Originally Posted by
tornado60
My main concern is that at times it might have to survive a couple hours on my bike in hot weather. I wanted to see what others where doing. I thought perhaps they had some techniques that would work better than what I would know of. I also thought perhaps they might be packing foods I hadn't thought of that might be better choices for my situation.
Ah OK.
My feeling is that Americans (at least) are ridiculous nervous Nellies about food spoilage. I just don't worry about it, and have not had a problem yet. Maybe I've built up an iron stomach from decades of eating the oldest thing in the fridge before my wife got a chance to "waste it" by throwing it out - month old lunchmeat? Not a problem.
What I really don't get is when people bring in frozen dinners, put them in the freezer for the 3 hours until lunchtime, then take 8 minutes to microwave them. If they'd just leave them at their desk, they'd be mostly thawed by lunchtime and they'd nuke in 90 seconds. But people seem to think that if something thaws and isn't immediately cooked, it's gone bad.