New job - already fed up with unhealthy ‘working lunches‘

[AliceSeal]

I’ve been in my new job since February and in the main really enjoy it. However, we have monthly ‘planning meetings’ which so far are always scheduled to run through lunch (usually 11-3) and the bosses arrange for a lunch to be provided. Last month, it was a job lot of Greggs ‘beige’ - sausage rolls etc, and today it was stacks of dominoes which everyone could pile in to.

I haven’t said anything so far as I don’t want to appear ungrateful, and the majority of my colleagues seemed ecstatic with these choices, but as someone who is quite big on health and fitness, this is really irritating. We get a 5-10
minute break from this at most which isn’t enough time for me to do much more than go to the loo (big office with microwave facilities downstairs and always a queue over lunch).

Would you ask to get a longer break so I can have my own lunch? I’m just conscious this will delay the meeting for everyone else so very wary of asking.

Did you used to be fat OP? Most people I know with a such a restrictive diet are ex podgier ladies themselves, a bit like when ex smokers suddenly become anti smoking evangelists.

Thoughts and prayers on the lunchbox anyway.

OP I'm not a porker, I meal prep based on macros, I am very committed to health and fitness, I'm a successful entrepreneur... But you are a dickhead.

Agree. I initially thought it was weekly but monthly is almost a non issue especially if you do eat junk yourself albeit strictly controlled etc. If it were me as a new team member I would probably take in my pre warmed meal prep in a food flask and prob grab a communal roll or pizza and then the next month once people get to know me and that I’m not stuck up or owt I’d stop joining in completely and just eat only my own food. If you really can’t stand the hot flask then after a few months once you’ve proven yourself already as a good team player/worker, I guess you could ask then and it wouldn’t seem so strange or that you don’t want to join in.

Are you bollocks

I'm a size 14 and have been known to scoff the occasional slice of pizza.

Flask of hot soup.

I really think companies need to encourage healthy eating , not any old crap. Schools aren’t allowed to serve up unhealthy food to children. Employees need to have autonomy over what we put in our bodies and not be pressured to eat junk. If we eat junk it should be when we want to and junk food of our own choosing!!

It’s one lunch each month.
Bring your own if it bothers you that much.

First world problems!

Can you not get a thermal lunch box for those days?

Just take a thermos if your lunch needs to be warm - my daughter takes hot soup to school in hers - it stays warm for hours.

So if this is bollocks
why is it still here

@AliceSeal

Every time you post you come across as more and more insufferable.

I'd give you a biscuit but don't want to upset your macro...

Don’t make an issue. Simply bring a cheese and tomato sandwich.

Just lol-ed in airport waiting room. Suspect people now think I’m mad, but thank you!

Get a thermos to bring in a heated home prepared meal or accept that cold meals are preferable to the bought in food.

I think asking for a longer break would delay matters, or a later start. Probably a planning meeting that could be done in half the time with a good person chairing it, though I doubt you could get that to happen.

As for the unhealthy offerings, is there a local small business that could provide something that you could urge the company to adopt instead? Dress it up as helping the local community?

Awwww just seen the MNHQ message. I was too late to join the (pizza) party. Booooo.

To teach all mn porky underachievers a steely lesson about being a six figure titan in the corporate world. Lesson that doesn’t include lunch provision though

But in your original post, you said you started in February? Also, why do you mention you were ‘head hunted’ lol? It’s like you’re trying too hard to ‘prove’ you are what you say you are whilst struggling to figure out a monthly lunch solution which maybe why so many MNers are calling BS…

Can you take your food in a flask?

I think you need some Greggs in your life. May make you more chilled.

It's once a month...

As the OP has been banned for being slim and successful, I’m happy to take over with the ‘slim people are just better’ troll bingo.

My colleagues are all over their birth weight and spend all their time scoffing and scarfing and stuffing their faces with UPFs the disgusting pigs.

If only they were as disciplined and virtuous as me. It’s one lick of an almond once a day, twice on Sundays and Christmas. Anything else is gluttony!

Shock 😲 horror 😱 imagine a size 14 person!
How do you cope bring in a room with such peeps 🙄

It’s monthly - 12 times a year, you will probably miss a couple with annual leave. I’m sure you will live.