At work.? What's in YOUR Lunchbox today?

I thought this would be a great topic so we can all compare our brown bag lunches and see if we are all on the right track!

Remember~ If you have a nice lunch box you are more likely to be happy that you are on a diet because the first thing we see is the lunch bag not the food.. Our minds work on Eye appeal! enjoy your lunch!

In my blue bag:

I work 7:30am-5:30 pm by the way

Breakfast- 3/4 cup of Eating Right Granola with raisens. Knock off of Kashi but cheaper!

Snack- Red Del. Apple.

Lunch- Perdue Perfect Portions Chicken over romaine and spinach.

Snack- 100 calorie pop corn!

I always bring an extra snack in case I drag.

Today's back up snack Green Grapes!

 

Share your luches! Comment on mine!

I just finished my way better than the original knock off pasta salad: flax noodles, cherry tomatos, artichoke hearts, chicken, feta cheese with a dash of pepper, sea salt and oregano.

I still have a banana and cut bell peppers for snacks plus an assortment of trail mixes and nuts if I feel ike it.

Original Post by soglialoro:

Original Post by atech:

Currently I bring my breakfast, lunch, and snacks in a Baggu Bag (a re-usable shopping bag), today's is fusia.  I plan on buying some recycled cotton re-usable lunch bags in the near future, then I'll use those.

Breakfast:  Slimfast and fruit blend (1/2 can slimfast, banana, strawberries, & honeydew all blended together and frozen)

Morning snack:  apple

Lunch:  Chicken and brown rice leftovers, yellow pepper, green pepper, banana

Afternoon snacks: grapes, carrots, string cheese

Since my lunch is a little bigger than normal I might end up saving the grapes for an evening treat instead of an afternoon snack.

 Ok do you make that breakfast or does it come that way.. sounds awesome!

 I make it at before bed so it has all night to freeze.  By the time I get it to work in the morning it has thawed a bit and has the consistency of ice cream; it's fantastic!

That sounds yummy, as the summer gets hotter I may try that with my mango protein shake.

2nd shift worker here. 1400-2200- ish.  I didn't bring my lunch today...but went to Subway. Got the 5 dollar foot long and the Lays Light CHips( 75 cals)  and Water-  Half the sub around 6 ish and chips...the other half around 8...that leaves me some calories for a snack when I get  home...since I usually don't go to bed til like 3-4AM.. :)

OK I'm not at work today but I had to post because I have the most awesome lunch box ever!  It's one of those little metal old-fashioned kind and it has a picture of a farm with a John Deere Tractor!  I love it.  Anyway, for Friday, when I work at Subway for most of the day, my John Deere tractor box is going to contain:

carrot sticks
pretzels
cashews
crackers
a granola bar

And I also eat tons of salad at Subway and a healthy sandwich after work (...and maybe a cookie XO).  I always work out hard before going into work so I earned that cookie darnit!

Hmm i have breakfast at home, and in my lunchbox i have:

Ham and cheese sandwich
2 small bananas
1 diet yogurt
1 NOT diet chocolate yogurt
carrot sticks

I didn't take my lunch bag today because I was able to eat at home, but tomorrow begins my 10 hour day shifts,  for the next three months.

Breakfast at home 2 slices whole wheat toast, 1/4 cup egg beater, an ounce of avacado, ounce of lean ham, tomato slice, and 1/2 cup skim milk.

I packed my outdated Dale Earnhardt Jr. #8 lunch bag with leftover steamed brocolli, turkey , potato and mixed vegtables   and an apple for lunch 300 cal.

 

Morning break    an orange and fat free string cheese

 

Afternoon break I have a tough choice ** end of school year gathering for staff** I can either have a huge chocolate chip cookie or an ounce of soy nuts.

