Three easy, healthy work lunches to make now that summer’s winding down

Julie Van Rosendaal Special to The Globe and Mail Published 15 minutes ago

Tortellini Salad, Beans + Grains Bowl and Lettuce Wraps.

For most of us, September means a return to our usual work, school and extracurricular programming, and added pressure on the daily question of what’s for lunch.

Now that schedules aren’t quite so lax, strategizing helps: putting another pot on the stove, or making extra to ensure there are leftovers – simmering a double batch of pulses or grains, roasting more chicken or salmon, or whizzing up a sauce or dressing that can do double duty means you’ll have some building blocks for meals to last throughout the week. (There is also an opportunity here to give kids mini cooking lessons: How to cook pasta, how to make a vinaigrette … oh look, lunch is taken