A Golden Selection

Second Breakfast (left): Savoury French Toast
Lunch (bottom right): pumpkin soup
Snack: Carrots

Black Bread and Pumpkin

Second Breakfast (top right): Black bread with avocado and some radishes
Lunch (top left): the pumpkin saag from Veganomincon, on a bed of cooked millet
Afternoon snack (bottom): storebought sugar free chocolate chip cookies

Sweet Potatoes and Sunflower Seed Bread

Second Breakfast (top left): Sunflower seed bread with pureed avocado and cherry tomatoes. The bread was a gift from a coworker who went to Germany and brought it back as a souvenir.
Lunch (right): Sweet potato and peanut gratin from River Cottage Veg every day and spicy pieces of cucumber (bottom).
I also brought a smoothie made with a tomato and lots of fruit, like an orange, grapes, a piece of apple ...

Ethiopian Cabbage and Pear Tartlets

Breakfast (right): a bagel with a homemade spread made of white beans with garlic and peanut butter
Lunch (below): Ethiopian cabbage and potatoes
Afternoon Snack (left): tiny puff paste tartlets filled with a filling of pear sauce and almond flakes that I improvised and baked in my little muffin tin

Chili and Pigs in a Blanket

As you can see, at the moment I'm back to my old system of bringing several food containers. In part I'm just tired of packing so much food into the new big blue box, in part I'm going to be more careful now because I seemed to have ruined a t-shirt that was in the same bag with the box and got grease stains.
So, we'll see. What do we have here?
Breakfast (right below): Soy-pigs in a blanket and pieces of kohlrabi
Lunch (top left): Chili on couscous
Afternoon snack (top right and left below): wholegrain biscuits and some grapes

A whole lot of food

Second breakfast (top right): wholegrain bread with homemade carrot spread, nuts and pieces of yellow bell pepper
Lunch (below): a surprisingly delicious mix of green beans, cooked potatoes and champignons, fried with garlic, and a coleslaw made with sauerkraut instead of fresh cabbage
Afternoon Snack (top left): I brought two tangerines and homemade sweets created by mixing granola with melted white chocolate

Pasta with Beetroot

Second Breakfast (far right): Skewers with seitan, tomatoes and potatoes on a bed of salted cashews (protein!)
Lunch (left): Pasta with a homemade beetroot-horseradish-sauce
Afternoon snack (middle): Wholemeal bread with hazelnut-spread.

Croutons and baked Aubergine

Second Breakfast (top left): Pieces of bell pepper and potato latkes baked in the waffle maker
Lunch (top right): Bread croutons and pieces of bakes aubergine, to be mixed and eaten with the tzatziki in the round container on the leaft. I brough a tangerine as dessert.
Afternoon Snack (bottom): Sweet couscous made with orange juice, pieces of orange, almond flakes and goji berries

Gnocchi and Lots of other Stuff

Second Breakfast (bottom left): seitan sandwich, almonds and pieces of cucumbers
Lunch (top): gnocchi with homemade bell pepper pesto and a tomato/mozzarella-salad. The vinaigrette is in the small transparent container on the bottom right
Afternoon snack (bottom right): homemade vegan almond cookies inside the pink container (I forgot to open it for the photo) and pieces of pineapple

Glassnoodles and Millet "Burgers"

Second breakfast (top left): A baguette-sandwich with a filling of tinily cut vegetables, cheese and garlic + some cherry tomatoes
Lunch (below): Little "burgers" made of millet and grated cabbage + Asian glassnoodles with carrots, leek and nuts
Afternoon Snack (top right): a banana, grapes and homemade vegan cinnamon buns

What I learned today: It's easier to use this lunchbox if you put the breakfast (that is going to be eaten first) in the open compartment and the afternoon snack in the ones that can be shut. Also: Don't put an open banana near the rest of your food. The buns and the baguette had a slight banany aftertaste. Not what I was after...

New Lunchbox and a Resolution

So ... I've noticed that I every day around five I get the urge to eat something sweet, and that I usually end up buying some chocolate or going to Starbucks for one of these huge muffins. Delicious but not really good for my health. So I decided that from now on I will bring three meals for the day - second breakfast, lunch and ... I don't know, afternoon snack, teatime? I'm starting to be aware of the fact that even we Germans do not have real word for this meal, apart from "Kaffee und Kuchen".

So, when I was looking around the internet for inspiration, I found a great lunchbox system that I had not know before. And when I passed a junk shop near the office later, I found the same model, although not from the same company, for only 2 €.

 

Here's the link to the original from Sistema:

Sistema Lunchbox Amazon Germany

I've been experiencing with my new adquisition during the last week and at the moment I'm quite content.

My observations so far:

- It's quite spacious, which is both an advantage and a drawback: It enables me to really bring a lot of
  food, but I'm also obliged to bring a lot, because if I don't, everything moves around. Because of this
  I have to think well what I put in which compartment and what I'm going to take out first.

- My version isn't wellmade or sturdy, so I have to see how long it will hold up.

- It's a bit big for my bag.
- It's not easy to clean.

- It's not leaksafe, so I have to use smaller containers inside, and not many fit.
- I can't pack anything that has to be heated together with stuff that's to be eaten cold.

So, we'll see if in the long run this is a system that works for me, for now I'm trying! :-)