Healthy sandwich options for work?

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I'm trying to eat healthier for lunch at work and sandwiches are the best option for me because they're quick and easy to make, but I wan't to start eating healthier sandwiches but I don't really know where to start.

Can anyone give me some examples please? What do you guys eat for your healthy lunch at work?

Thanks
 
It depends what you call healthy? There's very diverse thinking on here.

Then it's what ingredients you use.
Like tuna mayo. What mayo you using? Almost certainly one made with vegetable/soybean oil. Very possibly partially hydrogenated and prone to oxidisation.

I use sour cream instead for tuna mayo these days.
 
hummus and grated carrot is nice
salt beef and mustard in rye
tuna and chopped green chili - white soft rolls are best for this. you don't need much mayo for this as the chillis get your mouth watering,
low fat philli (i use fat) pastrami and sliced gherkins

few to try

warburtons sandwich thins are quite good if you fancy a different type of sandwich but still quick.
 
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Tom_D said:
I'm trying to eat healthier for lunch at work and sandwiches are the best option for me because they're quick and easy to make, but I wan't to start eating healthier sandwiches but I don't really know where to start.

Can anyone give me some examples please? What do you guys eat for your healthy lunch at work?

Thanks
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You don't have to have sarnies, just as easy to chuck a fresh salad with some cold meat/hard boiled eggs/cheese etc into a box.

How about some romaine leaves, red onion, tomato and avacado in the salad box with salt, black pepper, a good squeeze of lemon juice and plenty of olive oil.

In the meatbox some chicken thigh/leg and some hard boiled eggs, don't bother with chicken breast, not enough fat and so you won't feel satisfied. You could also use cold beef, lamb, pork, even fish, a couple of smoked mackered broken up and chucked into a box is easy and really nice with salad or instead of mackerel tinned salmon/sardines/tuna etc. If you need more carbs, previously baked sweet or white potato left to go cold and then chopped up still in the skin and chucked into the box goes well with salad and meat.
 
Agree with cutting out the bread. You get rid of the carbs, and the butter that way.

I take soups and salads, and man a salad can be bloody filling for small amounts of calories. I can have a 350kcal salad with a chunk of chicken (Breast, say), leaves, toms, beets, cucumber, sweetcorn, drop of balsamic, and chili sauce :D healthy and massively filling.

Piece of cake to slap together in the morning too. I cook my chicken the night before and that's it.
 
I have banana on toast most days but snack on fruit and a handful of almonds during the day. I wouldn't say bread is healthy though.

Bread isn't really 'healthy' but something like Hovis wheatgerm is about the best sliced loaf going by nutritional benefits.

Salad is easy to do, add some tomatoes, cucumber, peppers or whatever and bits of chicken cooked the night before, that's nice. Lots of choice out there - tuna is great.

I quite fancy trying this.
 
monkeyspank said:
hummus and grated carrot is nice
salt beef and mustard in rye
tuna and chopped green chili - white soft rolls are best for this. you don't need much mayo for this as the chillis get your mouth watering,
low fat philli (i use fat) pastrami and sliced gherkins

few to try

warburtons sandwich thins are quite good if you fancy a different type of sandwich but still quick.
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Just to note that "low fat" doesn't actually mean healthy.
 
randomshenans said:
Agree with cutting out the bread. You get rid of the carbs, and the butter that way.

I take soups and salads, and man a salad can be bloody filling for small amounts of calories. I can have a 350kcal salad with a chunk of chicken (Breast, say), leaves, toms, beets, cucumber, sweetcorn, drop of balsamic, and chili sauce :D healthy and massively filling.

Piece of cake to slap together in the morning too. I cook my chicken the night before and that's it.
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Sounds like you've fallen into the trap of believing fats are bad, natural fats from butter, meat, fish etc are very healthy and don't directly create body fat or cause CVD/CHD in the way most people believe, infact when trying to lose weight (as I assume the op'r is trying to do) dietry fats become even more important as they satiate the appetite far more than just eating carbs and protein will do and so generally lead to less overall calories being consumed.

