Low-fat and healthy lunch recipes
When you're scrambling to get everything finished before the workday is over, stopping for a healthy lunch isn't always a priority. Don't settle for a quick burger and fries -- be prepared with healthy lunch recipes instead.
Salads, soups and noodle dishes are great options for healthy lunches that taste terrific.
If you find it difficult to create a quality lunch menu when you're strapped for time in the morning, plan ahead and prepare some of our 12 favourite lunch recipes to go (and make sure to include healthy snacks for work, too!)
1. Lunchtime Lentil Soup
Folate and vitamin B6 have long been acknowledged as key nutrients necessary in the diets of pregnant and nursing women, to prevent spinal defects such as spina bifida, but early findings now link the consumption of it with decreased risks of colon cancer, anemia and heart disease.
2. Dark Green Salad with Honey-Mint Vinaigrette
A salad of dark leafy greens offers a simple way to get more lutein. Romaine lettuce has about 26 per cent more lutein than iceberg and spinach has a whopping 90 per cent more!
3. Florentine Pasta Salad
This tangy pasta salad is a sophisticated and fresh-tasting lunch.
Salads, soups and noodle dishes are great options for healthy lunches that taste terrific.
If you find it difficult to create a quality lunch menu when you're strapped for time in the morning, plan ahead and prepare some of our 12 favourite lunch recipes to go (and make sure to include healthy snacks for work, too!)
1. Lunchtime Lentil Soup
Folate and vitamin B6 have long been acknowledged as key nutrients necessary in the diets of pregnant and nursing women, to prevent spinal defects such as spina bifida, but early findings now link the consumption of it with decreased risks of colon cancer, anemia and heart disease.
2. Dark Green Salad with Honey-Mint Vinaigrette
A salad of dark leafy greens offers a simple way to get more lutein. Romaine lettuce has about 26 per cent more lutein than iceberg and spinach has a whopping 90 per cent more!
3. Florentine Pasta Salad
This tangy pasta salad is a sophisticated and fresh-tasting lunch.
4. Beets and Greens Quick Risotto
This simplified version of the Italian rice classic tastes as good as it looks.
5. Korean Cold Soybean Puree with Noodles
Koreans love cold noodles. No other cuisine boasts the variety and cleverness of Korean cold-noodle preparations, from soup to dry noodles, from mildly flavoured (like this recipe) to fiery hot. This simple and unusual dish makes a wonderful lunch or light supper.
6. Quesadillas
If you have access to a stove where you lunch, assemble these Mexican sandwiches at home, then toast them just before eating. However, they're still tasty served at room temperature or reheated in the microwave.
7. Thai Tuna Salad
Wake up your taste buds with this vibrant take on tuna salad.
8. Warm Tea Noodle Toss
These refreshing Chinese noodles carry a light hint of oolong tea. Serve as a light lunch or make them part of a dinner.
9. Tuscan Broad Bean Salad
This salad is great in a lunch box or for a buffet.
10. West Indian Sweet Potato and Chick-pea Roti
Delicious hot, at room temperature or reheated, roti are West Indian wrapped sandwiches and fast food favourites.
11. Arugula and Beefsteak Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette
Rib eye, strip loin or tenderloin steak all work well in this fabulous lunch or supper salad.
12. Red Potatoes in Curried Yogurt
Asian markets in many Canadian cities stock tiffin carriers in various sizes and colours – some even fit inside special thermos carriers. If you have one, fill the bottom compartment with rice, the centre with this vegetarian curry and the top tier with chutney or a fruit salad for dessert. Otherwise, substitute other storage containers.
You can find even more healthy lunch recipes at our sister site, CanadianLiving.com:
-Crunchy Carnival Coleslaw
-Lightened-Up Hummus
-10 healthy breakfast and lunch alternatives
Read more in the Cook's Corner section in Food & Nutrition.
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This simplified version of the Italian rice classic tastes as good as it looks.
5. Korean Cold Soybean Puree with Noodles
Koreans love cold noodles. No other cuisine boasts the variety and cleverness of Korean cold-noodle preparations, from soup to dry noodles, from mildly flavoured (like this recipe) to fiery hot. This simple and unusual dish makes a wonderful lunch or light supper.
6. Quesadillas
If you have access to a stove where you lunch, assemble these Mexican sandwiches at home, then toast them just before eating. However, they're still tasty served at room temperature or reheated in the microwave.
7. Thai Tuna Salad
Wake up your taste buds with this vibrant take on tuna salad.
8. Warm Tea Noodle Toss
These refreshing Chinese noodles carry a light hint of oolong tea. Serve as a light lunch or make them part of a dinner.
9. Tuscan Broad Bean Salad
This salad is great in a lunch box or for a buffet.
10. West Indian Sweet Potato and Chick-pea Roti
Delicious hot, at room temperature or reheated, roti are West Indian wrapped sandwiches and fast food favourites.
11. Arugula and Beefsteak Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette
Rib eye, strip loin or tenderloin steak all work well in this fabulous lunch or supper salad.
12. Red Potatoes in Curried Yogurt
Asian markets in many Canadian cities stock tiffin carriers in various sizes and colours – some even fit inside special thermos carriers. If you have one, fill the bottom compartment with rice, the centre with this vegetarian curry and the top tier with chutney or a fruit salad for dessert. Otherwise, substitute other storage containers.
You can find even more healthy lunch recipes at our sister site, CanadianLiving.com:
-Crunchy Carnival Coleslaw
-Lightened-Up Hummus
-10 healthy breakfast and lunch alternatives
Read more in the Cook's Corner section in Food & Nutrition.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:
-Top 10 breakfast recipes
-Start a dinner club
-Top 10 recession-friendly -- and healthy -- foods
Page 1 of 1
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