7 Pro Metabolic Lunch Ideas

Lunch can be such a hard meal to make. You need something quick, but you want it to be healthy.

Here are 7 Pro Metabolic lunch ideas for you so that you can have a quick lunch that doesn’t drag you down.

Pro Metabolic eating can be confusing especially when you are first starting out. It claims to be all about food freedom, but still feels restricting at times. I find it helpful to remind myself that Pro Metabolic means for my metabolism. Eating Pro Metabolic means eating foods in a way that refreshes and energizes me so that I can serve my family better.

Once you get the basics down, you will find following Pro Metabolic guidelines to be much easier and very much worth it.

Until then, I hope you are inspired by this list of 7 Pro Metabolic lunch ideas!

Open-Faced Sandwich

Eating too much grains is a struggle especially when you are trying to stick to Pro Metabolic Eating. Grains, however, are not bad for you; they are just hard to digest.

In order to enjoy grains like bread, rice, and pasta, I try to prepare them with traditional methods and stick to the recommended serving size.

So if you want to have a sandwich for lunch, your best options for easy digestion is to use homemade sourdough bread and only eat 1-2 slices. I find that I tolerate best just one slice of bread instead of two so I do open faced sandwiches with one slice.

But you do you and make sure you get enough to eat!

Some good sandwich options are…

Tuna Sandwich – Quality food is still key here, too. For tuna, I look for canned tuna that only includes tuna, water, and sea salt.
Egg Salad – Free range eggs or whatever eggs you can afford that have orange yolks instead of yellow.
Scrambled Eggs and Cheese
Chicken Salad – Pasture-raised chicken is best, but organic free range chicken has decent quality when you are on a budget.

For mayo, I make my own following this recipe, but substituting the avocado oil for organic extra virgin oil. Organic avocado oil will work, too if you can afford it.

Egg Salad Wrap

We eat this pretty often because making egg salad and rolling them up in sourdough tortillas is so easy! For better digestion, use homemade mayo with quality oil and homemade sourdough tortillas.

Occasionally we switch it up and have tuna wraps or chicken salad wraps and add a little cheddar cheese on top.

Again, I try to stick to one wrap and have fruit or carrot salad as a side.

Leftovers

Nothing makes an easier lunch than leftovers. You do the hard work of preparing a healthy dinner the night before making extra while you are at it so that all you have to do to enjoy a healthy lunch is heat up some leftovers.

There is some controversy over whether or not using microwaves are healthy, but that is a topic that is very much in the weeds of healthy living. For most of us who are just trying to feed our families delicious and easy to digest foods, we don’t really need to worry about it. If this is a concern that you have, then you do what works for you.

Potato Pancakes

A family favorite of ours is potato pancakes. They are quick and easy for our small family so we often eat them for lunch or breakfast or even dinner sometimes.

Here is my rough recipe…

Peel and shred one potato for each person. 1/2-1 cup of mashed potatoes per person can be substituted.
Add one extra egg than there are potatoes.
Season with 1T of salt, pinch of pepper, 1t or so of garlic and onion powder.
Fry in 1T of butter in a cast iron skillet over medium heat.

Enjoy it with some organic ketchup or try this fermented ketchup recipe! It’s more like a tomato based sauce rather then ketchup, but I find it to still be delicious.

Burger Patties and Potato Wedges

I love making burger patties because they are so easy and cheap. Organic grass-fed ground beef is the cheapest cut of meat so we eat a lot of it. At Aldi, where I do a majority of my grocery shopping, I typically buy ground beef at $6/lb, but occasionally they have the family packs in stock and they are $4/lb! Even at the regular price, I can’t find any store or online source that can beat that price.

Usually, I season a pound of burger meat with 1-2T of sea salt, pinch of pepper, and 1T of garlic and onion powder. Sometimes, I add an egg to help it hold the moisture, too. Then I divide the meat into roughly 4 equal parts because ¼ of a pound of beef is the recomended serving size and I find it to be sufficient for me.

It then gets grilled in a cast iron skillet over medium heat.

For the baked potato wedges, I follow whatever recipe pops up first in the google search. I just make sure I use grass-fed butter as the oil. Peeling the skin off the potatoes can make them easier to digest as well as rinsing the starch off and patting them dry before seasoning them.

Chicken Pasta Salad

You probably won’t see a lot of pasta floating around the Pro Metabolic world, but you can definitely still enjoy pasta. The guidelines I like to follow are the serving sizes and preferably homemade sourdough pasta or einkorn pasta. Organic pasta is better quality, but can still be hard to digest.

The Jovial brand has a grain free cassava pasta them I am dying to try. I don’t know how it tastes, but if it is delicious, then this would be a good option, too.

Remember to use good quality mayo like the homemade mayo recipe I listed above so that you are still getting easy to digest oils.

Taco Salad

This comes together in no time! We brown organic grass-fed ground beef that we find at our local grocery store, season it with salt, onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, and tabasco. Then we top it with organic salsa, homemade yogurt as a substitute for sour cream, and organic avocados.

We currently eat it with organic tortilla chips, but they are still fried with sunflower oil. I am working on learning to make our own with homemade tortillas dipped in butter and air-fried.

Final Thoughts!

I hope you found these 7 Pro Metabolic lunch ideas inspiring and you are excited to feed your family healthy food even for lunch. Enjoying healthy meals isn’t difficult, but it is definitely overwhelming when you are just starting out on your Pro Metabolic journey.

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