Lunchbag Addiction

For someone who rarely brownbags it, I've got an awful lot of lunch bags. I'm perpetually in search of the perfect bag. Maybe I think the right bag will inspire to me bring my lunch more often. Maybe I think the right bag will make my lunch for me! Whatever the case, this adorable little number at right is lunchbag number six!

I came across it by accident while shopping at Costco a few weeks back. It's from Rachel Ray. She's not necessarily my favorite person on the planet (a little bit of that excessive perkiness goes a loooooong way IMHO), but I have to give her kudos on this. It's big enough to hold everything I need and then some but not so big that I feel like I'm hauling my entire refrigerator with me. Plus, it's attractive. It doesn't scream lunchbag. It just looks like a regular old bag that could be anything. Don't know why that's important to me, but it is.

And while I can't give full credit to the bag itself, I have, actually been bringing my lunch since returning to work in the new year. The break did wonders for me and I'm finally inspired to cook more and I'd like to get back to some healthier eating. So toting my goodies in this cute little bag has been great. Plus, I'm finding that it's actually easier to eat intuitively when I'm doing my own cooking. I think the higher quality of the food makes it easier to feel fuller sooner. And since I'm not serving myself the monster portions I'd get in a restaurant, I'm not having to do battle with the temptation of stopping with a load of food still on my plate. That's a demon I'll still have to confront, but no sense in making things more difficult for myself than I have to right now. One thing at a time.