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It's been quite some time since I have been on here, but figured it was time since I am really not losing.

I need ideas for satisfying lunch meals on the go.

I seem to be getting very low on energy and I have a 12 hour a day job with no time for low energy. I eat lunch while I am on the run or reading email, etc. so any ideas you have that are easy would be great.

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lunch is easy!!! It just takes preperation the night before. I do a lot of chicken or tuna salad, light on the mayo. I have a few Fiber crackers with it.

You could have a reduced fat cheese stick and some deli turkey rolled up.

I make chilli and freeze small servings from the pot to take to work. Put some cheese on top and a few fritos.

When we grill out, I cook an extra chicken breast so I can have chicken a cheese quesadilla the next day or two for work.

Walmart has these stuffed chicken breasts in the freezer section, they are NOT the ones with all the high fat breading, I can cook them in the toaster oven at work or make it the night before and bring to reheat.

To me, lunch is the easiest meal of the day. Breakfast is hard, I hate eggs, so have cottage cheese and a south beach high Protein bar. dinner is hard because what the kids will eat is different than what I can eat. At least at lunchtime I can plan ahead.

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