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What do you eat for lunch?

Eversio

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usually end up skipping lunch unfortunately
however if i do eat i go for a sandwhich, turkey/chicken salad or something similar.
 

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i dry rub the chicken with mustard powder, onion powder, chili powder, paprika, cinnamon, a bit of brown sugar and garlic powder. i shake off the excess and sautee it in a bit of olive oil or on the grill.

cooking the rice in low sodium broth greatly enhances the flavor, as does a squirt or two of lime.

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Kunk, how do you season your chicken and rice? I was doing this but couldn't find a taste combination I could tolerate more than a few times in a row.
 

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Thanks for all the discussion of your diet, kunk. It provides great inspiration for me; like you, I also want to get a uniform set of healthy foods that I can just mix and match, then rinse and repeat so that I can spend time on better things.
 

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Usually whatever I like but after my cholestoral tests came back-salads and lots of it.
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danilo

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Well I have a variety of simple lunches I make (as I usually prepare them in the morning right after my protein shake breakfast).

1)I make a BBQ tuna sandwich (don't knock it till you try it)
buy those 2.6 oz small Chunk Light Tuna packs (not cans)
0.5g fat, 80 calories 18g of protein!
put it on a slice of whole grain bread
smoother with Stubb's Spicy BBQ sauce
toast in small portable oven (if you have one) eat end enjoy.

If all you have at work is a microwave, try mixing the tuna and bbq sauce together in a small bowl/cup and heat it up in the microwave then stick it between two slices of whole grain bread

2)you can also make tuna salads with those flavored tuna packets, just throw it all on top of a bed of spring mix lettuce and you don't need any dressing since it's already flavored

3)Standard ham and cheese sandwich

4)there's a couple of lentil/black bean canned soups that taste great and are quite healthy check your local grocery store
 

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Can't help you with the boredom, since I usually brown bag the same lunch at work every day: romaine lettuce (in a tupperware container -- maybe 3/4 cup?), caesar dressing and one hard-boiled egg.
 
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I make a fruit smoothie:
1/2 cup of pineapple
1 small banana
Ice
Fat free, Lactose free milk.

If im feeling greedy I might add some whole wheat toast as well.
 

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GNC's Lean Muscle Meal replacement. When mixed with water, it adds up to only 260 calories and takes away the "hungries" for three to four hours. Load in a 1/2 cup of low fat cottage cheese, as a late afternoon snack, and you make it all the way to dinner time on less than 400 total calories.
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I cook 3 cups of whole brown rice in chicken broth then towards the end add one can of green lentils and one can of black turtle beans. Makes about 5 lunches worth. (540 cal per container, lots of protein & fibre) Bring a granny smith apple for a snack.

Otherwise to the cafe, turkey on wholewheat texas toast no dressing or cheese. Lots of tomatoes and letuce for the fibre (plus I love tomatoes). Lots of pepper and some salt. Served with carrots and pickles.

Whatever you eat, try and maximize fibre. Besides that it is good for you both soluble and insouble it will give that full feeling for longer and you wont be tempted to snack on crappy food.
 

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I gorge myself on whatever is in the cafeteria. Pizza, burgers, sammiches, big salads with chicken fingers. Then I have a couple of beers for dinner. Lunch is the main meal of the day. I drink an assload of coffee during the day so no more than two sugar packets for the whole lot.
 

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Turkey sandwich with about $6 of that really good Applegate whatever turkey from Wholefoods.

Slice of heirloom, some fantastic mustard and a little splash of great olive oil.
 

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I really love whole grain dijon mustard. It's great on a turkey or chicken salad sandwich.
 

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Caesar salad, literally no Parmesan and low fat Caesar sauce (20cal/tspoon vs 80cal/tspoon.)

Thought of it a week ago, can't think of a better lunch.
 

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