Lunch. The oft under-appreciated mid-day meal. We use it to seal business deals, catch up with friends, or make unenthusiastic use of last night’s leftovers. For those of us with a Good Food focus, though, lunchtime can be a big old bummer. All too often we fall into the trap of under-preparation, assuming we’ll be able to find something acceptable in the cafeteria, restaurant, or supermarket deli counter. Then, when we come up empty – or worse, make an off-road choice that proves to be less than worth it – we’re stuck dealing with the consequences.
Utah-based food blogger Stormy Sweitzer recognized that problem… and decided that something had to be done about it. In her own words:
Power lunches came about several years ago as a way for me to manage my food sensitivities during the workday. I was working 10-hour days as a project manager and health care quality improvement consultant, and then dropping by the gym after work. Food options near my office were things I couldn’t eat without feeling unwell, let alone keep my energy up. So I figured out ways to make lunches and snacks that were quick to put together, tasted good, and could be made with whatever I had in the fridge (assuming I’d done an OK job of shopping that week).
Turns out, my coworkers were envious of what they saw, and often asked for tips on how to ditch their frozen burritos and ham sandwiches for something fresh and healthy. Few of them followed through, though. Why? I discovered that lack of time, understanding of preparation strategies, and comfort with basic cooking skills were holding people back.
Enter the Book That Will Revolutionize Your Lunch.
We sat down with Paleo Power Lunch author Stormy Sweitzer to dish about cooking, lunchtime, and how to bring creative, delicious, healthy offerings to your office break room.
W9: What makes lunch so important, anyway?
SS: Lunch is the forgotten meal. It’s not sexy. It can feel out of our control. It is given short shrift during our morning routines or ignored altogether if we have to rush out the door. And yet lunchtime is some of the most important opportunities for keeping energy and alertness high; avoiding temptation and managing cravings; and recovering from or preparing for a tough workout. Even if you work from home, having a set lunchtime routine is a necessary part of your healthy eating plan.
W9: What do you think keeps people from making good lunch choices?
SS: In my opinion, it is not enough for people to know what they should do or prescribe what they can or cannot eat. They need tools, support and confidence to make the change – that’s why sites like Whole9 and other forums are so essential. Given that, I wrote Paleo Power Lunch from the point of view that if a reader can master the basics – cooking techniques, flavor combinations, kitchen strategies – they will build the confidence and habits they need to eat well during the workday, be consistent, and feel comfortable experimenting with new ingredients.
W9: Everybody eats lunch (or at least they should). Who will benefit the most from Paleo Power Lunch?
SS: I wrote Paleo Power Lunch for busy professionals – those that work out in the world and even at home – that are comfortable in the kitchen but don’t have a routine for putting a healthy lunch together for the day and want to expand their ability to improvise ingredients, or, those who need a system, but also want recipes that they can follow easily and help understanding basic cooking techniques.
Paleo Power Lunch
Paleo Power Lunch is packed with practical information that will take your lunch hour from zero to hero with just a few minutes of prep time. Plus, your copy includes:
- A snapshot of the power tools you’ll need to optimize your lunch construction
- An ingredient idea list to kick-start your imagination
- A printable weekly meal chart to help you visualize your plan for the week
- A step-by-step guide to strategic grocery shopping
Walk through the simple four-step process for creating your own lunch preparation game plan, learn simple and delicious ways to prepare your proteins, and get the low-down on how to store all your ingredients before jumping into 26 simple recipes for lunchtime salads that will be the envy of everyone in the break room – including 13 delicious Whole30-compliant dressings. (Just skip the optional honey – and save the honey-mustard dressing for after your Whole30.)
Can you imagine the looks on your co-workers faces (or, if you work from home, your dog’s face) when you sit down with a bowl filled with crisp shrimp, bright citrus fruits, and creamy avocado, topped with a creamy lemon chive dressing, or a zesty Moroccan-inspired lunch packed with grilled steak and sweet potatoes and dressed with a roasted red pepper vinaigrette?
Plus, each copy of Paleo Power Lunch comes with a quick reference guide, a treasure trove of online bonus materials – including tutorial videos – and five quick start guides!
