Low sugar lunch ideas

[joestifff]

I have a job sitting mostly at a desk. I eat a small bowl of cereal for breakfast, and a fairly healthy normal dinner.

For lunch, I have been eating lately, a banana, an apple and about a third of a pack of soreen, with no butter on.

I am worried, that the Soreen and the fruit is to much sugar. But what else can I eat. I cannot be bothered to prepare something every night, I have no idea about what is good and bad, and I am not a big fan of bread unless it has lashings of butter. Other than that I will eat anything.

I have a Morissons nearby, but that is it. I thought I was doing good eating all this fruit, but people at work say I am eating nothing but sugar!!

[HTP99]

I know you said you can't be bothered to prepare anything but I have a salad which takes minutes in the morning:

Salad leaves, cherry tomatoes cut in half or quarters,chopped pepper, chopped red onion or sliced spring onion and about 100g of chicken (the chicken is usually breast either marinaded overnight or sprinkled with something such as paprika or garam masala in the morning, a bit of olive oil and bunged under the grill whilst I have my morning shower, or you can buy pre-prepared cooked chicken but it is cheaper to do your own.

I then put a couple of table spoons of mayo or some other dressing on it, it all goes in a Tupperware type thing and it's great for lunch, this is supplemented by a couple of bits of fruit.

if I've had a BBQ the night before and there is leftover meat, I'll have that instead of the chicken, this week I've had chopped lamb koftas and Porky Whites in my salad.

Edited by HTP99 on Friday 20th July 16:03

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joestifff said:

I have a job sitting mostly at a desk. I eat a small bowl of cereal for breakfast, and a fairly healthy normal dinner.

For lunch, I have been eating lately, a banana, an apple and about a third of a pack of soreen, with no butter on.

I am worried, that the Soreen and the fruit is to much sugar. But what else can I eat. I cannot be bothered to prepare something every night, I have no idea about what is good and bad, and I am not a big fan of bread unless it has lashings of butter. Other than that I will eat anything.

I have a Morissons nearby, but that is it. I thought I was doing good eating all this fruit, but people at work say I am eating nothing but sugar!!

For starters, if you "cannot be bothered" to prepare food, then you're not going to get anywhere. If you're that worried about your eating, you'll be bothered enough to change. It really isn't hard once you get into the swing of things - but you've got to want to do it. Fail to prepare- prepare to fail.

I have an office based job too. Every evening, i'll cook up some pasta which takes about 15 minutes. Chop up some red pepper, cucumber, and a bit of spring onion. Chuck it all into a lunchbox and stick it in the fridge. The next day i'll take it to work and have it with a tin of tuna for lunch. Simple. Or, if you don't have enough time each evening, take half an hour on a Sunday evening to cook up a big batch. Store it in the fridge and just portion it out each day for the week ahead.

Fruit is okay - but it is full of sugar. I try to stick to a small handful of blueberries and a couple bananas a day. There's plenty of healthy options out there - just do your research. It's pretty simple to tell what's good for you and what's bad with all the packaging information nowadays. Just try stay away from sugar because that's your biggest enemy. Think 'clean' eating - natural, no-added sugar foodstuffs.

I always think, you wouldn't put the wrong/bad fuel in your car because it wouldn't run properly - so why would you want to put the wrong/bad food (which is your fuel) in your body?