I'm surprised someone who lives in France wouldn't be aware of the traditional fats and how beneficial to health they are, the French love their butter, cheese and fatty meats and they eat a lot of them, they are also generally lighter and have drastically lower incidence of heart disease than low fat loving Great Britain, please stop the fat bashing, it annoys me!:mad:
 
smit101 said:
Sounds like you've fallen into the trap of believing fats are bad, natural fats from butter, meat, fish etc are very healthy and don't directly create body fat or cause CVD/CHD in the way most people believe, infact when trying to lose weight (as I assume the op'r is trying to do) dietry fats become even more important as they satiate the appetite far more than just eating carbs and protein will do and so generally lead to less overall calories being consumed.

I'm surprised someone who lives in France wouldn't be aware of the traditional fats and how beneficial to health they are, the French love their butter, cheese and fatty meats and they eat a lot of them, they are also generally lighter and have drastically lower incidence of heart disease than low fat loving Great Britain, please stop the fat bashing, it annoys me!:mad:
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It's no wonder most people believe this with how things are advertised. Though it's never explicitly said, it's always strongly implied by the way they try advertise "healthy food" as they always focus on how it's "low fat" but never actually say what that means, when in reality the low fat stuff is junk and ironically is detrimental to those trying to lose weight if they were to rely on them for weight loss.
 
smit101 said:
Sounds like you've fallen into the trap of believing fats are bad, natural fats from butter, meat, fish etc are very healthy and don't directly create body fat or cause CVD/CHD in the way most people believe, infact when trying to lose weight (as I assume the op'r is trying to do) dietry fats become even more important as they satiate the appetite far more than just eating carbs and protein will do and so generally lead to less overall calories being consumed.

I'm surprised someone who lives in France wouldn't be aware of the traditional fats and how beneficial to health they are, the French love their butter, cheese and fatty meats and they eat a lot of them, they are also generally lighter and have drastically lower incidence of heart disease than low fat loving Great Britain, please stop the fat bashing, it annoys me!:mad:
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I think it's pretty obvious from his post that he meant he wanted to get rid of the butter because of the calorific content as opposed to the fat. He mentioned it in the same sentence as removing bread from his diet.

But no, someone mentions butter or fat and Smit101 is all over it again. I'm well aware of the nutritional benefits of butter, but you can't accuse someone of being ignorant because they want to remove butter to lower their calories/increase their caloric defecit. If they wanted to lower butter from their diet to lower fat...that's a completely different argument and he would be making his decision on poor information. I honestly don't think that's the case here.

I'm well aware of the fact that fat can suppress hunger, but honestly it depends on the way the person approaches it. One person may prefer to use those calories saved for another meal. I tend to actually prefer the higher fat approach but someone else might prefer to use those calories as an additional meal.
 
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aaron333 said:
I think it's pretty obvious from his post that he meant he wanted to get rid of the butter because of the calorific content as opposed to the fat. He mentioned it in the same sentence as removing bread from his diet.

But no, someone mentions butter or fat and Smit101 is all over it again. I'm well aware of the nutritional benefits of butter, but you can't accuse someone of being ignorant because they want to remove butter to lower their calories/increase their caloric defecit. If they wanted to lower butter from their diet to lower fat...that's a completely different argument and he would be making his decision on poor information. I honestly don't think that's the case here.

I'm well aware of the fact that fat can suppress hunger, but honestly it depends on the way the person approaches it. One person may prefer to use those calories saved for another meal. I tend to actually prefer the higher fat approach but someone else might prefer to use those calories as an additional meal.
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The end of your post contradicts the first bit. Eating fatty food can lead to less calories consumed, thus hitting the aim of the OP of eating "healthier".

It's also not an unreasonable assumption to make that the OP may be some one why buys into the notion that dietary fat = body fat as an overwhelming number of people seem to believe this to be true.
 
spoffle said:
The end of your post contradicts the first bit. Eating fatty food can lead to less calories consumed, thus hitting the aim of the OP of eating "healthier".