It’s time to toss all your excuses out the window and get down to the business of making and enjoying delicious lunches made with Good Food. You’ve got two ways to explore this awesome new cookbook:
We hope you enjoy Paleo Power Lunch as much as we did – in fact, we liked it so much, we’re giving away copies of the e-book version of Paleo Power Lunch to three lucky readers! Just tell us (in comments below) why your lunchtime is in desperate need of a makeover, and we’ll select three winners to receive a downloadable e-book version of PPL, plus all bonus material! (Contest closes on Wednesday, August 8th, at 11:59 PM Pacific.)
About the Author
Stormy Sweitzer lives in Salt Lake City, UT with her husband and aging fur kids. She writes the Maoomba blog, where she shares real food recipes, tips and stories; and teaches cooking classes – including Bowl-in-One Meals and Paleo Power™ Lunch: The Class – at ChefHangout.com. She has worked as a public health professional, helping physicians improve care for people with chronic illness, and as a program manager for organizations that promote health, community, and economic empowerment through food. Visit her at http://maoomba.com for more recipes, or to download your free Paleo Power Lunch bonus materials.
On this site, and with all of our business dealings, we strive for 100% transparency. Whole9 is a Paleo Power Lunch affiliate. We love these recipes, and we honestly believe the information contained within this cookbook is of the highest quality, and exceptionally useful for our readers and Whole30 participants. We just wanted to make sure you knew that, in the interest of full disclosure.
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This looks terrific! I’m definitely in need of some better options. I spend the majority of my lunches on the road and it is tempting to bring the same old thing each day or just grab convenience store foods. Some locations don’t have anything that is a good option. My life would probably be a lot easier if I had some quick, healthy options that I could bring with me.
I’d love to have some fresh new recipes to liven up my lunches. Typically I resort to unexciting leftovers for lunch or just wander around the nearby restaurants looking for something that will suffice. I’d love to be excited about lunches on a regular basis! Count me in.
I’d love to spice up my lunch time!!! Believe it or not, for the past year or so (since I started eating paleo), I have been eating the exact same thing for lunch every day at work. Spinach salad with onions, chicken breast, 1/2 avocado, and olive oil/balsamic dressing. Getting home late every night, I don’t feel like I have the time to put together something extravagent. Some direction and better ideas would be great :)
I definitely need help with my lunches. I am stuck in the peanut butter and jelly, ramen noodle and cold cereal cycle, and Paleo Power Lunch sounds like an answer to my prayers. I am terrible at planning meals, and I am at the grocery store every day!
I would love a copy of this book for my mom. She has tried “everything” to lose weight and I am working on getting her on board with giving paleo a try, but I need to find recipes that are easy and fit her lifestyle, and lunch will be a challenge for me. She’s a sales rep and eats lunch in her car in between accounts and it’s usually a sandwich. So I would love to use this book to find some paleo lunch ideas for her.
I work 12 hour shifts in a hospital and am lucky to get a full 30 minute lunch break. I commute 45-50 minutes each way so I leave home at 5:45a and usually get home around 8:30pm. I frequently work a few days in a row. As is ironically the case in most hospitals our cafeteria has few healthy choices. Having more quick, interesting and healthy options that travel well would be fantastic!
This sounds like a great book. I have a good routine for workday lunches, but it has become just that, routine (and boring). If it is not cucumber and chicken dressed in gluten-free balsamic vinaigrette, it is chicken salad over greens with apples and walnuts. I definitely feel stuck in a rut. And if it is not a work-day, I seem to totally forget about lunch (when my kids aren’t home). Dinner leftovers are often used for quick dinners on later nights, so rarely do i bring those to work for lunch. I could definitely use some more paleo power lunches in my repertoire!
I need this book! I am out of lunch ideas and I attempt to make something for me and my husband as we run out the door for work. But lately I end up throwing a bunch of veggies and maybe a leftover protein in our lunch bags and it doesn’t end up being very appealing come lunch time. This looks like it has some great ideas and easy prepping to get a good healthy lunch for on the go.
My husband is a math teacher at a public school and coaches football, so he leaves early early and arrives home late, thus his lunch needs to be a real “power” meal that he can consume in less than 20 minutes each day. I love to cook and given “hours” to prep and cook, I can make anything, but I’m in school full-time and have little time to fix great lunches throughout the week that have much originality or variety. We both have been doing paleo for three months and have seen great benefits (I’ve lost over 30 lbs). We want the opportunity to continue to spread the word of the value of having this lifestyle and feel that having great lunches displayed to others would only affirm that the SAD needs to be abandoned. This cookbook would be a great addition to my paleo library. Thanks for the contest!
