I’ve had jobs where “the red cross drawer” included the darkest chocolate we’d been able to find: we would have one square per day at most, and the other women in the office didn’t steal it (one even had the gall to complain about it not being to her liking). No other snacks, and actual meals will usually go into the fridge if one is available, stay in a cool bag if not.
Ah, another one who hasn’t realized why it is the most important meal of the day. It’s the most important meal of the day because it’s the first one and well, if you don’t have a first meal in a given day it’s a day you haven’t eaten at all. When it happens and what does it include varies by location, individual, work shift… and that’s where a lot of the people who like to pontificate about it being “so important” fail: I still haven’t encountered a single one who understood that other people have different waking hours, different working hours and different stomachs than they do.
Absolutely, & ever since working in an office that had a mouse problem where they decided to ‘share’ my snacks I’ve kept my food in a ‘vault’ (aka one of those popcorn tins you get at Xmas time).
I don’t, because then I’d just be munching all day. If I’m feeling particularly peckish, I either take a banana from the company-supplied communal fruit bowl, or steal a chocolate biscuit from the boardroom.
No, I try not to eat anything other than lunch and an evening meal. The only other things I eat, out of politeness, tend to be celebratory morning/afternoon teas and the odd homemade thing that someone proudly brings in.
That’s not what people mean when they say “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” They say that to scold people who skip breakfast. So the time of day is important. They are saying “It is important to have a meal at the start of the day, soon after you wake.” They do not mean to say “whatever meal you eat after a long fast is the important meal of the day.”
I’ve got a little refrigerator in my office. I also have a file drawer that I use for dry goods. I make sandwiches and such for lunch, oatmeal with milk and strawberries for breakfast (I get to work quite early, and am never ready for breakfast when I leave home at 6am, so I eat at work)
I keep tea and oatmeal. The oatmeal is in Tupperware with screw on lids, so I can just add hot water. It makes a really good emergency lunch/snack and it’s kinda my test for if I am really hungry or just bored and want to eat. if I am not hungry enough to eat oatmeal, I certainly don’t need junk.
Back when I was in an office, I kept tea and honey at my desk. And I found that I often had a bit of a sweet tooth after lunch, and that a mini-sized Milky Way or the like was usually enough to satisfy it, so I kept a bunch of those, too.
Yeah, I snack from boredom, and the stress of interacting with others. By the time I quit my last job I’d wound up with what seemed like a couple week’s worth of food squirreled away. Nuts, candy, crackers, instant soup & oatmeal packets, mini cans of baked beans, cookies, good quality dark chocolate (hi O.P.!) and boxes of various fruit snacks, jerky, etc.
Homemade Chex mix that’s probably rancid by now that I need to toss today before I leave on vacation. Ditto for some homemade chocolate chip cookies and some toasted & salted walnuts. Half a pack of Starburst, Icebreakers, gum, and some ginger lozenges (if that counts as food).
eta: and a box of Swiss Miss cocoa envelopes. With marshmallows.
When I worked: Lunch everyday in an insulated sack with an “ice” pack to keep the beverage cold. A jar of peanuts to nosh on. Which meant I had to keep the desk locked to keep the janitors out.
Keeping ones lunch in the office fridge was a very poor option.
I work in the creative/tech world. You know, keg in the kitchen, drinks on the rooftop deck type stuff. Pretty free and breezy.
For today though, the booze on my desk is stuff I had shipped and haven’t been able to take home yet. I’m not wasting 30 year old Armagnac on *these *heathens, that’s for sure.
I keep some granola and dried fruit around if I get hungry and/or cannot take a lunch break. We get emails (usually in the summer) about ants, but the only time I ever had a problem with ants was when they attempted to colonize my phone. In the previous week, I had noticed an ant or two crawling across my desk - they did look like the typical ‘sugar’ or ‘rover’ ants we see in this area in the summer. I keep my snacks in a sealed container so I didn’t worry about it much.
Then one morning I came in and there was a swarm on my desk! They were all trying to get inside the phone. I imagined the inside looking a little like this. We called building maintenance and they sprayed the phone. I took it outside and spent about 15 minutes shaking dead ants out of it.
Amazingly, after all that the phone still worked. And they haven’t come back.
