I am horrible at eating lunch. I tend to skip it, and then find myself starving at 3pm, and eating badly which throws off dinner. Yesterday lunch was apples, cheese cubes, and pretzels. A much better snack than lunch! So, what do you have for lunch?
I need to work on this too! I have a tendency to not decide on anything, skip it and justify bad snacking as ok since I didn't have lunch :-/
Apparently, none of us have good lunch ideas . Mine usually consists of leftovers from dinner the night before (b/c if we have leftovers it's only enough for 1 other small meal typically), or a sandwich. When I'm working, I usually swing through somewhere like Subway, just to get out of the office. Sorry. No help. BUT, I do have a bunch of great ideas pinned on Pinterest. Hehe...
That's typical for us too... but my daughter LOVES leftovers, so the one small meal usually ends up in her lunchbox.
Today and many days it is Skippy Dark Chocolate Natural Peanut Butter rolled up into a tortilla. Fast, easy, yummy. It's also probably the reason I've put on poundage...
I usually have a sandwich or leftovers or some frozen item that's quick to prepare. I love having fruit, cheese and crackers for lunch. My eating has been totally off since my sleep schedule is off. I had breakfast for lunch today, um because that's when I woke up. LOL
another person in the "skip camp" I have leftovers, or I skip, or I snack. I absolutely LOVE the idea of the mason jar salads... but have never actually done them. and be real.... the idea of one small mason jar being all I get for lunch makes my eyes . Portion control is another habit I need.... One of my favorite "snacks" that I could actually turn healthy REALLY easy is the lunchables. I don't pay for the processed ones in a pack though. Instead, I opt for an entire sleeve of ritz crackers with cheese slices and lunchmeat slices. (obviously, portion control, and adding more fruit/veggies in there would be the best option LOL)
I eat so badly most of the time and anything between breakfast and dinner is usually a lost cause if I am at home
I like to oven roast a bunch of veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, mushrooms, onions, etc.) and then I have them to munch on for a couple of days. So roasted veggies and a grilled chicken breast or teriyaki chicken thigh because they taste much better and have a sweetness that curbs me sweet cravings. Or a green salad with cut up roasted chicken strips or low fat string cheese. I have to remember to always add a protein or I don't get enough. I have to avoid most bread products, not because of allergies or anything but because during my weight loss journey I have discovered that if I eat even one piece of bread or a tortilla I do not lose weight as fast so I tend to try to avoid those foods. Vegetables and protein. Of course I suggest all this as someone who has totally tanked all her healthy living habits she has developed over the past five months. I really need to get back on track!
I'm much like you Shari, I have to have protein otherwise I just don't last and for me too as soon as I eat bread, pasta & potatoes which I love I gain weight
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one struggling with lunch! It's this meal that some people have, but apparently not scrappers! Confession: I posted this at 1:15 pm. When I was conveniently eating a very, very late breakfast of potatoes and eggs. Well, I may have to check out Pinterest. Any that look the best to you? I'm going to pretend you didn't mention that. Confession #2: I don't have a microwave. So frozen stuff is hard. Ask the frozen burritos just taking up space in my freezer after I worked hard to make them! I love the idea of mason jar salads, but vegetables are so out of season where I am! I need spring and summer to come back. Maybe we'll have to convince each other to try it out? Anything between sleep and dinner can be a lost cause here! You are doing better than me with remembering breakfast! I like to saute mushrooms and feed the broccoli and cauliflower to my kid. Maybe I should try roasting them.
I'm Dutch, and we are known for our boring breakfasts and lunches: slices of bread with cheese/meat. It's boring but also good to have this as a standard because it means I don't have much problems with these meals. I always start the day with fruit quark. For lunch I either have two slices of bread with cheese if I'm working or fruit quark if I'm at home. My problems are never the meals, but all the snacks in between or at night. I'm kinda happy that school starts Monday because it means I'm back into my daily structure and I don't snack during the day. But when I'm at home, I'm gone. I'm going to make it a habit this new year to bring fruit for when I travel home after a workday so I don't come home and immediately have to look for snacks.
Haha. I skip breakfast too a lot of the time. And yes. I need to try them for sure. I have a pinterest board for lunches. I'll try to get that linked up today, and see if anything looks super yummy. As for no microwave /frozen burritos: thaw them out overnight, then bake them in the oven. I've heard that is a way to do it.
I do have an oven and stove! I only miss it when I'm melting butter for popcorn. What's quark? It totally does. But I never plan ahead far enough to thaw them out. I can cook them from frozen in the oven, it just takes longer.
I just added the stuff for my favorite sandwich to this week's grocery delivery... Smashed Chickpea and Avocado Salad Sandwich.
I'm not sure how easy quark is to find in the US. I'd never heard of it until I moved to Europe, but I have a friend in the US who buys it at a Russian import grocery. I think the Russian kind is firmer, more like cottage cheese, though.