Healthy Lunch Recipes and Tips

Featured Recipes

Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad

This streamlined version of a northern Italian idea is perfect for a summer evening: no-fuss, no-cook and big taste. You can even make it ahead and store it, covered, in the refrigerator for several days. If you do, use it as a wrap filling for the next day's lunch.

» Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad

BBQ Chicken Sandwich

Toss leftover cooked chicken with barbecue sauce and crunchy carrots for a quick and healthy lunch.

» BBQ Chicken Sandwich

Artichoke & Ripe Olive Tuna Salad

An unusual and rich flavor combination; serve this salad with sliced tomato on a bed of lettuce or on French bread.

» Artichoke & Ripe Olive Tuna Salad

Tijuana Torta

A Mexican-style torta is just like a burrito, except the “wrapper” is a hollowed-out roll instead of a tortilla. Here it's filled with mashed spiced black beans and a quick guacamole. Take this vegetarian version to another level (and add calcium) by melting Monterey Jack cheese onto the bean side of the sandwich. Serve with: Grilled corn on the cob or Spanish rice.

» Tijuana Torta

Salmon Salad Bento Lunch

Watercress acts as a tasty divider between the salmon salad and crackers. Multicolored peppers and grapes add color to this bento and boost your daily servings of fruits and veggies.

» Salmon Salad Bento Lunch

Egg Salad Bento Lunch

This egg salad bento box is a hearty lunch and snack all in one. Spoon the egg salad into a lettuce “bowl” to keep it looking pretty and enjoy with cocktail bread and veggies. Toss banana and blueberries with yogurt to keep the bananas from turning brown. Save the chocolate chips and pistachios for an afternoon pick-me-up.

» Egg Salad Bento Lunch

Pizza Roll-Up

This easy pizza-inspired roll-up is a kid-pleaser.

» Pizza Roll-Up

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COMMENTS	POSTED
I have been trying to eat healthier and lunch is one of my toughest meals to eat healthy. In addition, when I eat an unhealthy lunch, I feel like I drag in the afternoon. I know a tuna sandwich is a good lunch but I get tired of eating tuna over and over again. I appreciate all the different recipes in this article. Thank you. — Anonymous	11/03/2009 - 6:42pm
these are all wonderful recipes but who has time to put them together? — Anonymous	01/16/2010 - 10:13pm
Since when is barbecue sauce healthy? Usually too high sugar content. — Anonymous	02/08/2010 - 3:44pm
i agree with the anonymous that who has the time to put the recipes together???? i dont get it — Anonymous	04/26/2010 - 4:44pm
Thanks for the healthy lunch ideas! — Anonymous	04/27/2010 - 10:40am
It seems to me that you are not going to lose weight eating all this "fancy" food. I keep my lunch choices simple, and I do fine and lose a ton of weight. — Anonymous	07/08/2010 - 3:39pm
A tablespoon of barbecue sauce is not unhealthy. The only thing here that is time consuming would be the bento box. And a food's "fanciness" has nothing to do with it's caloric content or nutritional stats. Thanks for the excellent recipes. — Anonymous	07/14/2010 - 1:32pm
These aren't weight loss recipes. They're simply healthy lunch on-the-go recipes. — Anonymous	08/23/2010 - 10:32am
I want to know where to buy this particular bento box!!! — Anonymous	09/03/2012 - 11:34pm