You’ve finally found the list where healthy food doesn’t mean boring food. These healthy lunch ideas are flavorful and easy to make – all taking less than 10 minutes when you use some simple leftovers!
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Healthy Lunch Ideas for on the go!
These are hands down the best healthy lunch ideas out there. I’m talking downright good food that you’ll actually want to make.
I have more than 2 months of recipes to choose from! They all pack right in your lunch box for work and can be eaten cold or warmed.
And we’re all about easy recipes here, so these lunches are easy to make even when you’re tight on time.
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Easy Healthy Lunch Ideas: Salads
This quick and simple broccoli salad recipe is filled with fresh ingredients with a homemade dressing, and only takes 15 minutes to prepare. Use low-fat mayo for a healthy option!
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This quinoa chickpea salad is loaded with fresh ingredients and flavor! It’s delicious, nutritious, and best of all, incredibly easy to make.
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Chicken Caesar salad comes together easily and quickly with a mixture of fresh ingredients and store-bought shortcuts! Topped with a zesty homemade Caesar dressing.
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Grilled corn, crunchy cucumbers, buttery avocado, tomatoes, chickpeas, and big blocks of feta cheese are topped with tons of fresh herbs and a warm honey shallot vinaigrette that's to die for. This makes the perfect lunch to fill you with energy for the rest of the day.
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This Stone Fruit Caprese salad combines creamy mozzarella with sweet fruit for a healthy lunch idea. So simple to make!
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Taco salad with Catalina dressing is the perfect way to mix it up on Taco Tuesday! Enjoy hearty taco meat served over crisp lettuce with all your favorite toppings.
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Sliced cucumbers are tossed in sesame dressing topped with roasted peanuts makes for a delicious side dish that everyone will love.
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Creamy goat cheese, tangy apples cranberries, and crunchy nuts pair beautifully with thinly shaved brussels sprouts to create a Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad.
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This simple and delicious Mason Jar Keto Greek Salad is a perfect grab and go meal to stay on track, even on busy days! This easy make-ahead lunch recipe will make sure that you’re getting lots of delicious and healthy vegetables in your diet too!
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This Healthy Avocado Tuna Salad makes a perfect and hearty lunch that is packed with crunch and flavor! Spread this on toast or add to a salad!
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Mediterranean Chicken Salad is a delicious, easily prepared meal that is full of vibrant, fresh flavors and health benefiting nutrients. It is a high protein, low-carb meal which is perfect for lunch.
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An awesome and delicious Southwest Salad! With smoky, spicy chicken, crunchy greens, avocado, black beans, cherry tomatoes, bell pepper, pepper jack cheese, and a cool, creamy and zesty cilantro lime dressing, you will be making this entrée salad over and over again.
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Learn how easy it is to make the BEST Cobb Salad with a delicious Honey Mustard Vinaigrette! This impressive salad is perfect as a side salad but so filling and protein-packed it works as a main meal too!
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This Kale Salad with an Apple Tahini dressing is a delicious healthy lunch option that you could throw together any day of the week.
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Make this Tuscan bean salad when you want a hearty and satisfying meal that is also healthy and full of flavor. And it can be prepped in just 15 minutes!
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Israeli Couscous Cucumber Salad is your new favorite summer salad! It's bright and light with fresh herbs, and fresh summer garden vegetables. The Israeli couscous also makes it hearty enough for lunch and the perfect summer side!
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This crunchy cabbage salad is easy to make, nutritious and so delicious!
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This Classic Chef Salad recipe is full of healthy, energizing ingredients and includes a simple homemade salad dressing! This is easy to make ahead of time and makes a great lunch or dinner!
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Crisp lettuce, savory bacon, and creamy homemade blue cheese dressing make this Keto Wedge Salad a restaurant worthy dish. Even better, it’s low carb and easy to make at home!
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This refreshing Cucumber Avocado Salad is the perfect combination of crispy and creamy! Ready in minutes!
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Shredded grilled chicken breast is piled on a bed of lettuce with other assorted vegetables in this Easy Grilled Chicken Salad. This is a refreshing summer salad which you can enjoy as a complete meal.
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White Bean Salad is super quick and easy. It’s perfect on its own, served with crackers, or as a sandwich in pita bread or a wrap. You’re only 5 minutes away from a delicious lunch!
