You can’t go wrong with a healthy fruit platter for lunch
For many people today, we have so much going on in our lives; work, family, study, and more, that learning to cook properly is often something many people want to do, but just never get round to doing. This often leads to many people resorting to eating frozen dinners, microwave meals, and ready-made foods which require very little preparation, especially when it comes to lunch time. Often we don’t even bother with cooking a meal in the microwave and opt for takeaway foods such as McDonald’s, pizza, Chinese, Thai and Indian take outs. Unfortunately when people eat this way all of the time there is often not enough nutrition in their diet and it can lead to possible weight gain. Not to mention the lack of variety and taste especially with ready-made home meals like cans of soup or pasta in a box. So if you are not an expert cook and just want something easy to make don’t worry, you can still make a meal which both tasty and healthy. You just need to think outside of the box a little when it comes to making easy to cook lunches at home.
Consider some of the following ideas to add a little variety into your lunches and you bet your health and taste buds will thank you. These can be made for yourself at home for lunch, or to take with you for lunch at work, or even for your kids to take for lunch at school.
Tortilla Wraps: These are delicious and extremely easy to make. As a plus they are quite healthy too especially considering you choose what you want to put in them. You can also opt for whole meal or multi-grain wraps. With endless possibilities for fillings you can change the flavor and you will never get tired of them. Try with pizza sauce and lettuce, olives, pepperoni and mozzarella. Or try with ham, pineapple, lettuce and cream cheese. Or how about refried beans with lettuce, olives, tomato and cheddar cheese topped with salsa. The options are limitless and many options for vegetarians as well. Anything you can put on a pizza, in a taco or on a sub, you can put in a tortilla.
Lettuce Rolls: Who could have thought lettuce could be so tasty! Use lettuce such as iceberg, red leaf or romaine, as a wrap for lunch with plenty of different options for fillings. Prepare the filling beforehand, and when you are ready to eat, just heat it up in the microwave, pop onto your lettuce, wrap and eat. It’s very simple, healthy and tasty. Ideas for fillings include lunch meat, sushi, cold chicken salad, chicken teriyaki, turkey with mixed veggies and soy sauce, and anything you could put in a taco or tortilla.
Mixed Lunches: Try something different and mix and match snacks together to form a tasty lunch. Some ideas for this type of lunch are:
Cheese and crackers- Lunch meats and crackers
- Peanut butter and celery
- Chopped veggies and dip
- Fruit kabobs
- Cold cuts with cheese and crackers
- Fruit and cheese plate with crackers
- Ground nuts with veggies
- Curried yogurt dip with veggies
- Fruit and yogurt
Now you don’t need to spend ages preparing and cooking to have a nice, quick and healthy lunch. You can still have a quick lunch with no hassle and yes you can still use the microwave to cook it if you have access to one, nothing wrong with that. These ideas are just a start, the options for different lunches at home which are both quick and easy to make is endless. Put your thinking cap on and try to invent new ways and new dishes to make your lunch both healthy, tasty and a bit of fun too.
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