Gone are the days when you were tagged as the kid who brought her lunch box to school. In today’s salad bar weary times, lunches prepared from home are healthier, sanitary, cost-effective, and now stylish.
A Healthy Mid-day Break
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day but in corporate culture, when you are planted on your office chair for an inhuman number of hours, lunch is sacred. It’s an opportunity to get up from you seat and collect your lunch—perhaps the most physical activity in hours. The lunch must meet the needs to satisfy, energize, and not sap needed hours to get you through till quitting time.
Smart Food Choices
Sensible lunch options include a balanced mix of vegetables, protein, fruit, and whole grains. All foods that fill you up and provide energy. Avoid salty and fried choices, which depletes hydration and energy, as well as foods high in sugar that can give you a false rush that leads to an inevitable crash. Back to hydration, be sure to have liquids on hand, notably water and green tea.
Top food choices for an office lunch:
Grilled shrimp salad is both healthy and delicious.
Spinach salad with crab
Turkey with spinach on whole wheat wrap
Egg white omelet with veggies on rye toast
Tuna on a whole wheat pita
Grilled chick and vegetable brown rice
Tofu, grilled broccoli and millet
Grilled shrimp salad
Top snacks for an office lunch:
Blueberry smoothie with healthy benefits.
Cut veggies and hummus dip
Rice cakes topped with guacamole and salsa
Cheese and grapes
Sunflower seeds
Almonds
Fruit
Berries
Celery sticks and almond butter
Fruit smoothie
Resources:
Lunch for One: Dalcini Stainless
