Why is everything I eat at work unappealing?

jrose1982

Last night I had a simple a salad with smoked salmon. For lunch today, I packed the same salad. Last night it tasted good. Today I feel like I have to choke it down. This has happened to me several times in the last 3 months or so. I cook food for 2-3 meals at a time to cut back on how often I need to cook. So my typical lunch is a salad with leftover meat (and sometimes other leftover ingredients as well).

I've tried varying the ingredients and combination methods. Things got a little better when I stopped using olive oil and just used dressing. Things got a little better when I stopped putting the meat on the salad, and just eat it on the side. But I don't see why either of those changes is necessary because I don't have to do it that way at home.

I'm baffled as to why meals that taste so good at home are so unappealing when I'm at work. The only thing I can come up with is that I drink more coffee at work. I know caffeine impacts my appetite, but I haven't been able to nail down the pattern.

Does anybody else experience this?

sofaking6

Um, is it because you're at work?

apparations

Are you dressing the salad and taking it to work to eat later? I imagine it would be soggy. I would always put the meat and dressing separately and don't mix them together until you are ready to eat it. I started just keeping a bottle of olive oil and a bottle of balsamic vinegar at work so I don't have to worry about containers of salad dressing leaking everywhere. Maybe it goes without saying, but keep your salad and meat in the fridge until you're ready to eat it.

RodaRose

Switch it up somehow . . . like bringing in cut up raw veggies and taking a break from salads.

Aemely

Perhaps you hate salads? Try to eat something you like that's also healthy. I have found chicken or tuna with olives are my protein fix for lunch. I tried to eat soup for lunch and that was too repetitive...