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These keto lunch recipes are a great option to take to work, or school, or anywhere. They offer a great variety so you’ll never be bored!
What is the Keto Diet?
In short, the keto diet is a low-carb diet. You’ll have to count your carbs accurately but almost nothing else matters.
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Keto Lunch Recipes: Salad
These three salads are all great choices for a keto lunch. They’re all low-carb, quick, and easy to prepare. Try one this week.
Low Carb Taco Salad
Total Time: ~25m
Calories: 240
Carbs: 4.5g net (6.9g total, 2.4g fiber)
Taco salad is delicious hot or cold, making it an ideal work lunch for those days you can't heat something up.
Steak Cobb Salad With Cilantro-Lime Vinaigrette
Total Time: ~25m
Calories: 767
Carbs: 8g net (18g total, 10g fiber)
This is a hefty salad. If you're not absolutely starving, I'd suggest dropping a couple ingredients to make it more of a normal meal size - do you really need a 700+ calorie lunch?
If you want to take it to work, I'd skip the bacon cauliflower rice and maybe the egg. The steak would be delicious cold!
Salmon, Avocado and Arugula Salad with Lemon Dressing
Total Time: ~10m
Calories: 575
Carbs: 4g net (11g total, 7g fiber)
This is another monster salad, for those hungry hungry days. If you're not starving, halve (or eliminate) the avocado.
Keto Lunch Recipes: Soup
3 different keto soup recipes you could try for lunch this week. Including how to make your own (customizable) cup noodles! Yum.
Cabbage Soup Recipe
Total Time: ~50m
Calories: 261
Carbs: 4g net (6g total, 2g fiber)
When I think of cabbage soup, I always think of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the book, not one of the movies). It feels like something that isn't going to be good.
But the book (and movies) misrepresents cabbage. It's delicious and this soup is no exception. Try it.
Cauliflower & Turmeric Soup
Total Time: ~40m
Calories: 471
Carbs: 5.6g net (9.5g total, 3.9g fiber)
Turmeric should be a superstar but it's been overshadowed for-freaking-ever. Seriously, I'm always looking for recipes that incorporate turmeric.
This recipe will reheat well for a fabulous work lunch.
3 Flavors of Cup Noodles
Total Time: ~~varies
Calories: depends on ingredients
Carbs: depends on ingredients
The benefits of making your own cup noodles are immense. You control the ingredients (better quality, nothing you're not happy to eat). You can make a huge variety. You can make them in advance. They taste delicious.
To keep it keto, make sure you watch the carb counts of all the ingredients.
Keto Lunch Recipes: Mason Jar Salads
I love mason jar lunches. They’re easy, offer variety, and stay fresh all week.
Tip: Find a friend or coworker (or two, three, four, or five) and everyone makes a different mason jar recipe and you trade. This way, you’ll get 2-5 different mason jar lunches but only have to make 1 type.
Keto Mason Jar Salad feat. Bacon and MCT Oil Dressing
Total Time: ~15m
Calories: 704
Carbs: 5g net (g total, g fiber)
Mason jar salads are great. They'll stay good for 4 to 5 days. This one is a bit calorie heavy for a salad (cutting back on the dressing would reduce it a fair bit). It's a very large salad (1.75 cups of vegetables plus a bunch of other stuff). You could probably reduce the quantities and still be very satisfied.
5 Low Carb Mason Jar Salads with Cauliflower
Total Time: ~15m
Calories: 160 to 478
Carbs: 2.9g to 8g net (fiber from 2g to 6g)
These salads use cauliflower instead of lettuce. They're a great size and the five recipes offer good variety so you won't get bored.
5 Meal Prep Mason Jar Salads
Total Time: ~10m
Calories: depends on ingredients
Carbs: depends on ingredients
Five more mason jar salads - including greek, taco, berry chicken, italian zoodle and bacon ranch chicken.
Keto Lunch Recipes: Other Options
Soups and salads make for great lunches. But, sometimes you just want something else. These recipes will fill that void. Go forth and eat takeout for lunch no more!
Sesame Salmon with Baby Bok Choy and Mushrooms
Total Time: not stated (~30m)
Calories: not stated
Carbs: not stated
Bok Choy is my favorite vegetable. At my house, it goes in pretty much everything. If you're not familiar with it, here's a wonderful recipe (except the mushrooms. I skip those).
Keto Salmon Burgers with Mash and Lemon Butter
Total Time: ~30m
Calories: not stated
Carbs: 7g net
The mash in this recipe is a broccoli mash. Feel free to substitute cauliflower (if you want it to be green, add pesto).
Easy Taco Pie
Total Time: ~45m
Calories: 370
Carbs: 1.9g net (2.1g total, 0.2g fiber)
This isn't the only taco item on this list. I do love Mexican food - it's delicious and versatile. This makes great leftovers, or just bake one up and eat it only for lunches.
Buffalo Chicken Celery Sticks | A Low Carb Recipe
Total Time: ~5m
Calories: 83
Carbs: 0.9g net (1.2g total, 0.3g fiber)
I love the crunch that celery adds to things. These are so fast and easy to make. Just eat more of them for lunch, or eat them with a tasty soup.
Keto Low Carb Chili Recipe
Total Time: ~8h 15m (15m prep)
Calories: 306
Carbs: 10g net (13g total, 3g fiber)
This is a perfect freezer meal. Cook it, freeze it and eat it whenever you want. Make sure you make an extra-large batch!
Avocado Keto Lunchbox Idea
Total Time: ~5m
Calories: 420
Carbs: 5g net (14g total, 9g fiber)
This is a simple, customizable lunchbox idea good for anyone. Can be made as much as 3 days in advance.
Don’t Be Unprepared for Lunch!
Put these recipes in your lunch rotation and you’ll never go hungry (or be bored) again.
Share your favorite keto lunch recipe in the comments!
What about if you forget your lunch? No worries! Check out Keto On The Go next for tips & take-out guides!
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