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Posts tagged “lunch”

Lunch On-the-Go: Cool Thermoses to Keep Food Hot

A good thermos makes practical sense if your office or cafeteria doesn't have a microwave, but we also find them handy for warming up spontaneous fall picnics, afternoon soccer practice, and weekend...

Tips On Making Popularity-Winning Lunches For Kids

Taking your lunch to school has become all the rage with the recent wave of concerned moms and dads. Lunches that are dished out at school, although they meet strict standards, aren't really all that ...

Back To Work and School: 15 Great Lunchbox Snacks

School starts this week for students all over the country, and many of us are also filtering, reluctantly, back into regular work schedules after summer vacations. To make the transition back into w...

Snack On The Go: Veggies Stored In Dip

We all strive to eat more vegetables during our day-to-day adventures, but there's something slightly lackluster about opening your bag or container to find just six sad little carrot sticks. Dips ca...

Lunch at Work: How Do You Keep Your Sandwiches from Getting Soggy?

The other day we took this sandwich to work, only to bite into a very soggy piece of bread come lunchtime. We made a few crucial mistakes—ones we remedied the next day. Here are our tips......

Recipe: Farmer's Lunch Sandwich

We first became addicted to this sandwich when it appeared on the deli menu at City Feed and Supply, and quickly adapted it to our own kitchen! With grainy mustard, sharp cheese, and some crunchy appl...

Make-Ahead Lunch Recipe: Big Green Salad with Shallots, Chicken, Smoked Almonds, Goat Cheese, and Dates

Last week Emma urged us to make our lunches ahead — having a big bowl of something you can easily take to work is one of the best ways to make sure you eat a homemade lunch instead of going out ...

Make-Ahead Lunch Template: Pasta Salad with Veggies, Cheese, and Greens

Earlier today, we started talking about strategies for making lunch ahead of time for bringing to work. This pasta salad is one of our favorite templates for make-ahead lunches. Everything can be prep...

Weekend Project: Make Your Weekday Lunches Ahead!

We know many of you are trying to bring your own lunch to work with you these days, and we're here to help! This weekend, let's get our acts together and make sure we have a plan for the week....

Good Question: Fresh Ideas for Tea Sandwiches?

Sarah is getting married in May, and she and her family are throwing a casual yet elegant afternoon reception with tea and sandwiches. How charming! She has a question, though, about updating tea sand...

Good Question: How Should I Reheat Chicken Wraps?

Here's an interesting question from Bethany, who has also given us a very good idea for a chicken lunch dish! She asks: Yesterday for lunch I made some great chicken wraps with melted cheese and torti...

Try This! Perk Up Sandwiches with Seasoned Salt

We couldn't face the idea of yet another sandwich for lunch the other day, yet no other brilliant ideas were forthcoming and we didn't want to spend the money to eat out. Desperately scanning our kitc...

Inspiration: The Single Beet Lunch

In last week's email, Sara Kate wrote about eating less as a simple move toward eating light. This is just one single, roasted beet (not even a huge one) and some good goat cheese, but enough for a sa...

Lunch at the Office: What's Your Kitchen Situation?

If you work in an office, how you eat your midday meal depends a lot on the kitchen facilities you have available and their, er, conditions. Do you have access to a microwave? A stove? Is the refriger...

Eating Light: What's For Lunch Today?

In our current open thread, reader snowonturtles says: I'm desperately looking for a few great, easy, fast lunch recipes. Light would also be a plus! My husband and I both come home for lunch, but end...

What's For Lunch Today? A Very Orange Plate

We've been talking a lot about sweets this week; we have scads of ideas for pretty, easy, fun, and yummy treats for holiday enjoyment and gift-giving in our Un-Gift Guide. But we still need to eat, ev...

What's For Lunch Today?

What's for lunch today? Are you brown-bagging it? Going out to eat with colleagues? Eating a bagel at your desk? Here's one of our recent lunches... ...

Trend Watch: Bento

Bento is a meal that is served in a box. Often, the box has two or more compartments and sometimes the boxes are stacked on top of each other. Bento describes both the meal and the container it is s...

What's For Lunch? Vanilla-Honey Yogurt, Strawberries, Salad, Bread and Homemade Butter

We had the loveliest lunch a couple days ago. We gathered up all the leftover bites and nibbles left from two or three nights of dinner and plated them up for a lunch that was very satisfying. ...

What's For Lunch? Blueberry Yogurt and Homemade Graham Crackers

We often end up eating what amounts to nursery food for lunch during the week - simple meals of toast and jam and fruit. Here's our lunch - yogurt with honey and semi-frozen organic wild blueberries f...

Good Product: Zojirushi Mr. Bento Stainless Lunch Jar

We love brown-bagging our lunch; not only is it more economical and better for our waistlines, but it's also a good way to get rid of last night's leftovers. One of our favorite grown-up lunch boxes ...

What Are You Eating for Lunch?

We haven't asked in a while - so we're asking now. What are you eating for lunch today? We have a big tub of tabbouleh, some goat cheese and crackers. We also have some Asian pears and other fruit g...

Conscientious Cook: Local Food for Local Schools

"The processing of our food is profoundly disgusting, and the accumulation of packaging fills a giant barrel at my school every day." That's a quote from 5th-grader Aden Kahr of Olympia, Washington...