 

 

 

good topic! everyone loves to share what they eat all day (well, i know i do!):

(breakfast at home)

snack - peanut and banana cookie (137 cals)

lunch - quorn fillet and salad with baby sweetcorn, fromage frais yoghurt

snack -  apricots, orange, plum and strawberries

and with brekkie that all adds up to only about 700 cals so plenty left for when i get home tonight. what to have, what to have...

edit: forgot to say that my lunch bag is bright green with farm yard animals on it. very childish for a 26 yr old i know but i love it!

i don't work, but i go to school. somedays i bring my own lunch, and other days i get either a veggie wrap or a 6" veggie sub on whole wheat with tomato and cucumber - no dressing or cheese. (yes, i know i'm plain)

today i plan on bringing my own lunch because i need to stay at school to do an art project. i plan on bringing: a can of diet coke, unsalted soynuts, a cucumber sandwich on whole-grain bread and either a piece of fruit, or a fruit salad.

Original Post by ratinhat88:

OK I'm not at work today but I had to post because I have the most awesome lunch box ever!  It's one of those little metal old-fashioned kind and it has a picture of a farm with a John Deere Tractor!  I love it.  Anyway, for Friday, when I work at Subway for most of the day, my John Deere tractor box is going to contain:

carrot sticks
pretzels
cashews
crackers
a granola bar

And I also eat tons of salad at Subway and a healthy sandwich after work (...and maybe a cookie XO).  I always work out hard before going into work so I earned that cookie darnit!

 When I eat at subway I get a six inch honey oat with tuna lettuce and spinach... do you know that colories on that?

Original Post by ks5857:

I didn't take my lunch bag today because I was able to eat at home, but tomorrow begins my 10 hour day shifts,  for the next three months.

Breakfast at home 2 slices whole wheat toast, 1/4 cup egg beater, an ounce of avacado, ounce of lean ham, tomato slice, and 1/2 cup skim milk.

I packed my outdated Dale Earnhardt Jr. #8 lunch bag with leftover steamed brocolli, turkey , potato and mixed vegtables   and an apple for lunch 300 cal.

 

Morning break    an orange and fat free string cheese

 

Afternoon break I have a tough choice ** end of school year gathering for staff** I can either have a huge chocolate chip cookie or an ounce of soy nuts.

 

 

 

 yeah we just started summer hours... 7:30-5:30 mon-thur... 8-12 fri !! I hate getting up early lol

Soglialoro... here's the breakdown on your tuna sandwich:

6" honey oat bread (great choice, high in fiber, but if you got the wheat you could save 50 cals): 250 calories

Tuna: 260 (lotsa mayo in this, but delicious, I know!)

lettuce and spinach: negligable, maybe 10 calories even if you got a ton...

So the total would be something like 520 for the sandwich, assuming you get no dressing or cheese.  As a tip, vinegar is calorie free and adds a lot to a tuna sub.  Oregano and salt and pepper taste great too!

This makes me really wish I had a lunchbox. I've been waning one for a good while, but right now I'm re-using plastic grocery bags. I can't wait to replace those with canvas and get a real lunchbox.

But in my lunch baggie, I had breakfast of 1/4 cup cottage cheese and 1.5 cups cantaloupe. Then for lunch I have all the ingredients to make a wrap: whole wheat tortilla, swiss cheese, tomato, cucumber, shredded carrots, onion, yellow bell pepper, spinach, and balsamic dressing. I had an awesome wrap for lunch yesterday at Roly Poly, and now I think I might get addicted.

I work 8:30am to 5pm and I eat breakfast at home so I had a 4 egg white omelette with fat free cheese and ketchup, and I cut up a banana , microwaved it, and mashed it up with cinnamon and ate that on the side, delicious!