Lunch is where I struggle the most! Dinners I have time to pre-plan for the most part but lunch gets tricky especially when you only have a few minutes at work to enjoy it. I would love to read this for better lunch options. I am super excited about the ebook. Thanks for the contest :)
The reason we decided to promote this cookbook (because there are a LOT of cookbooks out there, and we’re pretty picky) is because (a) it’s all everyday food, which is what we all have the hardest time keeping creative and delicious, (b) the prep tips take it from a mere recipe book to an actual reference, and (c) the mix-and-match salad variations means you’ll never be stuck with spinach, chicken breast, olive oil and balsamic again. (Unless you want to.)
I’m a huge fan of giant salads, but I get stuck in ruts.Tuna, blueberries, walnuts, balsamic. Chicken, mandarin oranges, pine nuts, mint. Those are pretty much my go-tos… and thinking outside the box is, for some reason, really hard when it’s 11:30 AM and you’re starving. But with these awesome dressings, proteins, and add-ons, the possibilities are endless (with less brain power on your part).
Hope you all enjoy!
Melissa
I work near home and my husband works at home. We’re embarking on our first Whole30 together. I would love to be able to spend about 30 minutes together with him with a fresh, healthy, well-executed meal. I know with a little inspiration, he might even want to prepare lunch for us both before I get home and then run ragged to get lunch on the table for both of us then hurry back to work. I think the concept of “lunch” sounds much more manageable, and I think we’d both love to have the proper tools to succeed.
My lunches (and my husband’s!) need help! My husband has to pack his lunch to take to work where he’s a high school teacher who spends most of his lunch breaks coaching sports or providing extra help for students – leaving him very little time to actually *eat*. I’m at home full-time with three children under the age of five – often lunch time gets so chaotic that I forget to take time to eat after preparing, serving and cleaning up THEIR lunches!
I would LOVE to have access to the Paleo Power Lunch! I am stuck in a rut of simple meat in one container and random veggies in another container, simply because I do not enjoy the mush that occurs if I combine my normal meals and take them to work! I am in desperate need of some prep and storage tutorials!!
I’m still a half-4ssed paleo girl, tripping up whenever it gets too hard or something is too tempting. Lunch is almost always my downfall time bc I never spend time planning for it. I always (still!) think ‘there will be something to eat’ and yet, there rarely is. I’m at home, but homeschooling two of my children so don’t want to spend much time in the kitchen. My husband is also desparate for better, more reliable, lunches to take to work with him.
Lunch is by far the hardest meal of the day to put together for me and my family. I am the designated lunch maker for my family (hubby & 2 kiddos) and I am trying to bring my family into a paleo eating style with out too much upset (or even notice.) Lunch boxes for two kids who have very different taste buds is hard and getting my hubby to bring lunch to work is almost impossible. I would love a lunch cookbook to get more ideas to make lunches for me and the family all yummy paleo!!!
Lunch is definitely the hardest meal for me and my husband. He is on a job site all day and generally is so busy he doesn’t take time to eat. I’m home with our son and run the “office” side of my husband’s business while taking care of our kiddo, and I’m usually so busy getting home stuff done (remodeling….tons of fun), business stuff done, appointments, and taking care of the little man that it becomes an afterthought for me. Which leads to a lot of skipped lunches. I’m a fan of any book that can teach me “real” food prep and combinations without having to go purchase crazy and/or expensive ingredients!
Paleo power lunch sounds great. I’m in serious need of more lunch ideas. I have a really busy job and either eat the same old salad everyday or make bad choices because I’m hungry and not prepared.
My lunch usually consists of leftovers from multiple meals dumped into a container together. My lunch actually causes me more stress than breakfast or dinner.
I’m new to Paleo (like 2 weeks in…), and I’d love some new ideas for lunches when I’m at work. Mostly I just eat leftovers, which is fine… but if I don’t have any leftovers, I’m lost. I’d really like to commit to eating this way!
