Sad Lunch Day: My Pear is Mushy :(

I cut up a pear and brought it to work.  It got all mushed up in my bag, I guess it's too ripe for transportation.  I'm pretty sad about it.  I'm eating it anyways, but the texture's all wrong.

Any packed-lunch sob stories out there?

ick.  the only thing that might be worse is a wet sandwich.

This morning when I was packing my lunch for work I thought I was being clever and made a "Peanut butter and Jelly Quesadilla" by using a low-carb 80 cal tortilla, some Better N Peanutbutter, and sugar free jam.

 I smeared the peanutbutter and the jam on the tortilla, folded the tortilla in half, and then cut it into triangles and placed them in a sandwich baggy.

......when I took the baggy out of my lunch bag at lunch the jelly and peanubutter was alllllll over the inside of the baggy and not at all within the tortilla triangles....ughh lesson learned :)

Aww, that sucks.  I have had many a mushy sandwich.  I also have tried to omit the butter barrier on the PB&J...bad idea.

I literally just laughed out loud when I read this topic!! That sucks that you pear was almost inedible! I have never had a crappy lunch experience like that because I don't typically pack a lunch anymore, but sometimes I get really excited about trying something new at dinner time (making something new that is) and it turns out to be complete CRAP/RUBBISH - yet I still eat it because I don't really have anything else planned and it would be such a waste of food... then I just feel like I need something more when I am done, but never know what else to have - it sucks! I have a feeling it is going to happen to me tonight too! UGH! 

Rewind back to the first day of first grade (my first lunch at school....ever). I had a creamcheese and black olive sandwich (sounds gross, really good), carrots, a brownie and chocolate milk in a thermos.

Well, cheap plastic lunch box thermoses are notorious for leaking and mind did. When I opened my lunch box, everything was swimming in chocolate milk. The only thing semi-edible was the brownie, but I didn't have milk.

Not only was my lunch ruined, I was soooooo embarrased (and hungry)!

Sorry to hear about your pear :(

i hate it when i pack a PB&J, and the sandwich gets squished and the jelly starts seeping through the bread. . .it makes the bread all mushy and wet :[

Original Post by thhq:

ick.  the only thing that might be worse is a wet sandwich.

The other day, I had cucumber slices packed in rice vinegar and it leaked onto the rest of the food I'd brought that day. So gross. My almond butter sandwich, which I'd only wrapped in a napkin, was a complete loss. Luckily, everything else was in it's own sealed container. Still such a mess.

The one story that sticks out to me was when I was in primary school (ages 7-11) & my best friend Scarlett used to make her own sandwiches/packed lunch (which thinking about now is not something a 8 year old should be doing). The dinner ladies used to always insist that if you eat anything in your lunch box it WAS your sandwiches.

Anyways, poor Scarlett had run out of cheese spread when making her sandwiches that morning & had used something else she thought was also cheese spread. Turned out it was lard. So she sat there with cheese spread & lard sandwiches which, not suprisingly, were gross & was trying to explain to the dinner lady that she couldn't eat them. Sadly this dinner lady as having none of it & basically told her to shut up & eat them & didn't even listen to why. In the end Scarlett managed to tell them the filling of the sandwich & the dinner lady was mortified that she had made her eat best part of them.

Every time I go for a drink with Scarlett now we laugh about it.

Took tomato soup with rice in a thermos to school once.

D:

Got there, and the rice had expanded into this disgusting mass that totally stunk and took up the whole thermos.


It was SICK.

Today, I did not cut the pear into slices...I learned my lesson.

All the stories make me feel less bad, and also make me remember primary school....

Primary school lunch distasters are the worse, because you remember how embaressed you were FOREVER.  I had a few thermos accidents in my schooling as well, one with leaky tomato soup and another with incredible expandible Mr. Noodles (it took me basically the whole lunch and recess to even get the noodles out of the thermos to eat them, I felt SO dumb).

Mostly I forget my lunch at home nowadays, I must be getting old (23) and losing my short term memory...lol.  But I get to work so sad when I realise where my yummy food is.

I know the feeling.  With me, it's bananas.  I have to take the bus to Plymouth Meeting Mall from Northeast Philly and the banana usually gets all mushy and disgusting, we buy ours on Sundays when we go shopping and then by Saturday, which is my last day of the work week, they get so brown that I'm scared to bring it to work at all, so I go and buy one and bring it then.  

Oh yeah!  Bananas!


They always seem to give everything else in the lunch box a distinct banana taste.

It's disgusting.

Plus the lunchbox begins to smell like a banana, and ANYTHING you back in there after has a slight hint of banana.

I have a pbj today, I hope its not mushy..

I used to have trouble taking yogurt and fruit for a snack cause it gets watery.. but now I used greek yogurt and frozen fruit, and stick it int he freezer for like 10 min before i leave, by the time I go to eat it its perfect! :)

I bought some of those Ziplock bags you can vacuum seal.  This keeps my dubious sandwich concoctions from becoming a  pile of mush.  Plus, the bags are reusable and quite inexpensive.  I was cheap and bought Ziplock brand with the hand pump instead of the one by Reynolds that requires a battery.  Keeps my veggies nice and crisp too.

Vacuum seal!  What?!?  That's amazing.