I sometimes bring lunch to work.
We wash the plastic take out containers,
including the soup containers. Makes good
packaging for work lunches.

I carry lunch every day. Fruit, veggies, meat, leftovers. Each is packed in appropriate container - Tupperware, baggie etc., then placed in a plastic grocery bag and stuffed in the pannier along with the day's clothes. I learned to use the separate bag approach after a lunch leak incident several years ago. A leak may not happen often but when it does you'll be glad you took the additional precaution of the plastic bags.

I carry both breakfast and lunch daily. I like soup and a salad for lunch especially as it get colder. Work provides coffee and tea and water. I do not refrigerate my food on my way to work. When I get to work I do refrigerate my yogurt or anything else I feel that can benefit from refrigeration.

Due to after-work activities, I drive in on Monday. So on Mondays, I haul in the clothes for the week, along with fruit (usually bananas and apples, maybe oranges or seasonal fruit) and hard-boiled eggs. The fruit and eggs go in my lunch bag in the office refrigerator (not because I'm afraid of spoilage, I just like really cold fruit). The rest of the week I bring my sandwich in a snap-top container, carried in my trunk bag. I keep a small cutting board and paring knife (as well as a fork, spoon, and chop sticks for the rare occasion when I bring in something other than a sandwich) in my desk drawer. I also keep a dish cloth in my office for drying the dishes after lunch.

Pack a lunchbox with sandwiches, yoghurt, oat based snack and a pork pie (fine English fare!), make the night before and chill it overnight. Also take small choc milkshake for when I get to work, I find that a little protein helps with keeping fatigue at bay. Can get fruit at work. All packs neatly next to my clothes in my backpack.

I bring lunch every day and whatever it is goes in a pannier. Nothing fancy just one of many cost cutting measures. You really shouldn’t need to worry about refrigeration on the ride.

I bring lunch and fruit snacks whenever I ride to work. And yes, tupperware inside plastic baggie in case of spills. I have a few sets of clothes at work that I use. When I drive to work I'll exchange with clean sets.

I bring a lunch whether I bike or drive. Eating bought food every day would kill me, physically and financially.

I totally agree. After I eat a fast food meal, I remember why I don't like to eat there! An apple or orange for morning break. Leftovers for lunch work for me. Plastic containers with good lids or glass container if it's something that I will put in the microwave. I hang a small cooler on the handle bars. I DO put a small blue-ice chiller in there. You guys that aren't using anything...omg. I'm afraid my lunch would crawl off it was not chilled!!!

I don't trust food over one hour in the summer so I don't. Wish I could.

I have carried lunch. Sometimes just ziplock bags stuffed into a plastic grocery bag. I've carried leftovers in 'tupperware (or facsimile)'.

I've gone to buying groceries and just keeping it in the office kitchen.
I have a fridge and a microwave, so sandwich fixin's and canned soups and such are easy.
This is only shared with like 3 others on my floor.. so it works out OK.

I used to do this regularly, until I started using a road bike to commute and became a weight weenie.

Now I stock up the larder on the occasions I drive, or use the company vehicle assigned to me to grab a bite during my many short drives during the day.

I know, heretical, right?

What gets me is people who bring in something frozen, insist on putting it in the freezer until lunchtime, then nuke it for 5 or 6 minutes to thaw+heat it.

If you'd just put it on your desk, it'd thaw by lunchtime and you could heat it in 2 minutes.

But I have a whole long list of weird coworker behavior that I don't understand, so maybe it's me.

You could use a freeze pack in an insulated bag. That's what I do and it keeps my food cold from the morning until lunch time

I carry lunch nearly every day. Usually I carry my gear in a Carradice seatbag. I load my clothes in it first, then my wallet and eyeglass case, and put the food on top. My lunch is usually a sandwich, apple, yogurt and chips/cookies plus I carry a banana for snack. The sandwich and banana don't get smashed if loaded on top.

Every day. I have an insulated lunch box that I throw in a pannier. I've even been known to strap a box of cupcakes to my rack.

With an ice pack inside, my lunch is nice and cool at lunch time.

I pack a lunch bag. There's a fridge at work that I put it into when I arrive. And a microwave that I can warm up casseroles, etc.

In my cube, I keep a glass dinner plate, large bowl, knife, fork and spoon and we have a kitchen with a washing sink so I don't need to carry anything like that. If I have to carry something in a container, it will generally be a plastic (light) container. Most of the time, I have veggies and hummus with a couple of apples and cheese. I tend to cut enough veggies for 2-3 days, bring enough apples for the same, hummus (bought) will last about a week and a 500gm/1lb block of sharp cheddar will also last a week. Mondays, I'll bring in a bunch of things but Tuesdays and Thursdays, I may have leftovers at work (in the kitchen fridge). I have a Bullet blender at work that I use to make my protein breakfast shake in the morning after I arrive, I'll bring the protein mix about once a month. Whatever lunch I bring, I will put it into a plastic bag in the bottom of my pannier so if it leaks, it won't be on my clothes which tend to be packed on top of the lunch bag.

I carry a soft sided insulated cooler bag. Works great all year round.

I pack a lunch almost every day. usually PB& J I like them cool and kinda smushed I have packed all kinds of things in my lunchbox. well my wife puts my sandwich in a plastic container and everything else in ziploc bags. I tend to reuse the bags over and over. Pb& j applesauce. cheeze its and desert. aka the usual!


i put a freeze pack in sometimes during the summer but spring fall and winter i dont bother with the cold pack.

i use this cooler except my parents bought mine for me after my freeby from my Pepsi days (13 years ago) started falling apart.

it is pretty cool it is a camo looking pattern but is actually bikes and riders on bikes.

I once asked my wife if she could pack me lunch. She gave me an empty bag and said bon appetit.

she has packed my lunch since I started my current job. 4 years ago. I may have a couple times but mostly her. She loves me what can I say. I am blessed

Almost the same MO as me. Even the pound of cheese a week, and my wife wonders why I can't loose weight.

I usually bring salad in a plastic container, yogurt, fruit, and a couple of granola bars, all thrown into a ziplock bag. Aldi has these killer trail mix granola bars that I usually get and keep at work. They're pretty good, and I've been catching them on sale for $1.79 a box for a while.

I usually bring lunch but sometimes "forget" I have it if the cafeteria special looks good. Typical packed lunches for me...

• 8 oz cottage cheese, a Nature Valley oat&honey bar, an apple, and a square of 72% Ghirardelli. I was doing Greek yogurt + fruit cup for a while but it really doesn't compete with cottage cheese nutritionally.
• 2 oz hard sharp cheese from the fancy part of the supermarket, 2 oz dry salami, crackers, fruit, Yoplait, chocolate.
• Leftover pasta & sauce, any description
• "Mexicali skillet" from a 5-ingredient cookbook - recipe 1 lb 93/7 turkey burger + 1 pack taco seasoning + 1 cup of elbow pasta, cooked + 1 can corn + 1 can petite diced tomato, serving size is about a third of the recipe. Good stuff. If you use 80/20 hamburger then the serving is about 1/4 the recipe instead.
• Leftover takeout - Chinese, pizza, whatever you got

I was carrying a liter Sodastream bottle of diet cola for a while - not the regular diet but the free/zero alternate flavor. But it seemed to leave my mouth feeling dry and I've cut it out for now in favor of buying a tub of diet Coke at the cafeteria, with a free refill.