This article revolutionized my lunches for work.


The TL;DR version:

• Buy microwave steamer bags (like these).
  
• Select your favorite frozen veggies.
  
• Prepare your favorite protein.
  
• Make or buy your favorite sauces.
  
• On the weekend, just assemble these three ingredients together (one part protein, two parts veggies, sauce to taste) into individual bags and freeze.
  
  
  Then all you have to do is grab a bag each day and microwave it at lunchtime!
  
  
  My personal favorite is salsa chicken (salsa, chicken, green peppers, and onions). A few others that I've liked a lot have been Hawaiian pork (pork, pineapple, broccoli, teriyaki sauce), orange chicken (chicken, orange sauce, broccoli or mixed vegs), and smoked sausage with beans (smoked sausage, kidney beans, onions, and bbq sauce).
  
  
  Not only does this method give me such a variety that I don't get bored with lunches anymore, but I've also found this to be a really fun way to experiment with new flavor combinations!
  
  
  (I don't mention carbs above because I don't eat carbs at lunch; they make me way too sleepy. I'd guess that they'd be fine being put in the bag with the other ingredients.)
  

Highly recommend getting them through amazon subscribe and save, it is usually a hit or miss at the grocery store. Think I pay around $8 for a 3 pack.

To add to what others have said, not sure if you can find these [ziploc steam bags] (https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Steam-Cooking-Bags-Medium/dp/B003UEKBKC/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1487089898&sr=8-1&keywords=ziploc+steam+bags) but they've been a saving grace when I travel. There's a cooking time chart on the bag for proteins/veggies that you can steam up. I've done fish with different herbs and lemon juice plus potatoes and veggies just fine with these. You can also get those little individual microwave Minute rice bowls too.

http://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Steam-Cooking-Medium-10-Count/dp/B003UEKBKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348516130&sr=8-1&keywords=steamer+bags

Freeze...your veggies? You mean freeze your own instead of buying them? I would think so, but that's more a food-prep question than a fitness question, not my specialty.

1: You can do quite a bit with a microwave than just heat water and reheat leftovers. I'm a huge fan of the microwave rice cookers, and steamer bags.

However, if you really want to do some non-microwave cooking, look into an induction hotplate, rather than a regular one. Much safer for small environments, since it only heats up the pan, and not the burner.

At last resort, if your campus has a chemistry department, you can always try sweet talking your way into some after-hours time to use the bunsen burners...

One of these+ some beaten eggs and a handful of spinach. when I first made it, it came out like a brick. Microwaved it for 3 solid minutes

So here's the pro strat on making it less brick like: microwave for 1:30. then 45 sec. then 25-30 sec intervals after that depending on how runny the eggs are.

My local grocery store carries them next to the regular Ziploc bags. Otherwise you can get them from Amazon.