Any ideas on things to take to work for lunch?

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.

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.

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.

Thanks for the great tips.