I currently eat tuna sandwiches.
I got sick of grilled turkey, and I can’t eat that, or balogna, or cold cuts, w/o eating some kind of chips w/ it (and I don’t mean the healthy natural chips).
Also, canned soup-that-eats-like-meal, whether it be chicken chunks with veggies or sirloin Campbell whatever or ___, is kinda nasty and I’d prefer not to eat it. And just plain soup isn’t enough for lunch.
So, what else can I eat for a healthy lunch?
You could try various forms of salads. They are healthy or not depending on what you add.
Try adding fruit to your lunch. Some here are probably against the sugars in fruits, but something like a good apple is tough to beat.
Regarding soups, I agree that Campbell’s is nasty. I confirmed that after a friend described a visit to a processing plant. Ugh. I have no idea if the materials are of higher quality, but I definitely prefer a can of Progresso. Naturally, YMMV on that.
There are leftovers in all shapes and forms. Just plan for lunch the next day when you make supper.
Other than that, I would like to hear some suggestions too. I eat fast food or deli food far too often for lunch.
So make your own soup. I make up pots of soup on the weekend and freeze them in small containers, take them to work with a couple of hunks of decent bread and heat up in the microwave. Voila, lunch. You can add all sorts of things to your own soup to make them heartier … I’m a vegetarian, but you could add meat, or noodles, or tofu, or mushrooms or any number of things. I’m sure there are soup threads around here somewhere.
Otherwise salads … I make potato salads, lentil salads, roast vegie salads. You could add tuna/boiled eggs/meat to them to beef up the protein content. You can stuff a roll with salad for ease of carrying around if you don’t want to be bothered with containers.
And lots of things make good sandwiches … if you make a frittata or sweet corn fritters or something like that for dinner, the leftovers make excellent sandwiches with some chutney and lettuce.
I just have plain old sandwiches: ham & cheese; roast beef & salad; cheese & vegemite etc. I just had cheese & tomato. Easy and quite healthy.
Sushi. Even better when you get some salesman to pick up the tab. All you can eat, baby!
Give.
A favorite wrap at the campus cafeteria:
Turkey, Brie, red onion slices, lettuce, and apricot (or raspberry) preserves on a whole wheat wrap. Yum!
Have you tried those baked chips? Made by Lays, IIRC. The sour cream and onion variety is pretty good, not as mealy as Pringles.
Wow. I was sure I’d be the first person to say sushi.
Although I have no saleman…just realized most supermarkets now do sushi lunches for about $5.
There’s a recent soup thread ca
here, and there are lots more recipes around - search on ‘recipes Zenster’ for one of the great threads, or just ‘recipes’ for more than you could eat in a year. (Use ‘Advanced Search’ and choose both ‘Any date’ and ‘Search inside posts’ (or however it’s phrased) for the best results.)
Almost anything left over makes a good lunch if you’ve got a fridge and a microwave. The fridge is optional if your food is cold when you leave home. You even get one of those insulated lunch bags if you want.
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I’m eyeballin’ a box of macaroni ‘n’ cheese. I know that’s bad, but that’s the direction I’m leaning in.
I’ve started carrying my lunch to school, since food service this years sucks. Today I have mini-pitas, hummus, olive and sun-dried tomato brushetta, some Munster cheese, fresh pineapple, and some fire-roasted turkey.
Yesterday I had Black Forest ham, smoked gouda, a big chunk of asiago bread, and some really nice dipping oil, with an Asian pear for dessert.
Three cheers for Trader Joe’s!! 
Although this doesn’t qualify as healthy, I’ve just rediscovered the childhood joys of Raviolio’s.
Actually, I usually eat leftovers since my wife doesn’t seem to understand that there are three people in our home, we don’t need food for 40 at every meal.
Got chili with rice today.
'Scuse me, I’m sick…Put vegemite on them.
Have you ever tried eating baby carrots instead of the chips? Not quite the same, but at least there’s a crunch…
Men’s Health has some good recipes on their website (the recipes are healthy for woman, too.) Unfortunatly, the recipes seem to be all over the place on the webiste so you might have to search around.
Here are some:
http://www.menshealth.com/cda/contentlist.do?site=MensHealth&channel=weight.loss&category=abs.diet&type=recipe
All pretty simple.
Potato salad. Roast or boil some waxy potatoes (ones which will hold together when cooked, rather than crumble), I like yellow Bintje or the little Kipfler spuds. When cooked cut into quarters (or smaller), dress while warm with a garlicky vinaigrette and mustard dressing (olive oil, wine vinegar, couple of cloves of garlic, couple of teaspoons of grain mustard steeped for half an hour or so).
I like to add mixed herbs, especially parsley and mint, a couple of sliced boiled eggs, some fresh or lightly fried red onion and vegetarian bacon. Serve on a bed of rocket or mixed lettue, or stuff into a roll with extra mustard.
Lentil salad. Cook brown lentils til soft. Drain and dress while warm with olive oil and lots of lemon juice. Add lots of parsley, red onion, diced cucumber, bell pepper, or pretty much anything else you feel like. I think a little preserved lemon would be nice, raw, baby zucchini, green beans, stuff like that.
Roasted vegie salad. Roast any vegies that take your fancy, but I like sweet potato, potato, bell peppers, parsnips, carrots, maybe some red beet, cauliflower, garlic. Onions and tomatoes work as well. I use olive oil and roast until the vegies have started to go a little black around the edges.
This is nice with some toasted nuts (pine nuts or almonds) or toast some seeds (sesame, sunflower, brown mustard) and sprinkle over the top.
Dress with olive oil and vinegar, or if you’re feeling fancy home-made mayonnaise with fresh basil or lots of garlic.
Great recipes and a use for my mayonnaise. Thanks!