Food ideas when I don't get a lunch break

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I've just shortened my hours at work to 9.30 - 2.30 and therefore don't get a lunch break. I can still eat at my desk but needs to be more discreet food so not like soup or something that has to be cooked/microwaved. Any ideas of healthy snacks to get me through these hours? Will be taking fruit

Assuming you have breakfast before going to work, can't you manage with fruit until you get back home? 5 hours isn't long to go without lunch

Fruit and nut mix. Protein bar.

I would eat a breakfast bar.

sandwich, yogurt, crisps, crudites, snack bars, fruit

I would have a ham and salad wrap. Easy to eat with one hand.

You can't sit at your desk for 5 hours OP. I thought workers were legally entitled to a 20 minute break after 4 hours. Am I misremembering? That's plenty time to heat/eat some soup.

@DoWhatYouLikeOrShutUp I don't think so. I'd have breakfast but travel is 30 minutes each way so that's another hour I lose. I'm an eat little and often type

@MouldyCandy it's 20 minutes if you work 6 hours or more, I did just check as well

20 minutes if you work over 6 hours.

@MouldyCandy its 20 minutes in 6 hours.

People eating anything that looks like a meal at their desk are very much frowned on by the rest of the team at our place. Our lunch break is unpaid so eating lunch while 'working' is seen as taking the piss.

Protein shake will help keep you feeling full but not look like food.

Baby bel an apple and some oatcakes to nibble.
Banana and raisins.
Cup a soup

I take a couple of small boxes. One with small fruit, cherries, raspberries, whatever's on reduced to clear etc. One usually has small pieces of peppers, cherry tomatoes (which I grow) and some protein. Today is cooked chicken breast but often it's either some nuts or a few slices of salami. The trick is nothing smelly and nothing that gives you grubby fingers.

Surely soup in a cup is ideal. Stick it in the microwave and sip it like coffee?

I would take cashew nuts, dried fruit and drink a glass of milk.

I only work a few hours so don't qualify for a lunch break. I bring a salad sandwich, breakfast bar, banana and a stanley cup filled with warm water. When the weather gets colder, I'm going to bring my food flask filled with a hot beef stew.

I second a protein shake, banana, trail mix.

Protein shakes
Many don't need refrigeration either so great to keep in the car

I used to do 8:30 to 2:30 and got used to a small snack or something very quick to eat like a ham roll which I could eat in two minutes while taking a break from my desk.

On days I know I will struggle to get a break, I take a protein shake and a piece of fruit. Gets me through!

I would take a snack around 11 and 1,30 - but would use apple and nuts and or bit of cheese. Just be careful of surrounding nut allergies.

smoothy wont last too long in terms of satiating you but a protein bar or similar would also be a good shout.

Plenty of water will help too

If you have a lidded insulated reusable coffee mug thing, you could put soup in it and no one would know.