Healthy Lunches for Your On-The-Go Lifestyle!

Don't Let an On-the-Run lifestyle scare you any longer! Here are some menu options that will help you pick meals that will keep you full and balanced all day long, until you get home and can take that bubble bath and maybe a short cat nap in that favorite spot :) These balanced meals are perfect for work, the park, maybe a day trip somewhere.  Most of them don't need to be heated up.  The snacks are even kid-friendly!

These are mostly lunches for work. Some you may want to heat up, others you probably don't need to.  

*Here is my disclaimer-I don't count calories, nor do I think that helps most people.  My idea when it comes to eating, is eating food that is good FOR you and that you WANT to eat.  If you don't like what you are eating, you are more inclined to snack on junkier food later on in the day.  

Mid Morning Snacks-

• 8 walnut halves
• 1 apple
• Berry Parfait :Skinny Version-this is my best friend's favorite dessert! She loves it and makes it for dessert warm, and then chills it for snacks following. 
• Peanut butter and carrots 
• Peanut butter and a whole apple, sliced
• Peanut butter and celery sticks

Lunches-

• Chicken Lettuce Wrap (1 large romaine heart lettuce leaf, 2 slices lean turkey or chicken breast, 1 tablespoon reduced fat Feta Cheese Crumbles, 6 cherry tomatoes sliced in half, drizzle of mustard if desired…place on lettuce and roll up. Place wrap in foil until lunch time.
• Mediterranean Penne-maybe this was dinner the night before? You could eat it hot or cold for lunch. 
• Old-Fashioned Sandwich-Sandwich with 1 slice wheat bread, lean chicken or turkey breast, 1 slice reduced-fat cheese, 1/4 cup diced tomatoes, romaine lettuce and a drizzle of mustard (if you want it, I'm not really a mustard girl).
• 1 chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces, seared in 2 teaspoons canola oil, reduce heat to medium-low and add 1/4 cup sweet onion cut into thin slices. Saute until onions are tender, about 5 minutes.  Add mixture and 1/4 cup reduced fat Feta Cheese Crumbles to 1 whole wheat tortilla, roll and place in foil until lunch time.

Mid-afternoon snack-

• 10 grapes 
• 10 whole almonds (raw or roasted without added oils or salt)
• 1/4 cup pinto or black beans, drained and mixed with 1 tablespoon salsa and 1 tablespoon reduced-fat cheddar cheese, mash ingredients together and use as a dip with 1 celery stalk or 2 carrot sticks
• Cottage cheese with mixed fruit
• Baked apple – peel, core and slice in half, sprinkle with cinnamon and drizzle with 2 teaspoons honey, bake 20 minutes at 375 degrees
• Hummus and sliced veggies