Dining out at lunch gets expensive in a hurry. Before you know it, you've ripped a hamburger-size hole in your wallet. Brown bagging it is a simple, satisfying way to save a few dollars every day--and a great way to eat better, too! Here are some quick tips and easy recipes for bringing your own.
Meatball Sandwiches
For dinner, make a humongous dish of meatballs and red sauce. Enjoy a tasty spaghetti-and-meatballs meal and save the rest for meatball sandwiches during the work week. That's a twofer, Italian-American style!
Casseroles
Pastas and casseroles travel well. Just portion them out into reusable containers and they're ready to roll. Here are some of our most popular casserole collections.
Sandwiches
Sandwiches are the usual suspects of the brown-bag lunch. But that doesn't mean they have to be boring. To reinvigorate the genre, slice up some leftover meatloaf for a sandwich or reserve the breast meat of a roast chicken and turn it into a quick chicken salad. Here's a handful of ideas.
Soups
Perfect for packing soups to work, the thermos somehow always gets it right--it keeps the hot, hot; the cold, cold. And like the old joke says, it never confuses the two. Allrecipes has a serious selection of hearty soup recipes just waiting to test the "thermos theory," with plenty of choices to suit any season.
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