How to plan lunch meals after a carbohydrate-rich breakfast

Question
It seems to me that the only way I am going to eat better is if I plan my meals (and prepare them) in advance. I would like to keep breakfast simple. Like orange juice and a cereal with a fair amount of fiber. But lunch I would like to really plan for. Are there diets in which breakfast pretty much stays the same, lunch is well planned and balanced, and dinner could end up being anything while still getting a full day's nutritional requirements for the day? I would like lunch meals to be simple enough that they are largely made up of raw ingredients. I don't want anything that runs the risk of containing unneeded fats, sugars, or sodium. I'd like to be able to write out a weekly lunch schedule and create lunch 2 days in advance.

Answer
Hello James,

Planning any meal depends on your way of eating. I do not know your health condition, metabolic profile, physical fitness level, etc., so I am not able to tailor general ideas about metabolic consequences of meals having different nutrient composition to your particular needs.

The influence of breakfast as you describe it on hunger and food preferences during lunch might surprise you and if you don't take it into account, a sense of deprivation can ruin your efforts to eat healthy (BTW, nobody is sure what healthy eating means, me including). Also, the way you ask bothers me because it resemble requesting  a "prescription", which I have no right to do. However, I can give you information so you decide for yourself.

I answered a question about breakfast at allexpertsref="http://en.allexperts.com/q/Nutrition-Dieting-939/2011/3/Skipping-breakfasts-inte>question about breakfast at allexperts</a>, you might also find it helpful to read about different views on breakfast in the article An intermittent ketosis plan? and Breakfast, protein, and hunger at lunch.

Tanya Zilberter

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