Forget your kids: how do you bring your lunch to work?

Why should a great, healthy and portable lunch be confined to a school cafeteria? And who says that sandwiches are just for your kids? Bringing your lunch to work is a great, healthy alternative to eating out and buying every day.

We're in love with pesto right now and pasta is a great no-heat solution for work lunches. And for our recent Sandwich Issue we made tons of sandwiches, and learned how to wrap them up deli-style with parchment paper, and pack them in brown bags. But the brown bag is long overdue for an update.

To solve the problem of bringing your lunch like a grownup, we went out in search of the perfect lunch totes and reusable sandwich containers and found some great, eco-friendly and very chic options. Here are our nine favorite lunch containers in which to pack your next lunch for work.

Do you bring your lunch to work? If so, how do you tote it?