Carb free lunches

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I’m trying to cut down on carbs but struggling with lunch ideas so what do you have? Some days I’m at home so can prepare easily and other days will take packed lunches but have use of a microwave.

Fritatta with mixed veg in it
Tuna and tinned green beans
Salad with quark cheese as dressing
Casserole (I have lentil as dont eat much meat but could be any kind) on the days you have microwave

Just to add the tinned green beans could obviously be fresh beans but I like the convenience of just emptying a couple of tins and my lunch is made.

Microwave a sweet potato (10-15mins depending on size) and have some veggies and tomato ketchup, it's so delicious

You can use lettuce leaves to make wraps, put whatever you like in them. Take a napkin, it can be messy, but that might be me over filling them.

Left overs from last night is my favourite

Homemade chicken and veg soup
Tuna nicoise (minus potato)
Ham and mushroom omelette
Prawn cocktail
Peppered mackerel and cucumber

Thai chicken soup
Scrambled eggs with cheese grated in
Use thin omelettes instead of tortillas to make wraps
Pots of leftovers (pretty much anything!)

big bowl of soup
omelette
grilled bit of fish/lamb steak/fillet steak plus veg or salad of your choice

www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/low-carb-lunch

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/low-carbohydrate-recipes

www.olivemagazine.com/guides/best-ever/best-ever-low-carb-recipes/

uk.atkins.com/get-inspired/recipes/

Roasted veg with chicken and feta

Cheese and mushroom omelette.

Chicken and coleslaw.

Ryvitas with peanut butter

DH generally does us a plate of egg salad, coleslaw, chicken and bacon sandwich filler, some cold meats, a bit of cheese, a couple of cherry tomatoes in vinaigrette,some toasted pine nuts and a big pile of dressed salad leaves. It's flipping gorgeous! I've never enjoyed losing weight so much : )

I sometimes take in lots of little boxes of ‘stuff’. Some olives, boiled egg, piece of cooked chicken breast, cheese...
Sometimes I fill a Tupperware with raw veg sticks - peppers, cucumber, broccoli, tomatoes and then have some protein with it.
Other times when I’m more organised, I make a tuna nicoise or a goats cheese, red pepper, spinach and pine nut salad. Prawns and avocado also go nicely on a bed of spinach with a dressing (packed in a separate pot).
I turn up to work with almost a hamper of food
Frittata is another good one, I make one to last me a couple of days.

weekendsleep sweet potatoes are all carb.

I tend to eat salads a lot.

Plenty of salad leaves as a base, then whatever mix of veg I have to hand, the wider the variety the better, plus protein.

Salad nicoise (without the potatoes)

Tuna crunch

Egg and ham

Chicken Caesar salad (without the croutons)

Other times ill do a couple of boiled eggs, some charcuterie, cheese cubes, cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes, a small selection of antipasti (olives, artichoke, peppers) and some pickled gherkins.

Devilled eggs are lovely, I usually have them with a very simple salad on the side for my veg intake. Or with a Dahl and spinach if I’ve decided to have a low carb day instead of no carb

Omelette with lots of veg added, plus bacon or ham or cheese

Leftover chicken with ratatouille

Leftover curry with roasted cauliflower and brocolli

Leftover chilli with avocado

Sometimes I’ll buy the no carb lunch or snack options from M&S which are lovely, but only once in a while because the costs add up and they can be a bit rich too. But it’s nice for a change once in a while.

@weekendsleep you do know that sweet potato and regular potatoes contain roughly the same amount of carbs!
www.livestrong.com/article/520948-carbohydrates-in-sweet-potatoes-vs-white-potatoes/
Any starchy veg needs to be avoided as they have high amounts of carbs in.

So OP salads, broth-type soups and omelettes are good to have for lunches.

Sweet potato and ketchup! How the heck is that no carb

Oh yes, forgot leftover Mexican fajita chicken using gem lettuce as wraps! You can make curried or Thai beef or chicken or pork and wrap it too.

Leftover Thai chicken soup

Basically any number of leftovers with some extra veg

www.avidlite.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000024.pl?WD=mama&PN=Mama%2dLupes%2dTortillas%2d%2dpack%2dof%2d10%2dALR020%2ehtml#SID=28

4g carbs per wrap, then put whatever you fancy in there.

Thanks for all that, I’ll look at the websites tonight. I used to eat salads but braces have stopped that just now as I can’t seem to chew the lettuce or tomato skins properly so it takes aagggeeesss to eat a salad . Gem lettuce might be better though so wraps like that sound good. I’m afraid that mushrooms and nuts are like food from the devil for me so they are out. A frittata sounds really good as I can add any veg and meat I like.

Salad and ham/chicken/egg/cheese/tuna
Omelette
I made amazing chicken broth last week with chicken bones and big chunks of chicken, very tasty and filling

Sorry, just seen you don't eat salad!

I also made some huevos rancheros last week and they were amazing, really tasty.

How low carb do you need to go, OP?
I like beans & lentils, but that's not low carb enough for many.

www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes/meals/lunch

lljkk, don’t need to go low carb just trying to cut out the main things. Always end up having sandwiches, panini and other breads for lunch. Dinner is a bit easier to cut out pasta, pizza, chips etc. I’ll still eat baked potatoes for lunch just not every day.
I wish I could eat salad but feel like I’ve used all the calories you get from it trying to eat it