Tasty filling healthy lunch ideas?
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Hi all,
I'm trying to watch my weight, but I seem to be having too light a lunch and then being starving when I get home in the evening, which leads me to eat whatever junk is closest to hand.
I have been taking fruit to work for lunch, usually 3-4 bananas, apples, oranges etc... but they never seem to fill me for very long. So as the thread title says what tasty, filling, healthy lunch ideas do you guys have, preferably ones that take about 5 minutes to get ready in the morning (or night before) but more importantly that will keep me going from 1.00pm to 6.00pm.
All idea's welcome.
Cheers
I'm trying to watch my weight, but I seem to be having too light a lunch and then being starving when I get home in the evening, which leads me to eat whatever junk is closest to hand.
I have been taking fruit to work for lunch, usually 3-4 bananas, apples, oranges etc... but they never seem to fill me for very long. So as the thread title says what tasty, filling, healthy lunch ideas do you guys have, preferably ones that take about 5 minutes to get ready in the morning (or night before) but more importantly that will keep me going from 1.00pm to 6.00pm.
All idea's welcome.
Cheers
Yum making me hungry. Might go and have a full English with black pudding, bubble and a fried slice all wash down with 2 mugs of tea!!!Anyway...I tend to go with things like beans on toast, ravioli on toast, tuna pasta, pesto in spagetti etc. Simple to make, filling and actually quite healthy.
Otherwise if I don't eat a half decent lunch I am snacking by 2pm and tend to attack the fridge when I get through the door just before I am about to put dinner on!
Otherwise if I don't eat a half decent lunch I am snacking by 2pm and tend to attack the fridge when I get through the door just before I am about to put dinner on!
patmahe said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to watch my weight, but I seem to be having too light a lunch. I have been taking fruit, usually 3-4 bananas, apples, oranges etc... but they never seem to fill me for very long.
Cheers
I'm trying to watch my weight, but I seem to be having too light a lunch. I have been taking fruit, usually 3-4 bananas, apples, oranges etc... but they never seem to fill me for very long.
Cheers
How can you eat three or four bananas at once? they are really filling in their own right. Maybe portion sizes need controlling as that will let your stomach shrink naturally.
Not necessarily for right now, but pasta or rice salads are usually a good bet. Cook some extra rice or pasta the night before, and let it go cold with a small amount of oil to prevent sticking. Add chicken, tuna, kidney beans etc and as many different salad vegetables as required. For winter try using a tomato (rather than cream or cheese) based sauce, and making something similar that can be warmed in the microwave at work??
Coupled with fruit for snacking, that should help get you through the day
Coupled with fruit for snacking, that should help get you through the day
you need some complex carbs with those bits of fruit.
the fruit itself is simple carbs, meaning sugers that give you energy quickly but does not last, you are wanting stuff like pasta, potato's, rice, pitta bread, stuff that has complex carbs (cant remember anymore atm)
but a good one is pasta, shredded chicken (or tuna), salad cream (low fat if ya like) and sweetcorn.
or tuna sweetcorn with salad cream in a pitta bread?
aswell as fruit.
the fruit itself is simple carbs, meaning sugers that give you energy quickly but does not last, you are wanting stuff like pasta, potato's, rice, pitta bread, stuff that has complex carbs (cant remember anymore atm)
but a good one is pasta, shredded chicken (or tuna), salad cream (low fat if ya like) and sweetcorn.
or tuna sweetcorn with salad cream in a pitta bread?
aswell as fruit.
There's some reasonable science here which may be of interest:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/topics/fullness-facto...
But I think you might be asking the impossible really. My vote would go to upping the exercise a bit and eating a bit more at lunch based on the calories you've burned.
Drink more water during the day and eat that banana at 4pm.
What facilities are there at work? Have you got a fridge or microwave?
http://www.nutritiondata.com/topics/fullness-facto...
But I think you might be asking the impossible really. My vote would go to upping the exercise a bit and eating a bit more at lunch based on the calories you've burned.
Drink more water during the day and eat that banana at 4pm.
What facilities are there at work? Have you got a fridge or microwave?
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