I need ideas for lunch food

[unicornduke]

 I go through this every year or so: I'm bored of my current lunch option and I need to figure something else out. 

Here's the problem: I may or may not have access to a microwave or refrigerator and I don't know until the morning of if I will. Sometimes I leave the office to go out to the field part way through the day and so can't heat something up. I like to have lunch planned for the week ahead of time. 

Here's the other things: Salads are terrible and I will not eat them. I don't like leafy greens, raw tomatoes, onions. Even "salads" that are a mix of fruit and vegetables that I like aren't good because they aren't filling. I'm usually hungry within an hour. I highly dislike mayo and vinegar based things. 

I usually eat fruits and veggies as snacks through the rest of the day along with granola bars and crackers and things like that.

So here's some things I do eat: sandwiches with cheese/dried beef (only lunch meat I'll eat because warm lunch meat is disgusting), sandwich with PB&J, mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes with cheese, cornbread with cheese/dried beef, and I'm trying to think if there's anything else. I usually rotate between these every couple of months. 

It has to taste good at room temperature. Does anyone have any ideas? 

Comments

[graydon]

I can't, don't know about Unicornduke.

There isn't much gluten in barley, but there is some; this is why I can't drink beer. (Most beer; there's some sorghum beer out there, and guaranteed-only-rice, too.)

[unicornduke]

I'm not sure, I never got tested for celiacs but my cousin has it, so I just assumed I did. Either way, I'd have to do some careful testing before I'd take it for lunch. But wheat, barley, rye are all in that family.

But I can do other whole grains like amaranth and sorghum as long as I eat all the other things I need to eat.

[graydon]

Speaking as someone else with celiac cousins, you don't have to have celiac to have a gluten intolerance. There's this DQ gene cluster and it has eight known states, one of which is celiac and one of which is "normal". The other six are annoying and confusing and poorly understood, but can definitely come with food intolerances, one of which is gluten.

[unicornduke]

I had an exceedingly unhelpful gastro doctor who basically did a colonoscopy and had me do the FODMAP diet and then shrugged and said if the diet fixed the issue, then why bother figuring anything else out. He also didn't think I needed to see at dietitian to help me out at all. Which I honestly really really did need to see one at the time but I eventually figured it out.

So yeah. I never did any other testing including the upper endoscopy so it's a mystery.

[graydon]

"Intolerance is doctor for don't eat that."

I went through a long and wandering diagnostic process but it came down to about the same thing; don't eat that. And then I had to figure out what had soy in it, which turned out to be much more difficult than it ought to be.

[unicornduke]

oh dang, yeah soy and corn are in everything. And like, all their derivatives.