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A friend sent me this idea, so I don’t know the original source, but it sounds like a good idea. Tell me what you think:
Pack It Healthy Challenge
Challenge Rules:
1. Pack a healthy lunch 3 days per week for 3 weeks.
2. Your lunch must include the following (serving size does not matter, but try not to go over board in any category): 1 protein (i.e. yogurt, nuts, beans, turkey, chicken, .sh) 1 fruit or veggie (i.e. cut up raw or leftovers from the night before) 1 dairy/soy product ( i.e. yogurt, cottage cheese, milk, cheese) 1 carbohydrate (i.e. wheat crackers, whole grain wheat bread)
Tips for Success
. Pack lunch the night before.
. Sneak vegetables — like lettuce or slices of cucumber, tomato, green pepper, roasted peppers, zucchini or sweet onion — onto sandwiches.
. Make enough supper for leftovers
. Buy a variety of fruit each week, such as apples, oranges, bananas, pears, sliced melon, cups of applesauce, grapes or pineapple (fresh or canned in its own juice)
. Keep it interesting and vary texture and flavors.
. Healthy drinks complement a healthy lunch such as water, lowfat milk and diet drinks.
. Stock up ahead of time.
Sounds good—except --- I don’t mix dairy & meat in the same meal and I am currently restricted on the types of carbs I am allowed to eat (dr’s orders), so no breads, potatoes etc. for me. And I’m allergic to soy.
So would that be a lunch within my food plan then?
Also, for those of you with nice japanese stores around, try looking for bento boxes (examples of what they are and look like available here: http://flickr.com/photos/sebbie/sets/72157594252566784/ ). These make great and fun ways to bring your lunch to work with you. Also, since they are on the smaller size, it also helps with portion control because it’s darn near impossible to pack too much food, unless it’s all candy
Maybe as an optional part of the challenge, we could take pictures of the lunch as we pack it, thereby showing what we are eating. Just a thought
Is next week too soon? Does 3 weeks sound doable? If we start next week on Oct 30th we would end on Nov. 18th, so it wouldn’t include Thanksgiving week.
Rhem - thanks, but no, I’m not taking photography in school or anything. I mostly just experiment until I find something I like. I’m working on a book of photography right now, though I’ve been on hold with it for over a year because I don’t have access to a studio anymore.
Hopefully we are starting tomorrow because I packed my healthy(ish) lunch for tomorrow! Chicken, Onion, Bellpepper and Salsa with fat-free cheddar and rice. I’m also going to be bringing an apple with me to work to cut and eat and enjoy as part of one of my snacks.
With the exception of the apple, I packed my lunch into a bento box and you can see a picture of it here:
I also created a flickr group for motivationtomove, if anyone who has flickr wants to join it (Scott, if you want control of it, let me know and I’ll certainly transfer it over to you)
I don’t have any pictures but I did pack a lunch today.
I had lemon pepper grilled skinless chicken breast with a huge salad with cucumbers, celery, and carrots, romaine lettuce, and tomatoes. I made enough to have some tomorrow too. I also had a sugar free pudding cup and I drank a cup of decaf green tea.
Lunch today is actually the same as yesterday. We had left over ingredients, so we just did fajitas again last night. This time with guacamole and green salsa. It was great and I packed the left overs for lunch today.
I’d like to get in on this challenge too! I didn’t know about it until just now, and I’ve been really a bad girl about lunches lately. Tomorrow will be my start date.
Week 1 Day 2- I too had leftovers except I used the chicken in a whole wheat pita for a yummy snadwhich and added a side salad. I also forgot yesterday that I had a sweet potato, which I also had today.
Today’s lunch is less healthy, but still not terrible for me. Again, left overs from last night. Last night we had people over for Halloween and the bf made apple and Italian sausage turnovers, green beans, and this weird thing with pumpkin in it. So I have one of the turn overs, some green beans, and the weird pumpkin thing.
To explain the weird pumpkin thing, originally, it was supposed to be soup, but it didn’t turn out like soup at all. It was acini di pepe pasta (very small, ball pasta), broth, pumpkin puree and turkey, made like risotto. It is really really good, and the only “bad” thing in it is the parmesan cheese but we bought that from Whole Foods, so it was at least high quality cheese.
Sorry I haven’t been online for a few days but I have continued witht he challenge: last wed I ate out so no packed lunch. Thursday I actually forgot my lunch at home but I had a peanut butter sandwhich, an apple, and some mini carrotts cause I keep some goodies at work since I know how I am. On Friday and Monday I had a whole wheat tortilla quesadilla ( we have a toaster oven at work) and a side salad. No packed lunch today so onto tomorrow.
