Home Economics should be required coursework for all genders, seriously. When I went to university there were girls there over 18 who did not know how to do laundry. How does that even. I mean. WHAT.
The hardest part, for me, is finding things I can stand to eat repeatedly. The paladin and I generally make up a two-part shopping list every Saturday morning: dinners, and breakfast/lunch. Sometimes, that means making a massive batch of beef burgundy, lentil-sausage stew, chili, or fajitas on Sunday and taking the leftovers for a lot of the week. Other times, it means we pick up bread and deli things.
When we have short weeks (since we both work office jobs), we might just plan one meal that'll give two lunches' worth of leftovers and then rummage for ourselves (i.e. eat out) the rest of the time; some weeks I'll just buy four little cartons of yogurt, some veggies to slice up, some crackers or rice cakes, and hard-boil some eggs, and then I can portion out everything so that I can throw it all in my lunchbox while I'm brewing my tea.
We also keep frozen French bread pizzas and/or TV dinner type meals in the freezer for cases of "zero fucks given," and cup ramen in the pantry for the same reason.
In general my best advice is portioning things out the night before into your tupperware or what-have-you because then in the morning even if you oversleep it's grab and go and adds 30 seconds to your routine. (This obviously doesn't work so well for sandwiches, but that's what tea-making time is for, in my case. I make a travel cup of tea every morning.)
For me the big limiting factor is that I just cannot eat the same thing every day (with very few exceptions), and I get tired of sandwiches particularly quickly--I've been known to just take the damn lunchmeat and the hell with bread. If you don't have that problem, that will probably make life much easier for you.
Incidentally, I plan for one lunch out per week. That's to cover the inevitable morning when I either have no fucks to give or have overslept or I know that I have something starting immediately after work (like my French class) and I don't want to be hauling around my lunchbox all that time.
As far as brown bags: for food safety, I bought a cheapie insulated lunchbox at Wal-Mart about 2 years ago, which still works fine, and I keep several ice packs in the freezer to make sure food stays at the right temperature.
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Date: 2011-11-26 04:18 pm (UTC)From:The hardest part, for me, is finding things I can stand to eat repeatedly. The paladin and I generally make up a two-part shopping list every Saturday morning: dinners, and breakfast/lunch. Sometimes, that means making a massive batch of beef burgundy, lentil-sausage stew, chili, or fajitas on Sunday and taking the leftovers for a lot of the week. Other times, it means we pick up bread and deli things.
When we have short weeks (since we both work office jobs), we might just plan one meal that'll give two lunches' worth of leftovers and then rummage for ourselves (i.e. eat out) the rest of the time; some weeks I'll just buy four little cartons of yogurt, some veggies to slice up, some crackers or rice cakes, and hard-boil some eggs, and then I can portion out everything so that I can throw it all in my lunchbox while I'm brewing my tea.
We also keep frozen French bread pizzas and/or TV dinner type meals in the freezer for cases of "zero fucks given," and cup ramen in the pantry for the same reason.
In general my best advice is portioning things out the night before into your tupperware or what-have-you because then in the morning even if you oversleep it's grab and go and adds 30 seconds to your routine. (This obviously doesn't work so well for sandwiches, but that's what tea-making time is for, in my case. I make a travel cup of tea every morning.)
For me the big limiting factor is that I just cannot eat the same thing every day (with very few exceptions), and I get tired of sandwiches particularly quickly--I've been known to just take the damn lunchmeat and the hell with bread. If you don't have that problem, that will probably make life much easier for you.
Incidentally, I plan for one lunch out per week. That's to cover the inevitable morning when I either have no fucks to give or have overslept or I know that I have something starting immediately after work (like my French class) and I don't want to be hauling around my lunchbox all that time.
As far as brown bags: for food safety, I bought a cheapie insulated lunchbox at Wal-Mart about 2 years ago, which still works fine, and I keep several ice packs in the freezer to make sure food stays at the right temperature.