What do you pack for a healthy lunch?

[teddy12b]

Here lately I'm trying to get better and better about what I eat. Last night's halloween treats and this mornings snickers breakfast excluded of course.

I'd like to get better about a packed lunch, but I'm at a loss of what to bring. I've never been a picky eater and I prefer the simple foods out there. I'd be happy as can be to just sit and eat a loaf of bread every day for lunch, but I know I'm missing a balanced lunch. Lately I've been doing the little 90 second in the microwave lunches and a little bowl of minute rice, but I know there's better out there. I'm no food expert, and I'd like some advice.

What do you pack for a good tasting and healthy lunch?

 

[PistolBob]

If I am working on the road I take a PB Sandwich or two, an Apple or Orange, some carrots to munch on during the afternoon, and maybe a small bag of chips of some kind. If I have a fridge I take a turkey sandwich, yogurt, an apple, and celery and carrots. I usually drink water or a diet pepsi.

 

[ATM]

Bacon.

 

[voodoo304]

Today I have tuna salad with crackers, mini carrots, an apple, yogurt, and a small mini snickers.
I normally bring left overs from the night before for the main course, but the yogurt, carrots or celery, and a fruit of some kind (apple, grapes, pineapple.....) are staples that I bring everyday.
If I'm out in the field working I try to hit Subway but that's only about once a week.
Oh, can't forget a cold glass of iced tea! I bring a glass everyday for lunch.

 

[Sylvain]

You should cook your own food, the stuff you buy already made for you are usually quite bad for you.They have too much salt and other bad things.

Try to follow the food pyramid for your meals.
Forget about sodas and all those things with too much sugar and fat.
Try to get lots of vegetable and fruits, and drink water.

 

[patience0830]

Bacon.

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Can of sardines in hot sauce or smoked oysters, a tube of Ritz crackers, and a can of Chili Hot Beans. Oh, and a spoon.

 

[badwolf.usmc]

What is your goal for eating "healthy"? Different goals have different suggestions on what, and when, to eat.

 

[teddy12b]

What is your goal for eating "healthy"? Different goals have different suggestions on what, and when, to eat.

I would define my goal as "improvement" over what I'm feeding my body currently. For example, today I popped open a can of dinty more beef stew and microwaved the "two" servings in one small bowl and according to the can that would have totaled 400 calories. I also had a little microwavable bowl of brown minute rice for another 100 calories. It's a good tasting lunch, but ulmtimately I know that I'm not getting the fruit & veggies I could use or anything else.

In a perfect world I'd like to start eating something else for lunches that would taste great, cost little, be filling and would cause me to loose weight.

I'm mostly interested in seeing what other people out there are doing for lunch and how they're setup. I'm hoping to learn some good information and apply it to my own lunch.

 

[lovemachine]

I go home for lunch. But there have been times when I couldn't leave work, so I brought my lunch. And, I eat the same lunch everyday.
Just so you know, I'm a VERY healthy person. I DO NOT eat crap.

1-2 large chicken breasts.
Chopped apple
Bunch of chopped broccoli
Chopped celery
Few walnuts
Fresh spinach
Chopped bell peppers. Green, red, yellow and orange
1 tablespoon milled flax seed
1 tablespoon extra vinegar olive oil
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

 

[JetGirl]

snickers breakfast

 

[abnk]

Dinner left-overs and fruit. Now you only have to worry about healthy dinners.

 

[teddy12b]

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

I've been trying to read more about the apple cider vinegar and the more I read the more it sounds like a miracle pill that prevents just about everything.

 

[teddy12b]

The snickers breakfast is everything I thought it would be. If only they were made of fruits and veggies.

 

[PistolBob]

I would define my goal as "improvement" over what I'm feeding my body currently. For example, today I popped open a can of dinty more beef stew and microwaved the "two" servings in one small bowl and according to the can that would have totaled 400 calories. I also had a little microwavable bowl of brown minute rice for another 100 calories. It's a good tasting lunch, but ulmtimately I know that I'm not getting the fruit & veggies I could use or anything else.

In a perfect world I'd like to start eating something else for lunches that would taste great, cost little, be filling and would cause me to loose weight.

I'm mostly interested in seeing what other people out there are doing for lunch and how they're setup. I'm hoping to learn some good information and apply it to my own lunch.

You just ate an almost 6 day supply of sodium in that meal.

 

[badwolf.usmc]

I'm mostly interested in seeing what other people out there are doing for lunch and how they're setup. I'm hoping to learn some good information and apply it to my own lunch.

I tend to eat between 200 & 300 calories for lunch. It is usually leftovers with a serving of fruit or a serving of Ramen noodles. My goals are calorie based on eating as much fruit/veggie as possible while eating as much protein as i can. The reason for this is that i go to the gym often, and have a 6 mile course that i run around my house; I'm trying to improve my athletic performance while losing weight at the same time.

I eat 5 times per day, and at each meal i eat specific things.

 

[JetGirl]

The snickers breakfast is everything I thought it would be. If only they were made of fruits and veggies.

It doesn't have to be. It's already healthy.
Chocolate is from beans...technically a vegetable, and therefore "healthy".
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[teddy12b]

You just ate an almost 6 day supply of sodium in that meal.

And that's why I'm asking queastions.

 

[teddy12b]

It doesn't have to be. It's already healthy.
Chocolate is from beans...technically a vegetable, and therefore "healthy".
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I like the way you think, but my belt disagrees with both of us.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

You should juice frogs. Fruits and vegetables are full of poison and RFIDs used by the government to track you.

Frogs are the only healthy option.

 

[JetGirl]

Frogs are the only healthy option.

Sometimes, it's like you don't even listen to me anymore...