For lunch you want something to fill you up, not fill you out - out wide that is! You also want something that will provide you with energy for the long afternoon ahead. Falling asleep after lunch in the boardroom meeting isn’t an option!
Whether a takeaway lunch or a home prepared lunch is your style, these super lunch ideas should get you inspired and ‘wired for energy’:
- Thick grainy bread with lean roast beef, tomato, lettuce and relish.
- Tortilla or wrap filled with a skinless chicken breast, a variety of salad ingredients and avocado.
- Wholemeal roll with a small tin of flavoured tuna or salmon and tomato
- Jaffle with baked beans and reduced fat cheese.
- Sushi or California rolls.
- Chunky minestrone or chicken and vegetable soup with a warm crusty wholemeal roll.
- 97% fat free frozen meal in a bowl, heated in the microwave.
- Jacket potato filled with baked beans, reduced fat cheese and tomato salsa.
- Vietnamese rice paper rolls filled with lean meat or prawns, noodles and vegetables, served with sweet chilli sauce.
- Thai beef salad followed by a piece of fruit.
- Pasta with a tomato-based or vegetable-based sauce (avoid creamy sauces) and a leafy salad.
- Pita bread spread with hummus and filled with lean beef or falafel and lots of tabbouli or salad.
Having a snack attack? Try one of these tasty and healthy snacks for a change:
- Takeaway or homemade fresh fruit salad drizzled with low fat fruit yogurt.
- Fruit smoothie made with reduced fat milk, yogurt, banana or canned fruit and honey.
- Tub of low fat fruit-flavoured yogurt tossed through some canned apricots, peaches or pears.
- Handful of dried fruit and nut mix.
- Tall glass of MILO with low fat milk.
- Toasted fruit loaf with a scraping of polyunsaturated or monounsaturated margarine.
- Small tin of flavoured tuna or salmon tossed through a packet of prepared low fat 2 minute noodles.
- Wholemeal savoury biscuits topped with low fat cheese and tomato, or pastrami and relish.
- 97% fat free flavoured noodle snack.
- Steamed or microwaved corn on the cob.
- Fruit-based cereal bar or breakfast bar - look for a low fat variety.