Bento Box Lunch update

A couple weeks ago I shared an idea I had about eating lunch more like a kid.  You know...colorful, small portions, and mostly everything can be eaten with your fingers.  Click here to see my original post.  I told you I would share the ideas I came up with, along with points plus values.  Bonus, I've lost 2.4 lbs in the last 2 weeks!  I really think eating lunch like this is a big reason for that.  A couple of things I would like to point out:

1. Eating a variety of foods in small portions takes a lot longer to eat.  That is one problem I still haven't been able to master, eating slower.
2. I always eat the vegetable and fruit first.  That way, if I get full I have eaten the "better for me" foods first.
3. Many times, I couldn't finish my food (yogurt for instance), so I took it to work with me for my afternoon snack.
4. You could totally pack a few of these meals in air tight containers and take them to work with you.  I'm lucky enough that I live 3 minutes away from work, so I am able to go home.

  

3 oz. Schwan's Oven Roasted Chicken Bites (3PP), 1 T. BBQ sauce (1PP), Sargento's cheese stick cut it chunks (2PP), few grapes and 1/2 apple (0PP), cauliflower and broccoli (0PP), mini pickles (0PP), rice cake (1PP).

 

 2 oz packet of tuna (2PP), mixed with 1 T. non-fat greek yogurt and sweet relish, salt & pepper (0PP), mini pickles, few grapes, cauliflower and broccoli (0 PP), 7 reduced fat triscuits (3PP).

 2 oz. deli roast beef (2PP), string cheese (1PP), mini pita (1PP), pickles and apple (0PP).

 2 oz. deli roast beef (2PP), string cheese (1PP), 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese (1PP), grapes and vegetables (0PP).  I don't remember what I drizzled over the veggies:)

Sandwich made out of 2 slices of 45 calorie bread toasted (2PP), 1/4 mashed avocado seasoned with salt & pepper spread on toast (2PP) & 3 egg whites cooked (1PP).  Raw carrots, cauliflower and broccoli (0PP), grapes, raspberries and orange slices (0PP), Dannon light and fit greek yogurt, pineapple (2PP)

 Grilled cheese made with 2 slices 45 calorie bread (2PP), sprayed with butter & sargento's colby & cheddar reduced fat cheese slice (1PP), mini pickles (0PP), raw carrots, cauliflower & broccoli, raspberries, blueberries & orange slices (0PP), Dannon light & fit yogurt, pineapple (2PP).

 2 oz deli pepper turkey breast (1PP), 10 pretzel crisps (3PP), string cheese (1PP), mini pickles & carrots (0PP), grapes, blueberries & raspberries (0PP).

 1 slice 45 calorie toast (1PP) spread with 1 T. whipped peanut butter (2PP), boiled egg (2PP), raw broccoli, cucumber, broccoli & cauliflower (0PP), raspberries, blueberries & orange slices (0PP), Dannon light & fit yogurt, pineapple (2PP).
 

 2 oz. deli roast beef (2PP), string cheese (1PP), 10 pretzel crisps (3PP), mini pickles, raw vegetables (0PP), 1/2 sliced banana & orange slices (0PP).

 1/2 can Progresso Potato soup with bacon and cheese (2PP), raw cucumber, broccoli, cauliflower & carrots (0PP), Sargento's cheese stick cut into chunks (2PP), 7 reduced fat Triscuits (3PP), orange slices & raspberries (0PP).