To hate the office lunch box police

[lastqueenofscotland]

Anyone else have these, the ones that disect the nutritional value of your lunch, the ones that hovver until you have given a full and detailed rundown of exactly what you're eating, or the worst the woman who comes and sticks her face in ot and smells it uninvited to do so?!

I can deal with lost office etiquette but this is driving me up the wall at the moment.

I wish there were a general rule that people not comment on what others are eating. And that "No, thank you" be enough of a response when you don't want to eat something you are offered.

I've also had an incredibly insensitive person comment "oh you have lost soo much weight" after I returned from sick leave for an eating disorder. And her friend who commented that "she had never seen such a skinny person eat so much" after I'd tried to make my plate look a bit like everyone else's at a work buffet.

My typical response to the "should I eat this? Oh, will I get fat if I eat this?" questions is to say "eat what you want, you're an intelligent/creative/talented person and your lunch has no bearing on that". Anything to turn the conversation away from the idea that some foods are bad for you or that what you eat has anything to do with your value as a human being or work colleague.

This thread has brought me out in a sweat, thinking about going back to a workplace and fielding food police comments. Sigh. It's always boring, and sometimes rude and intrusive.

I once made the mistake of telling 2 colleagues that i had joined slimming world one appointed hersf my personal work counceller telling me the syns in everything that passed my lips every drop of water was watched drove me mad till i told her to f%4# off. Then when pregnant ive had others commenting i shouldnt eat that chocolate bar, i was putting weight on (isnt that the idea?) And other unwanted snippets of random advice often greeted with a death stare

I take a salad to work for lunch each day and people are always asking 'how's the diet going?' and I have to say'it's not, I'm not on a diet, I just like salad, is that ok?!'. 😡

Oh i feel left out. We had a canteen with minimal choices. The extent of our convo about food was "oh you went for that. Me too." If we ever even spoke about food!

Cake?.... for breakfast?! Just do one and go and eat your bloody cereal

I used to get this at school, can't believe there's fully grown adults still behaving like this I wasn't keen on sandwiches so used to take in cold pasta or something and one day a friend told me my cous cous looked like spiders eggs and I couldn't eat it again for months!
Also all the crap about "missing out" on meat... I don't like it! It isn't missing out! I still get that a lot mind.

Never tell your colleagues if you're on a diet. God help you if you decide to use some of your calories/syns/points on a bag of crisps or small chocolate bar.

SW and WW bores are the worst, and I say this as a slimming world member! You have ample time in group to talk about the joys of fecking muller light, no need to talk about your weird concoctions with normal people.

And yes, mugshits and lots of crap dried noodles are 'free'. I prefer having a bit of fruit or cooking something proper though.

I was constantly quizzed on what I ate when I was pregnant. (usually MacDonald milkshakes and gherkins). I had a huge thing for cough candy and had real trouble finding it so would often eat fisherman's friends. The amount of comment I got about my stinky sweets!

mugshits

Different work place but I found pregnancy brought out all the food commentators in their ignorant droves. 'No, you massive twat I am not having strange cravings, it's a fucking sandwich' 'no, I do not need to put some meat on my bones, I am pregnant, not preparing for hibernation or planning to breastfeed during a famine where I will need ample reserves'. 'No, I have this wonderful thing called a placenta, which is doing just fine, and if it weren't I wouldn't be eating your nasty biscuits in an effort to provide more nutrients'

rattie "did the director not laugh in her face"

No. The director do not laugh. He took everything from this little girl voiced crazy VERY seriously.
...Pretty sure they were having an affair. All branches of the company were convinced of it. To get a pay rise from this guy you needed to flirt or have a penis. And the relationship between this woman and the boss was hideous and uncomfortable to witness. He was old enough to be her "daddy" It was also frightening how basic business practices were dismissed when her needy baby voice came out.

We were told to stop eating rice.

So I did it anyway. Fuckers.

Could I have gone to HR?
Nope. HR was the director's wife.

SOOOO GLAD IM OUT OF THERE!

I've never eaten a Pot Noodle. To me they are the scrapings from behind the fridge with a kettle poured on.

But I would not say that to someone eating them.

I was in Sainsbury's today and I passed the Pot Noodle aisle. One had been knocked on the floor and I picked it up and put it back on the shelf because that's the kind of public-spirited person I am.

That's the closest I've ever been to a Pot Noodle.

I have a chicken &mushroom Pot Noodle every ** lunch time and I'm very middle aged Mrs DV!

My arsehole ex-boss, when I was 36 weeks pregnant having lost stone through extreme sickness, said when I was toasting a bagel, "you know that's the equivalent of like 6 slices of bread?!". Oh aye, I really look worried about that piece if nonsense trivia you've just made up, erse! Grrr

4 stone even

Excellent post