Lunch Ideas
Regularly making lunch yourself over eating takeout is the best way to go. It will save money and you control the ingredients. During the week, I like a quick lunch that I can just heat up and eat without thinking about what I'm going to have and spending a lot of time preparing it. On Sundays, I use the crockpot to make soup, stew or chili. I make something that is full of vegetables and some sort of vegetarian protein, usually red or green lentils, chickpeas, split peas or black beans. I add broth which is usually vegetable or chicken bone broth. I top it off with a bunch of healthy spices. It's good, quick and nutritious. Adding meat instead of beans and beef broth instead of chicken or vegetable broth would also work. I also make a salad for dinner the night before and save half of it for lunch. The salad usually consists of spinach and/or mixed greens, cucumber, pepper (no seeds), red or yellow onion, olives or avocado, black pepper. I sometimes add in tomatoes (no seeds -...