green salad with feta, olive oil, and a drop of white wine vinegar, vanilla yoghurt with granola and dried berries, and chips and garlic salsa! Im so full!

Oatmeal!

A very traditional homemade veggie soup. Tomato/Celery base with peas; carrots; kidney, lima, and green beans. It really needed some bread but I forgot this morning.

Thai Kitchen instant soup, but I add fresh bell peppers, zucchini, onion, fish sauce, hot sauce, lime juice...YUM!

sauteed beet greens with a light sage butter sauce.

oooh I am embarrassed to say... but I'm cleaning out my pantry/fridge because I'm moving cross-country next week... so a can of soup, 2 wedges of laughing cow cheese, 2 tortillas, and a Dove chocolate peanut butter promise.

Spring mix salad with roasted chicken, radishes, grape tomatoes, chickpeas, ricotta salata, yellow onion, balsamic dressing, and Maldon salt, which makes anything taste better.

Haha ditto: salad and yogurt

A cup of miso soup, some japanese potato salad, and a piece of leftover Easter candy.

i have been having the worst day - which is just an excuse for the sorry food i ate...

a little tiny bit of leftover mashed potatoes, some strawberries with honey (because they weren't sweet) and then i proceeded to lick all of the chocolate of all of those peppermint sticks that are covered in chocolate, which have been in my desk since chrismas. honestly, i have disgusted myself as well...

but usually, it's a grain salad with fresh fruit.

Not much flair - two slices 2% swiss cheese, non-fat vanilla yogurt, strawberries.

Your tuna salad post yesterday inspired me to bring some for lunch today. Tuna salad on a bed of spring mix greens, and an apple.

Chicken salad, rustic walnut/date bread, and a sliced apple. Apples always taste better sliced.

Rice pilaf w/ almonds & pickled peaches & shredded ham. And I've been snacking on Target's Caramel Cashew trail mix all day. It's addictive.

quinoa, hard-boiled egg, and a marinated bean salad

Salad w/baby spinach, radishes, mushrooms, and sauteed tofu.

Toaster-oven grilled cheese (provolone on whole wheat). Baby carrots that were almost frozen from being shoved into the back of the office fridge. Glass of water.

Then I felt bad about my lunch after placing my bridesmaid dress order for a friend's wedding...apparently my waist measurements are a bit out of scale. Grr.

Salads will be my focus now...grilled cheese s/b a treat anyway, but I was lazy this morning and out of fresh veg.

Ham sandwich and a kasha salad I cobbled together. It was accompanied by a discussion as to how people actually can eat a Carl's Jr. burger for lunch AND still function.

Faux chicken noodle soup with homemade eggplant/vegetable stock because I'm getting over a cold. Eggplant does wonders for thickening/creamifying the broth!

bahn mi — the king of sandwiches

Leftover chicken/apple/rosemary pot pie.

Oddly, not very filling. I am hungry again already.

Leftover chickpea and orecchiette soup with 3 egg whites thrown in for added protein (leftover from Sunday's hollandaise sauce) with baby carrots on the side. Very filling.

Wow is everyone here on a diet?

I'm having a bagel with cream cheese, cottage cheese, avocado spread and tomatoes. With some chocolate on the side.

I had a cup of homemade black bean soup and 2 oz. pepperjack cheese on pumper...

Good mother stallard beans and rice, topped with an odd little concoction of sauteed veggies: mushrooms, shredded carrot, diced onion, diced tomato, garlic powder, S&P and a hearty amount of smoked paprika. I also had some fresh pineapple on the side. It was filling and very tasty.

Homemade hummus with carrots and celery, TJ's crunchy curls, dried plums and mango, and a pb&j on homemade multigrain bread. All packed in my laptop lunches box (www.laptoplunches.com). That was enough for lunch plus a 4pm snack.

Spinach salad with radishes, slivered almonds, avacado and salsa for dressing, a cup of miso soup and laughing cow cheese with Kashi TLC crackers. Oh and two pickles and two big green olives!

"Wow is everyone here on a diet?"

Amen.

Trader Joe's Frozen Spinach Pizza. Mmmmmm.

I was supposed to eat brown rice and asparagus from home, but a co-worker shared his chicken lavosh with red pepper hummus wrap and some tabouleh! Thanks pal!!

spinach, apple, fennel salad w/ sunflower seeds plus humus and whole wheat pita with an orange for late day snacking.

Sushi and sashimi. I went out with my sister.

I generally eat a lot for lunch, since I'm most hungry during the morning/afternoon and significantly less in the evening.

Seriously, way too healthy/small of lunches! I had a good old fashioned ham and cheese sandwich, with celery sticks and loads of peanut butter. and a mini-orange (cutie).

stew.

@burp_excuzme, Good lord, no kidding. I can't eat just a salad for lunch or I'm ready to eat my arm by 2 pm.

I had leftover "expedited" tagine from this week's Minimalist column. It's fantastic and I will DEFINITELY be making it again. And chocolate. And healthy snacks on both sides of that lunch.

Left over home made chicken chilli and a banana.

Today I had a green lentil salad with orange bell pepper, celery, pea shoots, walnuts and a rice vinegar dressing. One the side were seared marinated tofu steaks dipped in salsa.

A black bean and grilled sweet potato burrito, on a whole wheat tortilla with a little shredded parmesan.

I had a picnic lunch in a bento box, with a little leftover veggie rice stir fry, fresh whole wheat bread, carrot and cucumber slices, and homemade hummus. There was also a compartment with apple and strawberry slices, but the toddler claimed all of those for himself.

Plain yogurt with fresh fruit, orange, and leftover asparagus and penne pasta with a creamy lemon-ricotta sauce. It's just as excellent as a cold salad as it is fresh and hot. :)

Meh, my day turned into something of a fustercluck--my father went to the emergency room, so my mother and I spent the day at the hospital. I had packed roasted vegetables and garlic bread (which spent the day fermenting in my car), but what I actually wound up eating was a roast beef sandwich and yogurt parfait in the hospital cafeteria.

@burp_excuzme Thank God I wasn't the only one! There's no way that a sprig of side salad greens and a sip of milk can satisfy me for lunch. Le sigh.

Lunch at the dining hall of my work place:
Tomato soup
Some kind of meatballs
Noodle (not the Far Eastern version) with bryndza cheese
Baklava with walnuts

I believe those lunch program makers are not on a diet...

Pasta salad with walnuts, rocket and apple cubes. Trying to branch out from the sandwiches.

i don't really think it's a diet thing - i just don't have enough energy to make it through the rest of my day if i eat white, simple carbs, or anything too heavy. i keep it light and then do a couple of snacks, but i do find that grain salads with lots of veggies are a pretty good way to keep my energy going throughout the day.

Gotta agree with burp_excuzme...other people must not need nearly as much fat or protein as I do to feel satiated.

A bit of leftover broccoli raab with white beans, half a roll, and an itty bitty roasted sweet potato. In other words, whatever I could get together this morning!

a carrot and grape tomatoes with homemade hummus
followed by a hefty portion of homemade jambalaya.
I'm eyeing the cinnamon sugar pita chips for dessert.
I eat a lot for lunch.

too much, but so delicious. i had two crepes filled w/ mozz, avocado, roma tomato, fresh basil, olive oil, salt and cracked pepper. so yes, i ate an entire avocado and an entire roma tomato in one sitting. but it was so good!!! and half of a brownie. =)

Membrillo and Manchego bocadilla. Sun-filled days always make me (and my gustatory system) reminisce about Spain.