What food do you take to work?

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I'm looking for inspiration! On my work days I take a cereal bar for breakfast, buy a salad and two apples from the shop at the station. Occasionally take leftovers if we have any. Always end up eating biscuits at some point though, and I need to stop. And frankly, it's getting a bit boring, I always get the same salad as they only do two in a small box which fits my bag easily (don't like the other one).

What do you take to work to eat?

I work in an office. I take:

Breakfast - 45g steel cut oats with 25g protein powder (meal prepped at the start of each week). Heat at work and have with 125g high protein Greek yoghurt, berries, half a banana, sprinkle of flaked almonds

lunch - High protein, high fibre, low calorie meal. Tomorrow will be 2 x low carb wraps with 150g spicy chicken breast, salad, plain Greek yoghurt, peri peri sauce.

snacks - cucumber or celery sticks, occasionally 125g high protein Greek yoghurt

I feel pretty full all day with that. For reference I’m 5”2, 48kg, BMI of 19.

I’m only in the office 2 days a week. Depending on when I last batch cooked, I’ll either take homemade dal, ratatouille etc in to heat up in the office microwave or buy a couple of ready meals in my weekly shop.

I like to have a filling breakfast (usually overnight oats with fruit, seeds & nuts) & just have a snack in the evenings, though.

I take a banana for mid morning, and then I have pasta or rice with a chopped up chilli chicken breast, salad and peri sauce, to stop it being dry.

Breakfast: granola with Greek yoghurt, fruit and nuts
lunch: either chopped salad with added pulses and protein (usually chicken or tuna) with vinegrette.
dinner: mostly left overs from the night before. Lasagne with salad, curry and rice, soup etc
snacks: cheese, olives, fruit cereal bar.

I works shifts so it’s a combination of hours, occasional 12hr shift and I feel like I take the contents of my fridge!

i am a 5 minute walk from my office. So I just go home for lunch!

I take overnight oats for breakfast (50g oats, 100ml milk, 100g greek yoghurt, berries, TSP honey, chia seeds), fruit for morning snack, then if I have leftovers (spag bol, veggie chilli etc) that will be lunch, if not I'll buy something like supermarket salad bar or meal deal for lunch. Occasionally an alpro chocolate dessert with lunch. Sometimes I have oat cakes and low fat Philadelphia (you can buy mini tubs of phili) as a snack in the afternoon. For reference I have a 12mile round trip cycle on ebike for work so burn about 400 cals getting to/from work.

I have Greek yoghurt and berry compote for breakfast. Sometimes add oats if I’m going to the gym before work.

Im up at 4am as DS is a swimmer so sometimes take a banana for mid morning.

Lunch is chicken breast or egg. Protein yoghurt with fruit.

In work in a school so lunch is whatever I can eat of and when I get a chance’

Sometimes overnight oats - oats, kefir, chia seeds, fruit. Then, every day for as long as I can remember, cereal bar, a pot of tomatoes/radishes, some cubes of cheese, celery sticks, little pot of hummus. Sometimes fruit.

I take a cheese sandwich and fruit for breakfast.
Usually buy lunch at the canteen.
For snacks I take more fruit, mini cheddars and a chocolate bar.

At the moment, I homemake large portions of any of the following
-Waldorf salad
-Home made tsatsiki & wholemeal pittas
-Apple & carrot salad with walnuts, sultanas & vinaigrette
-Smoked mackerel & potato salad
-Home grown tomatoes, mozzarella & fresh bread
Assorted general salads with crab sticks or cold ham or cold chicken

Plus decent coffee and a variety of fruit. It still costs less than a sandwich from the van.

Too many different things to list but can I also suggest you look at a new lunch bag or tubs to make it easier to transport your food? I got a deep salad tub that fits in a back pack. You could get a few and use for leftovers or prep for the week, look at jar salads for inspiration.

Are there supermarkets near where you work? Even M&S? You could buy all your fruit at the start of the week, likely much cheaper than buying apples two at a time at the station.

I take a home prepped chicken / rice / salad bowl. I always air fry a pack of chicken breasts at the weekend for this, add seasonings etc. Then I’ll take a pot of nuts, some cucumber/ carrots with something to dip them in. In the winter I’ll take a small flask of soup. Sandwiches don’t seem to fill me up so this works better. I have access to shops near the office but prefer to do this for the £ saving. Also addicted to sistema solutions!

