please help me think of dairy-free lunch ideas with meat or eggs

[caedmyn]

I'm so burned out on lunch ideas and I've been eating anything handy, which today consisted of homemade banana cream pie, half an apple, and an Odwalla bar: Now of course I feel lousy and have even less motivation for coming up with a halfways healthy dinner. I need to come up with some easy lunch ideas that don't have dairy and do have meat or eggs. I feel better if I eat meat or eggs at every meal, although I can only eat deviled eggs so many times a week. Please help me think of some good lunch ideas.

[pnutS4us]

What about egg salad sandwiches? hardboiled eggs, homemade mayo, celery, onion, maybe garlic, salt, pepper,maybe some pickles, and what ever additional seasonings you like. Curry is good, and I like to mix canned tuna into my egg salad--a trick my dad learned as a kid that his mom used to stretch tuna. have a salad or stuff tomatoes or avocados with the mixture.

poached eggs on/in a wilted spinach salad with a bacon dressing--yum!

fried eggs on meat patties or steak

original joe--eggs scrambled with sliced sausages, spinach, mushrooms, onions--nummy too!

I will try to think of more! Hope that helps as a start!

[Periwinkle]

Canned wild salmon salad (make it like you do tuna fish salad, i.e., with mayonnaise, chopped onion and celery if you like, salt & pepper, and a teaspoon or so of lemon juice.)

Hardboil a dozen eggs at a time. Throw a hard-boiled egg in your lunch bag (make sure to have salt and papper at work if you like it), or make egg salad sandwiches, or sliced-egg sandwiches if you're pressed for time (I slice an egg in an egg slicer, layer the slices onto bread with mayo on it, and put some lettuce - tastes like egg salad but takes less time).

Wild salmon or light tuna noodle casserole - pasta, veggies of your choice, cheese if you like, and some canned fish of your choice.

Organic liverwurst sandwiches Or if you're low-carb then just some organic liverwurst and maybe organic cream cheese, with some veggies or whatever and use them as dip.

Cook up a vat of boneless skinless chicken thighs. Like 20 of them. Make 1/2 of them into chicken salad, for eating plain, on a bed of lettuce and tomato as a salad, or in sandwiches. Break up the rest into individual Ziploc freezer bags and freeze them. It's like an automatic frozen entree... remove one of the Ziploc bags to the fridge the night before you go to work. Take in a container of rice or noodles if you like (or not if you're low-carb), microwave the chicken thigh for a couple of minutes.

[Ruthla]

How about making dinners big enough so you can have leftovers for lunch the next day?

[SageR]

Originally Posted by Ruthla

How about making dinners big enough so you can have leftovers for lunch the next day?

This is what I do, I almost always have soup or stew or casserole in the freezer ready to go for lunch. I also like salmon spread or chicken liver pate - I can make it when dh is around and then keep it in the fridge for a couple days. It is really easy to grab some bread and pile it on.