Snacks and Lunches

Tri-Tammy · Mar 27, 2008

With all this talk about food, diet, weight-loss (or not), and our daily dinner thread I thought I'd ask a new question pertaining to food. 
What do you all eat for snacks and lunches throughout the day? I have a desk of healthy snacks that I pre-package every week but I get stuck sometimes with lunch. I'm probably pretty lucky working in a hospital with a cafeteria, but any new ideas would be greatly appreciated!

wyrillco · Mar 27, 2008

Usually it's stuff like string cheese, fruit, and veggies. 
Today it's big soft cookies that came in my birthday basket yesterday.

bikergirl · Mar 27, 2008

Snack Ideas 
1 apple with 2 tbsp pb 
1 cheese stick & 3 slices of roast beef or sliced turkey 
1 stoneyfield farm smoothie (no high frutose corn syrup) 
8 oz ff milk & 2 back to nature chunky choc. chip cookies

kylemcm · Mar 27, 2008

Morning snack: banana and Clif builder bar 
Lunch: turkey or roast beef on wheat bread w/spinach and cheese. 2 fruit cups. bunch of carrots 
Afternoon snack: apple, almonds, another Clif Bar

hobey · Mar 27, 2008

Lunch for me is usually brownbagged leftovers from the previous evening or a salad from the cafe if we have no leftovers. 
Snacks are marcona almonds, granola bars, clementines, pineapple, berries.

COcarrie · Mar 27, 2008

Snacks.... mostly fruit or veggies, but also a big fan of popcorn, HB eggs and soup, PB with fruit or on a graham cracker (I'm dangerous around PB) 
Lunch.... sandwich or leftovers from dinner and almost always a piece of fruit and often a bag of carrots and snap peas or celery to munch on (crossover to snack!) 
(And Happy Birthday, Courtney!)

wyrillco · Mar 27, 2008

I am also dangerous around PB. I can easily eat more than 1 serving on an apple!! <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif"> 
I do sometimes do nuts as well. Lately I've been loving pistachios.

Thor · Mar 27, 2008

I snack on handfuls of mixed nuts and raisins, dried fruit, bananas, and apples.

juliemboyle · Mar 27, 2008

Snacks: Oranges, bananas, lite yogurt, cukes, hard boiled egg 
Lunch: Most of the time soup..I make a big batch of Homemade soup on the weekend, then freeze in individual serving containers....just pop in micro! Sometimes I bring in a salad or leftovers...

ericd256 · Mar 27, 2008

lunch if i am behaving is turkey burgers on wednesday, salmon on thursday, buffalo burgers friday. sat sun mon is left overs. 
snacks if i am behaving is my meal replacement drink and fruit

mmoonptdeux · Mar 27, 2008

I mix my snacks up. I rotate in Clif Bars (I buy them in bulk at Costco) and similar energy bars, trail mix, pretzels, and fig newtons for the most part. 
There are these locally-produced vegan oat cakes that the cafeteria sells here that are really filling that I snack on if my snack supply has dwindled. 
Funny thing is I bring in also these "bad" snacks (Utz Pub Mix, various Trader Joe's cookies, etc.) that my co-workers grab, but I tend not to touch.

donskiman · Mar 27, 2008

Lunch is usually either leftovers from the previous supper, or a wrap with a couple pieces of lunch meat like Healthy Choice and some reduced fat cheese, and maybe some pickles or jalapeno slices. 
Snacks are a handful of pretzels and/or some fresh fruit. 
I drink either water or the Walmart brand of Crystal Light.

runninirish · Mar 27, 2008

I eat all the time (like I'm sure most of you do)...so I surround myself with things that I can eat A LOT of...most days snacking includes: 
am-banana, raisins with nuts 
lunch-sandwich (or leftovers), fruit, v8, pudding 
afternoon-more raisins, celery, carrots, dried peaches, or yogurt (try to stay away from the high fructose though) 
evening (post dinner)-sometimes something good (not good for you) like ice cream/frozen yogurt, sometime more fruit or pudding...

LookiLoo · Mar 27, 2008

yogurt, smoothies, fruit, nuts,...I have a snack of an apple and a few cashews or almonds pretty much every afternoon (in fact, I just finished eating exactly that <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif"> ), morning depends on what exercise I've done earlier - if it's a swimming day, I have a smoothie, if it's a bike or run day, I have yogurt with a piece of fruit. 
I'm pretty predictable, but I believe that helps me control my eating a bit more.

em73 · Mar 28, 2008

snacks: string cheese, cheese stick, or kashi bar 
lunch: either leftovers from the night before, soup (sometimes with added rice) from the Au Bon Pain downstairs, or a salad with some kind of protein on it. 
I also switched my morning around so that I have a snack when I wake up and then my breakfast around 9 or 10 AM depending on when I woke up. If I work out in the AM I add an extra snack post workout depending on what I did and how hungry I am.

pcsronbo · Mar 28, 2008

first breakfast is a bagel w/ PB 
second breakfast is usually a banana sometimes a scrambled egg (ala McDonalds) or yogurt w/ fruit 
third breakfast is usually a handful of nuts, that usually holds me until 1pm or so. 
second lunch is usually something dry, kashi bar or some other bar type food... maybe another handful of nuts, although I'm trying to reduce that - they're just so easy to carry around and they keep forever! 
no third lunch for me <img alt="wink.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/wink.gif"> 
I have third breakfast to keep my lunch portions small. 
Common items, if they've been made for me ahead of time: Chicken Breast w/ some salt, edemame (freakin-a-yum), carrots, apple, or banana (esp if I didn't have in the AM). 
Tide - me - Over foods are power bars and such. I keep them around because they have nutritional value but they are not exciting. Therefore I HAVE to be hungry before I will eat 'em <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif">

3chilipeppers · Mar 28, 2008

Be careful with the popcorn. If it is the microwave kind, it usually has trans fat! 
I eat the same snacks as many others -- dried fruit, granola bars (I like the fruit and nut kind too), nuts, fruit/PB, chocolate!! 
Lunch doesn't always get eaten! I usually just have a quick PB&J. I never have time to actually sit down and eat!!

RunningForT3 · Mar 28, 2008

I snack almost all day long. Sometimes I even forget about the main meals. I'm not a healthy snacker... here are things I'd graze on: 
Lots of chocolate (2-3 pieces at one time), a Dannon Smoothie, a croissant (from ShopRite), a clementine, 4-5 Fig Newmans, string chese, a banana... 
I'd have two snacks between breakfast and lunch, 1-2 before dinner, maybe one after dinner. Usually something before working out. A Red Bull always.

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