Exclusively work 12s so I bring 2 meals. I also have a dedicated cabinet at work for my stuff. So I keep some random snacks in there. I prep one set of meals about once a week. So one of those ends up in my cooler. Big ass cooler I can fit lots of stuff in. Then usually leftovers of something my girlfriend didn’t eat or something I can setup fast like overnight oats. Schedule rotates so its either 5 am to 5pm or 5pm to 5am. So I don’t a breakfast lunch and dinner setup. Bring a few seltzer and I have a big water bottle.

I use a 6-pack size cooler bag. Inside it, I pack whatever I can find in the kitchen, like an unhinged raccoon foraging the trash. Maybe something normal like a sandwich. More commonly, like half a green pepper, leftover corn chip crumbs, and a tablespoon of cream cheese, or some such. Then I open the lunch bag and wonder who packed my lunch.

I use a lunch box with a good size freezer pack that lasts all day (or at least long enough to survive summer heat past lunchtime). I have a few extras ready to go incase I forget to take it home one day or refreeze it. I also put it in a ziplock bag so when it inevitability leaks it won’t make a mess.

Paper bags in the long run are costing you more than buying a lunch box. I used to have one of those packit freezable lunch bags. It was only a bit larger than paper one but it didn’t condecne as well. The paper bags are great for when going somewhere you don’t want worry about leaving anything behind.

Sandwiches I put in a container to prevent them from getting smushed. I also bring a small reusable bottle water so I have fresh cold water at lunch instead relying on my full size one.

5 identical glass Tupperware. Usually it’s a can of refried beans, 2 chopped green peppers, chopped sweet onion, small bag of frozen corn, and brown rice with a packet of taco seasoning mixed in. All divided roughly equal between the 5 containers.

Been doing this for like a decade. Used to have broccoli, chicken, pork, mushrooms, and other stuff but more or less the same idea. Been trying to go more vegetarian/vegan over the years.

I love it. I love spending 1 hour on Sunday to make all my lunches for the week.

I have a soft insulated old Hello Kitty lunchbox.

Bring leftovers, usually, just put away half of supper for lunch. In a 2 cup glass Tupperware so about 2 cups I guess. And if there is any fruit, will bring some. And if I have made bread, a slice of sourdough for breakfast.

ETA if I don’t have supper or if there is not any left over, there is a cafeteria at work that has hot meals, sandwiches, and a salad bar. Also a Panera fast food across the street. But that ends up around $16 usually so not a daily sort of thing.

I live in an 18-wheeler for most of the week; I keep a mini-fridge behind my passenger seat. It’s mostly there for drinks, but I save some shelf space for sandwich supplies. Deli meats, cheeses, etc., plus some occasional treats in the freezer. I generally just slap a sandwich together, maybe pop it in the toaster oven for a bit, and then I’m off again.

My microwave gets some occasional action, and every now and then I’ll use my coffee maker to boil some ramen. I’m also thinking about hooking up a crockpot for this winter, have soups or stews going while I’m driving all day. Just depends on what food I bring onto the truck; convenience store and vending machine prices hurt my wallet, so I try to stay away from those.

I have stainless containers with silicone lids. Turkey sandwich with cranberry goat cheese on ciabatta and a side of cheese crackers, and something like a rice krispie treat for a late afternoon snack.

I can’t remember how long I’ve been eating that, but it’s simple and I haven’t grown tired of it. My wife makes it for me, and I make her a nice fancy coffee every morning in exchange.

I bring 3 oranges, a sandwich (surprising, I know), a yogurt, water and generally a gatorade.

I really like oranges, and this way I have fresh fruit every day. Bananas check a lot of the same boxes for portability and convenience, but I mainly only like them when they’re still green so it’s not always easy to have them consistently through a work week.

The sandwich can be almost anything, since I tend to swap sandwich ingredients weekly, but I really like sourdough so that’s my staple bread most of the time.

I pack my spouse’s lunch every morning. One of our prepped meals, a small dish of almonds, 2 cookies, 2 peanut mini butter cups, a nalgene of lemon water, and a spork.

As for lunch bag, she has a collection of different dino or space themed bags that we cycle through depending on her mood.

I always pack two meals. I can’t eat much in the mornings, so I pack a breakfast and a lunch. Before work I usually just have something really small, either a small bowl of cereal or a single slice of toast or maybe a small muffin or something. Then I pack a wrap of some kind for my first real meal. I’ve been a big fan of Buffalo wraps the last 6 months or so, but I’ll mix it up sometimes with something else. Today was more of a citrus marinade with chicken thighs and rice. Then for my second meal, usually leftovers from whatever I had for supper the night before. In the odd chance I don’t have anything left over, I’ll make something the night before that resembles a typical supper meal, or maybe buy something but that’s pretty rare.

I have it in an insulated lunch bag with an ice pack as my lunch usually hangs out in my car the whole day.

One sandwich with 3 pieces of ham rolled up and a single slice of cheese under the meat. With that I bring a string cheese and a 12 ounce soda.

I’ve been using the same cooler for years, just a simple Coleman one with an icepack in it.

Small insulated lunch bag (cheap) - and almost always some kind of sandwich. Leftovers from the weekend dinners too. I eat in my car as the lunch room is an awkward silence

Usually whatever leftovers from dinner. In a glass pyrex container in a lunchbox that fits in my saddlebag on my motorcycle. If there are no leftovers, usually a sandwich of some kind with chips and fruit.

Whatever hubs feels like throwing in a bag for me. He’s done everything from box frozen dinner to meal prepped frozen dinner, restaurant leftovers, a sandwich meal from the shop he’s a part timer at, fresh cooked food, and one time he custom wrapped Philly roll style rice balls for me. Then some weeks it’s nothing and I eat pistachios out of the vending machine (although work added a refrigerated machine with heatable meals so that’ll be an upgrade).

TLDR; I eat and get fucked really well when my husband is manic. He’s kind of an asshole though and I have to hide my credit card, so it’s not really worth leaving him like that.

Leftover dinner in a plastic box. Reheated in the microwave at work. Carried by hand to and from my car.