This is a great idea and I’d love to win a copy! Just an FYI: there’s a grammatical error in the first red bar (it’s instead of its).
Lunches are my weak spot as well. My days are split between working a full time job and going to school. I always say that lunch will be ‘leftovers’ but I never seem to make enough the night before. I could definitely use some help with time management and quick ideas.
I have a difficult time making good lunches, and even eat microwaved eggs at work for breakfast. Even dinners many times suffer because of my schedule. I work full time, attend college full time, and use leftover time to sleep and hit the gym. I’ve been Paleo for a year and a half and any junk food (which is sometimes my only option) will always make me sick. I need to continue to eat healthy but aside from baked lemon pepper chicken and microwave eggs, I’m at a loss. This book sounds like the answer to my prayers. :-)
I would definitely love this book. I have a lot of ideas but I am always looking for more ideas – you can never have too many. Everyone I work with is jealous of the meals I bring in and I want to make them even more jealous of my fabulous paleo meals!!!! :0) Nom Nom Nom!
I work my BUTT off to try to create a good, healthy lunch every day – it is one of my biggest motivators to make a healthy dinner! In fact, we have the “lunch rule” at our house – to try and leave enough leftovers so i am NEVER stuck with a ham sandwich for lunch (its just my husband and I, don’t worry – I am not starving my children so I have enough leftovers for lunch). I could DEFINTELY use some new ideas bc I am all tapped out! Everyone should have a lunch they can look forward to!
My husband and I are doing the Whole 30 for the first time, and this is actually the very first time my husband has tried to seriously change his eating. He is doing awesome and I’m so proud of him. I would love to have more options for his lunch. He works in a typical, busy corporate setting, and generally eats at his desk. Before Whole 30, he would just skip lunch or run get fast food – so at least he’s trying now! I just need some things to send with him that won’t get boring, but also don’t require any on-site prep – he is not in that type of environment. This is a huge change for him, and I really want to find things to support him and keep him going! Thanks!
My lunches could definitely use a makeover!! Salad is my go-to meal because it’s so simple and easy to prep (the night before), and bring to work (the next day). I make leftovers but like to save them for when I don’t have time to prepare anything for dinner. This book would be an awesome edition to my kitchen, and my lunches!! :)
I need a way to make lunches quicker and easier! I am cooking for four kids at home everyday, plus sending food with my husband to work. I feel like I never leave the kitchen!
Lunch for me is definitely an afterthought – usually as soon as i walk into work I think ‘aww man, i forgot to pack a lunch again!’….to the freezer I go to retrieve a cardboard tasting frozen meal that usually leaves me hungry anyway. I definitely need help planning, and coming up with healthy meals that I can eat for lunch. I just found out about paleo nutrition, and am really interested in learning more.
Seconding Candice on the grammatical error; it should indeed read “its” and not “it’s” in the red bar.
And Tami, my husband is in the same boat as yours. This is the first time he’s seriously paid attention to what he’s putting in his body. I want to funnel as much positive reinforcement as humanly possible into his efforts by making it stupid-easy to succeed.
Could use some new ideas for lunch. The usual lunch time meal is what ever is leftover packed with some salad. Not very exciting. The reason for this is because it 1). uses up leftovers and 2). it’s fast and quick. I’d love some new lunchtime meals that won’t take long to put together.
Just a quick update on to my comment above: after much dithering with myself, I caved and bought this, and it’s worth the money. Stormy works on a “template” principle, kind of like the Whole30 Meal Map, except her templates are for various types of dishes. She has one each for entree salads, one bowl meals (like rice bowls/stirfries), soups, and breakfast scrambles. She also goes over some flavour combos, a la Robb Wolf’s Food Matrix (http://robbwolf.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/thePaleoSolution_FoodMatrix.pdf). If you’re familiar with the “Flavor Bible”, by Page & Dornenburg, or if you’ve been cooking for awhile and just hate being tied down to a specific recipe, you’ll find Stormy’s approach inspiring for your creativity, and very workable. Alternately, if you want the security of a recipe while you get your feet under you and start to explore a bit, she does provide enough examples that you can get started.
The part I like the best (other than all the theory and formulas about how to construct my own dishes from components) is the fact that these dishes are scaled for 1 serving — and they can scale up or down very easily. Especially nice is the “50-50 single” method to convert any salad dressing recipe into a single-serving size.
