What is you best high protein lunch?

[IsThat]

I am looking adding more protein into my diet and am struggling with lunch ideas.

Gammon steak and scrambled eggs

Tuna steak

Omelette

Home made baked beans.

I make a big salad at the beginning of the week with salad variations; sugar snap peas, grated beetroot etc.
Have that with about 5oz of chicken mixed with yogurt and various pesto's (basil, chilli etc)
Sprinkle with cheese!

I often have salad with:

Eggs of some sort eg scrambled, omelette, hard-boiled etc
Tinned fish
Leftovers from last night's dinner eg. chicken, fish

Add in extras like olives, capers, roast veg etc.

Various different types of omelette and recently being having one of those high protein yoghurts. Fills me up all day!

Cottage cheese with prawns or chicken.

Steak with spinach and quinoa

Greek yoghurt tzatziki with grilled chicken strips

If you’re happy with the protein in your evening meal then you can just double up on portion sizes and have the same meal for lunch the next day.

For easy lunches I do pre steamed Salmon fillets or mackerel and salad. Tofu with celery, grapes, Sri Lankans spice and lime juice. I make a chickpea and tofu curry and put hard boiled eggs on top which is delicious. Wholemeal wrap filled with generous portion of houmous and two crushed falafel.

Two boiled eggs make an easy option with salad and seeds

A big tuna or chicken salad. A good salad with beetroot, sweetcorn, croutons, etc, not just iceberg, toms & cucumber. Tinned tuna or a chicken breast are really high protein.

I have thin bread with lots of meat. Or wraps.

I don't cook much so salmon ciabatta/ bagel. Not actually particularly high cal like the myths say about bagels. I have a lot of other things with protein powder ( which is actually virtually the cheapest source of protein for the right brand, such as The Bulk Serious Protein) so it works well. I make protein cocoa or protein porridge so it can add up to a good amount of protein over the day. I qualified as a personal trainer, so I do know what I'm doing.

Protein wrap (Aldi). I fill it with as much chicken as I can and blob of hoisin sauce spread on it and then loads of spring onions and cucumber. Delicious. Very filling.

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I sometimes have a pot of cottage cheese and a few slices of ham or chicken.

I love cottage cheese with blackberries/strawberries/raspberries. Discovered completely by accident when I had run out of yoghurt 😂

Hot or cold?

Tuna salad nicoise
Ham salad
Grilled halloumi salad

Chilli beef/turkey in salad wrap with sour cream
Omelettes
Roast veg soup

Baked sweet potato with cottage cheese, boiled egg, tuna and salad.

I love cottage cheese with blackberries/strawberries/raspberries. Discovered completely by accident when I had run out of yoghurt 😂

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Absolutely second this. I'll add blueberries to the list, really delicious

@IsThat are you working out loads or are you after losing weight?

Tinned sardines are probably the best value for money protein.

Chicken/prawn salad, fish/prawn stews/soups, chicken/mince bibimbap with egg

Delphi avocado and hummus spread is delicious and very high protein for the volume.

I tend to have salad with some kind of leaves, chopped pepper, tomato, avocado; sometimes sweet potato or olives or cold rice.

Then I add a couple of items out of the following so I have two protein sources.

Half tin beans, chickpeas or lentils, tuna, prawns, cottage cheese or feta cheese.

I don't eat meat and rarely have eggs unless an omelette or scrambled eggs - which I occasionally have as an alternative to the salad .

Prawns or chicken, salad, and some cheese

Cheese omelette, or just cheese. Big cheese fan