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