Besides peanut butter and jelly, what is a lunch that doesn't need to be refrigerated?

Hey Arnold

I need something besides a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to take to work when I don't have access to a fridge!
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Choose the Right Lunch Bag

Brown paper bags may be traditional, but they don't do anything to protect your food until lunch time. Get an insulated lunch bag with a cool pack inside. Freeze the cool pack overnight and the frostiness will help keep your food cold. The insulation in the walls of the bag help prevent heat from getting in, further protecting your lunch. Buy individual plastic "ice cubes" and sprinkle them throughout the contents of your bag to chill it further.

Use a Thermos Jug

There's a reason you see construction workers pouring coffee from a thermos all day long: they keep the liquid inside piping hot for hours. Invest in a smaller version designed for soups and chilies. Pack leftover stew, casseroles, pasta dishes or hot sandwich toppings like pulled pork in the thermos. Add crusty bread or rolls to complete your lunch.

Peanut Butter Basics

You can indulge in the occasional peanut butter and jelly sandwich if you want to get nostalgic about your school days. After that, use peanut butter and other nut butters in a more adult way to add protein to your lunch. Add cranberries, bananas or other fruits to peanut butter on crusty whole wheat bread. Pack a small container of nut butter and use it as a dip for apple slices, celery sticks, pretzels and crackers.

Instant Lunch

Instant food at your desk no longer means noodles in a cup. Stock up on meals that only need a small amount of hot water to activate a heater, or dried meals that cook in the microwave with water if you have an oven at work. Bring a thermos of boiling hot water along with your lunch to cook ramen noodles or other instant pasta dishes. Pack tuna salad in a can along with a variety of crackers and cheese for small sandwiches.

Vegetables and Fruit

Add some variety to your menu by including different fruits and vegetables each day. Make a salad occasionally and include individual packets of salad dressing. Cut up slices of vegetables and pack some ranch dip. Bring whole fruits or cups of mixed pieces of fruit. Not only will the produce taste good, the additional foods will help fill you up without adding a lot of calories.


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Paper bag lunches within these parameters?

Q. Hey! I want to pack my own lunches this year! Obviously, I'd like it to be pretty portable (ex: no soup)
My diet specifications are: No nut butters, no dairy, no chocolate, nothing to high in salt or sugar.

My ideas so far are a homemade burrito, roasted veggie sandwich, salad, and homemade burrito bol.
Thanks a million for your help!!!

Answer
With the right equipment, all lunches can be totally portable.
Most large stores sell Thermos containers(either that brand or a comparable one) which allows you to take a wide variety of different foods with you.
They come in wide mouth styles to accomodate all kinds of things.
You can get one for hot foods, pour boiling water in it and allow to stand while you are heating what ever you are taking, dump the hot water, put the hot food in there and it will be hot and safe for a very long time.
With cold foods, you can store the thermos, open, in the freezer. next morning, add your tuna salad or fruit salad and close. It will be nice and cold at lunch time.
With that little bit of equipment you can take almost anything you can think of including interesting left overs from dinner the night before to stuff you made especially for lunches.
soups
stews
hot dishes
sliced hot meats and gravy
hot roasted veggies
etc
With the thermos used cold;
tuna salad
chicken salad
fruit salad
any pasta salad
fresh veggie sticks
the options are limited only by your hungar and imagination.

Construction workers have been taking lunches using insulated containers for years.

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Lunch ideas for construction worker?

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crazyveg

I just recently started talking to a guy that works in construction. I told him that on one of my days off I would fix him and his father, whom he also works with, lunch. However, I am more of a dinner based chef, so I was looking for ideas and suggestions. They will have been working in the heat all day and must continue on afterword, so something light would be preferable. :) Thanks in advance.

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My man is in construction. Every morning I pack him a PB&J, two meat sandwiches - any lunch meat (we use sandwich thins so one is not enough), the lettuce/tom/onion/pickle for the sandwich in a separate bag, an individual side of baked chips, a Jello-pudding snack, a string cheese, a banana or container of pre-cut fruit, a canned soda, a bottle of water, and a love note.

What is the best way to ask for a reduction of amount owed to the IRS?

Tim

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The only way is to file an Offer In Compromise (OIC). The IRS will want to know your income and all of your assets. Most OICs are rejected because the IRS figures that it will collect more. If you are currently unemployed, the OIC may get rejected if the IRS believes you have a chance at landing a job. If you are currently working, the IRS will expect you to pay a substantial part of your disposable income toward the debt. By disposable, I mean after paying for your rent, an old car, and food. No vacations, no private school tuition, etc. The IRS will not include meals out so count on having to brown bag your lunch every day. No Starbucks coffee drinks, in fact, no luxuries at all.

A successful OIC comes from somebody who has fallen down the income ladder. Like a construction worker who is now disabled, a corporate executive who hasn't been able to replace his former seven figure salary with anything much more than minimum wage.

If you want to try an OIC, contact an EA or CPA in your area who specializes in them. (I don't.)

I hope this helps.
Gary

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What would be a good profitable food business idea?

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bobbyampm

This guy just started a yogurt business and he has a lot of customers everyday. I mean people just love his yogurt!

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It depends how much you have to invest. One lady opened a roadside sandwich shop selling bagged lunches to construction workers. She was on a highway that had many passing on the way to work and too lazy to make a sandwich so would pay her top dollar for a brown bag lunch every single day.

How do trees contribute to sustainable energy?

A J

How does trees/Timber affect all the natural resources listed below.

The natural resources such as gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, and natural gas.

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This whole answer is a bit spastic, but bear with me a bit...

First, you need to classify that random list of seemingly unrelated resources into groups, and then determine what all members of a given group have in common in addition to what all the groups have in common, and then determine how trees impact what they have in common.

My thoughts involve the following:

Erosion (all on that list are harvested/mined from the ground, which is of no use if it washes into the ocean, with natural gas being the exception)

Energy (energy is required to harvest/mine all of these things, which is provided by trees in several forms from the machinery that does the harvesting to the paper bag that the construction worker carries his lunch in. Also, all matter is energy. Physics for the win.)

Utilitarian replacement (can wood or products obtained from wood or other resources protected or conserved by the presence of wood be used to replace either the resources themselves or to create a new mechanism that renders those existing resources no longer useful for that specific task?)

Economics (does trade in wood and/or wood products impact trade in any of the listed resources?)

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