Take-Along Lunch Time

 

 

A good friend of mine who is an elementary school teacher is gearing up to go back to work, so we've been exchanging take-along lunch ideas that cover all her needs. I've suggested hearty bean and grain salads for the days she has only 20 minutes to eat, iceless smoothies for the lunchtimes when she goes walking with a fellow teacher, and pressed sandwiches for the field trips where the food has to be mess-free (she always ends up giving her napkins to students who've forgotten their own).
—Mary Margaret Chappell, Food Editor