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What lunches do you eat on a weekly basis?

I’m looking for easy and cheap options for lunches on weekdays. I mostly eat deli sandwiches and hot dogs right now and I always feel like shit after eating them. I think I need something healthier but I don’t have time over my lunch hour to cook anything too fancy. What do you all do for reliable healthy easy lunches?

crusa187 ,

Kind bar + protein shake

curiousmullet ,

Salad wraps are daily lunch for me. Goes a bit like this, but it’s really a loose recipe with whatever I have in the fridge.

  1. I’ll slice up some:

Salad/cucumber Tomatoes Bell pepper

  1. Fry some falafel/halloumi/chicken in a small pan
  2. Heat up a tortilla in another pan until it has some color, but not too much or the tortilla will break when rolled
  3. Flip tortilla and add whatever cheese I have
  4. Put on a plate and garnish with everything
  5. Liberal amount of seasoning and hot sauce.
  6. Roll up tortilla

I started doing this when I couldn’t taste anything with COVID and needed something with texture. Never stopped.

Pulptastic ,

Leftovers or salami+cheese+almonds. It’s yummy, satisfying, and can survive a few hours out of the fridge.

CptEnder ,

Damn are you me? Like literally my go-to for lunch too haha

HaywardT ,

In-n-out hamburger w grilled onions, four or five times a week. $3.64

Trollivier ,

My favorite thing to do is mix diced veggies (green onion, sweet pickles, green pepper, arugula) with hard boiled eggs or flaked tuna, then add diced cheese (mozzarella, cheddar or feta). You can also add grapes, raisins or nuts or sunflower seeds, whatever you like.

When you’re ready to eat, mix all of it with a spoon of cream cheese, and put all of the mixture inside a pita bread. It’s pretty awesome and satisfying.

InternetLefty ,

Cook rice in rice cooker with two eggs, when it’s done I peel eggs and chop up some carrot/cucumber and eat it with Sriracha mayo. Impossible burger on a bun with Sriracha mayo and cucumber and corn chips on the side. Left overs, which are usually pretty good. Sometimes cheese pizza rolls.

TheOSINTguy ,

I typically put yogurt in a bowl, put granola chunks on top and cut up a banana and put it on top.

Cowbee ,
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Usually a protein, veg, and rice. Could be chicken, or chickpeas, with beans and rice, perhaps. Just that rice bowl variation.

MrsDoyle ,

When I still worked my favourite lunch was ramen. I had square plastic clip-top boxes, perfect shape for ramen blocks. Pop in the ramen, sprinkle with the seasoning packet (or seasonings of your choice) and top with whatever veg you have to hand. Sugarsnap peas, baby corn, spring onion (scallions), zucchini, greens, shredded carrot, bell pepper. If you have cooked chicken, add a slice of that. Clip the lid back on.

At lunchtime, open the box, add boiling water to cover the ramen, close the box again and wait for three minutes or so for the ramen to cook. I guess access to boiling water might be tricky in the US - in the UK our staff canteen had a boiling water dispenser for tea-making.

GrappleHat ,
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Oatmeal w/ nuts, dried fruit, & honey. Very cheap & good for you.

Dhrystone ,
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Microwave basmati rice and Trader Joe’s microwave yellow tadka dal. Addicted to it right now. Sometimes I’ll slice up half a beef sausage or Polska kielbasa, fry that in a pan for a couple minutes and throw it on top along with some sriracha sauce.

Kalcifer , (edited )
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Not necessarily specifically a lunch, but a consistent midday meal that I have is a sort of fruit-yogurt-granola bowl. The fruit is just maybe a cup of assorted berries, then 3/4 cup of plain yogurt, then 3/4 cup of homemade granola — consisting of various nuts, raisins, oats, etc. and some maple syrup, brown sugar, and vanilla extract mixed in for flavor.

For breakfast I eat an avocado toast — whole avocado, extra-virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, and lemon juice mixed together into a paste and spread on a piece of toasted whole-wheat bread — and scrambled eggs — I melt half a tablespoon of butter, or so, in a pan, and briefly sautée a tablespoon, or so, of diced red onion, them add two eggs into the pan, which I scramble in the pan for 30s, or so, then season with salt, and pepper on top.

pineapplelover ,

I just pan fry eggs, chicken, shrimp, or fish with onions and garlic. Chop some tomatoes in and eat with rice. It’s alright

jemikwa , (edited )

I have been addicted to making ramen eggs (ajitama) for lunches lately. I eat one or two eggs over rice with some furikake or toasted seaweed and that’s all I need to power through the day. You could pair the dish with more veggies or a miso soup if you’re feeling fancy. The nice part is making half a dozen eggs squares me away for the week, so I hardly have to think about what to do.

Another dish I like is Korean steamed eggs (gyeranjjim). It takes not even 10 mins to cook on the stove. Making rice takes longer, and you can make a lot of rice to reheat later in the week. I would cook the eggs fresh each day though , I’m not sure how reheating them would go. The broth that goes with the eggs keeps me fuller than I ever expect.

Baba ghanoush is so tasty when you make it yourself. This requires more effort up front to roast the eggplant, but the dip is good all week. I eat it with carrots, cucumber, cauliflower, and some pita chips.

Regular tuna salad or this chickpea “tuna” salad is always easy to whip up. I always have celery, pickles, and bread on hand so if I’m feeling up for it, I crack open a can of tuna or chickpeas for an easy lunch.

thorbot ,

Tuna salad in a Romain lettuce bowl. Some broccoli and almonds or walnuts on the side and a sparkling water

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