Shanti0608 said:

I just packed my hubby's lunch for tomorrow after I cleaned up from dinner.

A woman who knows her place

I take breakfast and lunch every day. Breakfast is usually just yogurt and an apple and lunch is usually some Lean Cuisine stuff. I've gotten really good at cooking dinner lately since it's just me and my daughter now but she's greedy and there is nothing left in the morning.

johnart said:

Cerebus said:

Ain't 'e though?

Why is Ron travelling to campuses, though? I thought he ran a night club type establishment. Am I confused (well, about this!), or is he doing something else now?

Who do you think we are Robin Willams and Nathan Lane?? This is not The Birdcage/LaCage.

Just givin you a hard time. No, Ron never ran a night club. He's always been in education (Massage Therapy). He taught way back when we all started talkin online but these days he's National Director for a school that has campuses along the east coast.

...funny...'cuz I could'a sworn I saw a barefoot manservant in the background of one of your pics...

Vendetta1 said:

I take breakfast and lunch every day. Breakfast is usually just yogurt and an apple and lunch is usually some Lean Cuisine stuff. I've gotten really good at cooking dinner lately since it's just me and my daughter now but she's greedy and there is nothing left in the morning.

For a while there, I was getting a bacon/egg/cheese bagel sandwich every morning at the office.

There was definitely a correlation between the expansion of my waist and the contraction of my wallet.

Now I usually have one of those instant-oatmeal cups ($1/ea.) or a "Semita" (Honduran coffecake) that I buy at the supermarket (4/$2).

Can't do the frozen-meal thing for lunch 'cuz they always leave me hungry.

PurpleJedi said:

Vendetta1 said:

I take breakfast and lunch every day. Breakfast is usually just yogurt and an apple and lunch is usually some Lean Cuisine stuff. I've gotten really good at cooking dinner lately since it's just me and my daughter now but she's greedy and there is nothing left in the morning.

For a while there, I was getting a bacon/egg/cheese bagel sandwich every morning at the office.

There was definitely a correlation between the expansion of my waist and the contraction of my wallet.

Now I usually have one of those instant-oatmeal cups ($1/ea.) or a "Semita" (Honduran coffecake) that I buy at the supermarket (4/$2).

Can't do the frozen-meal thing for lunch 'cuz they always leave me hungry.

hey, I was just reading this:

http://au.lifestyle.yahoo...won-t-eat/

slide 6/14

Quick oats
I tend to avoid quick-cook porridges because their glycaemic index (GI) is getting higher and higher. In their efforts to make food more convenient, manufacturers have cut oats so finely that even so-called traditional oats now cook in five minutes. As a result, their GI has risen from 50 to about 85—a real shame. Real oats look like the ones you see in muesli bars; they’re thick-cut and take at least 10 minutes to cook. Your body also takes longer to absorb them, so they make you feel satisfied long after breakfast is over.
Jennie Brand-Miller - Professor of human nutrition, The University of Sydney

ZombieKitten said:

hey, I was just reading this:

http://au.lifestyle.yahoo...won-t-eat/

slide 6/14

Quick oats
I tend to avoid quick-cook porridges because their glycaemic index (GI) is getting higher and higher. In their efforts to make food more convenient, manufacturers have cut oats so finely that even so-called traditional oats now cook in five minutes. As a result, their GI has risen from 50 to about 85—a real shame. Real oats look like the ones you see in muesli bars; they’re thick-cut and take at least 10 minutes to cook. Your body also takes longer to absorb them, so they make you feel satisfied long after breakfast is over.
Jennie Brand-Miller - Professor of human nutrition, The University of Sydney

I know that there's something about "instant" oats and "steel cut" oats...but honestly I wouldn't be able to "cook" them in the office so I'll take what I can get.

PurpleJedi said:

I know that there's something about "instant" oats and "steel cut" oats...but honestly I wouldn't be able to "cook" them in the office so I'll take what I can get.

I know, it's the convenience. You eat them because you like them? Not because you think they are healthy?

Today my husband told me to throw away the margarine and salami

he wants to eat better

I'm all for that

I'm giving up softdrinks, AGAIN I'm an addict unfortunately. Need to stop poisoning myself with that stuff

PurpleJedi said:

I know that there's something about "instant" oats and "steel cut" oats...but honestly I wouldn't be able to "cook" them in the office so I'll take what I can get.

