HELP--Easy Portable Lunch and snack ideas NEEDED

[lovetoscrap]

A bunch of us just started trying to help motivate and support each other on the PMS thread here (anyone is welcome to join us by the way! ) and it seems like our first challenge is coming up with relatively quick and easy HEALTHY portable lunch and snack ideas to take to work or wherever our daily activities take us .

Especially beyond just cut up veggies and salad. I think we all have access to at least a lunch bag and ice pack or refrigerator so we can do cold stuff, but it would be nice if we can prep ahead of time --like on the weekend or the night before-- and grab and go in the morning.


If you have great healthy ideas for portable healthy meals and snacks please help us out. We are all doing different plans (WW, SB, low cal etc...) so if you want to tell us what plan you use and how it fits into that plan that would help also. We just don't want to get bored and give up after a week of the same old things or cause we can't get it together and end up with a burger and fries.

 

[C_leen]

Hi-

If you have microwave access: oatmeal packets and cans of soup

A box of oatmeal packets is not heavy & I think my current box has 10 servings. I bring in 2 cans of soup at a time as I ride a train to work. I try to focus on vegetable soups as I usually slack on my veggies. Then I bring in fruit each day I work as well as whatever bottle of water I am working on. I bought a microwaveable bowl, a can opener, and I reuse plastic spoons.

It is too heavy for me to carry soda in, so I bring boxes of herbal tea and some green teas. I use a large Christmas mug year round.

I like to have a box of snack bars too. I have been picking them out lately based on fiber... I just tried a kashi one and it tasted like cardboard. I think I like the raisin bran one by kellog. I plan to try fiber one brand soon.

I recently tried South Beach walnut cranberry chicken salad and it was excellent. I like their chicken southwestern wrap too.

I don't drag in microwaveable meals too often anymore. I just got tired of them & seriously the calories on some are rather high.

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

I definitely go with the oatmeal packets and use hot water from the water cooler and eat that like half then at break finish the rest. I like the low fat string cheese, cottage doubles, almonds.

Oooh and I love to take a slice of ham, roll it around a pickle and a new thing I found someone offer for appetizers was to add a little bit of philadelphia cream cheese to the roll.

 

[DisDee]

Some things I take to work are...low-fat puddings, granola or other snack bars, fruits, string cheese, Laughing Cow wedges, Cottage Doubles, Yogurt (I put it in the freezer for a couple of hours to make it nice and cold) and eat it with fruit cups, pre-measured bags of pretzels, low-fat popcorn, trail mixes made with your own favorite fruits and nuts. I also use some healthy-type frozen entrees for lunch. I love Mcdonald's fruit and yogurt parfait. Sometimes I pick one up on my way to work and freeze it for lunch. We have bottled water at work, so I fill a small thermos with ice and bring some of those powdered single serving drink mixes along. That helps me to drink more water. This week, I'm also going to take some peanut butter and high-fiber English muffins. Hope this helps! I would love to get some new ideas too.

 

[alohaliilo]

Starkist has a little kit of tuna and crackers (which is good if you do not use the packet of mayo).

 

[AlreadyexcitedGrammy]

let's see I like

vitalicous muffins - 100 cal and good fiber for muffin tops
laughing cow light wedges
Rice cakes - by Quaker

One thing I do is to buy whatever "snack" cracker I really want and then come right home and measure into servings into smaller bags and put the baggies back into the box - makes it nice when I want to have that treat -better chance that I won't "overeat" my limit

 

[amykathleen2005]

I love the Popsecret 100 calorie bags of popcorn! Fabulous.