Lunch

Have some meat & veggies (no carbs, high protein).

I usually meal-prep, but you can spend your way to a good meal too.

Ingredients

1 pound chicken breast

• I like to buy the fancy chicken breast cutlets, but it's ~whatever.

Carrots / Broccoli / Whatever

• Any veggies are fine
  • Just avoid sugar & you're good

Meal-Prep

Cook it:

• It's easy to just do everything in pans.
  • Use butter (not seed oils) to cook the chicken
  • My brother hates me for boiling the veggies
• Use lots of salt / pepper / whatever seasoning (paprika, Tony's, etc...)
  • No sugar!
• Sometimes, I grill it
• I'm not winning any awards for this -- lots of guys do it way better than me
  • This person is much better

Tupperware:

• Just throw it in
  

Fridge (or freezer):

You can just pop it in the microwave before eating -- it's technically better in the oven (micro-plastics etc), but most offices don't have an oven option. I like to put some olive-oil & salt on mine after heating for extra flavor / nutrients.

Also, it helps if you have a badass to cook for you:

Buying Lunch

Or, if you can afford a $20 salad every day, optimize for:

• no sugar (no dressing)
• proteins (even double-protein at most restaurants is totally inadequate & requires supplementing)
• good fats (add avocado)
• Be careful with carbs (tomatoes & tortilla-chips & sauces can sneak in there, be watchful)
• Be careful with seed oils (cheaper == more likely they cook with inflammatory oils, all of these do afaik)

Here's what you can work with at some local restaurants in Austin:

Cava:

• Splendid greens
• 1 scoop crazy feta (not 3)
• braised lamb
• avocado
• feta cheese
• pickled onions
  

Again, with both chicken & braised lamb:

Lou's:

• cobb salad (with pulled chicken)
• no sauce
• add sirloin
  

Julio's:

• Salad
• fajita steak
• no sauce (this one isn't even good -- no good fats, probably cooked in oils):
  

Honest Mary's:

• Poke bowl
• no rice
• no sauce
• add steak