Busy days and drive thru- lunches

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Registered: 08-18-2003
Busy days and drive thru- lunches
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Tue, 12-06-2005 - 3:44pm

For those of us that are more suited in a drive thru than we are in the breakrooms at our office ~ help is in need.

~~ Steffy ~~

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-06-2005 - 3:54pm

I bring my lunch to work everyday. I have a frozen dinner of some sort, fruit, veggies & yogurt. I freeze a water bottle the night before so everything stays cold at my desk. I have an insulated bag I bought at the drug store to carry it all in.

I also pack my breakfast in there too so I can eat it at work in the morning. I pack my lunch while I'm cleaning up from dinner. I'm already in the kitchen & it just takes a few minutes to throw everything together & leave it in the fridge overnight.

Good luck with your brown bagging.

Ann

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Registered: 04-09-2003
Tue, 12-06-2005 - 3:58pm

Can't wait to hear what ideas people come up with.


Miranda suggested I get some Lean Cuisine type meals and I went to the store this afternoon and found a deal on Healthy Choice meals 10 for $10. Had the Manicotti for lunch and was pretty good and only 290 calories.


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Registered: 12-04-2003
Tue, 12-06-2005 - 5:22pm

I'm a brown bagger for lunches and here's what I've found:


Leftovers.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 12-06-2005 - 9:15pm

You are definitely the Brown Bag Queen of the group, lol!


Great ideas there Miranda, thanks ;-)


~IslandGirl



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Registered: 03-19-2003
Tue, 12-06-2005 - 9:27pm

Well to be honest I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to come home at lunch, but I'll answer the questions anyway.....


Favorite brown bag lunch?
If I do have to walk with my lunch, it's usually a sandwich and some fruit. Sometimes a leftover portion and yogurt. However I don't often have to do this. Thankfully, as I'd probably not stick with that plan for long. Some of the other teachers (who stay at school for lunch) bring in salad's for the week, or have cheese, crackers and that sort of thing on hand. Not sure how satisfied they are after that though, seems more of a snack than an actual lunch to me.


Container for on the go foods that you can't live without?
I do have them....but again don't use them that often. Plus because we have snack available in the classroom each day (and it's different each day) I luckily don't even need to think about snacks.


Things you leave stocks

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Registered: 04-09-2003
Wed, 12-07-2005 - 10:53am

I really don't have much to add but I do try to keep a stock of Coke Zero, Water, Pria Power Bars, Honey Wheat Pretzles, and trail mix on had.


I try to schedule to snacks a day one morning and one afternoon, however, if I'm having a day I feel like none of these things is horrible to splurge on and will keep me out of Mini Mart where chips and candy bars call to me.


As for storage I use Zip lock bagies; all sizes. I can reuse them and/or just throw them out.


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Registered: 10-26-2004
Wed, 12-07-2005 - 4:18pm

Some of these ladies are really good at this brown baggin' it thing. I too am one of the lucky ones who can go home for lunch most of the time. I do bring snacks though. Often I use the morning and/or afternoon snack time to get in more fruits and veggies. I bring bananas because they are cheap, and they don't need to be in the frig, although we do have one here. Apples are also good, not needing refrigeration either; I love Granny Smith apples. The new Trader Joe's in our area has great trail mixes with dried fruit that I bring once in a while too. I usually have a Power Bar or Luna bar in my desk too, just in case I forget breakfast or don't have any fruit here.


If I do have to bring lunch, it is usually leftovers, chicken breast and often raw baby carrots. I walk to work when it is nice so I have to pack it into the backpack, so nothing that will leak. I brought some of SO's homemade

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Registered: 09-15-2005
Thu, 12-08-2005 - 1:54pm

I think what'll work for you depends on how good you are at getting things ready and together.

i.e. i make sandwiches for lunch. if i had to put anything more together than bread and a slab of meat, i probably wouldn't do it at all.

also, you and C should think about making dinner/lunch together more often. that way, you eat at home, save money, and can control the portions. i.e. K and I would make lunch and dinner on Sunday, or try to, because I hated going out on Sunday's.

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Registered: 08-18-2003
Thu, 12-08-2005 - 2:04pm

Ooh...GREAT ideas, Ann!

~~ Steffy ~~
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Registered: 08-18-2003
Thu, 12-08-2005 - 2:07pm

That is a bad mental block that I'm going to have to try to overcome.

~~ Steffy ~~

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