{"id":872,"date":"2009-04-13T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T02:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/wordpress\/?p=872"},"modified":"2013-08-23T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:03:11","slug":"taking-your-lunch-to-work-just-got-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/taking-your-lunch-to-work-just-got-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Your Lunch to Work Just Got Easier!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t sound all that hard – preparing a sandwich at night to take to work the next day.\u00a0 But somehow, it is for me.\u00a0 At the end of a long day, the last thing I want to do is dirty my kitchen after my husband has cleaned it up after dinner.\u00a0 The option of making a sandwich at the same time I prepare dinner is good, in theory.\u00a0 However my dinner preparation now includes keeping a very busy 1-year-old entertained and safely away from kitchen hazards (i.e. the stove, oven, etc.).\u00a0 I find it an accomplishment simply to get dinner on the table, let alone prepare lunch for the next day.\u00a0 The hard thing is I know my homemade lunches are so much healthier, cheaper, and tastier than eating out.\u00a0 So I was determined to find a way to somehow get back into the groove of packing a lunch.\u00a0 And I’m happy to share my answer: FREEZING SANDWICHES!<\/p>\n

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Why I didn’t know about this wonderful little secret earlier is a mystery to me.\u00a0 But freezing sandwiches is so easy and the results are delicious.\u00a0 The first sandwiches I froze were rolls with sliced rotisserie chicken breast and provolone cheese.\u00a0 They turned out great.\u00a0 Since then, I’ve frozen ham and cheese sandwiches and turkey sandwiches.\u00a0 The one thing I learned quickly was the importance of wrapping each individual sandwich tightly in a freezer plastic bag, getting as much air out as you can. \u00a0For extra protection, you can place all individually wrapped sandwiches in a larger freezer plastic bag.\u00a0 The extra cost of freezer bags versus regular plastic bags is definitely worth it.\u00a0 The plastic is much thicker and helps prevent freezer burn.\u00a0 You’re going to get a better-tasting sandwich using a freezer bag.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, packing a healthy lunch is easy – no joke!\u00a0 I grab a frozen sandwich, some baby carrots, a bottle of water, and a piece of fruit and toss them into my lunch bag.\u00a0 Takes about 1 minute, tops.\u00a0 I throw in a container of yogurt for a snack and even have frozen cookies if I feel like including a treat.\u00a0 Freezing sandwiches saves me so much time because I only have to take out all the ingredients and clean up once.<\/p>\n

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If you have a lot of leftover ham from Easter dinner, now’s the perfect time to try freezing a few sandwiches.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t sound all that hard – preparing a sandwich at night to take to work the next day.\u00a0 But somehow, it is for me.\u00a0 At the end of a long day, the last thing I want to do is dirty my kitchen after my husband has cleaned it up after dinner.\u00a0 The option of making a sandwich at the Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,790],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","category-i","cat-42-id","cat-790-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lunch-box.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}