I don't have a lunchbag because I just reuse the plastic grocery bags that my dad brings home from the grocery store each week:

Lunch: I have a "Taco Salad" with lettuce, salsa, beans, grilled chicken, and fat free sour cream

Snacks: Fun Size little pack of M&M's (yum) and a Granny Smith Apple

I eat breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks at work (8:15-4:15)

Breakfast:  Protein powder in skim milk and an apple

Snack - Unsweetened mango/peach apple sauce

Lunch - Protein powder in skim milk, bell pepper slices, cucumber, baby carrots and f.f. italian dressing

Snack - 3 stoned wheat thin crackers (90 cal), a laughing cow lite wedge, hard boiled egg white

Dinner - probably stir fry w/ chicken breast, peppers, broccoli and 1/2 cup of rice.  I might also grab some popcorn tonight for a snack if I'm still hungry.

i eat breakfast at home, and i couldn't fit it into my lunchbox even if i wanted to! i've got the cutest pink lunchbox from www.laptoplunches.com, which is plastic and comes with plastic inner compartments AND adorable silverware - hello, built-in portion control! they come in loads of colors, even black and red (which was a close second choice).

snack 1: 1 oz. almonds

lunch: salad of 1 cup spinach, 1/2 green pepper, 1/2 cucumber, olive oil and balsamic vinegar totaling 2 tb, 1 serving wheat thins crackers, and 5 meatless meatballs (weird, i know, but i'm kind of running low in the fridge)

snack 2: banana

I don't have a lunchbox :(

But - alas - today:

Had a bit of canteloupe at home while getting ready... but I packed the following:

Breakfast: 1 cup Kashi GoLean Regular

Snack: 20 Almonds

Lunch: Both a small fruit, and a small veggie salad!

Salad 1: Spinach with cubed mango and blackberries w/ FF (10 cals a tbsp) Raspberry Vinagrette.

Salad 2: 1/2 cup WW Bowtie pasta tossed with 1 small mini cucumber and 1/2 tomato sliced and a tablespoon of Calorie-wise French dressing.

Snack: Oreo 100 Calorie Thin Crisps and a cup of coffee - couldn't resist - needed chocolate.

Dinner, I'll make at home but thinking 1 Corn on the Cob grilled, added to another nice spinach salad (maybe with a bit of LF Feta) and a small portion of either chicken or fish...

No snack tonight, unless I get desperate and then I'll have a yogourt or a soy/fruit smoothie! Gym instead!  

 

 

I eat breakfast at work, because I am NOT a morning person at all.  Until a few months ago (before I changed my eating habits and lifestyle) I had not eaten breakfast since middle school.

B- 1 c. pineapple, i c. red grapes, & 1 c. watermelon

L- Bolgona sandwich 98% fat free bologna, whole wheat bread, with lettuce and cucumbers.

S- Special K Protein Water, six pickles

D-Citrus Grilled Shrimp over greens with cherry tomatoes.

I have some more snacks with me, but I am not sure what I am going to eat yet.

1/2 c. cottage cheese 1%

90 cal granola bar

100 cal Yogurt

I work from home, mainly so I can cook/eat whatever I want and don't have to worry about packing it.

breakfast--espresso (4 shots) with two Splenda and 1/4 c. fat free organic milk, two glasses of water

Lunch--Milton's whole grain bread without crust, broiled in oven with a slice of pepper jack cheese on top, whole bottle of Naked Peach Mangosteen Bliss (I wouldn't have eaten the bread and cheese, but my tummy was upset).

Snack--cup of Lemon Lift tea

I'm trying to go liquid/raw for a few days, so the bread threw me off but oh well...it settled my stomach and made me happy :) Any snacks I have today will be a glass of non-fat milk or maybe a Gala apple. Dinner is probably a bowl of soup I made yesterday (organic veg broth, sweet potato, carrot, onion, garlic, and celery...the only fat is a couple tbls. olive oil per/qt.) with an apple for desert, depending on how full I get.

I had to share my lunch today since I enjoyed it SO much:

2tbsp of peanut butter (*drool*) and lots of crisp iceberg lettuce all wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla. Yes... lettuce. I love peanut butter and lettuce. It reminds me of eating it as a kid and I haven't had it in ages.

and a mini babybel on the side (the cheesey goodness goes so well with peanut butter!!! I swear!!!)

Plus I also had 1.5cups of cantaloupe

Not the best nutrional value for lunch but not really bad either. And it felt like such a treat!!!