FOOD PREP SUCKS!!!!!

I'm grateful for audiobooks on my iPhone and my Jawbone Jambox sitting on the kitchen counter. I can listen to good books while I watch endless numbers of Ziplock plastic single-serve containers. I probably take at least 4 to work every day. Those books are also handy for the Sunday afternoons when I'm cooking several dishes to refill all those plastic containers to line up neatly in the freezer.

i don't even bother. i keep a grocery store bag in one of the break room fridges that has my lunch stuff in it, then just make it fresh each day. nobody seems to want my stuff anyway .

Woohooo!
More food for you PLUS no ones grubby hands touching it :bigsmile:
1 time we'd gotten a promotional free steak meal for a new restaurant so I let my husband have it for his work meal.
When he went to eat, the steak he'd been waiting all day to eat was GONE!
His baked potato and mini wheat loaf was still there but not his steak :noway:
If it had been me, I don't know that I would've eaten any of it, not knowing where or what the guys hand/fingers had touched.
So now he cant keep his food in the fridge because he doesn't trust that his meal wont still be there :frown:
Or if anyone's been in it "sampling" it :sick:
A friend of his said he's had little things come up missing from his, "snack" items but no one had heard of that happening!
He believes it was someone from the shift before him as they get their lunch breaks 1st.
The sad part is, the person they believe has been doing this makes more money than my husband or his friend, pretty low huh?!?

If that happens, spike the food. Make a trap meal for the thief.

For example, a steak in a laxative laced sauce.

OMG...that really did cross my mind...no kidding!!
I told my husband his friend should make some brownies w/ laxative and then watch to see whos running to the bathroom and then you definitely know who has the case of the slippery fingers :happy: :laugh:

I feel like a bag lady as I approach the office carrying my cute lunch bag and a plastic bag - coffee cup, water bottle (with lemon ice cube in it), bottle for my protein shake, lunch stuff, snacks and little containers for my vitamins.....but I'd rather take all that then go out to eat.

Not sure what containers have to do with food prep... I do my prep at home, before I cook my meal, and then put leftovers in containers for later meals.

I usually don't bring more than one container per day, I just make meals that are all-in-one. That's mostly because I'm lazy and not keen on cooking lots of different dishes for one meal. Plus the whole cooking-for-one thing makes that impractical.

I really like glass containers. Even though they're heavier to lug around, they clean out much nicer than plastic. Plus, I can throw them in the microwave without fearing that I'm eating absorbed plastic weirdness.

We've never had a built-in dishwasher, but a portable one was the first thing we bought when we moved in together. Before the TV or even the couch, we had a dishwasher. I would probably never cook if I had to hand-wash my dishes... I put my dirty, un-rinsed containers in there and run it once a week, everything comes out clean.

As for baggies.... I'll use the in a pinch, but a little piece of me dies every time. I totally wash and re-use them when I can. Our society is too disposable these days, it's icky gross.

I've cooked everything from scratch for years... For me the PREP is what is most time consuming. For Veggies, I wash them and then sit down and prep them while watching TV or talking on the phone with my sister.... I'll start with the fruit for the day. three apples, a large peach, a bunch of grapes, a few plums, maybe a clementine..... all diced into a fruit salad then I move on to the veggies...two pounds of carrots, a couple peppers,one or two onions, three tomatoes, a cucumber a few cloves of garlic, half a bunch of parsley or cilantro, whatever greens are in season at the moment. If I'm serving potatoes that evening I'll do those too. It's a lot of work to do every day but totally worth it and I get to indulge in some guilty pleasure television.

Another thing you can do is put some of your stuff in plastic bags instead of those little bowls. Just use the really cheap sandwich bags, or even just re-use the bags you get your produce in.. When I used to take my meals to work, I'd bring them in plastic bags and then dump onto a ceramic plate at work.. I just had to wash the plate and my fork every day.

I got the solution for ya: I just seen a stackable doodad at Walmart in the lunch box and water bottle section. There are a few to choose from. Go check it out. Eating healthy was never said to be easy but these new inventions help. :drinker:

I agree with baggies for what you can. I don't take my lunch to work as often as I used to anymore, but need to get back in the habit...I use a tiffin, with an insulated sleeve when i do though.

And this is why I fast half the day at work! Ain't nobody got time for that! I went there. Deal with it.

Lulz. funny
I don't start eating till 1 or 2 PM. that IS only food for half the day.

O.I.C. I actually just got one of those big like glass Tupperware containers with a lid and I just measure everything out in that and just kind of mix it up and eat it. Then I have like yogurt on the side or something easy like that.

On another note, I'm loving that 1982 phone on your desk. So vintage! :happy: