<p>I work in a semi-rural area and only have half an hour for lunch so always pack something. I usually have soup (homemade, once in a while canned) or leftovers from dinner in cold weather and yogurt with fresh fruit or a salad in the warm weather. I don’t like sandwiches. I eat at my desk, but we have a pretty casual workplace so there’s time for chatting most times. We have a kitchen area with a full size refrigerator, a toaster oven and a microwave. Oftentimes people will bring in baked goods and there are always pretzels and candy in the candy drawer. A few of us contribute, no one keeps track of who brought what.</p>
<p>I don’t see how some of you eat so little. Yogurt and fruit? I would be hungary in half an hour. I often eat my biggest meal at lunch time, and often there would be some kind of meat. My hands would shake if I didn’t have enough food, and I would get cranky. Sometimes when I am really busy, I would carry Ensure with me to drink between meetings.</p>
<p>My meals are generally pretty small, but I eat every two or three hours. Handful of almonds, a piece of fruit, whatever. If I try to eat three big meals in a day, no matter how big they are I starve in between.</p>
<p>I confess to snacking too. I have a box of triscuits in my desk and sometimes bring in carrots or grapes.</p>
<p>My lunch is usually inhaled at my desk while working. Usually I just have a sandwich or a container of yogurt.</p>
<p>Pretty easy to get to 300 calories with yogurt and fruit. Contrast that to a typical breakfast at home for me, two eggs, two slices of turkey bacon and two slices of toast at 350 calories.</p>
<p>After lunch I usually slip in a muffin or big cookie with anther cup of tea. That sees me thru till dinner. If I ate meat and a lot of food at lunch I’d fall asleep all afternoon.</p>
<p>Breakfast for me today was roast beef and eggs. Basically a no-carb breakfast/lunch. I’m eating two bananas and a cup of wheat bites as fuel for an afternoon run. It’s actually hard to eat a lot of food on a super low-carb diet.</p>
<p>Lunch for me was leftover mussels and leftover gazpacho. Yummy!</p>
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<p>Actually a cup of yogurt [Calories</a> in Fage Total 0% Greek Yogurt and Nutrition Facts](<a href=“FatSecret - Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker for Weight Loss”>Calories in Fage Total 0% Greek Yogurt (227 g) and Nutrition Facts) and a cup of strawberries [Calories</a> in 1 cup of sliced Strawberries and Nutrition Facts](<a href=“Calories in 100 cups of sliced Strawberries and Nutrition Facts”>Calories in 1 cup of sliced Strawberries and Nutrition Facts) is less then 200 calories if you go for no-fat yogurt, and two cups of that would be a pretty big bowl full! 
My serving size is closer to just over a cup of the two items and that fills me up. I love the taste of greek yogurt, so it’s not any kind of deprivation to eat it. </p>
<p>I think mathmom’s leftover mussels and gazpacho sounds the best!</p>
<p>I go for whole milk yogurt which is around 180 calories and a banana which is a bit over 100. Most of the containers of yogurt that I see at the grocery store have quite a bit of sugar in them per serving - typically from 18 to 35 grams. There is the plain stuff but it appears to me that there’s a lot more of the sugared stuff actually sold.</p>
<p>The non-fat or low-fat alternatives look attractive for the lower calories but I think that you’re better off with the high-fat/high-protein approach for losing weight as current research shows.</p>
<p>I used to eat brown cow yogurt, but I am desperately trying to lower my cholesterol, so I switched to Greek & Icelandic yogurt.</p>
<p>Siggis yogurt has just about 10gms of sugar & plain yogurt has 9gms ( lactase), so it isn’t too sweet.</p>
<p>Now that tomatoes are luscious I am having sliced tomato, vidalia onion and butter sandwiches on french bread for lunch. Realizing I don’t like a protein heavy lunch from this thread. Prefer to put the protein into breakfast and dinner.</p>
<p>I think of the little containers of fruit yogurt as something for kids or people that like really sweet stuff. There are some good ones, but most of them are weirdly sweet. I like Brown cow, but it’s not sold in my area stores. My current yogurt favorite is plain Chobani Greek Yogurt that has 7g of sugar, 18g of protein per 1 cup serving. I’ll get the vanilla flavored once in a while too, which has 13g of sugar and 16g of protein, but then I’ll cut back on the fruit. I just think yogurt is a perfect hot weather food.</p>
<p>I also like leftover-from-dinner grain salads. Yesterday I had a spicy quinoa mix that was flavored with hot salsa. I might add some avocado to it today if the one I have is ripe.</p>
<p>Once a week, four of us go to a pretty nice restaurant across from our building. It’s a splurge, but we consider it a “reward” for our hard work. A couple of times a week, I’ll get a salad from the building cafe and eat at my desk while checking e-mail or making some personal calls that need to happen during business hours (e.g. making a doctor appt.). The other days, it’s soup, lean cuisine, or leftovers at my desk. My company relocated a few years back and decided NOT to put in a spot for tables. I think it was a real mistake. It would be lovely to have a place to eat/converse with my colleagues fairly quickly. Now, most employees take a solid hour lunch break and go out.</p>
<p>Just picked up a tub of Greek yogurt (plain) from Sunrise Farms. It’s a local producer (they’re in Brentwood, NH) and I like the nutritional composition of this product. Daughter tried it out and loves it. It is a whole milk product so about Fat: 10g, Carbs: 6g, Protein: 7g
per four ounces. I’d guess that the sugar is 0-2 grams.</p>
<p>I bring meals from home nearly every day. If I have protein at breakfast I tend to have an all vegetable/grain/fruit for lunch and vice versa.</p>
<p>I mix it up. Breakfast can be a wholegrain cereal, boiled egg, or egg sandwich with yogurt or a banana.</p>
<p>Lunch varies, but usually includes two fruits of some kind, like an apple and an orange. Earlier this week I’ve brought a whole avocado. I’ve been known to bring a corn cob and toss it in the microwave. For obvious reasons, I don’t eat a corn cob at my desk, LOL. For everything else, eating here at the desk is SOP. On occassion I’ll go out when I want something hot. As for beverages, my preference is H20 at the tap, since our local water is quite good. But I’ve been known to fill up at the Office Water Cooler when no one is looking. When I need some sweet carbonation I’ll grab a Dr. Brown’s Diet Black Cherry from the newsstand.</p>
<p>I take yogurt for breakfast and sometimes supplement it with Cheerios or mini shredded wheat. For lunch, I usually bring a ham and cheese sandwich, with Boars Head cold cuts on it. I love to put both mayo and honey mustard on it. Yummy. And I stay at my desk and surf the web. </p>
<p>I also make sure I have a basket of fruit at my desk – apples and bananas always; in the summer, peaches, plus cut-up watermelon or honeydew in a plastic baggie.</p>
<p>I hate to buy sandwiches. I think it’s a waste of money.</p>
<p>Thanks to this thread I will be having yogurt for breakfast.</p>
<p>I eat one cup of Kashi cereal w/ skim milk for breakfast. It has the same amt. of protein as an egg plus lots of fiber. The combination keeps me from getting hungry before lunchtime.</p>