Lunching in

I think I might actually need to start packing lunches. The past couple days I've been buying lunches, and while I am overjoyed to actually get paid this summer, blowing 1/6 of my lovely paycheck on eating out (yes, I make that little/lunch can easily cost that much) as opposed to practical things like rent, or fun things like shoes, kind of seems to defeat most of the paycheck joy. Paying for work lunches is too much like paying to work.

Which leaves me with packing my own lunches, like a good frugal person. Which I'm not. I haven't consistently packed a lunch since elementary school. My tastes have probably changed a bit from when I would scarf down cold Chef Boyardee everyday. During the past school year I would usually just try to power through with out lunch until I went home for the day mid-afternoon. Or, if that was to much to bear and I got lucky, I could often manage to scavenge a free lunch from the various conferences going on. The conferences, and their free lunches have dried up over the summer. I know, poor baby can't steal free food anymore.

On the plus side, I now have access to both a refrigerator and a microwave, so my options have expanded considerably beyond just sandwiches. I hope to be able to just use leftovers for much of my lunching, but since we are now used to making dinners fit for two, without so many leftovers that things go bad, I can't exactly count on that. Also, I'm lazy in the mornings, so I need something I can easily do the night before without it going soggy - a major flaw for sandwiches. Preferably something healthy. And delicious. I'm not about to go through all the effort of lunch packing for something mediocre. My laziness requires some serious yummy motivation.

Any suggestions? I'm thinking some form of pasta salad sounds nice and summery. And that's pretty much all the ideas I've got.