Help me out with lunch for reps

[xrisfox]

Heres the situation, i work about 45 min away from home and all the stuff around here is unhealthy, i bought a george forman to cook chicken and burgers but that only lasts so long till you get sick of it. Help me create a good list of items i can buy at the grocery store and take for lunch. I always feel like lunch is my least healthy meal of the day. I'm sick of turkey sandwhiches seasoned chicken and seasoned beef, anyone got any recipes or ideas?

[Skull Crusher Chris]

You can use the foreman to make some really good melts with whole wheat bread, cheese and whatever meat you want to put on it.


EDIT: What I do is I make brown rice throw in some meat(tuna, chunk turkey or chicken) then when it comes lunch time I throw it in the micro and heat it up with some vegetables. Easy and tastes good.

[in10city]

Make something that you typically would think of as breakfast or dinner and eat it for lunch. Cottage cheese? Eggs? Tuna? Cereal? Fruit? Vegetables? The list and combinations are literally endless.

Pick things you wouldn't typically think to mix together and mix them together. Cottage cheese, protein powder, cereal, and fruit? Tuna and Potatoes? Eggs and cottage cheese?

[xl Achilles lx]

For lunch I usually take somethin quick that can be made into a sandwhich. I prefer chicken sandwhiches, but also sliced turkey breast, egg salad, tuna fish mixed with salsa, relish or mustard, (can make melts on the foreman too) and lean hamburgers. Get creative bro, the options are limitless.

[Eagle fan 123]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=26231

This might help

[jamrock]

My list of options..

Eggs, Turkey (sliced, breasts, canned), Chicken (breast, canned), Tuna (canned), Beef (sirloin, top round), Nitrean.

Wheat and spinach wraps, whole grain bread, oats, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, broccoli..

Seeds, Nuts, Raisins, Water, Coffee, Rasberry flavored Dasani..

Dude food is pretty boring when you're not eating garbage. I make a bag of breasts (20lbs) and I have 2-3 a day. They taste the same weekly, but what changed is what I had em with. Potatoes, 3-4 min in the microwave and their done, same with broccoli, some lettuce/tomatoes/banana peppers and I slice up two breasts and throw it in a huge wrap. A shake before I leave work.. I mean how much can you possibly eat at work, you gotta get **** done..

Good luck

[skinnyboipgh]

Healthy Choice frozen meals, stuff u can mix w/ CC, chili & beans w/ rice, foil packets of salmon u can mix up w/ melted cheese, hard-boiled eggs, sardines, canned chicken. Just a few things off the top of my head.

[clintwinz]

i would possibly take talupia or a very lean seafood such as tuna its quick and convient just make sure to keep cool

[ZCAY889]

whole grain wrap with your choice of chicken, tuna, beef, or anything else + a healthy mustard, shredded lettuce, jalapeno peppers, black olives, and possibly shredded cheese and tabasco sauce. You could also add other peppers or veggies in. Prepare individual bags of each ingredient (several of each) and grab one of each bag to take with you.

[IH8CARDIO]

Since you are willing to prepare food beforehand and bring it with you, the list is potentially endless. Here are some options I might choose, based on my tastes though...

1 hard boiled egg / 4-5 whites / 1c. oats / 1.5 tbsp peanut butter

6oz. lean sirloin steak / 1.5-2 c. green beans / handful of almonds

7oz. turkey (baked turkey breast from home, not deli turkey) / 1 sweet potato / 1.5-2tbsp. almond butter (try a Walden Farms BBQ sauce or Frank's Hot Sauce on the turkey - pretty good, also the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" spray or even Smart Balance Butter Spread is great on baked turkey)

2 scoops Beverly Ultimate Muscle Protein pudding (it's a shake mix but use less water for a decent pudding) / 2 tbsp. heavy cream or peanut butter / 5oz. pineapple

2 scoops any protein powder / 1.5-2 tbsp. peanut butter / handful strawberries

Ultra-Size or other protein powder-based pancakes (that is my favorite powder for pancakes but you can use others) made with oatmeal and Smart Balance Butter Spread / 3-4 packets Splenda (you can make a stack of these the night before and reheat them at work, or if you want they're OKAY eaten cold) (optional: low-carb / low-cal syrup though I don't use this)

Tuna sandwich with 1 can of tuna, just a little mayo, whole-wheat bread and a side salad with oil/vinegar (salad optional but I usually like to get some veggies in for that mid-day meal myself)

Large salad topped with chicken or turkey or lean beef, oil/vinegar dressing, and (optional) flax seeds or crushed almonds

Cottage cheese+peanut butter+pineapple

As you can see the list of ideas could go on forever.

You asked about a list of items to get from the grocery store though. Here are a few foods that I almost always pick up from each Costco or grocery store visit:

-Lean Beef, chicken, turkey breast (one Publix brand turkey breast usually), fish, and a few 4-packs of tuna
-Several bags of frozen green beans, spinach, broccoli, etc.
-Fresh veggies sometimes if there is anything good there
-Lettuce
-Low-cal dressing spray and/or olive or Enova oil and vinegar
-Various spices
-A couple bags of grapefruit.
-1-2 whole pineapples (my girlfriend cuts them for me lol)
-Strawberries
-Brown rice (good bulk deals at Costco)
-Old Fashioned and/or Steel-Cut oats
-Sweet Potatoes
-Peanut Butter
-Almonds and sometimes other nuts
-Cottage cheese
-Egg Beaters and Whole Eggs
-Turkey Bacon (sometimes but not lately)
-Crystal Lite or Sugar-Free Kool Aid (been trying to cut back lately though)
-Splenda (also been cutting this back)
-Green Tea
-Coffee
-Some kind of treat for my dogs

Now I'm rambling but hopefully something in there gave you some ideas. Good luck!

[Quadroplex]

Kashi frozen meals are what I like for lunch. Just enough for a meal and easy to transport.

If you have a cooler I'd also recommend making some tuna or chicken salad. Lightly use low fat mayo, cut up some celery, and presto! I like to add other things, like grapes, chopped almonds and sometimes apples. Yum!

[xrisfox]

thanks guys ill make sure to get everyone on recharge, only got a few so far

[TDetroit]

1. get over it and but a lunch tote. Mine is a big tote because I am a bottomless pit.

2. Tortillas, lots of tortillas

3. Sandwiches Turkey, Ham, PB&J

4. Plastic storage containers - lots

5. I cook fish and put it in the containers, Tilapia, Salmon, Shrimp

6. Raw veggies in the containers, carrots, broccoli, beans, peas, corn

7. Boiled eggs, I boil 18 every Sunday

8. Natures Valley Fruit and Oats bars

9. Ready to drink protein shakes

10. Protein bars

11. Pack it all in the lunch tote and carry it with you.

Hope that helps.

And yes I do look funny carrying my brief case and my red lunch tote