Dear Girlfriends ~

We are all cutting corners and finding ways to save on everything!  By getting rid of magazine subscriptions and bringing our own lunch to work … I yearn to be a frugalista!

I’ve recently discovered stylish lunch bags.  When you were in grade school, having a Barbie lunch box was the best. Then junior high came around, and hoarding food in a lunch box (especially a Barbie one) quickly put you in the nerd category. For seventh and eighth grades, brown bags were the cool way to go. Finally you hit high school, and neither lunch boxes nor brown bags were cool—buying food at the cafeteria was the only way to lunch in order to maintain your chic status.

Now you’re a working gal, and odds are no one cares what you eat or how you lug it into the office. Even still, you want a stylish lunch bag to carry your food in. After all, you’re still a hip chick.

Here are a few ways to brown bag in style.  Unlike the brown bag, this Gourmet Getaway in French Bull Multi-Dot style with an orange sorbet-colored interior will satisfy the fashionista in you who likes to make a splash in the office. You can throw all of your lunch goodies into a plain plastic bag, but deep down you know this isn’t the best way to pack a lunch.  Enter the Milano Insulated Neoprene Lunch Tote. The sleek bag, ideal for organized brown baggers, features separate sections for your food and drink, as well as an outside pocket that can house a stash of napkins and condiments.

Polka Dot Lunch Tote

Tasty Lunch Tote

Organized and Practical

Girlfriends, your lunch list consists of a sandwich, two fruits, a bottle of water, soda… What are you going to use to carry all this? Consider this Heart Awareness Lunch Tote, which is both fashionable and functional. The best part is, you’ll be supporting a good cause.

Over Packer Lunch Bag

You don’t like frills, logos or patterns. For those of you with a fashion mantra of “less is more,” a great lunch bag option for you comes from Baggu. Replacing paper and plastic bags everywhere, one Baggu Bag holds the contents of two or three grocery bags. Even if you’re not lugging groceries to the office, this tote can carry your lunch in style. Just pick from the many colors available. like periwinkle, neon, hot pink and more.

Sweet and Simple Bag

Traditional Lunch Box

Being a frugalista doesn’t take much!  For some, bagging lunch is a way to bring healthier alternatives to the table. But for most of us, a brown bag lunch helps pinch a few pennies here and there. With all the pennies you save – you too can be a frugalista today!

Until the next style adventure,

Monica