Synopsis: Sick of soggy sandwiches and lunchbox battles? In Beating the Lunch Box Blues: Fresh Ideas for Lunches on the Go! book J.M. Hirsch trades recipes for rapid-fire ideas — nearly 200 photos and over 500 tips for turning last night’s dinner into tomorrow’s lunch, without ever touching a limp salad again.
Packing lunch shouldn’t require a recipe — that’s the whole premise behind J.M. Hirsch’s approach. Rather than another cookbook full of instructions, this is an idea book, built for people who need inspiration fast, not a twelve-step method. Turn a grilled cheese into gourmet croutons.
Repurpose leftover steak into a build-your-own taco kit. Fold last night’s rice into a lunchbox-ready “sushi” roll. The logic throughout is speed and creativity over fuss.
That efficiency runs deeper than the lunch ideas themselves — nearly 200 photos and more than 500 tips fill the book, alongside 30 dinner recipes deliberately designed to produce leftovers, each paired with two different ways to turn that same dinner into the next day’s lunch.
It’s less “here’s what to cook” and more “here’s what to do with what you already have,” a mindset shaped by Hirsch’s background as a James Beard Award–winning food editor.
With a foreword from Rachael Ray, Beating the Lunch Box Blues is aimed squarely at the exhausted end of a weekday — parents, and anyone else stuck in the lunch-packing grind, looking for a way out of the same three sandwiches on repeat.
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- Title: Beating the Lunch Box Blues: Fresh Ideas for Lunches on the Go!
- Author: J.M. Hirsch (foreword by Rachael Ray)
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Publication date: September 3, 2013
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781476726724
- Pages: 208 pages
- Genre: Cookbook / Family & lunch ideas
- Condition: Very Good
- Availability: In Stock
- Price: KES400
Notes:
- Publisher explicitly describes it as an idea book rather than a traditional cookbook — worth keeping that framing accurate in the listing.
- Nearly 200 photos and more than 500 tips and meals, plus 30 fast dinner recipes designed to double as next-day lunch leftovers.
About the author: J.M. Hirsch is a James Beard Award–winning writer and editor, and former national food editor for the Associated Press.
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