- Home-packed lunches for a full month -- we can do this.
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.
There’s one day to go before the September Brown-Bag Challenge. You can read all of the details in our post announcing the event, but essentially, it’s a month-long initiative to bring a healthy lunch to school or work each weekday, to save money and have control over the calories we consume. There are over 80 bloggers participating, plus a large group from the foodnetwork.com offices. It’ll be tough for me; working in Chelsea Market means I’m surrounded by temptation, but I feel like I’m ready because I’ve been preparing ahead. Here’s how:
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- Pack your lunch in a chic lunchbox.
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.
Healthy Eats, and the rest of the FoodNetwork.com crew, challenge you to skip eating out and bring your lunch to work throughout September. Our brown-bag initiative saves money, calories and even allows you to be eco-friendly. Just because you pack food from home, however, doesn’t mean you can’t bring your lunch to the office in style. Below are our picks for the latest and greatest lunchboxes.
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Ellie Krieger’s Rainbows and Butterflies Pasta Salad, part of a well-balanced lunch.
To get you off to the right start with our September Brown-Bag Challenge, we’ve put together a one-week menu of quick, tasty and nutritious lunches. To make things even easier, pre-plan your meals, make a shopping list and have all ingredients ready-to-go. Are you up for the challenge?
Monday: Tuna Pockets
- Stuff tuna salad into a large whole wheat pita
- 1 medium banana
- Sparkling water
Tuesday: Pasta Salad
- A full month of home-packed lunches -- can you do it?
It’s back-to-school season, a time for parents, teachers and others who work in schools to say goodbye to summer and hello to the task of filling up that lunch box. And for those of us that aren’t going back to school, it’s a good time of year to get back into gear after a long, lazy summer and get into the habit of packing a lunch each day.
Brown-bag lunches have countless health and economical benefits. By packing your own lunch and snacks, you have control over ingredients and portions, making it easier to keep your diet in check. Brown-bagging it also saves money — restaurant and fast-food lunches can run up to $15 per day; imagine saving that money instead.
But planning lunches can be difficult. With all of the other responsibilities at home and at work, and 2 other meals a day to plan out, grabbing lunch on-the-go is often the easiest option. Difficult doesn’t mean impossible, though, and we love a challenge. So for the month of September, we’re challenging ourselves and our readers to eat a home-packed lunch each day of the workweek. Care to join us? We can do this together.
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