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Tip: How to Remember Your Lunch

It's back to work this week, and since holiday leftovers should be long gone by now packing a home-cooked lunch takes a little more thought. But the most challenging part of taking a healthy lunch to ...

Brown Bag Thursday: What's For Lunch?

What's for lunch today? Are you taking time out for a hot lunch on a cold day? Eating out? Brown-bagging it? Still eating (heaven forbid) Thanksgiving leftovers? Here's our lunch today: leftover p...

Brown Bag Meals: What Did You Pack For Lunch?

Did you take our challenge from yesterday and pack your lunch today? What did you pack? We couldn't take a picture of our lunch today, so this is a cheaterly photo of a lunch from last week - lefto...

Brown Bag Meals: Pack Your Lunch Tomorrow

The pace of city life speeds up in September and October, and during Kitchen Keeping month we want to reserve a little of that rush of energy for our eating and our kitchens. In that spirit, here's ...

Brown Bag Wednesday: What's in Your Lunchbox?

Let's talk lunch again. Here's ours - a modest lunch today: homemade rosemary foccaccia with black currant jam, a couple slices of deli cheese and a handful of unroasted almonds. Some days we prefer...

Brown Bag Thursday: What's for Lunch?

Let's talk lunch again - we found so many good ideas for brown-bagging it last time. Here's our lunch - leftover dill and yogurt chicken salad - even better the next day - salted cucumber slices, an...

Brown Bag Thursday: What's for Lunch Today?

Here's our lunchbox today: leftover brown rice and sliced roasted pork loin with sauteed bok choy and mushrooms. It's Thursday - what are you eating for lunch today? Did you bring something to th...

Soup Hack: 365 Split Pea Soup

Inspired by Brown Bag Thursday and this post about cooking a good lunch starting from a can of soup, we present you with the latest of our soup hacks. Whole Foods' 365 Everyday Value brand is econom...

Aladdin's New Lunchbox: Move Over, Mr. Bento

We took a guided tour of this new lunch box for grown-ups at the Housewares Show. You asked us for more pictures . . . Aladdin emailed these over today. This lunch box is broad but relatively thin; t...

Brown Bag Thursday: The Office Toaster

We have a toaster at our office that sees regular, extremely frequent use. Our office mates have a habit of bringing bread and English muffins in and toasting them throughout the day for breakfast and...

Brown Bag Thursday: What's In Your Desk?

Look under your file folders, next to the stapler, or in your bottom desk drawer on top of, say, last year's annual report. What are you eating at work and where are you hiding it? One reader wrote i...

Brown Bag Thursday: Hellmann's vs. Homemade Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise is a main part of many lunches: tuna salad, salad dressings, turkey sandwiches and more. British food writer Elizabeth David called mayonnaise "the beautiful shining golden ointment." Whil...

Brown Bag Thursday: Breakfast for Lunch

Cooking first thing in the morning feels special. For me, it's a way to kick off the day doing a few minutes of something I love. I stand at the stove for just a few minutes stirring and gathering my ...

Brown Bag Thursday: Fries with that Apple Salad?

The goal is to bring lunch from home once a week, but there's just so many super-sized distractions. I'll admit it. Yesterday I had lunch at McDonald's. Oddly enough, I found an idea for a seasonal, ...

Brown Bag Thursday: Project Lunch Box

The biggest hurdle that's keeping me from bringing my lunch to work on a regular basis is the lunch box. I can't settle on the best way to bring lunch to work. Here's a look at four finalist lunch box...

Brown Bag Thursday: Start with Progresso Lentil Soup

Enough with turkey wraps, soup shops, and sexy salad joints. There has to be a quick way to make something better at home and bring it in to work, rather than lining up at the over-crowded and over-p...

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