It's also not an unreasonable assumption to make that the OP may be some one why buys into the notion that dietary fat = body fat as an overwhelming number of people seem to believe this to be true.
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When I say calories saved, I mean from the difference between a high fat diet to a medium fat diet, for example. So by cutting out the butter from his sandwhich, those calories could be used for another meal as opposed to keeping it. Again, I'll reiterate, that's not what I'm advising. I just think it's too easy to jump on people reducing fat intake and assume they're doing it because they think fat is bad. I completely understand where your coming from. I think there are a lot of people who do assume fat is bad, not everyone though :)
 
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aaron333 said:
I think it's pretty obvious from his post that he meant he wanted to get rid of the butter because of the calorific content as opposed to the fat.
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Not to me it wasn't, 99% of people denigrate butter and other traditional fatty foods as being fattening & unhealthy so why would I assume he is any different.

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But no, someone mentions butter or fat and Smit101 is all over it again.
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Eh!?:confused: I haven't posted in here for weeks.

And so what if I am all over it!? WTF is it to you!!!!?:mad: Excuse me for trying to put fundamental wrongs to right, I have strong feelings on the subject because I believe greedy, self serving *******s have deliberately skewed our mentality towards dietry fats for various political and economic reasons and have in doing so created ill health and obesity.

aaron333 said:
I'm well aware of the nutritional benefits of butter, but you can't accuse someone of being ignorant because they want to remove butter to lower their calories/increase their caloric defecit. If they wanted to lower butter from their diet to lower fat...that's a completely different argument and he would be making his decision on poor information. I honestly don't think that's the case here.
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What are you a mind reader? I'm still failing to see why you have butted in here like some overbearing mother protecting her brat! You're making assumptions on what the poster was thinking, you obviously don't like strongly worded posts that are straight to the point and cut through the bull-****! Well tough, if you dislike my style then **** off back to mumsnet!

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I'm well aware of the fact that fat can suppress hunger.
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Are you? did I say anywhere that you're not aware of this?:confused:
 
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smit101 said:
What are you a mind reader? I'm still failing to see why you have butted in here like some overbearing mother protecting her brat! You're making assumptions on what the poster was thinking, you obviously don't like strongly worded posts that are straight to the point and cut through the bull-****! Well tough, if you dislike like my style then **** off back to mumsnet!
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I disagree with the fact you assume that every poster who decides to reduce their fat intake is doing it because they think fat is bad.

Butting in? It's a forum..

I'm a "mind reader" for assuming he's cut out butter form his sandwich for calorie reasons...yet your assuming he did so because he thinks fat is bad. Your the one who started with the assumptions.

Swear words, angry faces..get a ******* grip.
 
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smit101 said:
Not to me it wasn't, 99% of people denigrate butter and other traditional fatty foods as being fattening & unhealthy so why would I assume he is any different.



Eh!?:confused: I haven't posted in here for weeks.

And so what if I am all over it!? WTF is it to you!!!!?:mad: Excuse me for trying to put fundamental wrongs to right, I have strong feelings on the subject because I believe greedy, self serving *******s have deliberately skewed our mentality towards dietry fats for various political and economic reasons and have in doing so created ill health and obesity.



What are you a mind reader? I'm still failing to see why you have butted in here like some overbearing mother protecting her brat! You're making assumptions on what the poster was thinking, you obviously don't like strongly worded posts that are straight to the point and cut through the bull-****! Well tough, if you dislike like my style then **** off back to mumsnet!



Are you? did I say anywhere that you're not aware of this?:confused:
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Thank you for such a great response and assuming that I cut all fat out of my diet, especially as I LIVE IN FRANCE!?! I eat many cuts of meat, as you do not know and you have no idea of my knowledge on the subject, but thanks for looking like a dick.
 
randomshenans said:
Thank you for such a great response and assuming that I cut all fat out of my diet, especially as I LIVE IN FRANCE!?! I eat many cuts of meat, as you do not know and you have no idea of my knowledge on the subject, but thanks for looking like a dick.
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Don't disagree with him, he'll start posting angry faces and swearies.

I just don't understand why he assumes everyone who cuts out fats is doing is because they think fats are bad.
 
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