Brown-Bag Challenge: Week 3 Round-Up | Healthy Eats – Food Network Healthy Living Blog

Brown-Bag Challenge: Week 3 Round-Up by Michelle Buffardi in Brown Bag Challenge, September 20, 2011

: Ambitious Kitchen's Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps With Sweet Mango-Cilantro Salsa Photo by: Ambitious Kitchen

We’re teaming up with fellow food bloggers to host a Brown-Bag Challenge, a month-long initiative to eat consciously and save money by packing a lunch each weekday instead of eating out. Join us here and share what you’re eating on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #brownbag.

Three weeks into the challenge and we’re still seeing lots of variety in everyone’s lunch bags. Sure there are sandwiches of every variety, but how about this meze platter from Cooking With My Kid? Soup is starting to be quite popular as the weather cools down — check out All Things Splendid’s Wild Rice Soup and the Coupon Chef’s take on Jamie Oliver’s Cauliflower and Cheese Soup. It’s hard to be bored at lunch when you can enjoy Quinoa With Peas and Spinach, Tart Pizza and Tofu Pesto Sandwiches or Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps (pictured above), and for dessert: Apple-Cinnamon Muffin Cake.

What was the best thing you’ve packed in your brown-bag this month??

Here’s what our lunch-packing friends ate last week:

Ambitious Kitchen: Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps With Sweet Mango Cilantro Salsa

Feeding Philosophers: Tart Pizza and Tofu Pesto Sandwiches, Oh My

Sweat=Success: Brown Bags and Book Bags

Cooking Channel: Smart Cookie Lunch Box

Cooking With My Kid: School Lunch Meze Graze

Confessions of a Curious Cuisiniere: Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Pork

Reve Noir: Brown-Bag Challenge Day 8

The Garden Ephemerist: Brown Bag Tales

I Brown Bag: Healthy Eating Starts at Home

Grecian Kitchen: Brown-Bag Challenge, Week 3