brown-bagging

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brown-bagging (American informal)

taking your own food, usually in a brown paper bag, to eat in the middle of the day when you are not at home We've stopped brown-bagging - it's too cold now to eat in the park.

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The trick to bringing a lunch to work is making a variety of tasty options that won''t leave you bored and resentful after your first week of brown-bagging it. Business Lunch Box 2.0 by Yodle Local / General interest community The trick to bringing a lunch to work is making a variety of tasty options that won''t leave you bored and resentful after your first week of brown-bagging it. Business Lunch Box 2.0 by Alex Tatarinov-Levin / Food/cooking/nutrition community Consumers are definitely in a cost-cutting mode, and brown-bagging saves them money," says Harry Balzer, vice president, The NPD Group, and author of Eating Patterns in America. NPD Finds More Consumers Brown-Bagging Lunch by Business Wire			bristle at bristle with rage britches broach with broad broad as a barn door broad in the beam broad strokes broaden broaden horizons broaden out broke broken broken dreams broken reed brood about broom brother brought brow browbeat into brown brown as a berry brown off brown out brown-bagging brown-nose browned browse browse among browse on browse over bruit about brunt brush brush against brush aside brush away brush by brush down brush off brush over brush up brush with death brush-off bubble bubble over bubble up buck buck for buck naked			brown, of hyperparathyroidism node brown, of hyperparathyroidism node Brown, Olympia Brown, Paul Brown, Ralph Brown, Raymond Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Robert Brown, Robert Brown, Ron Brown, Ronald Harmon Brown, Samuel Robbins Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, Sterling Brown, Stuff We're Bad! Brown, Tony Brown, Trisha Brown, Walter Folger Brown, Walter Folger Brown, William Adams Brown, William Henry Brown, William Wells Brown-Adson forceps brown-bag brown-bag brown-bag lunch brown-bagged brown-bagger brown-bagging brown-bags brown-black Brown-Brenn Stain Brown-capped Rosy-finch Brown-Driver-Briggs Brown-Gersten-Quillen brown-glazed brick brown-gray brown-green brown-grey brown-haired Brown-headed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird brown-headed cowbirds brown-headed cowbirds Brown-Hiller-Clark & Associates brown-nose brown-nose brown-nosed brown-noser brown-nosers brown-noses brown-nosing Brown-out Brown-out Brown-Out Detection Brown-Out Reset Brown-Out Reset Voltage

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