Lunch. Lunch can be your undoing if you're trying to eat healthy. You're busy, you didn't plan ahead, you're hungry, and you just want to grab something and get back to the day. This is where fast food thrives. And in our house it's worse, because Steph hates lunch. You may not understand how someone can "hate" lunch, but she truly has a deep seated, burning animosity towards the middle meal.
It's not pretty.
But she did come up with this healthy and addictive solution to the lunch dilemma, which is good for vegetarians and carnivores alike.
First of all, you need to learn this: Hummus is your friend. It's delicious, it's pretty good for you, it's relatively lo-cal, and it can save lunch. Not to make this a commercial for Sabra, as I'm no hummus expert. But I know that they have a ton of flavor varieties to keep things interesting:
Yes, currently, a rather absurd amount of fridge space is taken up with the mighty chickpea mash. It's sad, but beautiful. Anyway. Here's your lunchtime solution.
Start with your favorite hummus variety. I'm partial to the Supremely Spicy, or sometimes the Chipotle (totally ethnically confused but fusion can be yummy). Get yourself a whole-wheat tortilla. Slather it on to your heart's content. Go ahead, pretend it's mayo or something.
Happy yet? Okay, let's put some super-food on there. Add some spinach leaves.
Roll it all up. You're done.
I used to think I needed cheese or some kind of meat on there too. But I truly don't any more. If you feel like you do need something more, go ahead. Shredded mozzarella works nicely, or just pop a piece of string cheese in there. Some shredded chicken would work, as would sliced turkey. But at some point, try it as is. A couple of these things is great. Trouble is, I sometimes can't stop with two, because they're so dang good. But if I dust off more than two I don't feel too guilty because...there's nothing bad in them.
It's a simple way to keep lunch healthy. Try it.