Actually...you can. If you do it right.

What you do is...ferment some steel cut oats and cook them on the weekend. Let them cool and congeal (oats have a lot of soluble fiber), portion the oatmeal into containers, and pop the containers in the frig.

Take the oatmeal to work (coming to room temp on the way) and all you need to get it going again is hot water. Which you'd need for the instant stuff, anyway.

I bring my lunch just about every day. I'd rather eat my own cooking than eat out every day. I need to get better about bringing breakfast too. It's just easier to get a scone or something at Starbucks with my coffee.

Every day except Wednesday.

Chris calls it my "sack o' calories."

Usually some leftovers, assorted pieces of fruit, granola bars, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, whatever I can grab that will sustain me throughout the day.

PunkMistress said:

Every day except Wednesday.

Chris calls it my "sack o' calories."

Usually some leftovers, assorted pieces of fruit, granola bars, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, whatever I can grab that will sustain me throughout the day.

@ "sack o' calories"

Genesia said:

PunkMistress said:

Every day except Wednesday.

Chris calls it my "sack o' calories."

Usually some leftovers, assorted pieces of fruit, granola bars, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, whatever I can grab that will sustain me throughout the day.

@ "sack o' calories"

Chris is also, much like your Sweetie, adept at recognizing the signs of an impending hunger-related meltdown. We're lucky gals.

PunkMistress said:

Genesia said:

@ "sack o' calories"

Chris is also, much like your Sweetie, adept at recognizing the signs of an impending hunger-related meltdown. We're lucky gals.

True that!

Lately I end up eating three meals at work. I've stockd my drawers at work with cereal for the morning, though sometimes I will cook breakfast before going. I have bowls of noodles (not the super-cheap variety, the only slightly less cheap variety that you'll usually find in Asian food markets). Sometimes I go with hot pockets if I wanna be lazy. But I try to do it where I can cook in bulk and bring lunch and dinner for a couple days off of it.

Basically, I get to work really late in the morning. I stay until the evening at which point, 4 out of 5 days, I have to head to class immediately after which is closer to work than home. So it's a waste of time coming back home eating and all that. Finding time to cook just got even more difficult though.

So yeah I brown bag it.

FauxReal said:

Lately I end up eating three meals at work. I've stockd my drawers at work with cereal for the morning, though sometimes I will cook breakfast before going. I have bowls of noodles (not the super-cheap variety, the only slightly less cheap variety that you'll usually find in Asian food markets). Sometimes I go with hot pockets if I wanna be lazy. But I try to do it where I can cook in bulk and bring lunch and dinner for a couple days off of it.

Basically, I get to work really late in the morning. I stay until the evening at which point, 4 out of 5 days, I have to head to class immediately after which is closer to work than home. So it's a waste of time coming back home eating and all that. Finding time to cook just got even more difficult though.

So yeah I brown bag it.

I know how that goes. A lot of the time, I don't have any time to eat between work during the day and rehearsal in the evening. If I don't plan ahead, I'll end up grabbing something from McD's (or something equally bad) in between.

I try to avoid that at all costs. That's no kind of fuel!

having to smell what strange things people bring from home is the worst thing about lunch at the office. honestly, i'd rather go sit in my car sometimes.

...and i'm sure everyone else prefers it that way, too.

whistle said:

having to smell what strange things people bring from home is the worst thing about lunch at the office. honestly, i'd rather go sit in my car sometimes.

...and i'm sure everyone else prefers it that way, too.

I used to work with a guy that heated up his lunch in the microwave, in our tiny office. And I swear he would have fish in blue cheese sauce every day

ZombieKitten said:

whistle said:

having to smell what strange things people bring from home is the worst thing about lunch at the office. honestly, i'd rather go sit in my car sometimes.

...and i'm sure everyone else prefers it that way, too.

I used to work with a guy that heated up his lunch in the microwave, in our tiny office. And I swear he would have fish in blue cheese sauce every day

and they're always totally oblivious to how vile the stench is. it never fails

Genesia said:

FauxReal said:

Lately I end up eating three meals at work. I've stockd my drawers at work with cereal for the morning, though sometimes I will cook breakfast before going. I have bowls of noodles (not the super-cheap variety, the only slightly less cheap variety that you'll usually find in Asian food markets). Sometimes I go with hot pockets if I wanna be lazy. But I try to do it where I can cook in bulk and bring lunch and dinner for a couple days off of it.

