Help with portable food

[Focus]

Hi,

I've been having trouble recently, because I'm often out at the library all day, and don't know what to bring for meals. Where I go there are very few Atkins-friendly sources of food (basically Quizno's is it), and I don't have a refrigerator available.

I'm curious what sorts of portable meals and snacks people use while on induction. Cheese is out, because it would get to soggy sitting in my bag all day. I suppose I could make lettuce wraps with sandwich meats, or just take roasted meats & salads.

[CherylK]

Hi,

I am in the same boat I have to bring lunch I bring a cooler with some letuce leafs and I like mustard so I bring some of that and one package of that carl buddig lunch meat. it makes a nice lunch. Hope this helps.

[hopejoy]

If you get a little cooler with a blue ice pack to keep things cold you won't have any problems with cheese. Also you can take tuna salad or chicken salad for lettuce wraps. or a nice salad with cheese and meats already cut up and mixed up, celery sticks with cream cheese ( I get the kind that has chives in it for added flavor) cucumber slices with meat and cheese using the cucumber as a 'cracker', broccoli salad, boiled eggs, grilled chicken, etc...
good luck.
liz

[Sunny_0ne]

Focus, I am retired so don't have to worry about carrying lunches.

But today I had leftover fried chicken for lunch. It was legal--breaded with parmesan and crushed pork rinds.

Do you have a small lunchbox sized cooler? That way you could put one of those frozen blue ice packs in it and pack your food in zip lock bags. That way they would stay cold enough and wouldn't get soggy.


.... edited.... liz and I cross posted. GMTA!

[guekjian]

Well, I love sardines as icky as some people find them! And raw veggies are always a nice side!

[not2late]

You first need to get proper equipment.

Get a insulated lunch bag or a small cooler. Next get containers with tight fitting lids. If you don't have a refrigerator to store your lunch in, don't worry: fill an empty plastic water bottle with water and freeze it overnight. That will keep your food cool.

If you have a microwave available to you, make sure your containers are microwave safe. Otherwise, you can still have hot food for lunch by using a wide mouth Thermos jar---I'm seeing more of these in stores because there is a push for "going Green" and reusuable containers are a way to "go Green".

If you use dressing or dip for your veggies, store it separately from the veg.

And be sure to bring along eating utensils.

When you have the proper equipment, you can bring almost anything for your lunch. For example, today, I have creamy mushroom soup and a chicken thigh with sauteed Swiss chard. I have to warm up the chicken and Swiss chard in our microwave, but the soup is in a thermos and will stay hot until noon.

[Sunny_0ne]

Megs, what an informative and helpful post!