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 12 hour shift starting at 730am and take a quakers porridge pot to eat after morning drug round we have lunch provided and I have peanuts with cheese about 6pm .

Office days I just have water and a coffee for breakfast then have a banana mid morning. Lunch is usually leftovers (tomorrow is salmon fried rice) and a satsuma and/or apple. I also take my own herbal tea bags otherwise I end up drinking too much shit coffee!

For my husband I make a large fruit salad for his morning breaks. And then for lunch it varies, he mainly has what has been dishes up from tea so pie, roasts, lasagnes etc. or if we have had something that doesn’t heat well I popped some duck legs in the slow cooker and he’s having duck hoisin spring onion and cucumber wraps tomorrow. I make him salads with coleslaw, meats and cheeses and new potatoes. Stuffed jackets. Coronation chicken sandwiches/wraps he likes too xx

Just to add, soups are also great to have you can freeze them etc. soup and a sandwich always goes down well x

Generous sandwich: ham, cheese, egg, salad etc.

Slice of cake

Couple of bits of fruit.

Sometimes some cheese.

Soup, warm up in microwave

I always buy a coffee and a diet pepsi

Mine can be really hit and miss depending how busy/knackered I am (last couple of weeks of term was absolute chaos - Haribo, biscuits and iced coffee for breakfast, meal deal in the car for lunch 🤦🏼‍♀️).

If I'm being a proper grown up 😂 I prep 2-3 days worth of overnight oats and salads on a Sunday night, then the rest of the week's meals on a Wednesday.

Overnight oats I try to make as indulgent as possible as otherwise I don't fancy them. 40g oats mixed with vanilla yoghurt and a little milk, with a heaped tsp of low cal hot chocolate powder stirred through and layered up with fresh raspberries is my favourite.

Salads - usually Merchant Gourmet grains with whatever salad veg is kicking about in the fridge, chicken/tuna/salmon or roast veg with hummus, sweet chilli sauce and toasted spicy seeds. It's filling enough that I don't necessarily need to take anything else.

I work 10 hour shifts and my commute is 3 hours. So I take all my food with me for the day.. exhausting, but otherwise I eat crap.
I have good facilities at work ( fridge, microwave, plates, cuttlery etc) so I can heat things as needed.

Lately I have been prepping frittatas and take them with me- basically whatever veg I fancy in a cast iron pan, put some eggs on top and bake it. I like it and it’s very filling.
If I bring porridge I have a good Thermos and nothing leaks- so that’s an option.

Then for lunch and dinner I bring proper meals. This week’s my partner made a big batch of bolognaise and I vary the carbs. Yesterday I had butternut squash, courgettes and aubergines. Today I have boiled potatoes.

I also really like this cottage cheese- All Things Cottage Cheese- it’s delicious and goes really well with fruit if you fancy something lighter ( and don’t like yoghurt).

If you don’t have heating facilities then it’s probably a bit harder but things like pasta dishes would work well- I like cold pasta. Or boiled potatoes with whatever bits to make a salad to your liking.

Jesus washingforweeks can you please marry me the food sounds incredible 😅

I have just discovered that cottage cheese after looking for an alternative to longley farm. Love the tub this one comes in too.

The frittata sounds like it would suit me at work. So you just add everything to the pan and bake in the oven? I haven't got an oven pan could I use a pyrex dish?

Could add some cottage cheese to it which reminds me of an old slimming world meal!

Thank you @Coffeewithmilknosugar

Hi @GameOfJones do you have a link for the yogurt pot please? Is it insulated?

I got mine off Amazon and it looks like it's now out of stock but there are lots of similar options. They're often sold as overnight oats pots and many of them come with spoons.

Meal deal from Sainsburys. The shop is immediately below my office.

I work from home but my partner takes same thing each day and has saved so much money since taking food. He will always have eggs for breakfast and then take in

• over night oats with berries and chia seeds for mid-morning snack
• leftovers for lunch— we always make too much dinner each evening for the purpose of leftovers for the both of us the following day
• sliced apple or celery sticks with peanut butter for afternoon snack

Absolutely nothing. Work provides Cereal, porridge, granola and a variety of yoghurt and fruit.

I usually buy something at lunch.

I hate when people heat left overs at work, hope youre all eating it in the kitchen and not at your desk.