The FastDay Forum

Looking for lunch ideas that I can take as packed lunch, kinda fed up of eating soup!!

Anything thats about 200 cals or less

Please help

I had a salad of 30g baby spinach, 5 slices of wafer thin ham, half a tomato and 1 hard boiled egg, I think it works out about 175ish cals

Daisykitten - I like the sound of that. may use that as my lunch.

Today I had sushi from tesco 115 cals, plus 2 crackerbreads (20 cals each) with one portion of dairylea (44) split between them. So that was 200

I often make cous cous for lunch. Usually either with roasted peppers and cherry tomatoes, or with raw onion, cucumber and tomato. With roasted veg I usually throw in some paprika and with the salad I often throw in some dried or resh herbs, stops it being bland.

Otherwise rice cakes with sliced tomato and extra lean ham or with sliced cucumber and extra low fat cream cheese.

Today I made tomato dahl from hairy dieters book which is about 200 cals.

All I have is about half a cucumber in slices (bit of salt on it) and a handful of cherry tomatoes. I don't like spending time preparing food on fast days and I find this gets me through the mid day quite well. Maybe about 70cals?

I love chopped chicken and celery inside a pepper half...smidge of mayo, salt, pepper, and dill.

Try a half hours walk and bottle of diet coke = -180 cals

Try a slice of the asparagus frittata (I posted link to recipe on this board) - 183 calories, including chopped tomato per recipe. The recipe is very simple and you have dinner too if you can do the same thing twice a day.

Also, turkey sandwich (2 slices whole wheat, 2 slices deli turkey, lettuce, tomato and 1 teaspoon mustard). About 200 - 220 calories (depending on size of bread and brand of turkey slices).

Lean Cuisine pasta (230 calories on average) to zap in microwave.

Tub of low fat cottage cheese with some cherry tomatoes and crackers (200-240 calories, depending on number and type of cracker)

Couple boiled eggs with salt, some salad veg and maybe a cracker or two (200-240)

Tub of low-fat Greek yoghurt with some fresh berries (around 150 calories)

If you like cottage cheese the Lidl Linessa low fat one is good. It comes in 200g tubs and is 166Kcal so you can add a bit salad if you want. I tend to just have the cottage cheese.

Leftovers from dinner wrapped in cabbage leaves.

Today I had 50g of hummus with 2 in cucumber, half red pepper and half a carrot cut into batons - very tasty and quite filling 195 cals top depending on hummus brand.

Smoothie. I start with Almond/Coconut milk (unsweetened), and put in mostly spinach and Swiss chard, with a little protein powder, and some strawberries, blueberries and pineapple (all frozen). This makes a huge pitcher, which I drink all week, but on my fast days I have a BIG glass at lunch. Because of all the fiber, it keeps me pretty full until dinner.