Anyone else have a food happy office?

We get a lot of treats & sweets, and I have a friend who's a caterer, so she brings in some pretty awesome food.

I try to stay away.....and if I do indulge, I just take a bit. LIke the nummy ORZO salad my caterer friend made for an inservice yesterday........that was my lunch today!

I have no idea what potluck is. I do work in an office full of women who are keen to bring in cake/biscuits/chocolates. The fridge at work is ready to burst from all the goodies and one woman has been told to stop acting like a feeder. She's always bringing stuff in but then refuses to eat it 'because she's trying to lose weight', ignoring the fact that there are three more of us other than her trying to do the same.

My office is across from the kitchen....argh I feel your pain! My door has been closed this week to keep the food out! Now I must admit though that overall this is a pretty health conscious office and our potlucks do usually result in a ton of healthy options.......but seriously, who brought the brownies?

Hahahaha... we aren't <i>that</i> food-centric... but it does seem like people bring in baked goods all the time... which of course I have a MASSIVE sweet tooth that has a super hard time resisting... here is a clue, I don't. I have to stay a hermit in my cube if I want to avoid the brownies or cookies that magically appear in the break room... I think I need to filter a coworkers emails as well so I don't see them.

My work doesn't do potlucks, but they have luncheons and get catering all the time. Sometimes they surprise us with donuts, bagels, etc. People bring in food sometimes as well. All very unhealthy food. When they get catering for meetings, it's not just sandwiches. They get salad, bread, main dish, dessert, soda. It's crazy. Yesterday someone brought in homegrown green beans and today it was tomatoes, so that was a nice change. I've seen people get tons of weight after getting a job here. Luckily I'm vegan, so I easily avoid all of the bad stuff. On occasion when I feel like being nice, I will bring in some kind of healthy homemade banana bread or something.

We use to...but since I was the one doing all the cooking and baking, it has come to a standstill. I'm going to look for some "good" snack food to bring so they'll quit whining. LOL Anybody have any recipes to share?

My office has a ton of perks because it's a small office. No potlucks, but the sales manager is always buying lunch for us from panera bread/ruby tuesdays/jimmy johns/bob evans/pizza, the owner brings in fresh bagels and donuts from some bakery several times a week. Also on everyones birthdays, our operations manager buys a chocolate cake from a local bakery for us all to share, and we all go in together and eat a piece at the same time....(i make them cut me a half of a slice lol) The owner also keeps the break room stocked with chips, coke (diet and regular...i touch neither), cookies, mini candy bars, m&ms, nuts, random gift baskets of fancy snacks that he's gotten from customers, etc. It's REALLY hard not to much on things when everytime you go to the break room to fill up your water bottle, you're bombarded with m&ms and doritos...i'm good about the chips, but those m&ms...they're my vice. I guess everyone else has no problem with it (nobody else is really overweight there, or at least not significantly), but everyone else can control themselves. I have a REALLY hard time with sweets, and everytime I see them, I get REALLY hungry and crave them. It's tough. #firstworldproblems...lol