Oatmeal w/ nuts, dried fruit, & honey. Very cheap & good for you.

Tuna salad in a Romain lettuce bowl. Some broccoli and almonds or walnuts on the side and a sparkling water

Kind bar + protein shake

Salad wraps are daily lunch for me. Goes a bit like this, but it's really a loose recipe with whatever I have in the fridge.

1. I'll slice up some:

Salad/cucumber Tomatoes Bell pepper

2. Fry some falafel/halloumi/chicken in a small pan
3. Heat up a tortilla in another pan until it has some color, but not too much or the tortilla will break when rolled
4. Flip tortilla and add whatever cheese I have
5. Put on a plate and garnish with everything
6. Liberal amount of seasoning and hot sauce.
7. Roll up tortilla

I started doing this when I couldn't taste anything with COVID and needed something with texture. Never stopped.

In-n-out hamburger w grilled onions, four or five times a week. $3.64

One time I made a big batch of gas station style frozen burritos. Just cheese, refried beans, diced tomatoes, and some seasoning and hot sauce. Those were pretty bomb.

I ordinarily don't eat lunch. Or breakfast. I eat a large dinner. If you eat less carbohydrates your body won't feel bad when it runs out, which might be why you feel bad after eating, if it's a while after.

Today, i'm eating lunch, and it's some pasta with olive oil, dill, and some canned tuna. Most of the time I eat the pasta right out of the fridge without heating it. You don't even need olive oil if you use tuna packed in olive oil.

Other times, I'll eat some raw vegetables and a can of some sort of meat, or I'll eat leftovers. Usually cold.

I've been intermittent fasting for quite some time, and it kind of makes you reevaluate your relationship with food. A meal can certainly be a luxurious experience, or it can just be fuel to get you through your day. I actually prefer eating one large meal a day, but it does tend to increase your cortisol levels, so when i'm already very stressed I tend to eat some lunch.

Salad. Some lettuce or spinach, a few toppings, a little dressing.

I get one of those rotisserie chickens from the store and cut the meat up. It'll last a few weeks (freezing portions of it) for not that much. Cucumber is cheap. There is an olive bar at our grocery store, I pick some of the up and sometimes make my own croutons and cut up an apple with some veggies.