21 simple healthy lunches to stay full and focused all afternoon

Don’t know what to eat for lunch that’s healthy? This collection of simple healthy lunch ideas is what you need! You’ll find a reliable nourishing lunch bowls, soups, wraps, tasty quesadillas and notable salad recipes! Whether you work from home, go to an office, to school or uni, bellow you’ll find a satisfying lunch option that you can enjoy wherever you are around noon.

Healthy Lunch Bowl Recipes

Filled with protein, vegetables, and flavor, these power bowl recipes are simple to make and absolutely notable.

1. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Bowls. Roast some sweet potatoes and cauliflower in the oven and make these bowls in no time! They’re plant-based, simple and satisfying.

2. The 5-Minute Mediterranean Bowl. This is one of our most popular healthy lunch recipes. No wonder – it happens to be one of our go-to recipes as well. It’s simple, fast and full of flavor! Great for meal prep too if you want to make everything from scratch. If you’re short on time – you can buy all the individual parts and use cherry tomatoes and a chopped cucumber instead of salad.

3. Mediterranean Salmon Bowl. One of the most popular recipes on the blog, these salmon bowls are among our favorite recipes for lunch as well. To be honest, we never make a dish the exact same way twice, but we often make a variation of this bowl. Feel free to use the vegetables you have at home for this one. It’s great for dinner too!

4. Shredded Chicken Bowls. These bowls are fresh, flavorful and low carb, but in a healthy way. With some roasted vegetables, cooked shredded chicken and a salad this lunch recipe is satisfying and simple to meal prep.

5. Sweet Potato, Kale and Chicken Lunch Bowls. These tasty lunch bowls are perfectly balanced – nutrition and taste-wise. They’re colorful, full of protein, antioxidants and deliciousness!

Healthy Lunch Wrap And Sandwich Recipes

6. Garlic Avocado Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Use wholegrain bread to make these simple sandwiches more nourishing. Serve with some tomato cucumber salad for the solid healthy lunch.

7. Avocado Chicken Salad. Obviously, we're a fan of avocado placed between 2 slices of bread. Well, even if you decide to eat this chicken salad with a spoon – we won’t blame you. It’s SO good!

8. Vegetarian Hummus Wraps. This is the only hummus wrap you’ll ever want to eat once you have it! It’s so good and it’s just the solid healthy lunch recipe.

Grab-And-Go Lunch Ideas

Now, if you have no time for a sit-down meal, prep one of these grab-and-go healthy lunch ideas – they won’t disappoint.

9. 10-Minute Chicken Quesadilla With Feta Cheese. If you’ve got some cooked chicken, feta cheese and vegetables you can easily make this tasty quesadilla recipe in 10 minutes.

10. Chicken Egg Bake. If you’re often on the go and don’t have time to eat over the sink during your 5-minute lunch break, you might consider mixing a bunch of things together and baking them. Without sugar. With chicken and vegetables instead. That would be one disgusting banana bread….But no, it’s not banana bread – it’s an egg bake and it’s good!

11. Vegan Quesadilla With Chickpeas. Another quesadilla recipe! Fill this one with chickpeas, herbs and vegetables – it makes a reliable simple, fast and satisfying vegan lunch.

12. Crustless Tuna Quiche. Canned tuna is a versatile ingredient and it goes well in a crustless quiche. simple to pack and take to work, great for meal prep and filling and tasty.

13. Spinach And Feta Lunch Muffins. These flourless muffins are made with eggs, oats, spinach, feta cheese and taste just wonderful. Two of them make the solid healthy lunch, but if you want to win extra points – you can have them with some salad or veggies on the side.

Healthy Hot Lunch Ideas

Now sometimes, you just want something hot for lunch. Enter these healthy warm lunch ideas. Here you’ll find soups, one-pan meals and much more. All you need to do is cook at home and reheat in the microwave.

14. Coconut Curry Shrimp Soup. This soup is a spicy, fresh and flavorful! It’s low carb and it’s light and just solid for lunch.

15. 15-Minute Quinoa With Chicken. If you’re like us and cook a bunch of things ahead like quinoa and chicken, you’ll be able to whip this tasty dish for lunch (or dinner) in no time. It’s healthy and just packed with flavor!

16. Quinoa Fried Rice. Fried rice has to be one of our favorite meals – it’s simple, fast, satisfying and you get to use all of your old food. If you don’t have rice, but quinoa, you can even make it a bit healthier!

17. Simple Lentil Soup. If you need the extra comfort – make this tasty and healthy lentil soup! It’s a hearty, filling lunch recipe that you will surely enjoy!

Notable Salad Recipes For Lunch

You just can’t beat a good healthy salad for lunch. You can’t. They’re juicy, they’re filling, they’re fresh and when done right – taste AMAZING. They won’t make you fall asleep after your lunch break – you just feel right when you eat a salad.

18. Tuna and Chickpea Salad. Speaking of fast and simple lunch recipes, can you open a can of tuna and another one of chickpeas? Then you’re halfway done with this notable Mediterranean-style tuna chickpea salad.

19. Roasted Vegetable Chicken Salad. We have dreams, dreams about this satisfying salad made with shredded chicken, a tangy dressing, extra fresh and some roasted vegetables. It is definitely one of our favorite healthy lunch recipes as it’s flavorful and filling.

20. Mediterranean Salmon Salad. If you love salmon and the Mediterranean diet, you’ll love this satisfying healthy salmon salad! To speed things up, you can definitely make the salmon and the roasted vegetables ahead, as well as wash and chop the fresh vegetables.

21. A reliable Mediterranean Chickpea Salad. We used to make salads like this one every single morning before we went to work when we worked in an office. We would pack it in a container; it took us about 10 minutes and it kept well in our fridge in the office. It tastes so fresh, but also has the saltiness from the feta cheese and the olives and it’s filling. Now that we don’t leave the house, we seem to find more excuses not to make salads, it’s weird. We know: Great story, can we eat it?