I buy enough salad bits to have for the week. And add tinned pulses or pouches of lentils as protein and either a bit of chicken or ham or cheese. The protein means I’m less likely to head for the biscuits mid afternoon. The salad will have seeds or nuts too.

and in winter I make a couple of batches of soup at the weekend and freeze, same as above there’ll be lentils or beans them to give bulk.

alternate with leftovers and I rarely buy lunch. It’s helped me lose a stone over the last coup,e of years, still got a stone to go….

Following for inspo

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lekesky-Insulated-Lunch-Women-Tote/dp/B08HWG5B77

This lunch bag is excellent too. Prices go up and down on it - I think I paid £12.

I make a coffee which I drink on my way in which keeps me going until 11 when I have 2 babybels and some fruit.

Lunch depends how organised I’ve been, either leftovers from the night before, a tuna salad (with sweet potato chunks that I heat up), a ready meal or I will nip to M&S for a poke bowl (but at nearly £6 I try to restrict myself to one a week!). Sometimes get a sweet treat for the afternoon on my lunch hour if nipping to the shops but not always as I can manage without.

I will add though that I am on mounjaro which is what has helped me cut out the afternoon snack, beforehand I would always have crisps, biscuits etc in the afternoon.

I pack a lunchbox with ice block and leave in the car.
Usually a cheese/egg wrap with salad, bag of crisps and a yogurt, only get 1/2 hr and often not much chance to eat any other time.
It often looks like a kids lunchbox but it's simple and quick to make and I'm not very adventurous with food anyway so no faff.

I’m lazy. I take crackers, houmous and falafels. Maybe a yoghurt. I eat breakfast beforehand as I like something substantial (scrambled egg on toast for example) and can’t eat that in the office.

I do finish at 3 though.

if I was there all day every day, likely a porridge pot, then either a homemade salad with decent protein in, a sandwich and yoghurt with fruit, or leftovers.

Yog and banana at 10
Carrot sticks, hummus and crackers with a protein shake for lunch.

I got a similar one from TK Maxx but I commute by car. If I was on the train I'd be trying to get everything in a backpack assuming its just lunch, snacks, laptop, phone, kindle etc.

I take an instant porridge pot (usually either moma or wolfy’s) - the just add water kind - to eat on the train, plus usually a couple of hard boiled eggs.

Lunch I cycle between different things:
— sandwich I’ve made at home (cheese/tuna)

• leftovers (like a lentil dhal, pasta bake etc) that I heat up
• half a pot of supermarket fresh soup with a slice of bread
• merchant gourmet pouch of bean chilli/lentil tagine/lentil bolognese with microwave rice

Leftovers
Sandwiches
salads
Jacket potato
Soup
Occasionally a cheap readymeal

Anything that fills me up, doesn't cost too much, is easy, and which is easily transportable

Breakfast always the same in summer, greek yogurt, fruit (this week strawberries) walnuts and a drizzle of honey, I keep walnuts and honey in my desk at work I take a tub of yoghurt and punnet of fruit big enough for the week, in on a Monday. Day to day it varies sometimes a wrap, sandwich or bagel or a salad but I mix up the salad type depending on what's in the fridge and usually add chickpeas or beans of some kind for extra protein, last week I cooked a side of salmon for dinner so had left overs for two days for salads that was delicious. Sometimes I cook a roast chicken on a Sunday evening for DH and I to use for lunches. Every couple of weeks I treat myself to lunch from an amazing sushi place near my office

I have breakfast at home: yoghurt, berries, nuts, dsp all bran (a small pprtion)

For lunch I take: a mixed salad with: tuna, cottage cheese, salmon, chicken; and a apple and two satsumas.

Also take a large flask for four cups but half and half caff and decaff.

For a less healthy salad at work and a not great coffee I'd pay £7, and £2.10 for extra coffees. No shops local to work.

For lunch: salami stick, grapes, stuffed sweet peppers or mozzarella and cherry tomatoes, mini quiches, blueberries or raspberries.