What is Reddit's opinion of HOTLOGIC Mini Portable Oven, Food Warmer Electric Lunch Box with 12V Vehicle Plug, Mini Personal Heated Lunch Box for Cooking and Reheating Meals in Vehicles and Trucks for Work or Travel (Blue)?

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This guy has been a super sourpuss in this subreddit to the point where I think he's just trolling.

There's plenty of safe and good ways to cook in/out of your prius, and to prove it I'll throw one in the pot: I like my hotlogic mini, it cooks food off of the cigarette lighter:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_KEFZJEFS6Y4EH7AK925N

Works great, you just need a little patience.

If you can afford it and have a USB charger you can buy some rechargeable hand warmers and stick them in your sock after you double them up (sock, warmer, other sock) so it's not on your skin. Or you could buy the hand warmers that are at the gas station. But I think a double rechargeable is only like $30, since I've been looking for it myself. And definitely look into this thing... It's used with truckers a lot... It's a little lunch bag looking thing that will heat up meals slowly. Potentially using it while you're running your car. I think something like this. https://www.amazon.com/HOTLOGIC-Portable-Electric-Personal-Reheating/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=asc_df_B074TYC7DY/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198057551909&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9993061987209756801&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvq...

Nutritionally balanced and well rounded meals don't need to be fancy or complicated. My dinner most nights is protein, veggies & a carb and takes a handful of minute to make, mostly because it's all already made.

Grilled chicken with barbecue sauce, steamed carrots with brown sugar, brown rice with cottage cheese. Meatballs, steamed green beans with low calorie cheese, potatoes with cottage cheese. Baked fish and shrimp, steamed cauliflower, mac and cheese. Etc. I mostly buy foods that are already cooked and frozen and just need to be reheated. Fish cooks fast enough that I can buy it raw, and I use steam in bag rice type products, but everything cooks in minutes in a microwave, or in a Hot Logic while I'm driving.

I'm not lazy, but I work full time, commute 3 hours a day and have ADHD and other psychological problems that make motivation, organization and basic life skills difficult, so I need to make things as easy as possible for me to be able to do them successfully. My meals aren't fancy or complex, but they're tasty, colorful and nutritionally well balanced.

I just add it to the dish. I buy the individual 4oz cottage cheese cups and prefer to freeze them first. It gives it a more dry, crumbly texture kind of like a feta, but it'll still get melty and creamy when you cook it but with less liquid. Otherwise, just add it to the pot/pan/whatever while the food is cooking.

For rice or grits or couscous, I'd wait 'til all of the water is absorbed and then add the cottage cheese and let it stay on the heat a bit longer. For pasta, I'd add it after the water is drained, and same deal. Put it back on the heat for a bit for the cottage cheese to heat up and mix in.

I steamed shredded potatoes and shredded cabbage the other night and mixed the cottage cheese in at the start and just let it all cook and then mixed it together when it was done.

Honestly, I do most of my cooking in a Hot Logic so I just throw all of the ingredients into a meal prep container and let the Hot Logic do its thing.

If I had to pick one item, Hot Logic. No, really. I have an hour and a half commute to work each way. Having the ability to cook food while I'm driving and have a healthy meal ready to eat when I get home has been game changing for me. No more temptation to grab fast food on the way home, or to get a huge meal delivered and then snack while I'm waiting because I'm hungry.

Also, a simple, free calorie tracker (I just use the Fitbit website).

Yep. Hot Logic. Love it. Absolutely game changing for me.

I'll be using it to cook my dinner on my way home. Today is chicken meatballs, cheesy grits with cottage cheese and parmesan, green beans & sugar snap peas.

Sometimes it's fish, shrimp, rice and veggies. Sometimes it's grilled chicken, potatoes and veggies. It does fine cooking raw fish and shrimp. I don't trust it to cook things like raw chicken or beef. But it's great at heating up cooked but frozen chicken or meatballs, etc.

>I spend a lot of time sedentary in the car.

Hot Logic? I love mine. I have an hour and a half commute to work each way. I love being able to arrive at work and have a hot breakfast ready to eat, or a hot dinner ready to eat when I get home in the evening.

Otherwise, agree with meal prep in general, foods that are nutritious and easy to eat on the go, and fast food options that are healthier when possible.

They’ve got food warmers that plug into 12v in a vehicle. If your work truck has a 110 inverter, they’ve got that too.

Check out amazon.

Hot Logic 16801045-BL Food Warming Tote 12V, Lunch, Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZhFsEbFXG1XE3

I use this. Hot Logic Food Warming Tote 12V, Lunch, Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_005C47ZX0V5W5FJ1R5A4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Works for some. Doesn't work for me. If I let myself get too hungry, it sets me up for a very unhealthy binge/restrict cycle. I do better eating every few hours. During the week when I'm at work, I eat 5-6 times a day. Breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, dessert, and sometimes a late night snack. Weekends, I may sleep in and then do a larger breakfast/lunch combo, dinner, dessert, late night snack.

I don't cook all of those meals, though. I do minimal meal prepping. Breakfast during the work week is usually instant oatmeal and a protein shake, coffee with creamer. Lunch might be a cup of instant soup & some veggies, or a pita with chicken salad and hummus and some fruit. Afternoon snack is usually carbs + protein. Crackers with protein spread. Dry roasted edamame and some fruit. Dinner is meat based protein + carb + veggies. Or maybe a giant sandwich. Or a giant salad with meat based protein. Or a frozen pizza with added protein and veggies. Dessert might be a 40 calorie popsicle or a 250 calorie candy bar or anything in between depending on my calories for the day. Late night snack might be a Wasa cracker with Laughing Cow cheese. Last night it was a 70 calorie Fiber One brownie.

On Saturday, I have a fast food lunch and then usually a large salad for dinner. I might have a small protein shake or a single serving of instant oatmeal, or maybe not if I sleep in. Sunday is when I usually do a hot breakfast, although I'm starting to do hot breakfasts during the work week since I have an hour and a half commute and a Hot Logic that will cook or heat food while I'm driving. My breakfast today was 2 egg white spinach frittatas, 3 turkey sausage links, shredded potatoes & broccoli slaw with a wedge of laughing cow cheese. Coffee with creamer once I got to work. (I'll cook dinner on my way home. Fish, shrimp, rice with cottage cheese, green beans & sugar snap peas I love my Hot Logic.)

I average around 1500 calories/day. My maintenance calories at my goal weight should be around that much, for a couple of years at least.

Hot Logic Mini - 12V Version - Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_1QA2MDZF9H5N5RT78A0W?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I got this little lunchbox that goes into the cigarette lighter, heats up food; and then I got glass tupperware and put pre-made meals in there.

Hot chili, buffalo chicken, Spanish rice; whatever I want really. Highly recommend.

This is my lunchbox:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074TYC7DY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

This is the tupperware

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BYD57JG/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_asin\_title\_o04\_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

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Check this out for hot food. Need to get a portable battery pack also. I use mine all the time.

Hot Logic Mini - 12V Version - Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_WKTNCHG4DYMFZJP1C3A7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I imagine something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B074TYC7DY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_W10Y9EF7FQFTZ7AC7ATY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have this, but I'm not on the particular job I would use it.

you could get a lunch warmer so that what ever you put in it will be hot until she takes it out. this way on your way there it will keep it hot for her

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Logic-Mini-Version-Blue/dp/B074TYC7DY/

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One above is for the car but I have used the AC version 'discreetly' at my work (hidden under table) to reheat everything from left overs to fully frozen meals. I never trusted our work microwave and even less so now.