To snack during zoom meetings?

[Fiep]

Every day I have to log onto a meeting which is largely not applicable to me. We have a camera on, microphone off culture which I am fine with. However this interminable meeting coincides with my snack time so I’m often having my mid morning snack while listening / multitasking.

DD gets me up at 5:30am so I definitely need morning snacks to make it to lunch. Nobody else ever eats in meetings though so I just wondered whether I’m breaking the etiquette.

AIBU to snack?

YABU: control yourself, woman, and stop eating ion screen, nobody wants to see this

YANBU: nobody cares what you’re doing if you’re just a lurker, munch away.

[quote MuckyPlucky]@RampantIvy - I too do triathlons, but it never occurred to me to have ‘snack time’ every 2 hours in meetings.[/quote]
Does this mean other sporty types can’t be inconvenienced away from their continuous necessary energy consumption eating habits from other activities including commitment to work/meetings without being malnourished? Intrigued as to lifestyle work multitasking dynamic.

@Reslpsa

I can’t understand your millions of double-negatives & subordinate clauses whilst temporarily, ahem, ‘refreshed’, but my post was in reaction to someone upthread who claimed that because they do triathlons they need to snack every 2 hours, be that in meetings or not. I personally (as someone who also does triathlons, as well as regularly trains for other sports) think that’s bollox. Everyone I know is a sporty type but none of us continually snack all the time & certainly don’t use our general sportiness as an excuse to snack I n meetings.

I suspect you agree with me, but are perhaps confused as to the tone of my original post, which was just reacting to some other triathletes nonsense excuse for snacking!

[quote MuckyPlucky]@Reslpsa

I can’t understand your millions of double-negatives & subordinate clauses whilst temporarily, ahem, ‘refreshed’, but my post was in reaction to someone upthread who claimed that because they do triathlons they need to snack every 2 hours, be that in meetings or not. I personally (as someone who also does triathlons, as well as regularly trains for other sports) think that’s bollox. Everyone I know is a sporty type but none of us continually snack all the time & certainly don’t use our general sportiness as an excuse to snack I n meetings.

I suspect you agree with me, but are perhaps confused as to the tone of my original post, which was just reacting to some other triathletes nonsense excuse for snacking![/quote]
My professional coach would beg to differ as would any nutritionist working with athletes.

You also convenient missed out the bit where I said that I train twice a day. Eating breakfast, lunch and dinner simply doesn't cut it. Today I ate lunch then went swimming. Due to being in back to back work meetings I didn't eat again all afternoon. By the time I finished at 5.30 I had a headache and the shakes because my blood sugar levels were too low. I should've eaten something at around 2.30pm.

But hey, you know me better than me right?

I've changed my mind knowing this is one of the few times you can eat. If you were otherwise doing solo work but chose to eat in a meeting with camera on I'd say YABU but the meeting you describe and the work you do, YANBU