Friday, May 27, 2011

What's In My Lunch Bag?

I had a discussion with a friend earlier this week about bag lunches. I'm a big advocate of them. I feel it definitely saves me money and time trying to find quick lunch eats and I also can control the quality of my ingredients. My friend who lives on $5 footlongs & drive thru was curious to know what was in my lunch bag so I thought I'd share with the whole class.



Today's lunch:


Lunch today will be 2 pulled chicken tacos (pulled chicken tossed with a blend of tomato sauce, cumin, chili pepper, garlic & onion powder, smoked paprika & cinnamon on corn tortillas with Monterey jack cheese & sour cream in the red cup) and a half corn on the cob. My mid-morning snack will be pretzel thins & roasted red pepper hummus in the white cup. Pink lady apple for either late afternoon or during my drive home & good ole H2O


A couple other lunches that I snapped a picture of before devouring include:


Turkey burger with red onion, tomato, & cucumbers on flat rounds & black bean corn salsa. Red delicious apple & water


Here's my deconstructed turkey wrap. Y'all already know how much I hate wilted soggy produce so I store that in a produce saver container. It has a vented tray underneath that allows the veggies to stay crisp & dry sitting above an air space & not in its own juices. The veggies are spring mix, green pepper strips, red onion, & shredded carrots. My whole wheat flat bread is wrapped separately from my smoked turkey & white cheddar slices. Yogurt honey mustard is in the white cup. 



Then it's wrapped & cut in half. On the side I have tri-color rotini pasta salad with broccoli, carrots, red onion, white cheddar cubes, oil, vinegar & tons of spices.


Do you pack your lunch? What tasty eats do you bring? If you're a lunch packer like me I'd love to see it. Send me a picture at alovelydai@gmail.com with the subject: LUNCH BAG and who knows, you may see it here one day.

9 comments:

  1. 1 avacado, 1 cucumber, 1 tomato,and a pack of roasted seaweed with grapeseed oil... combine it all - cut up avacado, cut up tomato, shred up the cucumber and shred seaweed with a fork...mix all together with 2 pinches of sea salt, the best avacado salad ever...
    - love u!
    Nish

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  2. @Anonymous

    Ooh sounds yummy & I've never tried seaweed. Gotta try it soon. Love u too sweetie

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  3. This is a good idea...to chronicle your diet in pics. I wouldn't be proud of what my pics showed. lol

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  4. @Thee_Kween

    Girl I used to write everything down. That was the killer especially since I started before Valentines Day. Having to write down dark chocolate cherry candy bar was NOT the business!

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  5. Those are some really nice lunches! I'm feeling motivated. You are the Kelly Rowland to my next week's lunches... I need a cute bag now cause I am motived!

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  6. um that last word was motivated! :)

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  7. @DianaBoss

    "You are the Kelly Rowland to my next week's lunches." <<< This just made me LOL all over the place!

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  8. Now you know your Super Shane aka Master Chef has 1,000 pics that he could send in LOL

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