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Healthy Lunch Recipes

Find healthy, delicious lunch recipes including wraps, vegan and vegetarian recipes, and kid-friendly lunches. Healthier Recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell.

Cheap, Healthy Lunch Ideas For Work

These healthy lunch recipes all clock in at $3 or less per serving and are perfectly packable!

Cheap, Healthy Lunch Ideas For Work

Creamy Avocado & White Bean Wraps

A zesty slaw adds plenty of vegetables to this protein-packed recipe for an easy, packable lunch.

Creamy Avocado & White Bean Wraps

Chicken Salad-Stuffed Avocados

Forget the bread—stuff classic chicken salad in lower carb avocados for a healthy lunch or impressive appetizer with this easy recipe.

Chicken Salad-Stuffed Avocados

Chicken, Quinoa & Veggie Bowl

Roasted Veggie & Hummus Pita Pockets

Mixed Greens with Lentils & Sliced Apple

Apple & Cheddar Pita Pockets

5-Ingredient Lunch Ideas for Work

Healthy and quick lunch recipes, with only five ingredients.

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Clean-Eating Bento Box Lunch

Mediterranean Bento Lunch

Taco Salad Bento Lunch for Kids

Deconstructed Sushi Bento Lunch

Easy Bento Box Lunch Ideas for Work and School

The ancient Japanese tradition of packing lunch in a bento box, a decorative container with small compartments, has now become mainstream. We love bento box lunches because the compartments help control portion sizes and they're great for kids too. Try these easy bento box lunch ideas to shake up your lunch routine.

Shrimp Cobb Salad

Hummus & Greek Salad

Creamy Pesto Chicken Salad with Greens

Couscous & Fruit Salad

Healthy Lunch Salad Ideas for Work

Make a filling and healthy salad that will power you through any work day. Full of protein and fiber these quick salads are an easy way to spruce up your lunch.

Mediterranean Wrap

Grilled Thai Chicken Sandwich

Grilled Eggplant & Portobello Sandwich

Sweet Southern Egg Salad

Healthy MyPlate-Inspired Lunch Recipes

These delicious lunch recipes make it easy to eat healthfully and in line with the USDA's MyPlate Guidelines. These healthy recipes meet the MyPlate guidelines for calories, portion size, sodium, saturated fat and added sugars. To make these recipes part of a complete meal, please refer to our serving suggestions included with the recipe.

Black Bean-Quinoa Buddha Bowl

Spicy Ramen Cup of Noodles

Orzo Chicken Salad with Avocado-Lime Dressing

Salmon Sushi Buddha Bowl

Make-Ahead Lunch Ideas for Work

Mornings can be hectic save yourself some time and fix lunch the night before.

Chipotle Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowl

Chile-Lime Veggie Noodles

Spicy Ramen Cup of Noodles

Taco Lettuce Wraps

Metabolism-Boosting Lunch Ideas for Work

Here's a great reason to spice up your lunch: research shows that capsaicin, a compound in chiles, can rev your body's metabolism and may help you burn more fat. Try these packable lunches for Spicy Ramen Cup of Noodles, Taco Lettuce Wraps and more.

Smoked Turkey & Farro Salad

Shrimp Cobb Salad

Zesty Shrimp & Black Bean Salad

Broccoli, Ham & Cheese Quiche

Pack-and-Go Healthy Lunch Recipes for Work

Get new healthy lunch recipes to pack and bring to work.

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Greek Salad Wraps

Zesty Greek salad packed with tomatoes, cucumber and olives--plus chickpeas for a protein punch--gets tucked into a whole-wheat wrap for a healthy vegan lunch that's easy to pack for work. It's so flavorful and satisfying, you won't miss the feta!

Quinoa Avocado Salad

Protein-packed quinoa pairs with creamy avocado in this refreshing grain salad. It's the perfect make-ahead side dish to bring on a picnic or take to a potluck. Or pack it for lunch or enjoy it as a light dinner.

