packed lunch - work, school, picnic, etc

you spend almost half your life sleeping, so a good mattress should be a priority…

so, what about your lunch, particularly when you are at work?

you know the pleasure of a getaway and a picnic, you know how important your lunchbreak is…

share you boxed meals on the go :wink:

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smoked kipper, bacon and mushroom, kedgeree

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I work from home.

Fried egg sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, and boiled dumplings are my most frequent lunches

I rarely was able to prepare boxed lunches when I worked at an office.

Most of my lunches were a slice of pizza, Greek chicken and rice, or a Chinese lunch special from the food court, way back when

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I work close enough to home to lunch with DH on leftovers, salads or something he conjures up.
And keep a quart of this in the work fridge when I can’t or want a snack that isn’t a bagel or pizza.
Its high in sodium so not a daily indulgence but its pretty good.


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When I worked, I would make & freeze my lunches for the week on Sunday afternoon.

A couple favorites were rice and chorizo, ground beef mixed with Mac & Cheese, or rice & ground beef with BBQ sauce.

The glad ware containers I used were microwave safe, so a hot lunch was my norm.

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I usually bring leftovers of whatever I’ve just made for dinners. Could be pasta, pizza, chicken, starch, and veg, stir-frys over rice…

If I don’t have something like that, I’ll pull some soup from the freezer.

If I don’t have or want that, I’ll make tuna salad for sandwiches or PB&J.

If none of that works for me, I’ll go to the restaurant a floor below my office for a sub or sandwich there.

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My WFH lunches are often last night’s leftovers. I also keep some quick frozen foods and bagged salads. Lunch isnt a big meal for me. When I was in office, it was usually salad kits or leftovers, with tuna salad or ramen in a file drawer as a safety net.

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I’ve always been a meh on packed lunches, but I do try to bring lunch at least half the time because it’s financially responsible (booo - no fun). I am fairly anti-leftover though, but will do so when I have food to get through (extra pasta, extra rice and proteins) and it’s food that heats up well without causing too much offense in the kitchen. That is already limiting based on what I eat, since seafood is on the menu often. I bring in “instant” lunches (noodles, a frozen meal, can of soup) to supplement. Will have to grab a photo the next time I bring something more interesting.

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leftover steak and oyster pie, and stewed rhubarb creme brulee - the brulee had lost the ‘snap’ but still very eatable.


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