Basically, I get to work really late in the morning. I stay until the evening at which point, 4 out of 5 days, I have to head to class immediately after which is closer to work than home. So it's a waste of time coming back home eating and all that. Finding time to cook just got even more difficult though.

So yeah I brown bag it.

I know how that goes. A lot of the time, I don't have any time to eat between work during the day and rehearsal in the evening. If I don't plan ahead, I'll end up grabbing something from McD's (or something equally bad) in between.

I try to avoid that at all costs. That's no kind of fuel!

Yeah, trying to refrain from doing that myself. I used to do it every other day probably, but I've tried to be more diligent about planning ahead. I've wasted so much money eating at the cafeteria at work and picking up fast food before class.

whistle said:

ZombieKitten said:

I used to work with a guy that heated up his lunch in the microwave, in our tiny office. And I swear he would have fish in blue cheese sauce every day

and they're always totally oblivious to how vile the stench is. it never fails

well, to be fair the other girl in the office came to work with old cigarette and coffee on empty stomach without time to brush teeth breath which usually overpowered it. Her breath made me gag

ZombieKitten said:

whistle said:

and they're always totally oblivious to how vile the stench is. it never fails

well, to be fair the other girl in the office came to work with old cigarette and coffee on empty stomach without time to brush teeth breath which usually overpowered it. Her breath made me gag

it makes one wonder what is being said about them on a different internet forum...

whistle said:

ZombieKitten said:

well, to be fair the other girl in the office came to work with old cigarette and coffee on empty stomach without time to brush teeth breath which usually overpowered it. Her breath made me gag

it makes one wonder what is being said about them on a different internet forum...

yeah I wonder!

ZombieKitten said:

whistle said:

it makes one wonder what is being said about them on a different internet forum...

yeah I wonder!

us blokes take the blame when you do that, you know

whistle said:

ZombieKitten said:

yeah I wonder!

us blokes take the blame when you do that, you know

you need to get a dog!

ZombieKitten said:

whistle said:

us blokes take the blame when you do that, you know

you need to get a dog!

at work?

whistle said:

ZombieKitten said:

you need to get a dog!

at work?

whistle said:

having to smell what strange things people bring from home is the worst thing about lunch at the office. honestly, i'd rather go sit in my car sometimes.

...and i'm sure everyone else prefers it that way, too.

Yeah, there's that too. One job I had, I shared an office with 2 other people; we had a strict rule: no eating lunch at our desks for that very reason. At my current job there is one intern who always brings stinky food and eats in the room right next to my desk. I'll sit there wondering what the hell stinks and then realize it's her nasty lunch. I keep air fresher spray in my desk drawer now.

jone70 said:

whistle said:

having to smell what strange things people bring from home is the worst thing about lunch at the office. honestly, i'd rather go sit in my car sometimes.

...and i'm sure everyone else prefers it that way, too.

Yeah, there's that too. One job I had, I shared an office with 2 other people; we had a strict rule: no eating lunch at our desks for that very reason. At my current job there is one intern who always brings stinky food and eats in the room right next to my desk. I'll sit there wondering what the hell stinks and then realize it's her nasty lunch. I keep air fresher spray in my desk drawer now.

I tend to like smells unless they're really foul. So while I understand the annoyance, it doesn't usually bother me. But this one place I worked at there was a group of women who REGULARLY brought stinky fish dishes to work. They were so bad people actually complained and they were asked to keep them in the kitchen/cafeteria area. I didn't help. You could STILL smell them and there was nothing else to be done about it. You just had to smell stinky fish lunch for an hour or so several days a week.

Well if she's not attractive, I always recommend the brown bag.

jone70 said:

whistle said:

having to smell what strange things people bring from home is the worst thing about lunch at the office. honestly, i'd rather go sit in my car sometimes.

...and i'm sure everyone else prefers it that way, too.

Yeah, there's that too. One job I had, I shared an office with 2 other people; we had a strict rule: no eating lunch at our desks for that very reason. At my current job there is one intern who always brings stinky food and eats in the room right next to my desk. I'll sit there wondering what the hell stinks and then realize it's her nasty lunch. I keep air fresher spray in my desk drawer now.

I just had a visual of you getting up and walking over to her, giving her the "stinkface", then spraying her lunch with Febreeze!