1/2 a cantaloupe with the hollow stuffed with cottage cheese and sprinkled with sunflower seeds or other nuts. Portable with a metal spoon you can eat it out of the rind. Somewhere between a meal and a snack. You get protein, and cantaloupe is extremely nutritious (large amt Vit A and C, good B-6 and some iron and magnesium, fiber)
Soup is always nutritious. Hot homemade soup is pretty easy, can freeze in individual portions. My favorite summer soup is Zucchini, green chile and cilantro soup from Deborah Madison’s Local Flavors cookbook, quite delicious hot or cold. That with a square of cornbread which is easy is a good meal.
http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/625663-Zucchini-and-Cilantro-Soup-with-Chile-and-Mint
In a pinch I make egg rolls with a bag of cabbage based Asian salad mix (mine has shredded carrot, green onion and cilantro), saute in a pan with a tiny bit oil or sesame oil, add soy sauce, dash hot sauce, chopped cooked chicken, couple handfuls of bean sprouts till wilted. Roll up in egg roll wrappers and fry (I keep meaning to experiment with oven frying–so it’s fried but I’m eating cabbage) Could use this mix over noodles or rice too but you’d need to add some sauce. Use the Asian salad dressing packet, Thai style sweet chile sauce or Trader Joe’s gyoza dipping sauce for the egg rolls. (As a matter of fact, I got hungry while writing this and put 1/2 bag of cabbage mix in a pan while I defrosted a small container of chicken chunks which I minced. Added a Tbsp of spicy stir fry sauce, no beansprouts because they go bad fast–and it is still good and took me 15 minutes tops.)
Sauteed beef or chicken and spinach, green beans or broccoli over rice. Very simple peanut sauce made with: 1/2 c peanut butter, 1/2 cup hot water, 1 minced garlic clove, 2 T soy sauce, 1 tsp rice wine vinegar, 1 tsp brown sugar. Blend and let sit for 1/2 hour for flavors to develop. (can enhance with ginger, maybe coconut milk and lime juice.)
Black bean turkey chili, a one pot meal and freezes very well in individual containers. I make mine with a lot of bell peppers esp red ones (rich in vit c, a, b6, phytochemicals carotenoids and enzymes like lutein.)
Salmon for dinner, leftover piece taken to work on top of a bagged Asian salad, the dressing will be good on the salmon too. Even if you dress it ahead it should hold up okay if you use a cabbage based one.
Pasta with a no cook sauce. Either chopped tomatoes marinated in garlic, olive oil and basil with diced fresh mozzarella. Or canned tuna with lemon juice, olive oil, capers or kalamata olives, diced red onion, minced parsley. Toss with hot pasta, use leftovers cold.
I love Dave’s bread too but I haven’t looked how healthy it is. And Kind bars are so perfect, my favorite is the almond and coconut, not too sweet as dried fruit and love the honey flavor. Also the roasted jalapeno is good for savory. Whoever thinks commercial rice pudding is healthy meal is delusional, lol.
I found it at Sam’s and didn’t look or see it at Costco.