| Lunch is an important meal for low carbers. But who | | | | the week. Top the slices with Swiss cheese, |
| has the time to cook? | | | | sauerkraut and some low carb Thousand Island |
| Instead of cooking lunch, one good solution is to cook | | | | dressing and you have a great low carb Reuben |
| more food the night before when you are cooking | | | | sandwich. (Diet ketchup mixed into some mayonnaise |
| dinner. If you are having ribs or chicken for dinner, | | | | with some low carb dill relish makes a good low carb |
| make a little extra so you can have it for lunch the | | | | Thousand Island dressing). |
| next day. It doesn't take any extra time and with | | | | Fish and Seafood |
| convenience of a microwave your lunch will be ready | | | | Get cans or convenient pouches of tuna. Add a little |
| in no time. In fact, ribs and chicken can also be just as | | | | mayonnaise to the tuna with some low carb dill relish |
| tasty cold. | | | | and stuff that in a half of a bell pepper or a half of a |
| Another good idea is to do most of the cooking on | | | | tomato. Split the top of the tomato into quarters so it |
| days when you have more time. You can take one | | | | falls open and easily holds the tuna. Try it with salmon, |
| day and prepare some foods that will provide good | | | | too. |
| lunches for you all week. | | | | Add some mayonnaise and a little chopped celery to |
| Chicken | | | | canned shrimp or crab (check the carb counts - for |
| Buy a whole chicken, clean it and boil. You can use it | | | | some reason the leading brands seem to think we |
| to make chicken salad to stuff into a bell pepper or | | | | want sugar in our seafood). Take the seed out of a |
| tomato. You can also slice the chicken to make deli | | | | half of an avocado and stuff the shrimp or crab salad |
| style lunch meat. Wrap it up in a piece of romaine | | | | into the remaining whole. Delicious! |
| lettuce with some mayonnaise. Yummy. | | | | Even Faster Alternatives |
| If you want to get a little more fancy you can wrap | | | | Use processed foods minimally. They have chemicals |
| some ham around some Swiss cheese, then wrap the | | | | that you don't need. Don't let the deli counter fool you. |
| chicken slices around the ham and heat it in a | | | | Most of those are processed, too and many contain |
| microwave. It's a great low carb cordon bleu. You'll feel | | | | sugars that add to the carb count. It's best to boil or |
| like you're dining with royalty. | | | | roast your own meats and fowl. |
| You can also buy packages of chicken legs and wings | | | | But if you are in a real big hurry, an occasional visit to |
| and fry them up with no breading. The skin gets | | | | the deli won't hurt. You can purchase deli meats and |
| crunchy and tasty. These make great grab and go | | | | wrap them around cheese slices for a very satisfying |
| snacks and lunches. | | | | lunch without having to cook. |
| Ham | | | | Even less desirable are the cans of meats and |
| Boil a ham and slice it. This will be good for making | | | | packages of lunch meats and cold cuts. These are |
| ham and cheese roll-ups. You can also dice up some | | | | handy when you know you are not going to be where |
| of the ham for omelette's in the morning or ham salad | | | | you can get to any other low carb food. You can |
| that you can heap on pork rinds. | | | | keep a couple cans of Vienna sausages in your car or |
| Beef | | | | at your desk for those situations. |
| By a large roast beef and cook it in the oven. Slice it | | | | Summary |
| up deli style. Wrap this meat around cheese for a | | | | The ideas presented here can be done in a few hours |
| quick and easy lunch. | | | | total and provide great lunches and even quick dinners |
| For a real treat top these roast beef slices with some | | | | all week long. On the day when you do the main |
| previously sautéed peppers, onions and | | | | cooking, you will also want to chop any veggies you |
| mushrooms then top it with Swiss cheese. Heat that in | | | | might need for the week and clean some lettuce so |
| a microwave until the cheese melts. Your tummy will | | | | it's ready to go. Take your lunch to work in one of |
| be so happy when you dine on these tasty low carb | | | | those lunch bags that keep things cold. It's even easier |
| Philly cheese steaks. | | | | if you are at home. Just reach in the fridge and start |
| You can get a corned beef and boil it. You can have | | | | munching - low carb style. |
| corned beef and cabbage one night for dinner and | | | | That reminds me, it's almost lunch time! |
| slice up the rest deli style for great lunches the rest of | | | | |