HFCS: effika’s blog

3-5 days every workweek I spend about $4 on lunch. This is a lot less than many of my coworkers, but it still adds up. I can’t get home for lunch every day and I’ve got to eat something. I am pretty happy with this arrangement, but I would appreciate that extra cash. That’s extra yarn (or a few more bucks towards my student loans)!

Long ago, while I was in training, I would take my lunch, since I had a fridge to stash it in. Now that I’m actually doing my job, I’m out in the field most days and for 11 months out of the year my car is too warm to use as a fridge.

Don’t ask me how I wound up here, but in a completely unrelated search-fest involving grapes I found myself at Good Housekeeping’s website. Good Housekeeping, apparently, has reviewed a bunch of lunch boxes. While most of them were very kid-oriented, their top pick was the adult-friendly L.L. Bean Flip-Top, which GH claimed held food at 40ºF for 3 hours (at room temperature). My trunk in Oklahoma during the summer is anything but room temperature, but with the addition of an ice pack I think I can keep my food safe long enough to get to lunch.

With the addition of a few of those tiny Tupperware containers (to keep the tomatoes ect from getting the bread soggy) I think this set-up could be less of a hassle for me. I’d have my lunch wherever I’m at and whenever I want it (not 15m after I decide to get lunch), I’d know how much dressing gets slung onto my sandwich, and slicing up vegetables every few days is something I can handle.

What do you guys do for lunch?