Grown Up lunches

I have been making my own lunches for years.  The work I do has me in the car all day driving between clients and I rarely have a "lunch hour", or even a minute.  Usually I pull over and eat in the car, or sometimes I even eat while driving.  Not the safest thing, I know.

This school year I have been making lunches for Tim, my husband, as well.  I'm not sure how that began, other than when he started back at school (he teaches high school) we were following a diet/exercise regime and he didn't think he would maintain it making his own lunches or buying.   I have actually been enjoying it so I'll keep it up for a while at least.  It forces me to make lunches the night before, which makes the mornings quite a bit easier.

So I thought I would make a blog post on some of our lunches.  I am usually in the car from 8 until 4-5 and so I need lunch and snacks.  Tim usually leaves the house around 6 and gets home around 4 so he take breakfast, snacks and lunch.  I generally make his lunch and my lunch the same, adding in breakfast for him.

Here is one of my lunches.  I use EasyLunchboxes every day for Tim and my lunches.  I love how much their carry bag holds for me! 

 Morning snack: Greek vanilla yogurt and V8 juice

Lunch: Salad with bibb and red leaf lettuces, cucumber, carrot, jicama, grape tomatoes fresh from our garden, mozzarella cheese rounds, ham; dressing is in the blue topped container; sugar free pudding in the other tupperware for a treat.

Afternoon snack: cheese stick and peanuts

This is a photo of all the above food in my EasyLunchboxes carry bag with plenty of room for more.  There is an ice pack under all the food and I put two on top as well.  Like I said, I'm in the car all day and the sun beats down so I want the food to stay cold. 

Here is another one of my lunches.  This is a day I didn't have time to make breakfast for myself trying to deal with getting the kids out of the house fed and clothed and to school on time.  So I added breakfast.  This makes my lunch exactly like Tim's that day.

 Breakfast: two hard boiled eggs and V8 juice

Morning snack: yogurt

Lunch: Wraps - ham, pickle, mustard and provolone cheese wrapped in a romaine lettuce leaf; Carrots and cucumbers; pita chips and hummus; Sugar free pudding

Afternoon snack: String cheese and peanuts (didn't actually eat this because I wasn't hungry)

Here is one of Tim's lunches:

  Romaine lettuce and a handful of spinach, mini pepper rings, cucumber, multicolored carrot rounds, tomato fresh from our garden, mozzarella cheese rounds, leftover pork loin; dressing in the green topped container; Almonds and Babybel Gouda cheese; Egyptian plum prune

He also took two hard boiled eggs, V8, and yogurt to round out his day.

Thanks for Reading!

Deb