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 eat breakfast at home (usually porridge) and take a banana for mid morning and usually some kind of salad for lunch. When I’m feeling organised I make a batch of couscous / orzo or a tray of roasted veg and prep a salad using that. I’ll also take leftovers of pasta or chilli if we have that.
For snacks I’ll always have a couple of pieces of fruit. I find a small tub of mixed dried fruit and nuts is the best thing to fulfil the 4pm biscuit craving.

I take:

Breakfast: a banana and a tub of Greek yoghurt (with a squirt of honey). Or a tub of Fruit and Fibre cereal. I add the milk provided at work.

Lunch : a wrap with ham or chicken and some salad. I alternate this with a pasta salad.

I haven’t purchased lunch food anywhere for years (I’m just tight plus otherwise I’d buy endless Greggs Sausage Rolls).

I have breakfast at home but if not I would take porridge or fruit and yogurt. Lunches are varied. Cheese and crackers, avocado and crackers. Salad with falafel or quiche. Left over chilli or curry with rice. Soups. Peanut butter and apple. Snacks are usually nuts or a banana and sometimes a cereal bar or skinny whip

When you say porridge, how are you transporting it? Do you make it that morning or are you eating it cold?
Same question for yoghurt- do you decant it into a flask the night before or just take the pot? I don't actually like yoghurt but it seems to be the go to thing to take. Is it just a case of forcing myself to eat it until I'm used to it?
I eat muesli or porridge when I'm at home, milk in a flask seems a little risky in a backpack with my laptop!

I don’t transport porridge but if I’m taking dal or something similar I use a plastic box with a lid that I can lock down on all four sides.

Breakfast smoothie - banana, blueberries, blackberries, frozen raspberries, walnuts, ground almonds, ground flax seed, honey, natural yoghurt and milk. DH gets half (WFH) and I take my half in a commuter cup. Currently wrap with homemade hummus (loosened with water rather than lots of oil) and some finely chopped veg for lunch. In the winter I make soup at weekends and freeze it. Simple, healthy, not the most exciting but easy.

I always eat breakfast at home before work.

For lunch I'll make a sandwich or salad to take into the office.

Snacks are usually my downfall as we have an office full of 'feeders' that like to bring in treats to feed everyone.

The same applies to coffee at work.

When I'm working from home, I can actually 'forget' to eat! 😂

No! If you are an adult and you don’t like yoghurt and have presumably tried loads over the years… don’t force yourself to like it. Especially when there’s loads of other options

Can you keep milk in the office fridge?

Gosh, all these ideas are so healthy and balanced and sensible!

Hides a cheese and jam sandwich and a twix and a hot choc

Tuna crunch roll from Greggs 😋

DH made me sandwiches to take to work every day until I retired. 😍

Fillings could be a bit pot luck, but hey!

In summer I make various budha bowls. In winter I take In curries or burritos depending where im going to be based and what the kitchen arrangements are.

Salad with grains and feta/hot smoked salmon/chicken/flavoured tuna.
Leftovers
Homemade soup
Smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich
Cold frittata or Spanish omelette
Houmous with pita bread or oat cakes and veg sticks
Always 2 pieces of fruit, sometimes a yoghurt.

I have breakfast at home, porridge with seeds, fruit and kefir yoghurt. Cup of strong coffee.

I take a Ninja portable blender with soya milk, protein powder and berries for mid morning. Then I usually have lunch around 1.30-2pm, and have a green salad with some sort of protein in summer, home made soup in winter or leftovers from the night before if I've prepped enough.

Work in a fairly physical customer facing role where we're expected to do all our eating on our scheduled lunch, so need fairly filling stuff with decent nutritional value.
Breakfast (at home) chia porridge, overnight oats or porridge. Eggs if I've got a late start. Banana/protein bar in the car if I'm running late.
Lunch: savoury muffins (homemade) or soup or leftovers (I use a food thermos. Shared microwaves are grim). Maybe some tomatoes or veg sticks and hummus or olives and/or cheese. Often a slice of homemade cake or yoghurt and fruit.
I batch cook and freeze lots of stuff, so on the day prep is minimal.

Cheese sandwiches.
Sometimes with pickle but never butter (can't stand the stuff).
Took them every day for my whole working life apart from a brief period when a staff restaurant was available.😁

Sandwiches, pesto pasta, focaccia and cheese

I take a couple of salads that I make, nothing fancy, my favourite at the moment is strong cheddar, watercress, cucumber, lettuce, just love the flavour combination, then a second one of different combinations. I take olives, an apple, a punnet of fruit which unfortunately I tend to eat, occasionally a portion of nuts depends on the calories Im working with that day. I try to swap my proteins around so Im not eating the same type all the time. I batch cook and put into portions to just chuck into my salad for each day. I freeze everything so have portions of cooked chicken and veg, salmon, mince and veg etc. I do the same with pulses and veg as mixtures so beans and peppers, cook up a batch of that with various flavours and freeze into portions. Then it just gets mixed and matched depending on what flavours I want that day.

I always make lunch and breakfast for work.

Im also a plain yogurt and oats person. I chuck frozen fruits on top that defrost by about 10ish when I eat it.

Lunch is salads/buddha bowl thing with whatever is in the fridge, i often cook extra the night before so I have left overs to reheat.

In the freezer, I have loads of single portions of home made soup, chilli, curries, lasagnia. I batch cook regularly. Those are my back ups if theres nothing else.

Snacks are little pots of nuts/apricots/baby bels/crudets

I do toasted sandwiches. Buy a loaf of bread, use baking paper to stop the buttered sides sticking to the bag. Make up the full loaf of bread into sandwiches. Put into bags and freeze. Grab one as I leave of a morning as well as an apple. I've never been a snacker and sometimes it's hard to get enough time to toast a sandwich.

Banana and coffee for breakfast, and maybe an oat bar

Usually lunch is a Tesco meal deal

Then as the shift is 10 hours, I'll have something later like a chocolate bar or chocolate nuts and tea

I eat breakfast at home (fruit and yogurt, shreddies with seeds and milk). I only work at the office two dsys a week usually. I just take a sandwich and the office provide fruit for staff, so I snack on that. I try to have something more than a basic sandwich when I wfh. So leftover dinner from a previous night, eggs on toast, omelette, home made soup etc

I'm a creature of habit and find it easier to stick to very similar meals for breakfast and lunch that I know are healthy and get some nutrition in me. I change things up more for dinner.

If I have to take breakfast into the office it is always yoghurt, chia seeds and frozen fruit. I have a screw top portable yoghurt pot so it's easy to assemble in the evening, leave overnight in the fridge for the fruit to defrost and just take it out in the morning.

Lunch is almost always soup and a banana because it's easy but in this weather when it's been hot I take a little snack box of cold foods so depending on what I've got available it can be any mixture of falafel, olives, stuffed peppers, cubes of cheese, carrot sticks, boiled egg, chopped pepper, cucumber, sugar snap peas, rice cakes, grapes, mixed nuts etc

Creature of habit, so have this most days. Harissa chicken and spinach pasta, with salad. I make it on a Sunday, and batch it up for the week. Only 120g cooked pasta / spinch / chicken so not hugely calorific given its pasta, but its so tasty. I then have fruit.