Welcome to Pack Lunch
The Food Blog for Brown-Baggers
Whether you eat lunch in a cafeteria, in your cubicle, on a park bench or at your kitchen table, this blog will provide a sense of community for our lunchtimes. We hope that through sharing recipes, tips, and lunchtime anecdotes we can connect over a bitter green salad, and an RSS feed.
Please use this blog however it proves most useful –
- For all the most recent recipes look to our “Blog” page.
- Click the “Everyday” tag for quick lunch ideas for frantic mornings.
- Plan ahead! Shopping lists and recipes for the week ahead are on our “Sundays” tag.
- Set aside a day and stock your freezer: use our “Freezable” tag.
- Once you know all “About Us”, search for recipes by your favorite blogger.
- Use the “Lunch by Dude” tag for inspiration from a kitchen full of guys.
- Look at our “Tupper-where?” tag for recommended pack lunch supplies.
- Let us show you our favorite “Links” to other inspiring blogs.
- Coming Soon: join a “Soup Swap” through our network of lunchers.
See what other pack lunch readers bring for lunch! Search #packlunch on Twitter
(A Radishes and Rubbish picnic, Fall 2008. Photo by Carla Fernandez)
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What we’re going to do:
We’re going to provide recipes. Maybe not every day, but at least a few times a week. We will provide lunch options for various audiences, various times of year, and various circumstances. Picnics for large groups on hot summer days, rainy lunches to eat behind your desk, granola to munch on, and filling rice bowls to make our paychecks stretch farther. These recipes will be lunch-worthy according to the ten criteria we define on our home page. We are also going to provide recommendations about lunch bags, tupperware, cookbooks etc. Finally, we hope to set up a few Soup Swaps, beginning in the New York area, and then, through a partnership with MeetUp groups, into more distant communities.
How you can contribute:
Send us your favorite lunch recipes! Our “Readers Recipes” section will display them all, and some may be imported (with proper credit, of course) to our “Everyday,” “Sundays,” “Freezable” or “Picnic” sections.
TWEET for us! Use the #packlunch hashtags to mark your tweets as you describe your lunch every day and help us to aggregate a large community of lunchers following our blog.
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Pack Lunch recognizes the essential criteria of a satisfying and sustainable lunch.
1) There is never enough time in the morning.
2) Fresh, sustainable lunches are affordable. (In fact, more affordable)
3) The most satisfying lunch is home-made.
4) Lunch, if tempting enough, might be eaten at 10 AM when bored at work. Pack back-up.
5) The best dishes are designed for consumption at room temperature.
6) The best lunches are made in big batches and keep well over the week.
7) The best dishes do not need multiple utensils, and can be packed in one container, ideally.
8) The best lunches do not demand we sacrifice variety. Nobody likes to eat the same thing every day.
9) Excitement about a great lunch can get you through a rough morning.
10) Lunch should have a social component.
