Ideas for Anti-cancer brown bag lunches?

Best book - Anti-Cancer.  I stopped using the microwave at work by bringing my food in a stainless steel thermos.  My naturopath told me he wouldn't be in the same room with a microwave that is going.  So I also no longer eat in the work kitchen.  I often bring salads with turmeric, pepper, organic extra virgin olive oil, and organic raw apple cider vinegar - you develop a taste for the dressing.  I make veggie soups or bring dinner's leftovers.  You can make soups and add some organic green tea instead of water.  Also I sometimes add the turmeric mix to the soup.  Also make sandwiches with ezekiel bread and almond butter.  Plus fruit.  Good Luck!  You really develop a taste for the good foods! 

I do eat salads for lunch and make my own dressing. The trick to salad is putting things in it that will fill you up and are healthy. Small amounts of walnuts, lean turkey, low fat cheese (goat or feta) white meat turkey, fish or beans. The beans or walnuts will really help just watch the portion because they are high in calories… but good for you.

My favorite salad:
Romaine lettuce
Red Cabbage
peeled carrots (easier to eat when peeled)
crasins
goat cheese
walnuts
freezed dried corn niblets
1/2 avocado

Dressing:
Salsa, balsamic vinegar, little bit of olive oil, dijon mustard, basil blended together.

Great suggestions, and I agree with lago about loading it up with anti-cancer things that you enjoy... also, if you mix it up and make a totally different salad on different days, they don't get boring!

I am fortunate to work from home now, but if I still worked in an office, I'd bring in either a toaster oven or even a small convection oven and get permission to keep it in the break room or even at my desk if possible. That way you can bring leftovers in a Pyrex container and heat it up without having to use the microwave.

Of course, that takes more foresight because you can't just pop it in five minutes beforehand... leftovers might take 20-30 minutes to heat up... but it's something I would make myself get used to (e.g., set a reminder for 11:30 to pop it in, work for another half-hour or so, then enjoy a hot healthy meal for lunch).

The steel thermos idea is great! I have been cooking a lot of soups while the weather is cold... my favorite is a white bean soup with Italian sausage (made of local grass-fed beef, with no BHT or other preservatives). That would be so perfect in a thermos.

I found these recipes and they looked interesting.  I have not tried any yet though.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=260255&id=177550385124

I gotta get off this thread! All the lunches suggested won't work with my GOUT. I have 4 pages of foods I can't eat. I said just give me ONE page of food I can eat!! Nope.

Can't have broccoli, lentils, beans, walnuts, etc, etc....I eat that stuff anyway sometimes as life is too short.

I've tweaked my diet in a number of different directions in the last 5 years, and the book that's given me the most success is the Liver Cleansing Diet by Dr Sandra Cabot.  I had already cleaned up my breakfast and lunches, but dinners were my final frontier.  My favorite dinners have a lot of butter, cheese, cream, sometimes all three.  In a nutshell, these recipes steer clear of red meat, dairy, and all processed foods.  I've been making lots of soup in recent months, both for myself and for my mom.  They're quite good and would work well for lunch also. 

barbe, what about asparagus?  potatoes?  celery?  The book I just mentioned has a recipe for asparagus soup with the ingredients I just listed.