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6 Tips for Packing a Healthy Lunch

One simple (and affordable) step to better health is to bring a good-for-you lunch from home. Here’s how:

  1. On the weekend, decide what you will eat for lunch for the week and add it to your grocery list. That way, it’s quick and easy to grab healthy choices when you pack your lunch.
  2. Consider batch cooking on the weekend. Make a big pot of chili or soup. Or you can make a big bowl of whole-grain and veggie salad. These will keep for a few days in the fridge and can be eaten throughout the week for lunch.
  3. Take five minutes every night (or morning) to pack something healthy for the day.
  4. Use portable containers — such as a lunchbox, thermos and various containers with tight-fitting lids — to pack your healthy lunch. Extra-small containers come in handy for single servings of peanut butter or salad dressings.
  5. Remember food safety. If you don’t have access to a refrigerator to store your food, insert a cold pack into the lunch box. Be sure to choose foods that will stay fresh and yummy from the time you pack them until it’s time to eat lunch.
  6. For days you can’t pack lunch, keep some non-perishable healthy options at your desk, such as light tuna in water, whole wheat crackers, no-sugar-added canned fruit, popcorn and nuts.
For more information about Get Healthy, Live Well and how the initiative is working to improve nutrition one bite at a time, visit GetHealthyLiveWell.org.
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