Do you bring lunch in lunch boxes during lunch break? What do you bring? (hungarian, leftover)

[evening sun]

Originally Posted by newdixiegirl

Yes, I'm usually a packer, and I, too, bring leftovers most often. Love leftovers!

When I cook dinners during the week, I make a point of cooking extra for that purpose. It's easy to throw the leftovers into a couple of different containers for ready-made lunches.

That is what I used to do also, it saves quite a bit of money, eating lunch out can get expensive. I also cook extra chicken so I have chicken for another few nights later in the week.

Regarding sandwiches, if I wanted a tuna or egg salad for lunch, which is wet, I would pack the salad in a small container & put a few slices of bread or a roll in a bag, then make the sandwich n the lunch room, that prevents the bread going soggy. I don't find cold cuts will make bread soggy.

[notnamed]

Occasionally. No question it is cheaper and can be healthier. But there is also a very real career cost to not partaking in the work social activity of eating out together. In an office environment anyway.

Though there are some ways around it. My group would meet at a nearby park where packers and people who got take out could eat together.

[Enduringwone]

My husband takes a packed lunch. He has a Steelers lunch bag.

A couple of sandwiches, a bag of chips, applesauce, protein bar, snack cake, Gatorade and napkins. Oh, also a note from my daughter and me.

[ralphfr]

Lately I've been cooking for lunch because eating take-out or eating cold cuts is a sodium landmine. At some point towards the end the week I'll stop and buy some meat for next week's lunch. So far I've made mostly chicken thighs. Skin and bone on. I trim them of most of the fat and then simply roast them in the oven lightly sprinkled with some Adobo Light seasoning and olive oil. Keep a couple out for Mon, Tue's lunch and freeze the rest in Tupperware. As I take one out of the fridge I take one out of the freezer. I eat one thigh with one of those Libby's single serving veggies and one of the Minute-Rice microwavable single servings of rice. Mostly the brown and wild rice. Love the basmati and jasmine also. I zap the chicken and the veg and then the rice separately for a minute. I could eat chicken and rice every day. Especially with peas! YUM!


I've also done a potted chuck roast simply with a can of tomatoes and a head of garlic in a Dutch oven and portioned out in lunch sized servings and also roasted turkey legs when I can find smaller specimens. This has worked out well on two fronts. I'm controlling my sodium intake and also not wasting time every day wondering what I'm going to have for lunch!

[jay5835]

My last lunchbox, c. 1960:

[RP2C]

I just put (usually) fruit, crackers and bottles of water in my briefcase.

[mrs.cool]

I make a salad every day. I use the little tupperware like containers Hillshire Farms sells lunch meat in. Lettuce, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflowers, sugar snap peas, etc. My lunch "box" is actually a lunch bag. Soft, hot pink in color. I also bring a hard boiled egg for 10:00am break and a string cheese for 3:00pm (and a sugar free root beer). :-)

[elnina]

Sandwich: German rye bread, butter, Boston lettuce, Braunschweiger, sliced dill pickle. Peach. Hot, unsweetened black tea.

[otterhere]

Is this a wordy way of asking, "Do You Brown-Bag It?" or are you specifically asking about the lunchbox itself?

[foxyknoxy]

Usually pb and j, yogurt, eggs, apples, cheese.