Salad lunches for work

In my job, I work shifts, and lots of different shifts at that. I do earlies (07.30-15.30, lates (13.30-21.30), Twilights (16.00-00.00 or 18.00-02.00), and nights (21.00-08.00 and occasionally 22.00-06.00). This makes eating sensibly quite difficult, and without forward planning I end up eating junk, canteen food, or overpriced costa food. I find eat sensibly particularly difficult when I do nights, as I do 7 in a row. I try to eat a normal dinner before I go, and then we always bring in snacks for through the night, and then I try to eat something before bed or else I wake up due to hunger.

When I am on early shift, I always say to myself that I will get up and make lunch, but I never do. Then its off to the canteen for a baked potato, or something naughty from costa. This wastes money, and isn't always a healthy option. Sometimes, a treat is well needed though, and a costa lunch goes down great!

So, last night I made two salads up, for today and tomorrow's lunches. I love salads, but it does take a while to cut up and prepare everything. To make it more worthwhile, I usually make two servings, either for dinner one night and lunch the next day, or like this, two lunches.

This salad contains (per box)-

Mixed salad leaves

1 tomato

6 Cherry Tomatoes

Half a red pepper

Quarter of a mozzarella ball

olives with feta

Tinned anchovies

Served with honey and mustard dressing.

Using my favourite weight-loss tool, the myfitnesspal app and website (more about this another day), I worked out the calorie content as 314. I love salads, and with the olives, anchovies and mozzarella, this was tasty with a good variety. It is perfect for a low calorie diet, as its a balanced and tasty meal, and pretty low calorie. I had the first salad for my lunch, on its own, and as the second was for dinner on a late, I added some weightwatchers tomato soup. I also love my little pink salad box, which I will give its own special post.

What healthy lunch ideas do you have?