I love eating soup for lunch, and you could always keep it hot in a thermos so you don't have to microwave it. It has to be VERY hot in the morning to keep warm for afternoon. I use a microwave daily so I can batch cook and freeze in portions. Right now in my freezer I have spicy tomato blue cheese soup, broccoli cheese and white bean soup, santa fe chicken, turkey veggie chili, cauliflower dal, carrot peanut soup, split pea soup, and curry lentil soup.
One of my favorite things to make at home is veggie "pasta" (zucchini or yellow squash sliced into ribbons and sauteed) with meatballs/veggie balls/no balls
and tomato sauce with a bit of cream cheese stirred in to make it pink. The other day I made the zucchini noodles with a crumbled hot Italian turkey sausage, a quick slurry with flour of choice and milk of choice, and I threw in a small handful of cheese. It made "macaroni-less" sausage cheese.
For snacks I love jerky, nuts, dried fruit, grape tomatoes, baby carrots, peppers (with dipping sauce of hummus or dressing), and lately I've been packing radishes with cracked salt and pepper so I can dip it in cream cheese mixed with chopped scallions or chives. RIDICULOUSLY GOOD!