What do you tote your lunch in?

[Rosie]

I need a new lunch bag also. Before, I mostly ate school lunch (only 2 bucks for teachers) or put what I may have brought in a little bag. I can't buy school lunch anymore and have been bringing my own, I was thinking of buying this: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000246GSE/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/104-0629374-5447924
as it seems to get really good reviews but, those cups look so small. What if I want griled chicken or a big salad.

I might get some kind of insulated lunchbag, not sure.

 

[Rosie]

http://www.rubylane.com/shops/wellingtonsquarecuriosities/item/Lotx20Nox2ex2011-5084

Now that is cool!!

LD

Cute, but 220 for a lunch box? Eek!

 

[Elaina]

An Ed Grimley lunch box. The old metal kind with a thermos.

I had a Batman one from the 60's until my nephew swiped it.

 

[Salv]

The classic

or..

From http://www.lunchboxes.com/metal.html#top

 

[Lady Day]

Thats a cool Bento box, Rosie.

I want something a bit more vintage, so I saw this on Rubylane.

http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/noahsatticantiques/iteml/JA46#pic1


LD

 

[Travis]

T\http://www.lunchboxes.com/metal.html#top

I bought my lunchbox about 3 years ago from lunchboxes.com. I used to use it all the time at my old job, but my current job I haven't had much need. Since I just got a new job that I'm starting in a couple weeks, I might go back to using it again. One thing about it was when I got it the hinge was broken. I contacted them and they sent me out a new one without wanting the old one back, excellent service and shipping times and all that. I use the broken one as a tool box for the trunk of the car.

 

[Grnidwitch]

In our neck of the woods we have "lunch wagon" like at construction sites, granted it isn't the best (greasy yuck!) but you can't beat the prices

Affectionately known as the "Roach Coach" and you are a very brave man.

 

[Babydoll]

Here are a few cute ideas:

http://lunchboxes.com/chinese.html (Super cute!)

http://lunchboxes.com/army.html

http://lunchboxes.com/plaid.html

http://lunchboxes.com/dome.html

http://lunchboxes.com/piratelunchbox.html

http://lunchboxes.com/metal.html

http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?PRODID=10011991&CATID=74067

In our household, we both have insulated lunchboxes. Mine is pink, his is red.

 

[princessofcandl]

I usually have to take a lunch to "work". I'm in an internship and we are floating around town for our different rotations. I get a lot of grief for this but I don't care. I am a hello kitty nut. Although I'm a dog person. Go figure. So I got these fabulous microwave safe containers with hello kitty on them. Its all about reuse,recycle. I then got a basic lunch bag from LL Bean (www.llbean.com). Of course mine is pink floral (now disc.). I love it cuz it has a zipper front pocket where I keep a cutlery kit and napkin.

This is not at all vintage although hello kitty has been around for a while. But I wrap this up with a bento wrap ( I also have bento boxes, the traditional ones, that I use). I made the bento wrap out of vintage fabric. All you do is get make a large napkin and then tie it together. That gives you the handle. Its unusual, its handy, its reuseable, and it makes a lovely place mat.

BTW.... thanks for all the linkies to lunchboxes. I wanted to get hubby started on taking his lunch but was having trouble finding a "tough and manly" lunch box.

 

[bingolittle]

i use a round top stanley lunch box....it can carry the sandwiches , chips and banana....i bought a sample paint can (no label, never used)...reminds me of my grandfather that carried his lunch (bisquits and syrup and maybe a cheese sanwich) in a molasses can ...about the same size as the paint can complete with bail..

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Library

That lunchpail or lunchcan idea sounds mmm, biscuits and syrup cool. I forget to bring stuff home from work in all the hubbub, so I take my lunch or supper in a plastic grocery sack and then stuff it emptied into the tissue box on the counter at the circulation desk, so borrowers can have something to tote their books and videos home in.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

http://www.rubylane.com/shops/wellingtonsquarecuriosities/item/Lotx20Nox2ex2011-5084

Now that is cool!!

LD

Well, whatever it was, I'll have to take your word for it, because today it reports they've removed the item from their store. :rage:

 

[Travis]

I wonder what someone would have taken their lunch to the office with back in the day. The metal lunch box like the one I posted about before seems like it fits in better with the working class manual labor type job to me. You never seem to see people take lunch to work with them in the old movies, so you can scratch that off as a reference. Would they just put it in a paper bag and put it in their breifcase (at risk of smashing it amongst the papers and such)? I can't imagine they ate out every day, with the hard times of the depression going on and all, and besides, delicious home cooked meals were all the rage back than. So what did they do? These are the questions that keep me up at night...

 

[Zig2k143]

I take my in my fridge... I live close enough to eat at home.

 

[Atticus Finch]

Hi all.

I take my lunch a lot when I go to work, but Im tired of plastic baggies all the time and prepackaged items. Too much waste for me. Im looking for a vintage lunch box that may have had containers. Right now I carry a vintage camera case box for my lunch bag, which I dig, but you know...

I also pondered the idea of a carrying a bento lunch box.

Any suggestions on container having vintage lunch boxes?

Thanks,

LD

My wallet. I eat the same grilled chicken salad, at the same little bagel shop, every single workday---$5.87, with tax and iced water.

Atticus

 

[rockyj]

Still Brown bag it.

Except I keep it in my locker so I don't confuse it with anybody else's

 

[Diamondback]

Either my gut--as in "eat lunch as breakfast instead"--or my wallet, like some of the fellows posted previously.

 

[Chanfan]

Typically my wallet. I do own an Evan Dorkin Milk & Cheese Liquid Lunch Box - well, and a Power Puff Girls lunch box - but neither have seen a lunch.

 

[pretty faythe]

Very unvintage 6pack sized soft cooler. Enough room for reusuable ice thingies can't think of their proper name at this moment, and whatever I have decided to have for lunch, usually left overs from the night before, and drinks, which is usually a sports water bottle that I reuse through out the day and travel packs of flaver to add to the water of Wylers or other no calorie drink. (plus my caffienated soda for when the energy starts to drop).

 

[pretty faythe]

I wonder what someone would have taken their lunch to the office with back in the day. The metal lunch box like the one I posted about before seems like it fits in better with the working class manual labor type job to me. You never seem to see people take lunch to work with them in the old movies, so you can scratch that off as a reference. Would they just put it in a paper bag and put it in their breifcase (at risk of smashing it amongst the papers and such)? I can't imagine they ate out every day, with the hard times of the depression going on and all, and besides, delicious home cooked meals were all the rage back than. So what did they do? These are the questions that keep me up at night...

I have a 1950s take to work lunch cook book, so they prob do the other thing I do, which is shove my lunch into my work bag. [huh]