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This Pomegranate Chicken Salad is perfect for meal prep and makes a delicious lunch served with greens and crackers.
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Sweet Potato Feta Salad is the ultimate warming salad – peppery, salty & crunchy, with a Lemon Tahini Dressing you will want to have by the spoonful. This quick & easy salad is great as a side or main course, and perfect for your lunchbox.
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A simple, healthy and delicious black lentil salad with soft and earthy beluga lentils, honey roast carrots, pomegranate and crumbled feta.
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Waldorf salad with chicken is a classic American salad with apple, celery, mayonnaise, lemon and walnuts. I added some chicken to make it perfect for lunch.
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This Kale Salmon salad is deliciously refreshing and filling with fennel, parsley, mozzarella cheese, wild-caught (canned) salmon. Everything is tossed in an easy-to-make homemade orange dressing—a healthy lunch that won't disappoint!
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Creamy, crunchy, and slightly sweet this Sonoma-style chicken salad makes for a perfect lunch or afternoon snack! Serve it over a bed of greens, in between bread, or all on its own.
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Greek Kale salad recipe is a powerhouse salad full of nutrition and fiber! Perfect for any lunch or dinner! Add chicken and you have yourself a meal packed full of protein! This
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Healthy Lunch Ideas: Sandwiches
Tuna melts are good but a tuna melt with avocado is better! This healthy and easy to make dish is great for a nutritious meal when you are short on time! The whole meal comes together in less than 10 minutes and is satisfyingly cheesy and delicious!
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Hummus, Avocado, and Cucumber make for an excellent sandwich and a great vegan lunch!
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Delicious, satisfying and super quick and easy to make, this smoked salmon panini sandwich makes a great healthy lunch.
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Looking for juicy, flavorful and healthy Greek turkey burgers? These are gluten free & dairy free. Taste for yourself!
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Healthy Lunches with Turkey
This turkey avocado sandwich is the perfect quick and easy feel-good meal. Crisp toasted sourdough is layered with a homemade garlic aioli, creamy avocado, sliced turkey, and crisp, salty bacon. This recipe is incredibly versatile so feel free to use what you have on hand– it’s also a great way to use up those Thanksgiving leftovers!
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A Turkey and Apple Panini are a hot and toasty lunch that's flavorful and packed full of goodness! These work great in packed lunches too!
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Easy Healthy Lunch Ideas with Pasta
This BLT pasta salad is an easy recipe you can have ready in less than 20 minutes! The pasta salad is rich and creamy with a buttermilk ranch dressing, crisp romaine, juicy tomatoes, and salty bacon. Enjoy this salad as a quick lunch or a side dish at cookouts or picnics.
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Avocado Pasta Salad creamy, bright, packed full of (hidden) spinach. It will be a favorite at the neighborhood cookout!
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Mediterranean Orzo Salad is a healthy light lunch! It's loaded with feta, Kalamata olives, tomatoes, and hearty orzo pasta.
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You need just a few ingredients to make this delicious Rotini Chickpea Pasta with arugula, cherry tomatoes, and feta. It is healthy, flavorful and takes less than 30 minutes to make!
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This Tahini Pasta is perfect when you’re craving healthier comfort food. It’s quick and easy to make too.
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Easy, simple, and delicious, these Garlic Chili Oil Noodles come together in just 15 minutes! They're finished with a generous amount of chopped cilantro for a fresh and tasty meal!
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Easy Healthy Lunch Wraps
A quick and easy lunch recipe that can be eaten cold. It's delicious and full of flavor!
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This chicken caesar wrap is easy to make and totally delicious. Fresh veggies, croutons, tangy parmesan, chicken, and creamy caesar dressing.
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Turn your favorite fajitas into crispy chicken fajita wraps. These sandwiches are great for pre-made lunches and using leftover chicken!
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These 5-ingredient tuna pinwheels make the cutest appetizer or lunch! Prep them ahead of time and enjoy whenever you need a quick boost.
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Grilled Green Goddess Wraps are full of green goodness and nutrition with a lima bean spread, broccoli, and hearts of palm! Gluten-free, nut-free, and vegan, these wraps are a healthy recipe that's school or work friendly and freezable!
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Creamy vegetable cream cheese rollups are packed full of delicious herbs, cheese and vegetables all rolled up in a tortilla. These yummy bites are full of creamy ranch flavor and are perfect for a party appetizer or for an easy cold lunch.
