What’s favourite healthy lunch? Multiple ch... - Healthy Eating
What’s favourite healthy lunch? Multiple choice poll.
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I really like my lunch and tend to have a sandwich made with home baked gluten free bread with assorted salad fillings and accompaniments.
I also really like a mug of soup with lunch especially in the winter.
Usually a home-made chunky veg & bean soup with a roll, cheese or vegan slices on a roll with chunky salad veg and a dip or a bean, rice or quinoa and veg salad with a light dressing. Very occasionally I have scrambled eggs on toast with tomato or a jacket potato with baked or taco beans and coleslaw. I've gone off lettuce right now but I'm really into crisp chunks of celery, carrot, cucumber, sugarsnaps and tomatoes with a dip.
This all sounds good. Is it your main meal of the day? It sounds like it. Eating a very light meal at the end of the day can help you sleep well.
Depending on the time of year like now mostly a sandwich with various fillings some tomato, cucumber etc a few crisps for the crunch and 2 pieces of fruit.
Winter or colder days could be soup and some crusty bread or a toasted sandwich and always have our fruit at lunch.
I make a vat of soup for several days with all the veg I have plus handfuls of quinoa and lentils, its name is farty soup. We all work outside
Not listed, but chicken and broccoli stir fry or tofu vege stir fry.
Hey stir fry is a great lunch jimk_mb 👍
At the moment because I have some lovely large beef tomatoes in greenhouse, we are enjoying Greek salads and bruchettas.
Hey this sounds just so good to me Alice. 😊
A wholemeal sandwich containing half an avocado, a little feta cheese and stuffed with salad vegetables, rpunded off with a teaspoonful of kefir.
I said salad but it must be filling and not a restaurant salad where they fill it up with lettuce or mixed greens. Yesterday was shedded cabbage, carrots, chickpeas, peanut butter lime sauce with cilantro green onion and peanuts on top. Very filling.
Avocado on sour dough toast or same toast with marmite and sliced tomato.
I’ve ticked salad, but of course, it’s not just the salad there is an accompaniment to that. For example, today (28/08/21), we had a slice of quiche. Or we may have a couple of slices of chicken breast, or a scotch egg. So for us a salad always has something to go with it otherwise the meal feels incomplete, if you see what I mean. 🙂
Hi Biomet I agree and like many others always have something with a salad. 😊
Homemade Soup or salad. Not been making soup lately due to a broken Arm/ wrist, but planning to get back to easy Cucumber soup in the next couple of days.
For many years, lunch has been the main meal of my day. As my gut has needed microbiome transplants, I find that eating pure foods such as a Japanese diet is essential for my wellbeing, both physical and mental. Also, I have always had a Mediterranean diet being a keen cook both professionally and privately. This has provided balance to enable my gut to perform as best it can given that I have Crohn's disease which took 30 years to diagnose. I have always listened to my gut, hating fried and fatty foods. A balanced diet is very important to me. Therefore, lots of vegetables, fish, pulses and grains is important. I eat red meat and poultry twice each week in many forms.
Variety is paramount especially in our very troubled times with Covid-19 Delta strain ravaging the planet. So far, I have been in lockdown 5 times in the past 18 months in Australia and food is one of the shining lights for me and my family. We are lucky to be in this position where we can have good food to keep us going.
Our is Indian cuisine different from western cuisine. Favourite lunch is Roti ( Indian bread) made at home by roasting dough made of whole wheat flour & freshly prepared everyday with a steamed vegetable along with little spices
I used to have one of those mass produced soups in a cup , no I'm on the mass produced soup in a tin. Hopefully soon I'll be making my own now i have a blender sitting at the back of the pantry.
Hi Greyone if you like instant cups of soup you can make a quick and easy one using Bouillon stock by just dissolving one tea spoon in a mug of boiling water.
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Good luck with your soup making as it is easy especially as you have a blender here's a link to our Health soup recipes on HE:
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So do lets us know how you get on with making soup. 👍
Hi Jerry
Thank you for the link to the Bouillon - that like its worth a go. Glad to see there's reduced salt edition as well. Thanks also for the recipes. Some great ideas there.
You should get some miso paste. Dissolve a teaspoon or so in warm (not boiling!) water. Natural, delicious, full of probiotics.
A full miso soup is also delicious (though much more work), or you could add miso paste to an existing soup or stock.
Just been checking out Jamie Oliver's website and it seems its an ingredient of soup rather than just the soup itself?
Yes, miso soup is a more elaborate recipe and with difficult to acquire the ingredients for outside Asia (dried bonito is not at my local tesco!), but you can make a tasty drink just with miso paste and water, that is full of probiotics.
Thanks , that gets a Big Yellow Thumb from me then.
Thanks again, Jerry.
After my weekly trip to Tesco, I am now happily sipping a nice hot cup of Buillion with my lunch.
I think the Vax has altered my digestion so I'm going back onto the GAPS diet and starting with soup.
I frequently have sweet potatoes for lunch, either sweet potato fries or baked sweet potato
Hard to choose an absolute favourite as there are so many choices and I like variety, but two I have really loved this summer are (homemade) Greek salad with feta and a slice of mixed olive sourdough bread, and a fruity salad (eg shredded lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, grated beetroot, small chopped strawberries and a few halved grapes with Quorn pieces stir fried in Cajun spices.
toast with low fat pate
Salad sandwiches and soup, every day usually 😋👍🏻
Leftovers. I only plan one meal a day, but often have two - and sometimes 3. If I get snacky, I will raid the fridge and see what is left in a pyrex or under cling film. There's usually something. 🍲 😋
Sourdough toast with avocado
A sandwich of wholemeal sourdough bread, filled with brown shrimps, cherry tomatoes, hearts of Romaine lettuce and Mayo. 🙂😋😋
Most of the time sandwiches or soup for me.
I usually have two meals a day, with the main meal in the middle-ish part of the day, then lighter meal early evening. Generally lunch is either some sort of omelette with mixed salad & veg on the side... or a big salad/grilled veg with fish or meat. Grilled salmon is a favourite. If I'm out and about for work, then I'll often take a couple of boiled eggs plus salad items in a tupperware, maybe avocado and cheese also.
Dips and crudités are great too
A slice of a leg of lamb cooked slowly with vegetables in the oven and served with a green vegetable and a few little potatoes.
One of my favorite dishes is half a tin of Heinz Tomato soup with wholemeal bread(asda / sainsburys) sandwich with cucumber and tomatoes with 25g of cheese. For me this is my perfect lunch.
Great Survey to promote healthy eating and to get everyone talking. I love taking part in these surveys. as I look forward to them.
Hey thanks Lotus-Blossom they're a bit of fun and do create some interesting opinions so thank you as we appreciate this. 😊
