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Discover healthy lunch ideas by using a combination of low-fat, low-sugar foods and include foods from the basic food groups such as grains, proteins, vegetables, fruits, and dairy or dairy substitutes. Consider a combination of Proteins to make up 25% of your meal, grains another 25%, and the remaining 50% should be from fruits and vegetables.

Healthy lunch ideas # 1

Salad with lettuce, tomato, carrots, peppers, mushrooms, and onions
3 oz. grilled chicken tenders – chopped on salad
Dressing to taste
Fruit (an apple or banana)

Healthy lunch ideas # 2

1 Cup vegetable/ beef soup (canned or homemade)
4 Ritz crackers
Celery and carrot sticks
Fruit (an apple or banana)
Iced tea

Healthy lunch ideas # 3

Turkey sandwich – 3 oz. turkey on wheat bread, honey mustard, lettuce, tomato
Small individual serving size bag of chips (regular or baked)
Dill pickle
Fruit (an apple or banana)
Iced tea

Use the above healthy lunch ideas as a base to design your own quick healthy recipes for your weeks lunch menu plan.

Food Portions for Life

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Here’s a few tips and health benefits for establishing a Healthy Diet menu and a plan for healthy eating.

Whether you’re interested in just living healthy or weight loss for overall health and well-being, a plan for eating a Healthy Diet Menu can provide fantastic health benefits which include:

• Increased energy level
• Lower cholesterol levels
• Reduced blood pressure
• Reduced aches and pains
• Improved mobility
• Improved breathing
• Improved sleeping and wake more rested
• Prevent angina; chest pain caused by decreased oxygen to the heart
• Decreased risk of sudden death from heart disease or stroke
• Prevention of Type 2 diabetes
• Improved blood sugar levels

Healthy Diet Menu Tips

If you eat 100 more food calories a day than you burn, you’ll gain about 1 pound in a month. That’s about 10 pounds in a year. The bottom line is that to lose weight, it’s important to reduce calories and increase physical activity.4

The fastest way to create a plan you can actually stick with for life is to use a common sense approach. Everyone knows that sugary desserts and candies, fried meats covered in heavy sauces, and vegetables laced with high-fat cheese are not the best nutritional choices. But we also know they are delicious and we want them from time to time!

Common sense requires that you think before you eat. Become aware of what you eat. Allow yourself to indulge in foods you enjoy periodically but don’t make it a habit to indulge daily. And when you do indulge, manage the portions you eat and you won’t sabotage your weight control plan or your overall health. Awareness of what you are preparing to eat increases your ability to manage portion sizes.

Ask yourself if you are really hungry or is it something else? Are you stressed? Depressed? Bored? Anxious?

Common sense is a vital tool for helping you manage your weight and your life. It’s akin to self-control and the two are partners in how healthy or how poorly you eat. When you pair common sense and self-control, you have the power to overcome unhealthy eating habits and enjoy the foods you eat too. It’s all about thinking about what you should eat, how much you should eat, and realizing and stopping when you are full, or nearly full. And remember that it takes about 20 minutes after you eat to realize exactly how full you are!

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