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Mediterranean Collard Green Wraps are a delicious way to eat your veggies! It
takes just 15 minutes and 7 ingredients to make them.
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Mediterranean Collard Green Wraps are a delicious way to eat your veggies! It
takes just 15 minutes and 7 ingredients to make them.
Healthy Easy Lunch Ideas: Protein Bowls
A delicious quinoa grain Buddha Bowl that's full of healthy vegetables, beans, and grains. It wors amazing for meal prep!
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Chicken Burrito Bowls are flavorful, easy to make, and healthy! A perfect nutritious filling meal even the kids will love.
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Protein Snack Packs filled with hard-boiled eggs, almonds, hummus, and crunchy veggies. An easy and delicious lunchtime meal-prep solution perfect for any protein lover, these fantastic little protein snack packs are perfect for school lunches, post-workout snacks, or picnics in the park
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This Egg Roll in a Bowl recipe has all the flavors of an egg roll without the wrapper! You can make it in only 20 minutes with a simple mix of coleslaw, ground turkey (or pork), and a tasty homemade sauce.
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This delicious and nutritious vegan teriyaki bowl recipe with tofu is made with a combination of brown rice, edamame, carrots, green onions and other healthful goodies.
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Made with a hefty amount of nutritious and wholesome ingredients, this Colorful Farro Salad is delicious! Nothing is more refreshing and nutritious than a big grain salad – you have your grain, your vegetables, and your protein from the beans all in one bowl.
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This Sriracha Aioli Poke Bowl with Salmon and veggies is quick, easy and incredibly delicious. Packed with protein and flavor, poke bowls make an exciting, healthy lunch or dinner you'll really look forward to!
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This Mexican Buddha Bowl is nourishing, healthy, hearty and super tasty. Packed with roasted veggies and cilantro lime quinoa.
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Favorite Healthy Lunch Ideas
This Quick and Healthy Mediterranean Dip recipe is fresh, delicious, and light, you won’t be able to get enough. If you love hummus, feta and fresh crunchy vegetables, this dip makes a perfect lunch or snack.
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Spicy Thai basil chicken needs 15 minutes of your time to get lunch on the table.
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This 10-Minute Crispy Chickpea Toast with Avocado and Yogurt Sauce is easily the highlight of my day with toasted sourdough, crispy spiced chickpeas, and buttery avocado with a creamy yogurt sauce and spicy radish.
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This pesto quinoa is filling and flavor-loaded. It’s an easy, nutrient-dense lunch idea.
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Creamy avocados are stuffed with a delicious and refreshing shrimp mixture! This Shrimp Stuffed Avocados recipe is healthy and so simple to make for any seafood lover!
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Golden and crunchy on the outside, tossed with fresh bok choy, and coated in a homemade sweet and spicy glaze!
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This Healthy Avocado Toast with Smoked Salmon is a luxuriously delicious way to fuel up for a busy afternoon! Ready in just minutes, it’s bursting with fresh and satisfying flavors, and a tantalizing range of textures!
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This spinach and ricotta flatbread pizza is healthy, delicious, and super easy to make.
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Sushi with hearty shiitake mushrooms, crispy cucumbers and creamy avocado is a great lunch!
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65 Healthy Lunch Ideas
85 deliciously easy healthy lunch ideas that are perfect for work, on the go, and more including this broccoli salad recipe.
Ingredients
Dressing Ingredients
- 3/4 cup mayo use low-fat*
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper
Salad Ingredients
- 6 cups broccoli pieces chopped into bite-sized pieces
- ⅔ cup bacon bits or crumbled bacon can omit for less fat
- ½ cup cheddar cheese shredded
- ⅓ cup sunflower seeds
- ¼ cup red onion finely chopped
Instructions
- In a small bowl whisk together the mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, honey, salt, and pepper until well mixed and set aside.
- In a large bowl add the broccoli florets, bacon bits, cheddar cheese,
sunflower seeds, and red onion then pour dressing on top and mix well. - Keep in the fridge until serving.
Notes
*switch the mayo out for greek yogurt to make this dish even healthier!
Nutrition
Serving: 1Calories: 421kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 14gFat: 33gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 25gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 1140mgFiber: 7gSugar: 6g
This nutrition information is based on the exact products I used in this recipe. Brands and sizes of products could alter exact nutrition and should always be calculated independently.
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