What’s for lunch?

I usually have soup (not home-made) in the winter and salad in the summer. Sometimes I have leftovers from dinner the previous day and occasionally a sandwich or egg on toast.

What about a crumpet or wraps, or make a pitta into a pizza

*a day, not a daily.

Look at the Blood Sugar Diet book by Michael Moseley. Loads of great ideas - it is an 800 calorie a daily diet, so if you don't need to lose weight, just double the quantities (well, nearly double!)

poached eggs or beans on toast, warm pitta bread with dips or wraps with various fillings.

Two hard boiled eggs for me today.

We both need lunch to take to work which is really tedious to keep interesting and bread makes me sleepy in the afternoon, take tins of soup or make myself, sometimes get sushi from high street, but hate having to think each day and then supper later

I think it is best to 'eat to my meter' too Floradora. It's the only way we can discover what we can ,and cannot, eat.

If you saw the size of my half potatoes you could hardly count a carb . It just makes up for not eating a roll as DH does . I can tell how it affects my blood sugar and it is negligible .Niobe I had to bin the last of my Aldi rolls as I could not face any more . Glad that you like them .

Thank you Monica that’s very kind of you, but I’m not the OP, it’s she who is looking for low carb options. I nearly always eat low carb away so I’ll endorse your suggestions in the main and hope mollie will see them

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Ryvita ( dark rye) with some cheese and a hearty soup makes a nice lunch too.

I have just enjoyed a grilled sausage sarnie on very fresh wholemeal bread ( also with Lurpak) and a large mug of tea, after being out and getting a bit cold it was lovely.
mollie I find wholemeal bread much easier to digest than any other.

I try to eat homemade soup or salad with a tuna/cheese sandwich mid day. I've just had a delicious plate of eggs and bacon with brown bread (and lurpak) with a mug of tea. I've been up since 7.45, not stopped till one and felt I needed a treat.

It’s hard to have soup without crusty bread (she says petulantly ).

OH is having tummy problems and wants to cut down/out bread but it’s harder than he thinks. That’s today’s plan anyway. Thanks for all those lovely ideas.

Just had home made soup,( courgette & butternut squash) with a cheese croissant.

Just ate hummus sandwiches with M&S superseeded bread - yum!!

Quite ofter 2 small poached eggs with toast and marmalade.

We don’t often have lunch when at home; breakfast and then through to dinner. If we do have something at lunch time it is usually a sandwich, some smoked fish pate and toast, soup or scrambled eggs.

Soup glorious soup is the way to go. You can have it hot, cold, creamy, spicy, smooth, clear or chunky. I would recommend Lindsey Barehams, A celebration of soup, for inspiration. These should dampen the carb cravings. Sent my one who knows all too well the seductive power of a fresh crusty baguette!

OldMeg Have a salad with soup, serve pumpkin, or squash with veg, curry, make a cauliflower base for pizza, bake a sweet potato instead of an ordinary potato and have all the 'on toast' suggestions on a no-carb bread replacement. There are plenty of recipes for these online.

I cooked all these recipes for a light meal with non-carb substitutes when DH tried a low carb diet. Didn't work. 5:2 diet was far more successful.

I prefer toasted sandwiches. Bagel. Or cheese and crackers. Not really a sandwich person. And on a cold day a lovely bowl of soup.

Soup and crackers.
Cheese on toast.
Omlette.
And I make a large bowl of pasta salad and have some
each day with a bit of ham or whatever.
And I try to include oily fish once a week.

When I was working I ate far more healthily than I do since I've retired. I used to make myself a large salad which took ages to eat, followed by a yoghurt and fruit. Now it's a sandwich of whatever happens to be there and maybe some soup. DH and I go out once a week for lunch as well - and I wonder why I'm gaining weight!

Floradora9. Potatoes are solid carbs. So on a low carb diet baked potatoes are out. If fact anything that grows below ground can only be eaten occasionally.

mollie is trying to ditch the carbs Monica ?

Quick and easy is soup of course. Also why not save a small portion of what you had for dinner/tea the night before and just heat that up. Salads are quick and easy too.

One of my favourites a tub of taramasalata and a couple of sticks of celery to scoop it up with.