There’s just no way I can spend as much time preparing food as some of you guys do. The way I am doing it now I usually have a small handful of almonds and an apple or beef jerky and some kind of fruit between meals.
i know it’s not enough, but I am trying to make it work. I just need suggestions about what to eat.
As much as I would like to have a salad and a chicken breast for my mid morning meal it’s just flat not possible. I need to figure out choices that are modular/and or don’t require any cooking.
I don’t want to cart around a huge ammount of food all the time, I need something that takes no time or little effort to do. I wish I could do a protien shake or MRP, but once again no access to a blender on the job or even a refrigerator.
Suggestions?
What kind of situation are you in? Are you young, middle aged, older? What kind of job do you have? Are you cooking for more than yourself?
I have a VERY loose schedule, which makes it easy to eat 6 times a day, but that isnt the case for many people. But a “meal” sometimes takes as litle as 1 minute to make (throw some turkey on wheat bread with some low fat cheese… done) John Berardis Precision Nutrition has a whole section called “5 Minute Meals” for just this type of situation as well.
You dont have 30 minutes in the morning, or at night… or any time during the day, to grill some chicken/beef/fish or mix up some cottage cheese delight? Shakes with fruits, nuts, flax, greens+ and protein are always an option as well.
I am 33. I cook for myself and my fincee. We eat plenty of lean meats and fresh vegetables with processed foods very rarely (usually just beans) and I supplement my protien intake with Metabolic Drive!.
Anyhow I work in an office building, sitting on my duff all day. lol I take walks all the time, with extra trips up and down the stairs just so I won’t feel so idle.
Youknow… now that you mention it… If I bought chicken breasts in bulk and cooked a weeks worth at one time I bet I could just about squeese it in. Now that would work.
Soooooo what the heck is cottage cheese delight? Sounds good. I have cottage cheese before bed
[quote]force of one wrote:
I am 33. I cook for myself and my fincee. We eat plenty of lean meats and fresh vegetables with processed foods very rarely (usually just beans) and I supplement my protien intake with Metabolic Drive!.
Anyhow I work in an office building, sitting on my duff all day. lol I take walks all the time, with extra trips up and down the stairs just so I won’t feel so idle.
Youknow… now that you mention it… If I bought chicken breasts in bulk and cooked a weeks worth at one time I bet I could just about squeese it in. Now that would work.
Soooooo what the heck is cottage cheese delight? Sounds good. I have cottage cheese before bed
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I work in an office and have no problem with the meals. I bring a mid morning snack, my lunch and and afternoon protein shake. I just mix the shake with water. I also bring along fruit for the morning and vegetables for lunch/afternoon. I also carry some fish oil pills and some greens +.
Just buy yourself once of those little, collapsable coolers and carry an ice pack. That should keep things cold/cool through lunch.
I work in an office and find it hard to believe your office doesn’t provide a kitchen with a fridge? I also bought a hand blender and keep it at work. All you need is an outlet.
Because of my office job I believe scheduling meals is far easier to do for me so I have no excuses. Cook once a week and pack it up for work. Sometimes I’m in a bind, so I keep a drawer full of canned sardines, herrings, salmon, tuna, and seeds like almonds, pecans etc. Hell I even have natty pb and tobasco sauce in my drawer.
Cottage cheese delight is kind of a joke… Since most regular joes dont eat cottage cheese, and many of us around here get so used to it being mixed with berries/PButter/fruit/nuts/etc we call it cottage cheese delight
Anyhow, if your office has a fridge in it, thats problem solved as far as I’m concerned. Cook up 12 chicken breast/fish/beef on sundays and a boatload of steamed veggies, season it all a little differently and then pack in in Tupperware.
If you work 8 hours, thats only 2 meals you need to take if you get a lunch break. Eat breakfast, take your mid morning meal, eat lunch out, eat your 3 o clock meal and your home by 6 or so. Badda bing.
When I get my nursing liscence it will be hard because we work 12.5 hour shifts I’ll figure something out though.
[quote]Arioch wrote:
force of one wrote:
I am 33. I cook for myself and my fincee. We eat plenty of lean meats and fresh vegetables with processed foods very rarely (usually just beans) and I supplement my protien intake with Metabolic Drive!.
Anyhow I work in an office building, sitting on my duff all day. lol I take walks all the time, with extra trips up and down the stairs just so I won’t feel so idle.
