Bag lunch ideas?

[howefortunate]

Any ideas on things to take to work for lunch?

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

With all the nice neat coolers and frozen ice packs available to us these days you can pack just about anything you want!

Bagels w/ cream cheese
shrimp salad w/ blackbean salsa
pasta or potato salad
fresh vegetables for munching on
fresh fruit
nuts

and of-course all the old faithfuls= sandwiches, chips, and millions of pre-packaged goodies for carrying lunches to work or school.

[Mama Mangia]

Do you have access to a fridge or a microwave or a toaster oven????

You can bring anything you want - leftovers, soups, stews, casseroles, salads, fruits, anything goes.

If you don't have access to any of those - it then changes. foods that need to be refrigerated need to be refrigerated - you don't want food poisoning. You can't take anything that needs to be warmed up.

A good thermos will keep foods hot or cold for you if you need one.

[CanMan]

When I was young, my mother would freeze my sandwiches. By the time lunch came around it had thawed and was nice, cool and fresh.

You can use small BlueIce units in a lunch bucket to keep items cold. I used different plastic containers to hold a variety of things for lunch. Rubbermade also makes travel containers for heating in microwave which are nice.

[howefortunate]

Thanks for the great tips.

[Keziah]

Chicken tikka cut up in small peices
Grated carrot
Grated onion
Grated white cabbage
Bind together with a hollandaise sauce

Put mixture into tortillas wraps.

They hold together better than bread.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I will often bring a chilled Tupperware dish of tuna salad, chicken salad or ham salad and a sleeve of saltine crackers. Or sometimes I just make a double portion of whatever I make for supper at home and bring it in and re-heat in the microwave. Other times I bring in a round or wedge of cheese, crackers and fruit.