Quick-to-Prepare, Healthy, Filling Foods for 9-5 Job

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breakfast, lunch, snacks, beverages, whatever

would be interested too. I do cereal in morning, frozen breakfast sandwich for lunch then cook dinner at home.

i would do sandwiches, but can be more pricy, if its not a matter of price you should consider it. most places have a deli where you can get sliced meat and cheese, then ad on what you like. keep in a lunch cooler.

Oatmeal bars.
Instant oatmeal packs.
Protein bars.
Protein shakes.

This is the bulk of what I eat every day. Mom cooks dinner, but if she didn't I'd probably keep some Lean Cuisines so I didn't have to make the effort to whip something up for myself.

I typically do a protein bar of some sort for breakfast, sometimes lunch. When I have time, I look up recipes and prepare them at home, otherwise, I pick up a case from the warehouse store.

I cook dinner for my family most nights, so, leftovers are often lunches.

Bulk prepared meals are great to freeze dinners and/or lunch portions.

The three most popular in my house are lasagna, meatloaf and chili.

The chili is mostly packed with a variety of beans and quinoa. Flavorful, cheap and healthy.

Meatloaf, I like to make with a mix of beef and turkey, so, it's not too greasy. Make it in muffin tins and you've got a good serving size for entree or sandwich.

Lasagna is a lot of effort, but, if you cook like 5 at once and freeze them, it's much easier. I have a mandolin and thinly slice carrots and zucchini and yellow squash to layer in with the noodles and sauce.

Oh! I think I like this thread.

-Crudite platter
-fruit salad
-tomato mozzarella salad with some fresh basil and a bit of salt and olive oil
-apple slices with nut butter
-hot soup in winter, fresh from the slow cooker
-cold soup in summer, fresh from the blender
-smoothies
-stirfry
-leftover stirfry over rice, needs to be heated up in a microwave
-yogurt
-boiled eggs
-sliced boiled egg, sliced tomato or sliced roasted pepper, and hummus spread in pita (works best if you bring each component separately, then make your sandwich at lunch time)
-spinach salad with boiled eggs and sliced peppers
-zucchini pancakes, the hardest and most time consuming part is the grating, then the frying
-mashed sweet potatoes
-stuffed bell peppers and stuffed zucchini with tomato sauce
-slowcooker turkey chili (I like to also pack a baked sweet potato with it an eat them together)
-parfait (works best if you bring the yogurt, fruit, and optional nuts and assemble it there)
-banana bread
-tabouli
-roasted chestnuts, also keeps your hands warm if you toss some in your jacket pocket on a snowy day



Does anyone have a good recipe for apple or applesauce cinnamon oat muffins? A friend of mine made me some a couple times and I keep forgetting to ask him for the recipe. They were really good though. I think they'd be pretty easy to grab and go. When he made them with applesauce, he didn't add any sugar. It was really great comfort food, and full of good things.

I'm also interested in other healthy muffin recipes that taste good.

I really hate preparing and making food, and I only really eat one 'big' meal per day, and have breakfast and a snack in the evening. I can't eat a full meal after 4/5pm.

So I do have struggles when out working, as I can't have a main meal very easily; especially when I also hate eating around people. But I did work around it a little bit now.

Breakfast - typically a banana, or crumpets/toast/cereal

Lunch - if at work I alternate between egg/cold meat type salad and a sandwich with banana or something. If at home I'll cook a meal.

Evening - If I've been at work then I'll probably have cereal, noodles or something more substantial but very easy to prepare almost instantly. If I've been at home then it's just a yoghurt, jelly, froyo, fruit etc.

What kind of sandwiches are both filling and tasty?

This is a very good question. When I started working I was putting on weight due to constant snacking. I used to have a lot of Kitkats throughout the day and also I'd have lunch at places like KFC. I'd have cereal for breakfast and often I'd just have coffee or a chocolate bar for dinner.

Now I'm trying to be more healthy. I have a late breakfast so I'll be less tempted to snack before lunch. I have it at Subway. I've started having 6 inch because if you put all the vegetables in, it's more filling than a foot-long with only lettuce and onion (what I used to have). Maybe it's because vegetables are more roughage but they're very filling. Today I tried a foot-long with all the vegetables and I could barely finish it. It used to be that I'd feel hungry after a foot-long but now a six-inch is enough.

Also I've been having them on flat bread because that's low-carb (I think). Regardless I can taste the filling better on flat bread because there's less bread. It's the same as having a thin pizza so you can taste the topping better.

For lunch at work I've been having frozen salmon. If I really need to snack at work I have cashews. Sometimes the managers puts out a fruit bowl. I've been trying to avoid having Kitkats all the time at work because they don't satisfy my appetite. Eating Kitkats only makes me want more Kitkats. I no longer have Pringles for morning tea or lunch (one of those cans has a thousand calories!)

At home I have a few oranges for dinner, or sometimes a can of dinner. I find a good snack to have at home is canned mussels. They taste nice and they're packed with minerals. On Sundays I have whatever the church is giving away (usually donuts and sausage rolls) I've kicked the Pringles habit and I've been working hard to overcome my chocolate addition.

All the time at work or home I'm drinking Diet Coke constantly. My manager says this it's unhealthy for me to drink a 1.25 bottle of Coke every day at work. She says it's too much sugar. I point out that it's Diet Coke and she says artificial sweetener is even worse. I find that caffeine is a good appetite suppressant but I suspect artificial sweetener makes me crave chocolate.