Get your lunch from a food truck? Fast food? Preparing your own to go meals is a growing trend, and is elevated to a whole new level thanks to Pinterest, endless cable cooking shows, the plethora of foodie blogs and most importantly, innovations in lunch and breakfast to go containers that limit your lunch only to your imagination. Other reasons for making your own to go meals? In addition to adding variety and convenience, preparing your own to go meals can offer some very real health, financial and environmental benefits.
How?
Think choice - let's face it...variety, freshness and flavor are important for any meal. To go containers are now designed with your taste buds in mind. Think beyond the sandwich! Try creamy homemade yogurt and fresh berries for breakfast, or a baked sweet potato with yogurt sauce, chicken shawarma or asian dumplings with a dipping sauce for lunch. You are only limited by your imagination! In addition to stylish space saving design, coordinating flatware and removable sections, many containers even allow convenient packing of both chilled and microwave foods in the same container.
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| Sistema Breakfast and Salad To Go Containers |
Think health - preparing your own to go meals lets you take control of what you eat, including the freshness, quality of ingredients, portion size and seasonings in your favorite foods. Watching your weight and portion size? Need to control your salt consumption? Allergies to certain foods? Easily solved when you make your own to go breakfast or lunch. Another tip for healthy to go meals? Make sure your to go containers are BPA free and are safe to use in a microwave.
Think budget - the expense of eating out is one that can sneak up on the most ardent saver. Spend $7 per day for lunch for an entire year, and it'll total almost $2,000! Packing that lunch to go and using leftovers instead of buying lunch are easy ways to save money. To go containers can come in all price ranges, but are a great investment for budget friendly lunches.
Think waste reduction - when you eat at fast food or other venues where disposable to go ware is used, do you wonder what happens to it? Bets are it will end up in a landfill. Responsibly manufactured reusable to go containers help minimize not only that waste, but consider environmental and social concerns during the manufacturing of these containers as well.
To sum it up, preparing your own to go meals offers you many benefits. Have some you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you!
