Giving Lunch a Makeover

Simple, quick swaps can change lunch from a high-calorie and low-nutrition meal, into a healthy, balanced meal that will fuel you for the rest of your day.

Instead of a salami sandwich on white bread with cheese, mayonnaise and mustard, make this open-faced sandwich: Rotisserie chicken, three slices avocado, two tomato slices, lettuce and mustard on one piece of 100 percent whole wheat bread, toasted. This sandwich is sure to fuel you through the rest of your day.

The whole-wheat bread has more fiber than white bread and the chicken is much leaner and provides more nutritional content than salami. While cheese provides some nutrition, the healthy fats from the avocado will actually fuel you better and are great for your brain.

For sides, choose fruit, vegetables or baby carrots and hummus instead of chips.