We have three of these, primarily for the kids, but also for us when we need them. They generally get filled with rolled up lunchmeat stabbed with toothpicks, fresh fruit, and a few different kinds of veggie chips. When I use them I often take out the inner containers and fill the whole thing with a spring greens salad.

I take 2 sandwiches every day, and I keep a huge bag of pretzels in my desk drawer. Lunch is water, two sandwiches, and a handful of pretzels. I usually eat one sandwich mid morning, and the second one at 12:30 or 1:00.

Recently, Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup. It was cheap for four cans. What I've noticed, as I heat it, is the insane amount of chemically thinned fat that is present. My poor little plastic spoon needs sandblasted after a round of that soup. Then there goes the spoon's effectiveness.

Mostly it's coffee and ice water.

Plastic spoon? What happened to the silver spoon that you were born with?

I pawned it in exchange for self-respect.

(not really...never did know no silver spoon.) ;)

I bring water, apple, orange, banana, and sometimes a clif bar.

Breakfast:
black coffee
Fiber One bar or somesuch

Lunch:
Lean Cusine or somesuch (today it's Healthy Request soup - clam chowder)
(snow peas | broccoli | green beans | carrots) & FF dressing
two slices of 'Lite' bread
Cottage cheese
Coke Zero

Afternoon snack:
Apple
Tea


Yes, I'm on a calorie-tracking diet. Why do you ask? :eyebrow:

:) @ Pie

That's a tough diet. Good for you!

And, I love love love snow peas. Raw, as a snack. Yum. Which reminds me...the local produce farm (where I worked growing up) should have fresh peas soon. I buy a pack of shelled peas and eat them out of the bag like candy.

I have a wide variety of lunch bags/boxes to choose from, and then some days I just stuff things into the messenger bag. What's in there varies wildly. Some days are sandwich days, others frozen (Marie Callender Honey Roasted Chicken Pot Pie is a favorite), and very rarely something I've actually made. I don't have a lot of time for that, though. Durability is an important component of what I take to work, because if it needs nuking, there is an even money chance I won't get to eat it, and it has to make it through a day or two in the work fridge, which is one of those mini college things, that keeps things cold in the "freezer" space, and less than room temperature in the rest of it. I have a number of shelf-stable food items in the house because of this. When I don't have time to nuke what I brought, I order.

I take all my food everyday to work...

Breakfast is in the car, usually liquid meal replacement or cereal

Morning smoko is fruit

Lunch - sandwich, soup or left overs

Arvo smoko is cheese n bikkies or something for my 3.30 sugarfixitis

Could you translate that for us, please?

yeah; how do you get "arvo" from afternoon? and what's a bikkie?

I'm assuming biscuit, which I thought meant cookie, but you can't eat cheese with cookies!

And a smoko. Does how does that translate to snack, coffee break, elevenses, or tea?

:)

smoko comes from smoke break. In this context bikkies (biccies in British slang) would usualy be the type of biscuits merkins refer to as crackers.

Chocolate Chip cookies and Swiss works, though, just sayin'......

arvo from afternoon I think because some people (not speculating who *coughcockneycriminalsanduppercrustgovernorsofprisoncoloniescough*) (used to) pronounce afternoon with a longer "a" sound ........and it is mandatory for all aussie slang to end in "o".