Hey there! You are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here

to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 276. How to pack lunch for work. This could be any work, honestly. Work

somewhere else, work at home, work that's tending to your kids. It's basically lunch for

adults. How do adults eat lunch? How does one do this? I'm excited about this episode

because when I went looking for grown up lunch help on the internet, I found very little

that would work for most people. In fact, every resource was either a list of recipes to

make, which is fine. It's fine. Or a list of tools and things to buy to help people pack

and make their lunch, which is also fine. But maybe not the problem. Maybe the lack of

recipes and tools aren't actually your problem. I also didn't love that most recipe rundowns

involved words about healthy lunches. I have a thing about the word health because it

makes us think that unless you're eating a salad, you're not being a responsible human,

which isn't true. It determines what health is for a variety of people. That was mildly

triggering and very annoying. The other thing was language around your work lunch being

impressive. Impress your coworkers with these 20 lunch ideas. What on earth, you guys? Is

that what the internet thinks we care about when it comes to our food? Maybe there is some

truth to where you want to be excited and moved by the food you eat. At least some days,

you can want it to be pretty and vibrant and varied. That's real. Maybe the expectation

of that isn't every day, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be excited about your

food. We eat with all our senses and we should enjoy that. Before the love, are we really

trying to impress our coworkers here? I just got really discouraged digging around the

internet looking for work lunch help. I found none. Literally zero. It was just, it was

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