Healthy Recipes For Lunch At Home

Wondering what to eat for lunch at home? Try one of these healthy home lunch ideas that are quick and easy to make. Plus, you can prep them ahead to save time. 

With more people than ever working from home, we are all in need of some good home lunch ideas. Today, I have some of the best home lunches to share with you.

These lunch recipes are some of my personal avorites and include examples of what I have for lunch each day at my house.

Best Healthy Lunch Recipes

If you’re working from home, you’ve probably thought a lot about what to eat for lunch at home. While there’s not the temptation of swinging by a drive-thru, it’s all to easy to get stuck in a lunch rut when you don’t have to pack an office lunch before you start work each day.

One of the best ways to ensure you’re eating well through the day is to plan ahead. Yes, even when you’ll be enjoying lunch at home! If you already have a plan in place or have prepped the ingredients you want to use for your home lunch, then you’re more likely to stick with the plan and choose something healthy. Most days, I wake up in the morning and prep lunch before I start my day.

At my house, breakfast and lunch get taken care of at the same time so that I don’t have to take a long lunch break in the middle of my day.

Easy Lunch Ideas You Can Make In 10 Minutes Or Less

And yes, my “lunch breaks” often look like me working through lunch while I eat a hand-held meal. That’s why you’ll see lots of wraps, sandwiches and lettuce cups when I share lunches on my Instagram because they’re so easy to eat while I work.

If you plan to pack your lunch ahead of time whether it’s for the day or the week, you can see my favorite meal prep containers here.

Here are some of my best office lunches through the years and yes, I’m enjoying these as home lunches now and invite you to do the same. These are meal prep recipes you can make ahead and save for lunch throughout the week. If you are looking for lunch meal prep tips I have a whole post to help you get started with my best meal prep ideas from years of prepping meals for myself and my family.

Quick Meals That Can Be Made In 15 Minutes

Since you have your entire kitchen to work with, the possibilities for home lunches are endless! I love repurposing leftovers from dinner the night before into a tasty lunch the next day, but in this post you’ll find plenty of stand-alone healthy home lunches too. Let’s get started with other recipes!

Stuffed Sweet potatoes are a great way to eat a healthy lunch at home. These come together so fast, and they’re so good! Plus, the slow cooker does most of the work, just make sure to start them when you wake up in the morning before you start work.

Get ready for one epic meal with these Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Cups. It’s smoky, slow-cooked buffalo chicken, wrapped in crisp lettuce, & topped with blue cheese!

Healthy Lunch Ideas

This delicious salad isn’t just for breakfast! You can enjoy the combination of tender roasted veggies, creamy avocado, and a fried egg for lunch too.

You’ll be so glad you made this tasty chicken farro bowl! All the flavors of tender chicken, fresh veggies, and Tzatziki sauce make this one unforgettable lunch.

One of the biggest perks to eating lunch at home, is having your own kitchen to use during the day. No worrying about someone else messing up the office microwave or wishing for an oven. You can enjoy any of these hot lunch ideas from the privacy of your own kitchen!

Veg Kids Lunch Box Recipes, Indian Lunch Box Ideas

Prep these Thai chicken bowls ahead by cooking chicken for the week in one day and serving it up in these lunch prep bowls, in lettuce cups or in Thai chicken pasta later in the week.

This hearty tortellini soup recipe is easy to make, and is a favorite dinner recipe. I love re-heating it for lunch the next day when I’m working from home.

I often make lasagna soup for dinner on busy nights. When I do, it’s easy to make a few single-serving lunch containers of the soup to enjoy throughout the week.

More Healthy Lunch Ideas For Kids (for The School Lunch Box Or Home)

The ultimate home lunch list has to include salads. These are huge, filling and nutritious salad recipes that will leave you wanting a salad-a-day!

5 ingredients & minimal prep time, this is one salad I love to make in bulk and enjoy all throughout the week.

This kale salad with sesame ginger dressing is one that will become your favorite. One of the best Asian-inspired salad dressing recipes you’ll ever make!

Healthy School Lunch Ideas For Teens Momables

Does your salad bowl need a little inspiration? If so, you are going to love this Santa Fe Chicken Salad. Nevermind the salad part… the dressing is out of this world!

