I don't always eat lunch, since I like to fast between mittents. Usually I fast a minimum of 18 hours but I'm now doing a 21-22 hour fast one or two days a week. It makes me feel more energetic, lighter on my feet, and I've heard it's good for you and may even help prevent cancer, or at any rate it helps your body flush out toxins.
Anyway, when I do eat lunch, I start with a jar of room-temperature coffee (if it's decent quality coffee this is just fine!) and then I pop open my lunchbox, which I keep stocked with the following:
1. A large bag of mixed nuts...actually this is a Trail Mix of Theseus, because I keep adding different things to it (dried fruit, other kinds of nuts, dried coconut, etc.) as it gets low, and by now it contains zero nuts that were in the bag I originally purchased. Each time I have lunch, I eat several handfuls out of this bag.
2. A small bag of spicy corn chips (they're marketed as "Mexican street corn" flavor but that is pretty meaningless; in any case, it's a yummy flavor, distinct from the usual plain/BBQ varieties you see everywhere). A few handfuls of this also goes into my face each time I eat lunch.
3. A plastic jar of gummy multivitamins, from which I eat two gummies a day. I am planning to discontinue this once it runs out because I'm convinced it serves no purpose.
4. 2 pieces of hand fruit; one crunchy (preferably a granny smith apple) which I eat on my drive home, one more squishy (preferably this one is a grapefuit; sometimes it's a kiwi or a peach or an orange or something like that) which I eat at the very end of my lunch.
5. A high-protein granola bar.
I recommend this kind of lunch because it requires no refrigeration or reheating, it can be eaten while driving or while standing, and it doesn't make me feel heavy and tired afterward. It's also very healthy and budget-friendly (I think I spend $10-15 on food for lunch per week, and I'd say I'm eating pretty well here).
