I imagine that the best thing about being incarcerated is the guarantee of three square meals a day. No menu planning, no grocery shopping, just exit your cell in an orderly fashion three times a day and file into the prison cafeteria to receive your portion of pipin' hot prison food. Okay, prison food probably tastes horrible (especially if you're an inmate at Maricopa County Prison), but I've just about had it with meal planning. Especially lunch. Lunch is the most annoying meal of the day! It needs to be substantial in order to fill the 12-hour void from breakfast to dinner, so that usually calls for something better than fruit and cheese or PB&J. I often try to cook big batches of stuff in hopes of having portions for lunch (e.g., giant pan of lasagna), but usually I end up saving those extra portions for dinner because let's face it - weeknight cooking can be brutal, and often leads to eating dinner at 8:30. So I'm in search of some excellent lunch ideas! I just found this recipe booklet for awesome sandwiches, and Just Bento has some neat ideas for bento lunches, many of which require minimal prep time. Last week I fixed up some Vietnamese-style sandwiches using this recipe, which turned out very tasty. Does anyone else have any favorite packed lunch strategies to share? I'm about to resort to GTY (Grand Theft Yarn) to avoid having to plan another week of lunches!