Well, I'm staying home sick today, but I packed my lunch on Sunday. That counts, right? My office has a frig and a microwave, which makes it a lot easier.
In my huge lunch bag, I have:
B - trader joe's fat free Greek yogurt with honey, one package of fresh blackberries (They were on sale!! I had been eating a lot of frozen berries to save money, fresh are a treat). And a plastic container to eat the yogurt and berries out of.
L - Salad in tupperware - romaine, roma tomato, purple cabbage, kalamata olives, pepperocini. I brought a spicy veggie burger which I was going to heat up and crumble on top. Dressing is Trader Joe's tsizki (1/4 of a container).
S - brought an orange
S - cheese string, little container of sweet mini pickles
My lunch bag had a banana, an apple, turkey burger (just the burger, no bun or condiments), grilled chicken, baked pototoe & a can of tuna fish (plain, no mayo or anything). Hope that's a good days worth of food! That's my whole day except for dinner, which I obviously don't bring to work!
package of oatmeal for mid morning
Lean Cuisine frozen meal
100 pack of Wheat Thin crips and wedge of Laughing Cow Light swiss
sandwich bag of baby carrots
apple
I bring my lunch every day except Friday when DH and I typically go to our favorite Italian place (which has this wonderful tuna and artichoke panini!).
Today's brown bag contains:
2 bottles of water (one for DS for Karate)
1 grapefruit (in case of emergency hunger)
1 apple to share with DH
2 containers of leftover spaghetti with meatballs (heavy on the sauce, light on the pasta)
2 Activia light yogurts
1 small container with 12 almonds and 4 dates for my morning snack
Chicken, low carb yoghurt and an Atkins shake today. I have to pack a lunch as I work for a pizza company!! Not a good idea to go to work without any food....
Trader Joe's almond butter and sliced banana, rolled up in a whole wheat wrap (7 g. fiber, just got it at Costco, don't remember brand name)
a small can of low-sodium V-8
some homemade potato salad, made relatively low fat by using plain ff yogurt along w/the ff Miracle Whip
for later:
a Horizon organic reduced-fat chocolate milk (not the lowest sugar, but I get a boost of calcium along w/the chocolate)
an apple
If desperate:
I always have small packs of raisins, and/or granola bars, in my glove compartment Given tomorrow's weather forecast, the raisins will probably freeze.
Large salad with pouch of pink salmon and LF ranch dressing, one piece of LF cheese, apple or banana, one container of FF Greek yogurt flavored with Splenda and vanilla.
I forgot to add that I also bring with me some cottage cheese topped with fruit - my usual choices are blueberries or raspberries, sometimes pineapple.
I do bring a lot of food with me because that way I don't buy anything from a vendor who comes each day with assorted sandwiches or small entrees, nor am I tempted to get anything from the vending machines (full of potato chips or choc bars) or eating out (nothing but fast food places here).
Often, I eat my "lunch" at 4:30 (that way I am not hungry when I get home and I don't go to the gym with full stomach) or sometimes I eat it after I return from the gym.
Scarlet - I feel your situation!! I work in a deli/bakery and I am all alone from 3:30 pm to 6:00 among large platters of cookies and pastries, I HAVE to be full of good food to resist!
A sample lunch I bring -
Big container of greens and whatever veggies I have; green/red peppers, cukes, onion
Small container of something to go over the greens - maybe lowfat chili; maybe cut up chicken, with some salsa and fat free sour cream
I keep a large container of fatfree yogurt @ work; a cup with Splenda and some instant coffee crystals is a serving for me
My 4:00 pm snack is a NutriGrain bar and a cup of coffee. It's the ONLY thing that keeps me from those %@#$*(! cookies and pastries.
One of my other standby's is a big skillet of sauteed veggies and a good amount of Eggbeaters. I have half it for breakfast and the other half at lunch. It turns out like a frittata.
One trick I use is bringing a bottle of frozen water and a bottle of regular. I drink one bottle in the morning while the frozen is keeping my food cold. Then, by afternoon, the frozen one has melted and I can drink it. I hate wasting space with the frozen ice pouches.
today's lunch: White beans flavored with lean ham; huge pile of romaine lettuce with blueberries, raspberries and TJ's FF raspberry dressing. One orange, a very small bunch of grapes, celery sticks and one T snack mix.
I carry my lunch in a small cooler. The label said it could cary one six pack and some ice for it.
I put my food in Snapware containers. http://www.snapware.com/ I got mine in a set at Costco. They fit just right in my cooler.
