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Do any of you guys bring one to work? Not many options for lunch on my new route so wife got me one and I tried it out for the first time today. I scooped one of the prepared meals from Trader Joe's into there before I left home. Cajun style chicken fettuccine Alfredo. Everything seemed to go fine but I'm a little concerned about leaving chicken at room temperature on the shelf of the package car for 5 hours until I'm ready to heat it up & eat lunch. If any of you use a lunch box like this do you have suggestions on what kind of prepared meals are good to put in them?
The chicken is already cooked, youre just reheating it, you're fine. If it were raw and yiur lunchbox was actually cooking it, you could be worried. Maybe you can remove the container and keep it in your cooler until you're ready to heat it? But that would just be to make you feel better, you're perfectly safe doing it as you did.
Do any of you guys bring one to work? Not many options for lunch on my new route so wife got me one and I tried it out for the first time today. I scooped one of the prepared meals from Trader Joe's into there before I left home. Cajun style chicken fettuccine Alfredo. Everything seemed to go fine but I'm a little concerned about leaving chicken at room temperature on the shelf of the package car for 5 hours until I'm ready to heat it up & eat lunch. If any of you use a lunch box like this do you have suggestions on what kind of prepared meals are good to put in them?
The chicken is already cooked, youre just reheating it, you're fine. If it were raw and your lunchbox was actually cooking it, you should be worried. Maybe you can remove the container and keep it in your cooler until you're ready to heat it? But that would just be to make you feel better, you're perfectly safe doing it as you did.