Once upon a time I wouldn't have been caught dead eating at my desk. Breakfast was unheard of and I'd scurry away to the lunch room or a restaurant. Eating and working simply didn't mix.
Now, however, I go grocery shopping once a week at work. I find that I eat more cheaply and better for me when I do.
Now I eat breakfast AND lunch at my desk while working. I'm currently enjoying some Kashi Go Lean Crunch with some Dannon Light & Fit vanilla yogurt. For lunch I plan to have carrots and some red pepper hummous and if I get snacky in the afternoon, I have a couple of plums in the fridge.

Is this bizarre? Have I turned into that person at work?

Do you eat at your desk?

I've heard eating at your work is more unhygenic than eating around a toilet due to the mass condension of germs. This naturally put me off although I have the odd biscuit with a cup of tea.

CarrieMpls said:

yeah I always do it these days, infact some mornings I end up making breakfast at my desk !

JDInteractive said:

But I eat at my own desk. And no one else sits here. And I have a rather large "cube" so it's not like anyone's coughing on my things in passing...

jami0mckay said:

That's what the yogurt and granola is. I eat breakfast at my desk EVERY DAY now.

I averaged 70 hour weeks all summer long, sometimes it was more. My meals consisted of what I could eat while driving, or fast food tucked away in stacks of auto parts.

CarrieMpls said:

yesterday I was at my desk chopping strawberries, bananas, raspberries, I really oughta swap my mouse mat for a chopping board

jami0mckay said:

I've heard stories that apparently there was a woman who worked at my old job who used to make soup at here desk. Someone walked by one day when she was chopping carrots and celery and throwing them into a hot pot.

CarrieMpls said:

:makesnotetobringinpottomorrow:

The nature of my job doesn't allow me to leave for breaks, so the staff have to eat within the station. However we have a kitchen right behind us and another one upstairs

We decided to have "rootbeer float" day one day - our boss just grinned at us, He likes icecream

CarrieMpls said:

I eat at my desk all the time. I have no shame. I cant, I work 14 hour days, rarely take a break, and hardly ever go out to lunch.
Its sad to say, but this is my home, I spend more time here than at home
[Edited 9/26/07 8:20am]

I also have a couple of plums.

Cloudbuster said:

Are they yummy?

CarrieMpls said:

You bet yer ass my plums are yummy. I don't keep them in the fridge, tho'.

90% of the time, I carry both breakfast and lunch to work -- and eat at my desk. Breakfast is usually cottage cheese and berries. Lunch is whatever I fix on Sunday for the week -- chili, zucchini and meatballs, chicken tikka masala, pork paprikash, etc. (I don't mind eating the same lunch Mon-Thurs as long as it's something I like.)

I've been doing it this way ever since I quit eating most processed food and started cooking. I use my actual "lunch hour" to work out.

All I eat at my desk is my Pan Dulce with coffee. The pan dulce is basically sugar. I need to bring something healthy.

I've rarely worked at places where it would be sanitary to eat (though, some techs DID eat lunch in the lab at one of the vet clinics, until management noticed and told them to knock it the fuck off ).

I don't know. I like meals to be a bit of slow-down time, in one form or another. But I don't think it's weird or anything.

Very nice.

I would if I could, but my desk is in the middle of a laboratory. We can't even have lotion or chapstick here, let alone water or food. The breakroom is on the other side of the building, so I go days without eating or drinking save for secret swigs of water out of my hidden bottle in my desk.

I eat at my desk all the time. My friend actually goes tot he supermarket by her work and gets her lunches there. So much cheaper!

I always eat breakfast at my desk because I don't get up early enough to eat at home and I am usually not hungry. I keep yougart, fruit, cereal, bread and jam in the fridge at work. For lunch lately I have been bringing stuff in. Sometimes we go out, but my $$$ has been funny lately so its cheaper to bring lunch from home.

I eat at my desk all the time, I have breakfast, lunch and snacks at my desk, thank goodness I can if not I would be starving in the morning. And I also do my makeup at my desk which I shouldnt but it's either while driving on my way to work or at my desk, so my desk it is since there is less of a chance of an accident at my desk

I am a salad eater, love salads! My lunch is usually, me working through lunch so I can go home early..salad and iced tea, is my lunch of choice...while I work.
There is a guy here at work that actually has a freakin' hot plate UNDER his desk! He thinks we can't smell his soup warming up! Use a microwave will ya?
Big fire hazard....

CarrieMpls said:

I should eat at my desk. We have a break room for the 6 of us that work in my department. We make sausage/eggs/bacon for breakfast and have huge lunches and then one of us always wants to be bad and get a Meeting Street cookie. Now mind you, these cookies are $5 and the size of my face.

I never ate breakfast at work but the policy here is you have to come to the break room in the morning so boss knows you're here on time. I used to just go to my desk. So the normal university workday starts at 8:30am but that's when our breakfast starts....we don't get to work till 9:30!!!! I guess I can't complain, other than I'm getting FAT.

In Japan we didn't have a lunch break per se, just a half hour of lunch time when we were expected to work and eat at the same time, while a twenty-second clip of a Carpenter's song was looped in the speakers, every day, every week, every month.

Good thing we used chopsticks, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to use the knife hand for writing and typing and turning book pages as they expected us to...

PaisleyPark5083 said:

I have a bag of salad in the fridge right now and my coworker and I share dressing.

Its lunch time

My lunch is spread out on my desk.....

cookie, subway sandwich, a bag of chips and a coke....

YUMMY

amorbella said:

I also have my lunch spread out on my desk.

the cleaning lady.....

YUM.

Illustrator said:

im jealous,

sounds better than my lunch.....

amorbella said:

that sounds so good!

CarrieMpls said:

How easy is that!? I love those prewashed bags of salad..you can even add a few more of your own veggies for extra crunch! throw in a piece of chicken, and you have a whole meal!