Okay, I lied. I also love how she provides instructions for deconstructing any dish you like and turning it into a salad! (I guess I have two parts I like best. :P)
I really hope she decides to expand this work into a full-length, traditionally published cookbook in the future. I would love to see it cover more dish types and include more information on flavour matching and recreating flavours of specific ethnic cuisine (the same way Flavor Bible does…but for paleo). Also, I feel more exploration of cream-style soups would be nice, since the booklet included in the e-book version didn’t really cover them.
Brilliant! Most weeks I can plan our meals out where leftovers make the perfect lunch treat. However when I’m out of paleo mayo for quick chicken salad…. I’ve hit a rut. I’m a social worker which keeps me out and about in the community most days. I rely heavily on my homemade food and water jugs to keep me at my awesomest for my families! Thank you for your efforts in keeping health alive.
Because I’m running out of leftovers!
My wife has to eat Paleo because of many food allergies and feels so restricted. She is really miserable. Lunch is the worst. I’d love to have this cookbook to expand our repertoire and make her happier about lunches.
I need some new Paleo lunch ideas!! Soooo tired of the chicken on greens thing I always seem to be eating!!
I NEED this book! Lunch is the mea where I tend to struggle the most. I always see to be on the run, which can cause me to make the wrong choices. This sounds like exactly what I need to get my lunches on track.
i would love to win this book. i am trying to change my eating habits and this would help make lunchtime healthy and something good to look forward too & not seek out the fastfood that then makes me feel horrible! thanks for the chance!
Would love this book for lunch ideas as well as doing better with shopping for food for week for 1 person and planning /preparing lunches for week. The week gets busy with work and working out. Trying to keep it simple ( and not have fresh food go bad before I cook it all. Thanks
B/c I’m new to this and I need IDEAS!
Yes, me too. I love my chicken, grape salad on greens but I am getting mighty sick of it! I take leftovers too but i am stuck in a rut trying to feed my kids and me! Simple but tasty would be real good!! Thanks!!
I need food help!! I am currently taking the Whole30 challenge and have decided to change my eating habits. The downside to this challenge: I can’t cook and I have no imagination. My office has no lunchroom/cafeteria so I have to eat lunch in my cubicle staring at three walls. If that’s not bad enough, my lunches are boring as well. Please pick me so I can make quality, healthy, exciting lunches! Thank you for considering me!
Lunches are definitely the hardest part of menu planning for me. As a mom of 5, full-time student, and caregiver, all my brain cells are focused elsewhere. This is our first Whole30 and we’ve managed to stick to it so far (and I have to tell you how excited I am about that!!) but our teens are complaining about lunch choices most of all.
My husband and I were just talking about how lunch is the hardest meal to plan, especially during the work week! I’d love more ideas:)
Because my lunches need power!! My boyfriend and I have been paleo/whole30 for a while. I’m usually too exhausted to pack my lunch so he does it for me… The only bad thing is I often am starving because he doesn’t think I need to eat too many calories… Example: a 3 oz serving of meat, 1 strawberry, 2 oz mixed greens, 8 carrots, and 7 blueberries. Around 2pm, I wish I could punch him in the face becuase I’m so hungry. Please pick me so I can help him pack me power lunches… Before I POW(er) him in the face!
I just started the Whole30 last Friday, and I’d love some easy meal ideas beyond those included in “It Starts with Food.”
I would love for my husband to win this book! He started the paleo plan a year and a half ago after putting on 30 pounds in law school and struggling to lose it, no matter how much he worked out or ate “healthy grains”. In the past 1.5 years, he has literally never had a non-paleo meal, he is so committed to how good this lifestyle makes him feel. His lunches consist of leftovers or deli meat and veggies, and he works in an environment where people are always going out to eat pizza or tacos and always giving him a hard time for the way he chooses to eat. He never waivers no matter how tough the peer pressure is, and he would enjoy these types of lunches so much. thanks!
Because I work in a cupcake shop and am surrounded by horrible food 24/7. I need to rework my lunches, badly for good health + wellness, which seems to be failing me already and I’m only in college. Lunch will power me through the day into my long chemistry courses + days at work. I would really love some ideas/help.
