If you bring a lunch to work

Liz051405

What does your typical lunch consist of? I am trying so hard to bring lunch to save money but I swear no matter what I bring I'm still hungry. What do you bring? Do you bring a healthy snack?

 

Melanie2003

i eat all day long

i pack 2-3 fruits (today is a container of cantaloupe and blueberries, and a banana) and usually a baggie of carrot sticks and pepper slices. sometimes with hummus too.

lunch is all over the place. last night i made an extra piece of tilapia so i'd have it for lunch. i took it with the leftover broccoli. some days i make a big salad. on occassion it's a sandwich. i'm a big fan of dinner leftovers.

i also pack a few treats. today is chocolate pudding. some days it's cookies or chips or popcorn.

 

 

turtle520

Soup - 1 can of Progresso = 2 lunches so I'll save the other 1/2 in the fridge. I'll make a salad to eat with it or a sandwich on those sandwich thins.Sometimes I'll do a salad and bring in tuna w/crackers.

I always bring a piece of fruit as a snack. Sometimes I have sf jell-o as dessert or 3 hershey kisses with 1 full graham cracker. I keep granola bars in my desk for the "always hungry" times and I also have almonds.

molldoll71

Sandwich, fruit, chips, and 100 Cal cookies and diet coke.  The individual bags so it is portion controlled.

TexasSmith

I pack DH's lunch for him to take everyday. He eats 2 small lunches, so he gets 2 entrees, a spinach salad, and a fruit (usually a pear, grapes, a couple Cuties, or whatever is in season). Entree ideas are:

sausage wraps (sausage and shredded cheddar wrapped in a tortilla, then grilled, with BBQ sauce for dipping

quesadillas with sour cream for dipping

taco mac (he loves this and it is so easy to make...I usually make a batch on the weekends and he'll take it a few times for lunch)

leftovers from dinners: homemade pizza, any kind of chicken/rice dish, lasagna/other pasta is easy

He keeps a box of multigrain cereal and some dry roasted edamame in his desk and munches on that if he needs a snack.

melbride2005

could be anything from leftovers to a sandwich to salad.  I just made some escarole & beans and will bring that tomorrow.

I always bring a greek yogurt for a late breakfast (sometimes I add a little homemade granola)...I usually bring 2 pieces of fruit for the day...baby carrots, cucumber slices, pepper slices... 

other snacks include nuts, cheese stick or babybel, pop chips, raisins, apple and peanut butter 

mrs.marie.g

yesterday harris teeter did 99 cent 6 in subs and i brought that in today.

i do a lot of soups. salads and sandwiches. if i do a sandwich i have to bring in a side of something.  i also started making homemade salsa. since it isn't tomato season i am using diced tomatoes with chillies DRAINED really well. a can of corn and lime sprinkled on it with fresh cilantro. and i bring in chips to dip it in (so cheap) and yummy. and fruit. or veggies and hummus. i keep it all in the fridge here. oh and mozz cheese sticks too

TSD

I used to bring PB&J on Pepperidge Farm Carb-style bread. It's thicker than the "light" wheat bread and more substantial but only like 20 calories more a slice. Just hard to find.

Or Lean Cuisine meals.

Snacks: Almonds, mini carrots, sliced apples, sf jello, light yogurt w/frozen raspberries.

I also eat breakfast at work. So, I eat breakfast later, therefore not so hungry at work. I can totally hold out till I get here because I'm busy getting ready at home.

Laurms15

If its pasta leftovers then thats all I really need. If its chicken its usually chicken some rice and uncooked carrots. If I bring a sandwich I usually have carrot sticks with it. In the summer I usually bring a container of fruit.

I pack DH's breakfast/lunch every day usually in his lunch bag he gets either oatmeal or yogurt and granola (depending if its summer/winter), a sandwich, a little bag of chips and a seltzer or soda. I'll throw in baked goods muffins or cookies if I have some in the house and whenever I have fruit I toss that in too.

knittygrl

I always had this problem where I would get hungry.  Recently I discovered the mission tortilla carb balance tortillas.  I've been wrapping turkey and light swiss in there with some avocado.  SO freaking filling I don't even want to eat anything else all day.  I usually have some fruit with it.

oct11bride03

I always brought lunch. 99.9% of the time it was leftovers from the previous night's dinner. Sometimes it was a struggle to make sure the meals I wanted to make could stretch to feed us for dinner (including K most of the time), as well we provide lunches for both of us the next day.

junebug1

today i had egg salad on light whole weat bread - 2 slices bread, 2 eggs, mayo and mustard, and a pickle.  i have a clementine that i'm about to eat.

mostly, i bring leftovers and a bag of fresh veggies for snack and an apple.  i also eat breakfast - oatmeal - and a banana before lunch.

bbzangel70j

i usually bring the following everyday, with some variation:

- 100 cal pack of almonds

- 1 cup frozen raspberries with a nonfat plain greek yogurt (i like to mix my own fruit in the yogurt instead of buying fruit yogurt)

- hummus with cucumber/mushroom/pepper/celery/carrot

- salad with crumbled reduced fat feta, grilled chicken, pistachios, craisins

so its usually a salad with a grilled protein for lunch, and anywhere from 2-4 snacks. my snacks are almost always fruits and vegetables, although i will alternate on almonds and yogurt.

hookersbabe

i pack breakfast, lunch & snacks...usually this is what is in my bag...

1 cup of greek yogurt, 1 ww smoothie mix that i mix with the yogurt

a banana

an english muffin, 3 oz turkey, a single serve hummus, 1/2 cup cut veggies

an apple or pear with 1 wedge of laughing cow cheese

a fiber one brownie (for emergencies)

1 oz of almonds

krryg

salad, cheese stick and yogurt

somedays I'll just have a PB&J

AmyRob04

Usually a sandwich (whatever RP wants,I just make two), a cheese stick, a small sweet, and a piece of fruit.

bosha711

Things I used to bring were usually either leftovers, a sandwich, or a can of soup. I'd also bring a piece of fruit & always had other snacks & chocolate stashed in my desk drawers.