What's in your lunchbox?
 

Do you take lunch to work?

Dinner?

Most days, I take all 3 meals. I want to know what you do because it's likely that it's smarter than what I'm doing, and I want to copy off of you.

I usually take 2-4 hard boiled eggs (I'll eat 2 asap when I get to work at 9am) and some kind of soup or pasta situation that jinx made a bunch of. Depending on how busy it is, I eat that for lunch or dinner...and then I make a swammich for the other meal. I keep Buddig single serve lunch meats, baby spinach and mayo in my fridge and a loaf of Arnold Bread.

and you?

sounds great to me.

I often take fruit or yogurt for breakfast and eat it at work. Boughten roast chicken, tortillas, and condiments or your choice for non-fried tacos works well.

How is your cholesterol level? That's a lot of eggs, but I'm not convinced about the link between dietary and blood cholesterol.

I don't work, but I do eat most meals on the go. Breakfast will be buttered toast and a quartered orange. If not able to eat en route, then the orange goes in a baggy and the toast wrapped in kitchen paper. Some kind of soup or pasta or homemade pizza if a microwave is avaialble. Otherwise sandwich type stuff. And snacks (including fruit) for emergencies. And a coolbag full of cans of Diet Coke and fizzy water. And bottled water too. My car is stocked with bottled water and snacks

So pretty much the same deal.

(Supposedly)The lecithin (lowers blood cholesterol) remains intact in hard boiled eggs, as opposed to being destroyed by frying.

but doesn't negate the actual cholesterol within the eggs....

Are you sure?

no. But that's what THEY say......

...and I ate a shitload of eggs the week before i got my stupidly high cholesterol result, but not much else different in my diet.....

Why would the lethicin remain in tact only in the one form of cooking eggs? is the shell a factor?

hmm. I found this...

http://www.jrussellshealth.org/cholesterol.html

but the eggs I ate were freerange and I do not break the yolks when I fry....

I don't know.
Mrs. Kurtz Bio 2 class said so.

but it's not exactly unbiased or littered with actual evidence. Still, any starting point is good....

oh god, now I feel the need for an egg supper, and I've been so GOOD today -lunch was a large bowl of lettuce and celery FFS. Snacks were all fruit.... and now I WANT eggs. And I want them fried with broken yolks.....

..and hash browns and bacon...

I just want the hash browns.... but throw a little cheese on them....

ew.

We have three of these, primarily for the kids, but also for us when we need them. They generally get filled with rolled up lunchmeat stabbed with toothpicks, fresh fruit, and a few different kinds of veggie chips. When I use them I often take out the inner containers and fill the whole thing with a spring greens salad.

I take 2 sandwiches every day, and I keep a huge bag of pretzels in my desk drawer. Lunch is water, two sandwiches, and a handful of pretzels. I usually eat one sandwich mid morning, and the second one at 12:30 or 1:00.

Recently, Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup. It was cheap for four cans. What I've noticed, as I heat it, is the insane amount of chemically thinned fat that is present. My poor little plastic spoon needs sandblasted after a round of that soup. Then there goes the spoon's effectiveness.

Mostly it's coffee and ice water.

Plastic spoon? What happened to the silver spoon that you were born with?

I pawned it in exchange for self-respect.

(not really...never did know no silver spoon.) ;)

I bring water, apple, orange, banana, and sometimes a clif bar.

Breakfast:
black coffee
Fiber One bar or somesuch

Lunch:
Lean Cusine or somesuch (today it's Healthy Request soup - clam chowder)
(snow peas | broccoli | green beans | carrots) & FF dressing
two slices of 'Lite' bread
Cottage cheese
Coke Zero

Afternoon snack:
Apple
Tea


Yes, I'm on a calorie-tracking diet. Why do you ask? :eyebrow:

:) @ Pie

That's a tough diet. Good for you!

And, I love love love snow peas. Raw, as a snack. Yum. Which reminds me...the local produce farm (where I worked growing up) should have fresh peas soon. I buy a pack of shelled peas and eat them out of the bag like candy.

I have a wide variety of lunch bags/boxes to choose from, and then some days I just stuff things into the messenger bag. What's in there varies wildly. Some days are sandwich days, others frozen (Marie Callender Honey Roasted Chicken Pot Pie is a favorite), and very rarely something I've actually made. I don't have a lot of time for that, though. Durability is an important component of what I take to work, because if it needs nuking, there is an even money chance I won't get to eat it, and it has to make it through a day or two in the work fridge, which is one of those mini college things, that keeps things cold in the "freezer" space, and less than room temperature in the rest of it. I have a number of shelf-stable food items in the house because of this. When I don't have time to nuke what I brought, I order.

I take all my food everyday to work...

Breakfast is in the car, usually liquid meal replacement or cereal

Morning smoko is fruit

Lunch - sandwich, soup or left overs

Arvo smoko is cheese n bikkies or something for my 3.30 sugarfixitis

Could you translate that for us, please?

yeah; how do you get "arvo" from afternoon? and what's a bikkie?

I'm assuming biscuit, which I thought meant cookie, but you can't eat cheese with cookies!

And a smoko. Does how does that translate to snack, coffee break, elevenses, or tea?

:)

smoko comes from smoke break. In this context bikkies (biccies in British slang) would usualy be the type of biscuits merkins refer to as crackers.