I have 5 kids ages 6 and under (3 are mine, 2 are my nephews that I watch full-time) that I make lunch for every day. It is busy around here to say the least, and when it comes to lunch it is far too easy to bust out a bunch of pb&j sandwiches for the kids and then maybe eat one myself, or not eat anything because that doesn’t look appetizing but I don’t feel like making anything else. I really do desire to feed the kids and myself good, nutritious foods, but I need help!
My lunches need a real makeover because I eat the same thing all the time. I’m new to paleo so have begun adding grilled chicken to my salads, but still get stuck in a rut because as a recovering vegan this whole meat thing is still new to me. I’d love to branch out & be inspired! Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of your delicious looking book!
I work nights so I always have to pre-pack my lunch to take with me, I am always looking for yummy paleo ideas to change things up. I tend to eat the same things over and over…safe but not always fun! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love some new ideas for lunches!
I’m so bored of my lunches! I’ve been in a rut for awhile, I need some new inspiration!
Lunch is leftovers that get eaten in the chaos of parenting two children alone. There is nothing about ‘me’ in lunch, other than the fact that I eat it! I would love a copy of this book to mix up the middle of my day, to add an enjoyment to my mid day meal rather than the functional event that it currently is.
My daily salad is in desperate need of a make over. I like salad and there are lots of varieties out there but I am sure there has to be a better Power Lunch than leafy greens topped in protein and olive oil. HELP!
My lunches are ok because I can eat the same thing 5 days a week. My girlfriend on the other hand is a different story. She talks about making lunches ALL THE TIME but then fails to do so. This leads to going out to eat and eating less than desirable food. She needs help to prepare simple lunches from someone other than me:) Thanks for all the your work, it’s much appreciated!
I need this book! I am a working mom, and I have a long commute to get to work by 7am. I bring lunch (and breakfast!) everyday to work. I am guilty of being totally lazy about the variety of my lunches and often bring just ingredients, combine in a bowl, warm and eat. It gets boring! I would love to incorporate more salads into my lunches, and I think the recipes for the salad dressings would help a ton. I haven’t been bringing salads because I get tired of the same old vinegar and oil. I would love a copy of Paleo Power Lunches to get me out of my lunch rut.
I am looking for new lunch ideas. I have just started Paleo lifestyle and can already notice the difference in how I feel. I do need some structured meal plans and think this book will help me. Thanks for putting this book together.
Would LOVE some help with meal ideas! Planning on doing the Whole30 again soon! I lost 15 pounds the first time (the month of April). Can’t wait to loose the last 15!
I could definitely use some help to brighten up my lunchtime. I typically either bring leftovers, or my stand-by–grilled chicken thighs, sweet potato, and steamed broccoli. I end up eating my stand-by option more often than I’d like, and while it’s good and nutritious, it gets a bit old day after day.
If I don’t win, I’ll definitely be buying the book. Can’t wait! :-)
I think in the two years I’ve been back in the working world (post grad school), I’ve brought a lunch maybe a dozen times. Not ok. And my options around where I work are very limited, and buying a salad every day is getting expensive. I could really use some help!
3 words: tuna every day. It’s fast, portable, and cheap, but I’m sooooo tired of eating it. Need alternatives so I can go from “ugh, lunch…” to “yay, power lunch!”
I get myself into the situation where I really need to eat lunch in order to have any kind of energy in the afternoon, but I often wait to long to start making it and just end up grazing on whatever I can find and never really get full. I could really use some motivation and strategies to make a better lunch plan.
I was recently diagnosed with intestinal permeability from undiagnosed celiac. I love beans and grains but after reading the Paleo Solution, it spoke to me–LOUDLY. I’ve changed my diet and have significantly less pain and other issues. Would love to have more meal suggestions period. I LOVE this website, I have learned so much–I applied the suggestion from Whole 30 to avoid almond flour and other “legal” paleo foods and after 4 days feel even better. I can’t wait to purchase your book. Thank you for the excellent info.
My daughter is starting Kindergarten in one month, and public school lunches give me nightmares! Enough said.
I’m doing the Whole 30 for the second time, and this time I plan on staying Paleo after the 30 days are up. Which means my whole family is coming along for the ride, like it or not. I have kids and a husband that look at me like I’m bonkers when I come home with stuff for salads and stir fry instead of sandwiches and desserts. I would love some good lunch recipes to send them off to work and school with, so that they don’t need the vending machines, and fast food drive thrus.
