Most I’ve ever kept in my desk has been a bottle of hot sauce.
I never had an office job, as such, but I spent 31 years teaching high school and that involved a lot of time at a desk. I never kept food in my desk. Partly, this was because I taught science with associated labs and one never eats in a lab. Partly it was just that I have long had the habit of not eating during the day.
No wonder we’re getting so heavy. Keeping food at our desks when we used to keep low calorie goodies like cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.:eek:
Those are the people I snark at…especially the ones who are blatantly scolding. They can keep their aggregate rules of thumb away from my non-aggregate body. Skipping breakfast is the clearly better answer for me.
I cant eat without feeling ill for around and hour or two after I wake up. Feeling like I am going to hurl for half the morning is the normal result of eating before that. Sometimes it’s been more than feel like. If I bothered to get a diagnosis, I pretty clearly have Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder. In more colloquial terms, I’m a night owl. Mix the two and I’m skipping breakfast anytime I’m on a normal daytime schedule. Just conforming to daytime hours is a constant challenge. I’m not getting up early enough to eat without getting ill. I find other ways to manage food around conforming to the already unnatural schedule that society mostly dictates.
On the breakfast tangent, I’ve always been a morning person, but I haven’t regularly eaten breakfast since middle school, which was more than half a century ago.
This morning, the alarm woke me up at 5 (I usually wake up well before the alarm; this was unusual), and yes, I keep food in my desk drawer. So far this morning, I’ve nibbled my way through half a bagel with nothing on it. Definitely not a breakfast-eater.
When I do eat breakfast, it’s inevitably in addition to, rather than instead of, my other meals. So if I ate breakfast regularly, I’d gain weight fast.
I’m with you - the notion totally boggles the mind.
At my house, they’re lucky to last long enough to cool down to room temperature.
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Oh yeah, definitely. At my last job my snack drawer was well known in the (admittedly small) office and it gave people an excuse to come chat.
I always have some kind of granola bar/Pop Tart for breakfast because I hate breakfast and force myself to eat it. Usually some peanuts, sometimes chips and something sweet like a Fruit by the Foot or a hard candy.
I keep a jar of peanuts on my desk, and a big bag of dried fruit or trail mix or something similar in my overhead bin. Sometimes I will have a box or two of Kashi bars. I also keep a snack-sized zipper baggie of Grape-Nuts at my desk, for those days that I bring a cup of yogurt to work for breakfast, so I can mix them in.
When I commuted I kept pistachios at my desk. Great to nibble on when thinking great thoughts. Pistachio dust kept getting into my keyboard and actually ruined one calculator. Now working from home, I just walk to the kitchen for my nibbles.
The mice here have been known to chew through thin plastic containers for a yummy treat, so I use metal containers with good seals. One has peanut butter-based snacks (mostly Reese’s Pieces), the other has chocolate bars of varying darkness (eaten one square at the time, hence the need for a container with a good seal).
Me too!! My appetite doesn’t show up until 9:30 AM or so, but if I don’t eat breakfast I’ll start scarfing down my snacks by mid-morning. I’ve figured out a few things that help me:
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[li]No multi-vitamins in the morning (too much iron, I guess?).[/li][li]No heavy foods – a piece or two of toast, and a few bites of fruit.[/li][li]No orange juice – it’s acidic enough that it triggers instant heartburn and gagging.[/li][/ul]
Of course, on days when the company provides breakfast or someone has brought in tasty treats, I have to repeatedly explain why I haven’t grabbed a plate. I’ve resorted to explaining that if I try to eat when I’m not hungry, I throw up (which is true, but is rude to share at work).
I keep some shelf stable foods in my desk but I almost never eat there. They’re for emergency lunches. Right now off the top of my head (it’s Saturday), I’ve got a couple small canned hams, a can of green beans, some heat&eat Indian packets, a can of Progresso split pea for when I need a sodium spike.
Yep, a few protein bars are a staple. Then it’s whatever I grab when I remember to stock back up. Right now I think I have some Sun Chips, Gardettos rye chips, dry roasted peanuts and pretzels. I don’t keep anything perishable since I might not be in the office for several days at a time.
I also keep generic Crystal Light type mix or Propel water mix, and hot tea bags on the winter.
I eat breakfast at work every day, so I have protein bars for breakfast. I have a variety of snacks, like fiber bars, chocolate covered almonds, after lunch mints, trail mix and small packages of cookies. And a can of mandarin oranges, in case I run out of fresh fruit. I had to get rid of the peanut butter because I have a coworker who’s very allergic to peanuts, and I don’t want to kill her.
No food but I always have a box of Keurig pods and a few assorted bottled drinks within reach.
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