WW Lunch Ideas ??

Hi - I started WW in Jan 2012 and have lost 11 lbs so far. I feel great and notice a difference but the past few weeks, I haven't really been tracking
so today I am starting back on it completely tracking and all. My biggest fail is lunch. I work in the city and with all the not so healthy & expensive options - I usually end up eating more than I should. I need healthy/filling ideas please.....

What are your favorite WW lunches? either to buy or make and bring from home?

Re: WW Lunch Ideas ??

Lentil soup

Chipotle rice bowl(brown rice, romaine, avocado, tomatoes, black beans, corn, chicken, green onion, cheese)

Blt on whole wheat with hummus

White bean and kale soup

Baked sweet potato with Greek yogurt, green onions, spices.

Re: WW Lunch Ideas ??

I work in NYC too and its tough. It is easy if I bring, but below are my "dining out" NYC options:

au bon pain--chef salad (7pts), lite ranch (3pts)...nice feeling loaded with protien lunch for 10lbs

chipolte---salad, with chicken, black beans, onions & peppers & tomato salsa & cheese (10 pts), I add sour cream, so it comes to 13

subway---ANYTHING, no joke!! but I get the turkey on wheat and I splurge on may here, but you could do mustard which is zero pts

I go to these places as its easy to track the points with all 3 having nutrional info on their websites.

My guility pleasure is the snack machine at my office, so I just load up my bag with fruit & 2pt snacks and try to avoid it...LOL..

Message edited 6/11/2012 12:53:25 PM.

Re: WW Lunch Ideas ??

My fave lunch lately is a taco salad:

shredded lettuce
tomatoes
1/4th cup red fac cheese
1/4th cup perdue shortcuts
hard taco shell, broken up into the salad.
taco sauce

The whole thing is 4 points. I don't count the taco sauce b/c on the old plan it was free and , I just keep forgetting to see if it has any points now, so I just don't count it.

I don't like to use a lot of points for lunch because I have a habit of wanting to pig out later in the day so some other lunches:

turkey/cheese/mustard on pep farm 45 calorie bread
hard boiled egg
greek yogurt

there are some really good lunches in the hungry girl cookbooks

Message edited 6/11/2012 8:52:09 PM.

Re: WW Lunch Ideas ??

you could make an egg and spinach quiche and eat it with a side of fruit.

whole foods sells salmon burgers, eat it on a whole wheat bun.

chicken and cheese quesadillas on whole wheat tortilla

tuna salad sandwich