Im about to start vet school and will be on campus 8-7 m-f. Our cafeteria serves sandwiches and burgers and fries. This would be a great addition to kick start vet school right.
This book would be so helpful for not only me but my family as well! My life is about to shaken up a bit as I am starting my nursing clincals in 3 short weeks. My days will be long and a proper lunch would see me through the long days. In addition my son is starting kindergarten and a healthy interesting packed lunch would be just as beneficial to his growing body and mind. It is easy to get stuck in the same lunch food routines and hopefully with a few new ideas I can avoid the perils of vending machine last minute lunch options!
My lunch is bland, like beige walls. My husband and I eat the exact same thing every day – a salad that consists of romaine lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, and carrots, and at times, avocado, topped with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. ***snore*** Yup, that and EVERYDAY. We’ve no idea how to make better lunch meals. We’ve a beautiful infant daughter but I’m still very heart broken over my dad’s loss. he was a great man, an awesome father who would loved this . So with the stress and the pain of losing my dad, my eating habits has gotten terrible and I really think this book – paleo power lunch – may just the thing I need to spice up my lunch meals!
Lunch is definitely a challenge for me, too. I live and work in the far north of Japan (on a clear day, we can see Russia). I travel a lot for work, and I’d like to improve my lunch packing skills. There are too many days where I sadly gaze upon the few non-rice/noodle options in the convenience store. I’m super excited to hear that this book uses everyday ingredients!
I am new to the paleo lifestyle and would love a great resource like this book – it looks amazing. At the moment I am in a perpetual cycle of store-bought sushi or crackers for lunch! :) Thanks!
Got a household full (5 adults and 2 kids) working together on a CrossFit startup in Germany. We cook at our small kitchen at work, and have to show clients healthy eating can be varied, delicious, quick, and fun. Hmmmmm. Most times, it is just NOT. ;-/ We need this cookbook!!!
there’s a can of sardines in my purse….seriously.
I need a lunch makeover so bad. I have been paleo since april and am struggling with boredom. I usually eat left over meat from the night before, but i am bored. Please, please, please help.
I am indesperate need of a lunch makeover starting today. I work in an emergency room pulling 12+ hr shifts, so there are times when lunch is not even an option. When it is an option you are throwing whatever you can find into you mouth to satisfy the hunger cravings as quickly as possible. Alot of times my co-workers ( I am guilty as well) will bring in “snacks and goodies” to boost morale throughout what can be a long and stressful day. Having a guideline to follow to stimulate ideas for a paleo perfect lunch is what I need to sustain energy throughout an unpredictable day, but it will also allow me to expand on the benefits of the Whole 30 I have been sharing with my co-workers.
Congratulations to Janelle, Tiffany and Jade, winners of our Paleo Power Lunch giveaway! Thanks everyone for your awesome comments!
This book definitely will get into my collection of cookbook. I’m newbie in paleo diet and in process of collecting information and cookbook related to paleo diet. Paleo Power Lunch hopefully will help me planning my lunch for a better choice for my health.
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oh my gosh i NEED this book! lunch is the hardest part of my day and the meal i’m most likely to give up on and eat something off the plan. it’s just so hard to figure out what will stay good the next day, given that all we have at work is a microwave and fridge–and i’m still learning how to cook.
definitely would love this book!! On day 19 and running out of lunches to make for my husband and I. It would really make things easier to have some yummy lunches!!! We also started to make lunches for the kids. It can get a little boring having the same thing each lunch.
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Lunch is definitely the toughest meal for everyone in our house. My picky 15-year-old is motivated to make some changes in his diet but he is SO picky and lunch is his downfall. I’ve been working on some ideas for him but can always use more!
I tend to eat leftovers for both breakfast and lunch and am getting really tired of the same old foods. There really are no good options to buy food near my job and really I can’t afford to spend $10 on a salad very often so I could definitely use this book!
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I tend to eat leftovers for both breakfast and lunch and am getting really tired of the same old foods. There really are no good options to buy food near my job and really I can’t afford to spend $10 on a salad very often so I could definitely use this book!
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