Sesame Sugar Snap Peas

This super-quick vegetable side dish comes together in no time. Fresh snap peas need only a few minutes in a hot skillet-just enough time to whip up a simple soy-ginger glaze.

Bean Salad with Charred Lemons

Creamy avocado, salty feta cheese and sweet-bitter caramelized lemon slices make this vegetarian bean salad recipe a standout. Using different colors, sizes and shapes of beans makes this salad extra special. But any bean that interests you, even canned, will work.

Pulled Chicken & Pickled Veggie Wraps

These colorful chicken wraps are perfect for a crowd. Marinated radishes, onions, and carrots add a salty crunch-and a sneaky serving of vegetables!

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Greens & Roots Salad with Citrus-Walnut Vinaigrette

Raw beets and turnips, you ask? Oh, yes! They're quite delicious and crunchy as long as you use small ones and slice them thin. An inexpensive mandoline makes this a quick and easy salad. Use the leftover vinaigrette to dress up simple grilled chicken, steak or shrimp.

Cauliflower-Potato Salad with Horseradish Dressing

Yep, there's cauliflower in this potato salad. It cuts down on the carbs and calories, and is a perfect match for our tangy horseradish dressing.

Asparagus & Sorrel Bisque

Sorrel, a lovely spring green, is paired with asparagus in this simple green soup that's great served warm or cool. Use tender, young sorrel in salads or sauces to cut through the richness of foods like salmon or steak. No sorrel on hand? Baby arugula makes a good substitute.

Tomato Salad with Lemon-Basil Vinaigrette

Seek out several varieties of heirloom tomatoes for this simple salad. Sweeter and juicier than conventional tomatoes, they add the perfect pop of color.

Grilled Salmon Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

Homemade raspberry dressing? You bet. Prep it a day ahead and this easy salmon salad will come together in no time.

Chicken & Spring Vegetable Tortellini Salad

Store-bought tortellini and frozen peas keep things quick in this healthy 30-minute meal. Jazzed-up bottled salad dressing helps you go even faster. Look for one with 200 mg or less of sodium and 3 g or less of sugar per serving.

Salmon Salad-Stuffed Avocado

Good-quality canned salmon is high in protein and brain-loving omega-3 fatty acids. Mix it with pesto-spiked yogurt and pile it old-school style into a halved avocado for a quick healthy lunch.

Goulash Soup

Get all the flavors of classic goulash in a warming, hearty soup. This easy one-pot meal can be on the table in less than an hour.

Meal-Prep Roasted Vegetable Bowls with Pesto

Your co-workers will be jealous when you pull out this healthy lunch of roasted veggies and brown rice. Put together 4 lunches when you have time and you will have packable lunches (or ready-to-eat dinners) for several days--just grab a container on your way out the door in the morning.

Meal-Prep Cilantro-Lime Chicken Bowls

Prep all four servings of this easy recipe at once for ready-to-eat dinners or packable lunches for the rest of the week. If you don't like a lot of heat, try using mild chili powder, and leave out the jalapeño from the rice.

Egg Salad Lettuce Wraps

We love the retro vibe of these egg salad lettuce wraps. Iceberg lettuce makes a perfect low-carb swap for bread to serve the egg salad.

Mason Jar Power Salad with Chickpeas & Tuna

This power salad will keep you fueled for hours, thanks to 26 grams of protein and 8 grams of fiber. Tossing the dressing and kale, and then letting it stand in the jar, softens it enough so you don't need to massage or cook it to make it tender.

Buffalo Chicken Grain Bowl

Get the flavors of spicy Buffalo chicken wings, without frying, in this nutritious couscous bowl loaded with protein and crisp veggies.

Chopped Cobb Salad

This single-serving recipe for Cobb salad swaps chicken in for bacon, which makes it a great source of protein for lunch. If you prefer another salad dressing, feel free to use that instead of our honey-mustard vinaigrette.

Couscous & Chickpea Salad

Cooked couscous and canned chickpeas come together in this quick lunch salad. The basil vinaigrette makes it taste anything but basic! When in season, we recommend adding fresh chopped tomatoes for a spin on tabbouleh.