Grilled chicken, fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, avocado, basil, & homemade balsamic dressing – this Chicken Caprese Salad is the perfect office meal prep.

When you’re working from home, there is nothing like a hand-held lunch where you can eat with one hand and type with the other! Try one of these healthy homemade wraps or lettuce cups today.

Best Healthy Lunch Ideas For Weight Loss

This Healthy Asian Chicken Salad gets wrapped in a tortilla to make one incredible and satisfying lunch! It’s a quick and easy recipe you can make ahead!

Love Asian-inspired dishes but want a healthier version than take-out? This Honey Chicken Recipe served in lettuce cups is one you’ll love!

Check out these slow cooker pork carnitas served in a lettuce cup for a refreshing and low carb way to enjoy a Taco Tuesday lunch.

What To Make For Lunch At Home

We have salads, wraps – and so much more! Here are bonus ideas to make sure you never have a boring lunch again.

I love the combination of avocado and bacon. The sweet flavor of ripe avocado paired with the crunchy salty flavor of bacon is definitely worth each savory bite.

Quick and easy carrot zucchini mini quiches. Perfect for snacks, a quick on-the-go breakfast or even to serve for lunch at home.

Healthy Meals You Can Make In 20 Minutes

Easy & healthy cold lunch ideas you can enjoy at home. These ideas require no reheating and they’re super-easy to prep ahead.

Keep lunch interesting all week long with these 5 fresh ways to use hummus in your home lunches! Plus, this is a shop once, eat 5 times type of plan!

Bistro boxes are always an easy grab-and-go option when you’re at your local coffee shop, but you can make them at home too! Here are a few of my favorite box ideas and instructions on how to build a bistro box.

Easy Stay At Home Lunch Recipes

Serving: 8 pinwheels Calories: 28 kcal Carbohydrates: 3 g Protein: 1 g Fat: 1 g Saturated Fat: 0.3 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2 g Monounsaturated Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 1 mg Sodium: 99 mg Potassium: 46 mg Fiber: 1 g Sugar: 1 g Vitamin A: 63 IU Vitamin C: 1 mg Calcium: 32 mg Iron: 0.2 mgSometimes you just don't feel like having leftovers for lunch. If you are wondering what to make for lunch that is easy, healthy, and delicious, and you don't necessary want to spend all Sunday night meal prepping (although there is nothing wrong with that, we have some great meal prep ideas here too!), then you have come to the right place. We have rounded up over 50 of our best and most popular healthy lunch ideas.

Browse through the best lunch sandwiches wraps and rolls, filling hearty salads, flavor-packed Asian bowls, hearty soups that are easy to make ahead and reheat well, and easy meal prep ideas (meatballs are the best for meal prep). Plus, many of these lunch recipes are quick and easy!

This refreshing and light, easy Greek chicken gyros is packed with tender souvlaki chicken, Greek salad, and homemade tzatziki sauce, all wrapped in a pita. One of our most popular healthy lunch ideas.

Nutritious Meals For Healthy Cooking At Home

The best egg salad sandwich is a quick and easy picnic classic loaded with perfect hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, a touch of dijon mustard and green onions.

Turkey pinwheels are bite-sized finger food perfection and will make back-to-school lunch planning for the kids a total breeze. They are fully customizable and you can wrap them up in a tortilla or in pita bread.

Homemade chicken shawarma (donair) with juicy tender chicken marinated in Middle Eastern spices and wrapped in pita bread is easy to make at home. Serve it with a Persian Shirazi Salad on the side.

Quick Healthy Dinner Ideas (30 Minutes)

Vegan hummus wrap is a quick easy lunch made in minutes with a handful of fresh ingredients. This delicious veggie wrap is healthy, fresh, nutritious.

Vietnamese summer rolls with chicken are fresh, light, and healthy. This Asian snack is a healthy lunch idea that takes less than 20 minutes to make and way easier than you think.

Hearty and filling beef and bean burritos are easy to make ahead, freezer-friendly, and take just 30 minutes for restaurant-quality Mexican food at home.

Healthy Working From Home Lunch Ideas

Get your hands on pantry staple canned tuna and make a delicious, crunchy tuna melt grilled cheese sandwich in less than 10 minutes! It's so tasty and easy! For another grilled cheese option, try

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