, Wasa Crackers.,Low fat cheese. Fresh fruit.

I buy those packaged lettuce bags and use half a day. Take the toppings seperately and put it all together at work, toss it all in a large tupperware, shake it up and boom ready salad :)

You can combine the progresso soups with the string cheese and microwave it yummmmm!

I also take fruit- oranges, apples, pears, etc. Fruit is a great filler.

I also take lean cuisines now and then- not like I used to- but still now and then.

You can do veggies and egg whites in the microwave.

If doing frozen meals, I would look for Amy's brand or Kashi.

I always eat fage 0% greek yogurt and grapes, delicious, extremely filling (obscene amount of protein), and absolutely zero prep required

String cheese with triscuits and fruit (I like Triscuits for the fiber and crunch - esp the flavored ones)

Today I've got a spinach salad, with chicken to warm up over it. I use the spray salad dressings to keep from having to measure. Oh, and an apple.

Also wraps with tuna or canned meats in low fat tortillas with veggies.

Yogurt + fruit
Progresso Light soups
Multigrain crackers + low fat cheese
Low fat cottage cheese + fruit
Precut veggies
fruit salad

How about a roteserrie Chicken from Kroger, some simply steam Veggies from the frozen dept and some Uncle Ben's Mirco Brown rice? Yum!

I miss Kroger. There's not one here at all :(

I would agree with Amy's brand. Even those are questionable but much better than Lean Cuisine.

This is a great idea! Might even try it myself one day - quick, tasty and healthy :D

Great Ideas!
 

Ohhh I love the idea of melting some LF cheese into my Progresso Light soup and the rotisserie chicken is a great idea, too! And buying bags of salad and leaving them at work is a wonderful b/c it means I can go straight from Safeway to work and place it in the refrigerator there. I love not having to shlep anything. Now if only I could find some Greek yogurt (this 4-week assignment has me somewhere pretty remote)...

Thanks again for all of the ideas!
R2R

The week I lived in a hotel room in Nashville I did the chicken thing. One chicken lasted me for DAYS. Those mini fridges usually have really pathetic freezers if they have one at all, so keeping frozen stuff frozen is not likely to happen unfortunately.

If you have a safeway look into some of the eating right stuff. I love their version of spaghetti o's and ravioli. Their stuff tends to have less sodium than the other brands too, not always but usually.

You could use the steamer bags, Ziplock or Glad brands) to steam many kinds of fresh vegetables in the microwave. I have heard that you can even cook omelets and meat in those bags but have never tried that.

Hummas and pita chips (low cal), delmonte harvest meals found with the canned foods like chefboyrdee. Tuna salad, chicken salad stuffed in a tomato. Cottage cheese and fruit cups.

Ohhh humus! Thank you all for the great ideas! I picked up just about everything you all said (I'm keeping this Safeway in business) and so far so good!

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