Chocolate Chip cookies and Swiss works, though, just sayin'......

arvo from afternoon I think because some people (not speculating who *coughcockneycriminalsanduppercrustgovernorsofprisoncoloniescough*) (used to) pronounce afternoon with a longer "a" sound ........and it is mandatory for all aussie slang to end in "o".

I'm eating healthy now...organic, all natural, processed as little as possible. I bring all my food for the day. Typical day is:

Breakfast at home - Kashi Go Lean cereal, skim milk or, boiled egg, melon, slice of Nature's Own no sugar added toast. Or maybe steel cut oatmeal and fried egg.

Snack - fat free cottage cheese, fresh berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc.) or grapes.

For a while I ate Kashi microwave lunches, and after that I ate Amy's lunches, but now eating a wrap. I bring all of what I need for a week's worth, on Monday morn.

Lunch - Whole wheat tortilla with organic mustard, roast turkey or ham (organic, no antibiotics or preservatives), organic swiss or cheddar cheese, alfalfa sprouts, tomato, red onion, and handful of hot peppers. (226 calories, 9g fat, 23 protein)

Snack - baby carrots, reduced fat cheese stick. Sometimes it's celery and naturally more peanut butter.

Stormie - are you a Deadhead? ;)

Deadhead...as in "hippie"?

No, I'm more your basic rebel- goth-biker-gamer-accountant type :angel:



(who is finally taking care of her body)

Today:

Boneless Pork Chop in Barbeque Sauce with variety rice (fancy stuff mix ... white, brown, wild, and red. Who knew there was red rice?)
cooked it all my ownself.

LaYogurt Peaches and Cream

Cherry Dr. Pepper

I'll probably throw in a couple of K-Cups, and a candy bar I don't really need.

Fuji Apple

Smart Ones Thai Chicken and Rice noodles
Raw broccoli
140 grams of cherries (exactly!)
Fiber One chocolate & oats bar
100 calorie Smart Pop popcorn
Low fat cottage cheese
Coke Zero
Tea
Coffee (black)

Woo -- I get a 1000 calorie dinner! Chipotle, here I come!

I am having roasted chicken, rice, fruit, and a salad. I am guessing the fruit and salad may end up being snacks and not actually part of the lunch

you can't have any salt with it though! holy fucking sodium, batman!

And unfortunately, the Smart Ones has 620 sodium and the cottage cheese has 380. When I go over my daily limit of 1500 sodium, it's almost always due to cheese and processed foods :sniff:

I heart cheese.

Fuck sodium. I have marginally low blood pressure; I can only afford to worry about so many things at once. :rolleyes:

Lean cuisine apple cranberry chicken
sugar snap peas -- 100g
cherries -- 200g
fiber one bar
100 cal popcorn
mini babybel light
black coffee
tea

936mg sodium so far, ya happy?

have we met? My name is Mr Pot.

:lol:

reading that there nutrition information is a killer. I never worried about sodium before. Now I decided I just can't or I may as well be turned into a pillar of salt right here and now. And to think I always envisioned myself as an eat-to-live rather than live-to-eat type person :rolleyes:

I'm using DailyPlate to track what I eat. It works pretty well. I see (and am appalled by) the sodium content in the pre-packaged foods I eat, but given that portion control is where the game's at, I can't afford to take it too seriously.

Down 13 lbs so far.

Way to go, Pie!

I made all the stuff for salad yesterday (cheaper to cut up own veggies than to buy pre-cut or pay the outrageous salad bar price) but I was so disappointed in the lettuce and the celery...they looked like hell on display and looked worse cut up.

I've never seen striated iceberg lettuce like that before. I don't even want to eat it. It might taste OK but it just looks weird to me. The celery can best be described as spindly.

If I hadn't been so tired I would have tried a different store. I wish I had, now.

That's excellent, Pie. The sodium thing is NUTS. that is all.

I had lettuce for lunch. Am hungry already :(

Oh I looooooove salt! I love pickled, salty foods and always salt my dishes and my favorite things are just loaded with sodium. But it doesn't love me....

I use MyFitnessPal to track my foods, it's decent too.

Ham and pepper jack wrap for lunch. PRobably gonna do chicken and penne pasta with olives and feta for dinner.

Valium, Tequila, and Cyanide.

Friggin' forgot my cherries. They're sitting on the counter at home. :rar:

Ran out of time this morning, so no bag lunch. I'll probably run out for Jimmy Johns.

Kashi veggie chana masala
Yogurt
Fiber one bar
cantaloupe (from cafeteria)
100 cal popcorn
black coffee
coke zero

Apple
Yogurt - fruit on bottom - usually blueberry
2 liters of Vintage seltzer
frozen handmade dinner - usually spaghetti or rice. I cook on the weekend and freeze.
20 oz Diet Dr Pepper cherry

grr pie's no good without cherries! :meanface:

word

The kids both made a (fresh from the patch) strawberry pie a few days ago. They were pretty dern good...

Lucky mom

I have delicious leftover quesadilla for tomorrow: grilled chicken, a little cheese, fresh cilantro and housemade salsa loosely folded in a fresh tortilla...with a side of guacamole.

I have a large-ish amount of salmon dip left over from a meeting tonight, I'll be taking it to work tomorrow for a snack for everybody. Haven't figured out what I'll take for dinner yet, may buy, because Thursday is Chink night.

Chink's cheesesteaks???