whats for lunch?

“	Thats not really an everyday simple lunch sam, and you have to like spicy food. Also what about those things that don't require cooking or heating?	”

It's an everyday simple lunch to me!

But when I don't make it out -- I make up salad on Sunday nights -- just the lettuce, carrots, celery, onion. Pack it into 5 separate quart-size bags and put in the crisper. Broil 5 chicken breasts marinated in balsamic vinegar & sprinkled with Italian seasoning, cool, slice & store in the fridge. So when I head out to work, I just grab some salad, put some sliced chicken in the bag with it. At noon I just pour it into the bowl I keep at work, add a little lite caesar dressing, and that's lunch.

I carry around a raisin-peanut-sunflower seed mixture for between-meals snacks. And oatmeal cookies, of course.

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"which one is lunch??? 5.45, 9.30, 11,30, 13.30, 15,30 17,45 and 20,00"

depends which country you are in: USA 11.30 is the nearest (early lunch), UK 13.30 (quite late), Spain (or chile at the weekend) 15.30 (normal time).


Aq "For many years I didn't eat lunch, just never had the time and it was not worth stopping work just for that."

That is the most shocking thing I have ever seen on the net: "just for that".

Lunch is the main meal in the Spanish speaking world, and we eat later than in the UK or USA. This week I have had beef stew with rice, beef stew with pasta and tomato salad, turkey with rice and spinach, pizza (on the day I teach), and bacon pasta (I think). Normally eat about 2pm. Today in fact I am eating two proper meals as I am hungry (and had early lunch at 13.20). It´s culture and priorities: everyone here (well nearly everyone!) does this

Not much help

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Yeah, I kinda miss siesta! Going to school in Mexico as a kid -- we had a 2-hour break at lunch, most of us went home to eat & others brown-bagged it. Adults got even more time, about 3 hours. Almost everything shut down during this time.

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i usually make masses of salads at the begining of the week

grated carrot and beetroot with seseme oil and a little vinager (sometimes add sunflower seeds or rasins)

boiled potatoes cut into cubes (or new pots) mixed with either chopped boiled egg or spring onion and may or yogurt (or both)

coleslaw just shredded cabbage, chopped onion and grated carrot with mayo and /or yogurt

mixed bean salad lierally any beans you like mix em up with vinager, oil and chilli

grated cucumber and yogurt

usually make a big container of humous too

then spend the rest of the week grazing on them

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wingy's got another winner

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I've been reading this with intrest because lunch is the only meal I find a real hassle. I'm spectacularly fussy about ingredients (another yoga food facist, what a surprise) and really don't have "10 minutes in the morning" to put together a pack lunch. That leads to 30 min at lunchtime looking unimpressed at the sandwiches in the various on site snack shops and ending up eating an "organic chicken baguette" - with margarine - or something equally awful.

So far, though, you guys haven't convinced me!

This, though, looked very tempting http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/f...065893,00.html
and I've had a few good lunches here
http://www.villandry.com/
and they've thrown me out of the athanaeum restaurant to go on a pub crawl of west end hotel bars on more than one occaision after a prolonged lunch with wine...

Day to day though pasta salad - leftover pasta, tuna or chicken, tapanade or pesto, sugar snap peas. Rice salad - wild rice, raisins, lemon juice and olive oil to make a dressing, bits of green pepper (I like them with raisins, others don't). Paella - chorizo, peas, risotto rice, prawns, chicken, and chicken stock - boil up and eat cold the next day or microwave in the office canteen. Risotto pretty much the same but mushrooms instead of meat. Personally I stop at a really poncey bakery when I've time - good bread is fantastic, a different world from the stuff you get in the supermarket.

The best was a contract alongside a load of Indian guys working for an outsourcing company on their first trip abroad. They kept bringing enough food for every one for lunch - samosas, aloo, hundreds of kinds of raita, dozens of kinds of nan, roti, and paratha. It was amazing. Might be worth looking for a local shop Indian's use for take out. The deserts are an acquired taste mind, carrot boiled in milk isn't my first choice for a snack.

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J100 : 2The deserts are an acquired taste mind, carrot boiled in milk isn't my first choice for a snack."

gulub jamin mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

or rasmali mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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"....if you're ever attacked by someone armed with a banana, your first thought has got to be to eat that banana. Thus leaving him unarmed and defenseless." - ace

Wingy's salad masses are amongst my normal fare. The carrot salad is simple and a lot more satisfying than I imagined.

suggestions:
a. Humus can come with various seasonings/herbs. I like mine plain.
b. Here, they sell bags of mixed greens that provide a pleasant alternative to
the same ole iceberg or romaine.
c. Dark green curly leaves of raw baby bok choy are super salad material.
d. I'll take one of those individual flip-top cans of Bumble Bee tuna too.
I don't care for the pre-mixed variety.
e. I like previously cooked veggies as part of a cold raw veggie salad, especially corn, broccoli.
f. Tossing in a tablespoon of plain wheat germ is good in a yoghurt-based dressing.
g. I like fish filet sandwiches. I get frozen ones at the local health food market, without a lot of preservatives. I'm happy to eat those cold, after I bake them the night before.

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It may not be the healthiest lunch but I eat chinese takeout just about every day (at least 4 days out of the 7). Usually I'll get either Beef Lo Mein, Kung Pow Chicken (extra spicy), or General Tso's Chicken (extra spicy). Sometimes I'll get hot n' sour soup with it. Always steamed rice instead of fried rice and NO egg roll, I have them give me extra rice instead.

“	Originally Posted By: aqira Now I have a health problem that requires me to eat several times a day.	”

Aqira, do you mind sharing more on the nature of this? Ulcer? I teach a raw-foods chef who may have some really good ideas. I've eaten her food before and it is awesome.

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A small bowl of hemp hearts and soy milk.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!

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I am with MH, here. The easiest thing for me to do is the rice-protien-veggie blend. My favorite: Grilled chicken breast, brown rice, and broccoli. You make a butt-load of it, see? Then you chop it all up together and make 2 cup portions out of it, and eat on it all day. This is when I'm training hard, (which has been a few months), and super busy. (which, unfortunately, I'm not these days...) A normal day is thus: breakfast: eggs & oatmeal
snack 1: portion of chicken/rice crap
lunch: same thing!!
Snack 2: gasp! same thing!!!
dinner: salad, seafood, or no meat at all.

Boring? Yes. Does it get old? You betcha! However, it is super easy, super cheap, and it melts the pounds off of you.

-Wu

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Sounds yummy!

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Add garlic, onions, ginger, tumeric, cumin, cayenne, savory and 1 tbsp coconut oil. Now it's ready.

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“	Originally Posted By: WuSung I am with MH, here. The easiest thing for me to do is the rice-protien-veggie blend. My favorite: Grilled chicken breast, brown rice, and broccoli. You make a butt-load of it, see? Then you chop it all up together and make 2 cup portions out of it, and eat on it all day.	”

Aye, I love making a huge heapin portion of authentic red beans & rice with either a blackened cajun pork or with cajun sausage, add in some extra red/green pepper, garlic, and lots of extra hot peppers and live off that all day and all week.

“	Boring? Yes. Does it get old? You betcha! However, it is super easy, super cheap, and it melts the pounds off of you. -Wu	”

Amen