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Original poster

To ask for low calorie lunches I can eat one handed while also doing a lunch duty?

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DrSeuss · 22/08/2024 22:24

For various reasons, including my current car being on it's last legs, I will be signing up for lunch duty at least twice a week this coming term. I also have at least three stones to lose. As a TA, I have no frees at any point where I can sit down to eat, just my half hour break which I will have to voluntarily give up to do lunch duty. Not my favourite thing to do but two sessions a week will mean another £120 a month which should cover a replacement car.

Please may I have your suggestions of something I can eat one handed while holding a radio in the other and supervising the queue for the toilets? Yes, that right, I became a TA for the untold riches and glamorous life style!
Thanks.

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llamajohn · 22/08/2024 22:34

Or just have a bigger breakfast and skip lunch and eat once kids have gone for the day or something

llamajohn · 22/08/2024 22:33

Just have a protein based smoothie in a travel mug.

Like yoghurt, peanut butter and bananas ..
That kind of thing.

ComtesseDeSpair · 22/08/2024 22:29

Can you make sushi? It’s not very difficult and the basic ingredients are both healthy and not expensive. You don’t have to cut rolls into bite size pieces - you can just eat the roll. Or you can cut and eat one-handed.

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DrSeuss · 22/08/2024 22:29

Probably not the soup but the other ideas spin good, thank you.

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Anewuser · 22/08/2024 22:29

Well I’m a TA and to be honest don’t really know what you mean.

You want lunch ideas when you can only use one hand?

I’d have a wrap or a bread roll.

Martymcfly24 · 22/08/2024 22:27

Would you be allowed soup in a thermal mug with a lid, make it thin enough you can drink.
A wholemeal wrap/ pitta filled with salad and protein that is wrapped carefully.
Mini crustless quiches with lots vegetables.

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DrSeuss · 22/08/2024 22:26

No idea why a poll has been added! People with jobs outside education probably don't get it. If you are a fellow traveller, you know just what I mean.

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