Posts tagged healthy lunches
BRR! It’s too cold now to have cold lunches so often, so I’m kicking off this week with some lunches that require a microwave!
This one’s partially homemade: quinoa with turkey meatball & fish nuggets from Trader Joe’s, leftover roast veggies, and green beans.
Avocado stuffed with grilled chicken and corn, veggie sticks, Baby Bel cheese, and pear slices.
Jalapeno lime chicken - recipe courtesy of YourNutritionista accompanied with asparagus, veggie sticks and blackberries.
Sandwich wrap with pan-fried chicken, guacamole, and lettuce in a whole wheat/corn tortilla. Chestnuts, edamame, carrots, cucumbers, and mango.
While trying to do some pantry spring-cleaning, I ran out of proteins so I had to do some grocery shopping!
Pasta salad with whole-wheat pasta, bacon, and bell peppers tossed in a homemade vinaigrette dressing (red wine vinegar, olive oil, various spices.). Carrots, strawberries, asparagus.
Quinoa prepared fried-rice style with chicken, bell pepper, and drizzled in yakisoba sauce. Carrots, asparagus, and strawberries.
I’m doing a bit of spring cleaning in my pantry - as in, I’m trying to use up most of the staples I’ve been hoarding!
Brown jasmine fried rice w/egg & broccoli, tofu drizzled in otsu dressing, carrots, edamame, and clementines.
Potato and wheat gnocchi pan-fried in olive oil with garlic, broccoli & parsley, slices of leftover steak, and veggie sticks.
Tofu burger patty on a bed of greens, avocado & carrot with otsu dressing. Mango & veggie sticks.
The tofu burgers were made with an herb/breadcrumb mixture I got from a Japanese market. And, yes! I got me a new cute bento box - just for cold/room temp lunches of course.
Spinach omelet musubi bites with brown rice and drizzled with yakisoba sauce, carrot kinpira, edamame, strawberries, and trail mix.
