So I'm going to try to start doing the 5-7 meals a day thing. I would like some recommendations of things that I can bring in from home that would work for me. I have a desk job and I work with the public, so there is no chance of me being able to eat anything that requires a fork and is messy. Quick finger foods that I can stuff into a baggy or that is easy to set aside should the situation happen where a client walked into my office.
Sport While I'm at work meals/snacks
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What the heck is fruit leather?
All of those sound really good btw, thanks for the reply. I'd like to see some more from other people to get more ideas!
The beauty of fruit leather--aside of the taste--is that it's convenient! It's thin/flat, rolled out fruit, individually packaged. You can a pack in your wallet. Probably. I'm thinking that you've seen it in stores and didn't know maybe that it was called fruit leather. (When I first heard about it, I said, "FRUIT leather. FRUIT leather? Huh?" 
There are lots of recipes for making it at home, but it's just so, so messy and sticky. They can be a little expensive if you buy them one at a time, so maybe watch for sales or find it in bulk?
Have fun!
There are lots of recipes for making it at home, but it's just so, so messy and sticky. They can be a little expensive if you buy them one at a time, so maybe watch for sales or find it in bulk?
Have fun!
I forgot to put this on my list: wraps. Buy flat bread and spread a thin amount of peanut or almond butter on it--roll, wrap, & go. I sometimes make a chicken spread and put sprouts and shredded cheese. Works with tuna and any spreadable thing.
My favorite: very ripe avocado spread thinly on a wrap with the tiniest pieces of broccoli and cauliflower and sprouts.
For the wrap itself, be sure to check the calories & ingredients before you buy a pack. One variety that I saw in a store had something like 200 calories for one medium-sized piece; the one that I use is bigger and has about 100 calories. There are "kid-sized" wraps, too, and those are about 70 calories. Those are nice for afternoon snacks.
One brand of wrap used artificial sweetener--maybe it was sorbitol. I stay away from that brand.
Have fun!
My favorite: very ripe avocado spread thinly on a wrap with the tiniest pieces of broccoli and cauliflower and sprouts.
For the wrap itself, be sure to check the calories & ingredients before you buy a pack. One variety that I saw in a store had something like 200 calories for one medium-sized piece; the one that I use is bigger and has about 100 calories. There are "kid-sized" wraps, too, and those are about 70 calories. Those are nice for afternoon snacks.
One brand of wrap used artificial sweetener--maybe it was sorbitol. I stay away from that brand.
Have fun!
I had a funny thing happen with having oatmeal at work. I'd bring it in, pre-measured in bags and I kept a bowl & spoon at work. Every few days, I'd bring milk in and keep it in the community fridge. However, I noticed that someone was drinking the milk without asking. I didn't want to keep buying milk for that other person (the milk that I buy is a little expensive!), so I started having the oatmeal without milk and a little more watery and honestly, it is a different kind of tasty. It changes the consistency and the taste, and makes me appreciate the oatmeal taste that much better.
That milk thief was a bit of a blessing in disguise! Thanks, milk thief!
LoL @ the milk thief. Thanks for the ideas, that wrap sounds delicious. I didn't make it to the grocery store last night to pick up any of this stuff, so I tried to bring in a few things I had at home and put it in a brown paper sack. That brown paper sack is sitting on my kitchen counter! Doh!
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My grocery store carries it sometimes and not at other times. But places like Whole Foods sell it regularly. Stores that do sell it tend not to keep it in one place consistently, though. Sometimes a store will keep it with nutrition bars; other times, they keep it with cereal. My local grocery store--when they do carry it--just puts it wherever they can find space, so it's always hard to find. Last time they sold it, they had it above the frozen turkeys.
Here's how one of the popular varieties is packaged. Maybe seeing a pic of it will help you to find it more easily:
Good luck finding it!
I pack everything up the night before. Gym bag (with work clothes/shoes), work bag (with stuff like non-perishable work food), and my perishable work food. If, in the morning, I forget to put the perishable stuff into my work bag, I at least have the non-perishable stuff to eat.
I exercise in the early morning, before work. I've learned to minimize the number of things that I have to do to get myself out the door and to the gym, otherwise, I run the risk of skipping a gym session. I have to make it VERY easy to get to the gym each morning. That means packing up as much as I can ahead of time. And when I do my gym laundry, I organize it into stacks so that each stack has everything that I'll need for one workout at the gym: socks, shorts, top, bra, undies. Then, each night when I'm getting ready for the next day, I just grab a stack of gym clothes for changing into the next morning. Otherwise, I'm running around more stupidly than normal at 4:30 in the morning.