Day 5, Lunch Kit

Just think in less than 1 week Christmas will be over and we will all already be well on our way to getting back to a "better normal".  We will have so many positive things in place and the only thing we'll have to do is show up to practice the new behaviors and habits that will move us in the direction of better health and fitness.  We rock!

One of the things I incorporated years ago that I still practice is taking my lunches.  I actually stopped last year for the very first time, on purpose, for a few months.  I decided that since I'm always only 15-20 minutes from home all I needed to do was simply come home to eat lunch!  But it didn't exactly workout that way. Yes, I came home and ate, but then I was too tired to go back out, or I got distracted with things I had to do at home, and then found myself putting some errands off until the next day.  When I make my lunch in the morning and take it with me it's much easier to finish all the business I need to do outside of my home, saving time and gas.

Personally I have my favorite lunch containers.  You can see many many pictures of them on my former blog: 

http://tracyrif.blogspot.com/ (search "All Day Lunch", but I've included a few photos from years ago).  

I used to post pictures of an entire day's meals because I used to work a 12 hour day, 3 days a week.  But working in a Salon I had a fridge and a microwave.  Many times these days I do clients in their homes, and I go to yoga at the end of my mornings, so I don't have access to heating foods up.  Which is not usually a big deal but I love hot food!  (a handful of time I used the micro at Whole Foods!)

My absolute favorite new lunch container is Aladdin's "heat and go".  What I love about it is that I

can heat up my soup or leftovers in the container itself, lock on the lid and it will keep for hours.  I know a lot of people these days are not comfortable with plastic of any kind, especially heating foods up in plastic, but I'm not one of those people!  I'm totally fine with it, I'm not trippin'.  And then there are some people that don't like to microwave!  In fact I know a few people that don't even own one.  But for me, I love the microwave!  Sure I could live without it, and I like food reheated the traditional ways, stovetop/oven, but I don't have to those appliances available at work or on the road, but again, it saves time (and dishes).

I'm going to be writing more about preparing home made lunches, and fingers crossed I can get a lot of people excited and proud to be daily lunch carriers!  So, if it's fancy smancy glass, tin, ceramic or plastic food containers in fancy smancy fabric, leather, or paper bags that will help make you feel even more special than you are, now's the time to treat yourself and put them in place to get ready to use.  (or maybe it's a retro copy of a school lunch box you had when you were a kid, lol!)

whoops....I forgot to post a picture of yesterday's food journal entry and I'm already in bed...I'll post two of them tomorrow, and you'll get a kick out of today's!  (let's just say there was a lot of chocolate involved)