Lunchbox Roundup

Here's the thing: lunch is forever a mystery to me. I never know what to make. I mean, I know about the basics. We do pb&j (well, for Benj it's sb&j or h...but I digress). So anyway, I'm not opposed to the obvious but, well, you know, there's only so many sandwiches you can eat. And also one of my goals this year was to improve the general healthfulness of our diet, which sort of disqualifies endless rounds of the aforementioned sandwich.

So I'd like to ask the readers, if you would kindly participate, What is your favorite lunchtime menu?

Oh, and since I would like this to be actually helpful to me I'm going to ask for ideas that fit into these guidelines:

• Easy. Think "making a sandwich"--that's about how much time it should take. The exception would be if you have a suggestion that can be made in large quantities ahead of time and frozen. But even then I just don't do complicated/time-consuming. (I'm guessing I'm not the only one....)
• Homemade with simple, natural ingredients or simple pre-prepared foods. By "homemade" I mean only that it's not a pre-made meal or a box mix-type of thing. Unfortunately I just can't do things like heat up a can of soup because of Benjamin's allergy restrictions. Feel free, however, to suggest a fabulous, easy, homemade soup because even if your recipe has things in it that we can't eat I can probably modify it. :) An example of simple pre-prepared foods might be yogurt.
• Healthy. You know, balanced, not excessively fat-laden.... Nothing ultra-fancy just...sensible. The whole foods/organic/you-shouldn't-eat-x,y,z-main-food-groups school of thought is completely lost on me...just so you know. :)

I can't wait to see what we come up with!