Youknow… now that you mention it… If I bought chicken breasts in bulk and cooked a weeks worth at one time I bet I could just about squeese it in. Now that would work.
Soooooo what the heck is cottage cheese delight? Sounds good. I have cottage cheese before bed
I work in an office and have no problem with the meals. I bring a mid morning snack, my lunch and and afternoon protein shake. I just mix the shake with water. I also bring along fruit for the morning and vegetables for lunch/afternoon. I also carry some fish oil pills and some greens +.
Just buy yourself once of those little, collapsable coolers and carry an ice pack. That should keep things cold/cool through lunch.[/quote]
Mixing the protein shake @ work… how do you do that? I mean I seem to require an electric mixer or it sticks to the sides. Do you seal it in something and then shake the hell out of it?
[quote]dragonslayer wrote:
I work in an office and find it hard to believe your office doesn’t provide a kitchen with a fridge? I also bought a hand blender and keep it at work. All you need is an outlet.
Because of my office job I believe scheduling meals is far easier to do for me so I have no excuses. Cook once a week and pack it up for work. Sometimes I’m in a bind, so I keep a drawer full of canned sardines, herrings, salmon, tuna, and seeds like almonds, pecans etc. Hell I even have natty pb and tobasco sauce in my drawer.[/quote]
AAAAAHHHHH yes. Canned fish… that would do the trick
But alas no in our building we have no access to a fridge. There’s a cafeteria with a bunch of microwaves nearby, bu that’s it. They don’t let us use any appliances at our cubes at all. But anyway thanks for the hints! I’m gong to get a boatload of good tinned fish and put em in my desk
[quote]force of one wrote:
Mixing the protein shake @ work… how do you do that? I mean I seem to require an electric mixer or it sticks to the sides. Do you seal it in something and then shake the hell out of it?
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There’s no need for a blender. Just buy a plastic 32 ounce shaker bottle. Add water and powder and shake vigorously for about 10 seconds. Presto, you have a shake. Eat a handful of nuts with it and you have a decent in between meal.
[quote]Seattle_Lifter wrote:
force of one wrote:
Mixing the protein shake @ work… how do you do that? I mean I seem to require an electric mixer or it sticks to the sides. Do you seal it in something and then shake the hell out of it?
There’s no need for a blender. Just buy a plastic 32 ounce shaker bottle. Add water and powder and shake vigorously for about 10 seconds. Presto, you have a shake. Eat a handful of nuts with it and you have a decent in between meal.
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I use Metabolic Drive so a spoon is more than enough to mix up a shake. A shaker bottle will work as well; but, when the company is providing me with styrofoam cups, I’ll use the spoon. Less clean up for me.
After reading Seattle_lifter’s post I went out and found one of those mixer cups, and it works like a charm. So now it’s so on for MRP’s at work!! kewl! That solves a big chunk of the problem right there.
Buy a little cooler. Target has small soft sided coolers for like 8-20$ depending on the size. I just bought the $13 one and I can take two days worth of food if I pack it right and use enough ice packs.
I take it to work daily. Breakfast at 8a, Two full meals (11a and 2p).
I’m home by 5 to eat pre workout shake, etc.
And if I’m hungry I go down the street from my work to the local gym and buy a protein shake, for the drive home or breakfast part 2.
Easy fix. Buy a small cooler/lunchbox and bring some food with you to work. I mix four scoops of Metabolic Drive in my Nalgene bottle and that plus two pieces of fruit and four Flameout takes care of two quick meals between regular meals.
Cook extra Meat/vegges the night before and there is your lunch.
I drive a truck around town all day and I am constantly on the move. I still manage to eat three meals during my work hours. A shake, an apple, some almonds, and fish oil makes a pretty damn good snack between regular meals.
Man i make a bag of chicken and cut my veggies, and boil my eggs every sunday after church(thats if i make it)
Then i put everything in the fridge and take a lunch/dinner to work with me with ice packs in it and even throw in a shaker bottle with dry protein in it for either my last meal on the way home, or for a snack!!
[quote]force of one wrote:
I don’t want to cart around a huge ammount of food all the time, I need something that takes no time or little effort to do. I wish I could do a protien shake or MRP, but once again no access to a blender on the job or even a refrigerator.
Suggestions? [/quote]
Once you’ve gotten used to it (and it only takes prob two weeks), leaving the house with a cooler filled with at least three meals doesn’t take much time and only requires little effort.
I’ll figure something out though.