7 Healthy Lunch Recipes (No-Cooking Required!)

Life is busy! We want to eat foods that sustain us, give us energy and help us thrive and enjoy life, but sometimes we just don’t have the time to cook. That is why I decided to put together this collection of no-cooking-required healthy lunch recipes. These are super quick and easy to make, and are so unbelievably satisfying!

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A collection of no-cooking-required healthy lunch recipes. These are super quick and easy to make, and are so unbelievably satisfying!
A collection of no-cooking-required healthy lunch recipes. These are super quick and easy to make, and are so unbelievably satisfying!

7 Healthy Lunch Ideas (No Cooking Required!)

Lacy Ngo, MS, RDN, the owner of Mindfulness in Faith, LLC, is one of the top experts in faith-based mindfulness and nutrition. Ngo is the author of several books including The Nourishing Meal Builder,  The Nourishing Meal Builder: the Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free EditionFaith, Mindfulness, & Nutrition, and Mindfulness in Faith and Freezer Meals.

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The Ultimate Healthy Salad Toppings List

How to Built the Ultimate Healthy Salad Bar

To make your perfect healthy salad, pick from the toppings list! The possibilities and salad combinations are endless! This toppings list would work great for a salad bar at a party or social as well!

Oh man do I love food (and healthy salads), but with work and kids I don’t have much time for cooking. That is why I write about healthy and EASY ways to get food on the table. At home, I do this in a few ways:

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  1. I make a month of freezer meals in one day! For real! I cook once a month, and I am done. During the week I can just throw my freezer meals in the crockpot or microwave and I am done! I wrote a book on how to efficiently shop and cook once a month, and let me tell you the recipes are delicious!
  2. I love to buy HEALTHY packaged on-the-go foods, and I am kind of obsessed with finding healthy packaged snack ideas in a sea of processed-empty-calorie snacks. In fact, it is part of my job as owner of a healthy mindful vending company called Mindful Vending. Mindful Vending is a dietitian (that’s me : ) ) owned and operated vending company!
  3. Along with making freezer meals and healthy on-the-go products, I also like to make absolutley no-cooking-involved meals. A salad is one of those no-cook meals I love to make a salad. I love that you can have such variety with salads. No one salad has to be just alike. Use this ultimate list of salad toppings to make a completely new salad every night!

Build your Perfect Salad

To make your perfect healthy salad, pick from the toppings list below! The possibilities and salad combinations are endless! This toppings list would work great for a salad bar at a party or social as well! I did a healthy salad bar a friends baby shower, and it was a huge hit!

To make your perfect healthy salad, pick from the salad toppings list! The possibilities and salad combinations are endless! This toppings list would work great for a salad bar at a party or social as well!

Start with a Base (Pick one or more ingredients)

  • Lettuce
  • Spinach
  • Kale

Add a Protein (pick 1 or more):

  • Nuts: Almonds, Walnuts, Cashews, Mixed Nuts, Pistaccios
  • Seeds: Sunflower, Pumpkin
  • Chickpeas
  • Boiled Eggs
  • Black Beans
  • Canned Chicken (I like the Wild Planet Organic Roasted Chicken)

Add Vegetables (pick one or more)

  • Blanched Asparagus (Place Asparagus in a colander in the sink. Meanwhile boil water on the stove. Then carefully pour the hot water over the vegetables in the colander.)
  • Broccoli
  • Cauliflower
  • Tomato slices
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • Mushrooms
  • Carrots
  • Cucumber
  • Tomato
  • Corn
  • Blanched Zucchini
  • Blanched Squash
  • Onion
  • Peppers
  • Roasted Red Peppers
  • Olives
  • Red Cabbage
  • Avocado Slices

If You Want Something Sweet Add a Little Fruit

  • Blueberries
  • Grapes
  • Strawberries
  • Raspberries

Add Something Unique

Dressing (Pick One):

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Healthy Broccoli Salad

I have to give credit to my mom for inspiring this particular recipe because my mom makes an amazing healthy broccoli salad for family cookouts just about every summer. And every time she makes it, we devour it!

And just like the other recipes in this series, this broccoli salad requires absolutely no cooking!

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 Just like the other recipes in this series, this healthy broccoli salad requires absolutely no cooking! Perfect for parties and picnics! Great source of probiotics!
Just like the other recipes in this series, this healthy broccoli salad requires absolutely no cooking! Perfect for parties and picnics! Great source of probiotics!

Serves 8-12

Ingredients

  • 1 head broccoli
  • 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese
  • 2/3 cup dried cranberries (like Oceanspray Reduced Sugar Dried Cranberries)
  • ½ cup almonds
  • 1 cup red onion, chopped
  • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt (I like Fage)
  • 1 ½ tbs. white wine vinegar
  • ¼ tsp sea salt
  • ¼ tsp black pepper
  • 2 tbs. honey
  • 1/2 cup Free Range, no nitrate/nitrite added Turkey Jerky (broken into small pieces) or Grass Fed, no nitrate/nitrite added Beef Jerky (I like Think Beef Jerky)
  • 2 tbs. lemon juice

To Make:

Stir all ingredients together.

Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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