Snacks while at work... Help!

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  • Cyngen
    Cyngen Posts: 557 Member
    I bring in almonds, or baby bell cheese, or carrots, brocolli, cauliflower.

    I work from home so the foods are more available that are dangerous. 1/2 cup of almonds holds me for hours with a couple glasses of water. I'm a veggie junkie as well. Love raw veggies.
  • willwillywilson
    willwillywilson Posts: 229
    Cottage cheese and grape tomatoes are my morning and afternoon snack. Grape tomatoes barely have calories and cottage cheese has tons of protein!
  • a_stone_girl_dances
    a_stone_girl_dances Posts: 76 Member
    Apples & almonds. (I eat them separately and it's not just for alliteration's sake :))
  • ChampagnePaulie
    ChampagnePaulie Posts: 18 Member
    I usually take some fruit, typically an apple and a banana. Sometimes I have a few nuts and raisins.
  • Dona_Maria
    Dona_Maria Posts: 78 Member
    I have a desk job, and a walgreens next to me and vending machines in the breakroom.
    My question is... What is your favorite snack while at work? Or something you take to work to snack on.
    Suggestions please!!! :smile:

    Fruit (apples, oranges, grapes), nuts, oatmeal, yogurt, jello "sugerfree", I try to avoid sweets but when I do get a sweet tooth I will get some trail mix.
  • schparks
    schparks Posts: 74 Member
    Grapes
    Kashi bars
    100 cal bags of popcorn (popped in advance at home out of respect for sensitive coworkers)
    almonds
    pistachios

    I have an office so I can be loud with crunchiness as I want. Popcorn might not be so great in a cubicle!
  • minniemama07
    minniemama07 Posts: 5 Member
    Hi! I rotate all of this stuff, but here's some ideas that work for me:

    1.) Greek yogurt - plain w/ my own fruit added or sometimes just the fruit on the bottome. I like Chobani
    2.) Single serve 100 calorie microwave popcorn (Jolly Pop) w/ string cheese if I'm extra hungry
    3.) Apple w/ pumpkin fluff (Sooooo good!!)
    4.) Deli turkey rolled up w/ cheese or just lettuce (depending on my cals for the day)
    5.) Odwalla bar -- this is usually part of a meal, but again depends on cals
    6.) Campbell's soup at hand
    7.) Veggies w/ hummus or pretzels w/ hummus
    8.) SF oatmeal

    Hope this helps! :)
  • SabrinaLily
    SabrinaLily Posts: 121
    Well, I dunno if what I do will work for you but I find I like something more substantial than just fruits or veggies. Maybe this will help?

    In the morning I make an egg-white patty and a slice or two of (real) bacon. I have that to eat between breakfast and lunch. They say protein and fat is what fills you up longer. The patty is about 50 calories and each slice of bacon between 40-45.

    After lunch and before I leave work I get UBER hungry. There's NO way I can make it till dinner. So what I do is either grab a bag of Herr's Popped Tangy BBQ chips. They're super hard to find but an entire bag of chips only has 70 calories! A lot of girls at work will do the 100 calorie bag of popcorn. When I do the popcorn, I dress it up with no-calorie airsol spray butter and popcorn salt available in the popcorn aisle. The other thing I do is buy a footlong sub at lunch. I rip off half the bread to make it an open-face sandwich. I'll eat half at lunch and the other half around the 3:00 mark. The way I get my subs (wheat bread, oven roasted chicken, oregano, tons of spinach, tomatoes and a touch of BBQ sauce) means that the whole footlong is 458 calories which isn't bad since half of it is my 3:00 snack.


    Hope this gives you a few ideas!!! Jenn :)
  • loriwhitefaith
    loriwhitefaith Posts: 116 Member
    small granny smith apple, pretzels, oyster crackers (52 crackers for not many calories)


    a small glass of real fruit juice once in while,but has a lot of sugar so be careful

    granola bars

    dry cereal in a bag like cheerios (1/2 cup portion)

    peanuts out of can(high in fat,but doesn't take much to fill you up)

    small popcorn bag 100 calorie size tangerines banana yogurt raisins 1/2 bagel is filling with jelly
  • SabrinaLily
    SabrinaLily Posts: 121
    3.) Apple w/ pumpkin fluff (Sooooo good!!)

    Please message me as to what pumpkin fluff is!!!! Dying to know!! :)
  • minniemama07
    minniemama07 Posts: 5 Member
    Dona -- OMG you've lost 171lbs?! You are absolutely AMAZING!! Congratulations and thank you for being my newest inspiration! :)
  • minniemama07
    minniemama07 Posts: 5 Member
    Well, I heard of it in the past at WW meetings and then one of my friends on this site told me about it too so I just had to try it. Honestly, when I first made it -- it was just alright and I wasn't so sure. BUT then I put it in the fridge overnight and it hardened up a little and it's seriously to die for!

    OK enough w/ my babbling -- here's the recipe:

    --1 whole container of fat free cool whip
    --I can of pure pumpkin
    --1 package of SF/FF butterscotch instant Jello pudding (the original recipe says use 1/2 package, but I always use the whole so it's sweeter)

    You just mix it all up together and refrigerate. One serving is 2tbs and it's sooo yummy! I dip my apples in it; spread it on my waffle in the morning; and grab a spoon to satisfy my sweet tooth. It's so yummy!
  • kmmpink
    kmmpink Posts: 63 Member
    String Cheese, Apples, Almonds, Special K cracker chips, yogurt, carrots and celery with vadalia onion and summer tomato dressing.
  • Klopford
    Klopford Posts: 129
    Sunflower seeds. The effort needed to eat them (and the saltiness) keeps me from eating more than a serving at any given time, but they're great for when I just want to snack on something. Plus they're delicious, especially some of the flavored kinds (LOVE David Jumbo Buffalo Ranch seeds!)

    Just make sure you have a convenient container to dispose of the shells in. ;)
  • JessicaBR0
    JessicaBR0 Posts: 256 Member
    Hardboiled eggs, sliced veggies like carrots, celery and cucumbers, seaweed, apple and almond butter.
  • MelisMusing
    MelisMusing Posts: 421 Member
    I keep boiled eggs, tuna, veggies, hummus, string cheese and chocolate protein shakes, if I want something sweet. Oh and turkey and cheese roll ups.

    (I can't do crunchies, that's a total trigger food for me).
  • ShayShay22816
    ShayShay22816 Posts: 19
    I was actually wondering what that was too, how to make a pumpkin fluff!
  • kaitgettingfit
    kaitgettingfit Posts: 84
    I usually pack things like sandwiches, string cheese, kind bars, rice cakes, nuts, etc etc
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    fruits
    veggies (baby carrots are one of my faves for at work)
    greek yogurt
    string cheese
    protein bars (current favorite is Nature Valley protein peanut butter and dark chocolate)
    jar of peanut butter
    hard boiled eggs
    teas...green, chai, herbal, english breakfast
    chewing gum
  • haroon_awan
    haroon_awan Posts: 1,208 Member
    When I'm at work and need a snack, I usually take one of those tiny food bags and stuff it with nuts and seeds (20g-40g) and put it in my pocket. If you can't find a little food bag, just put the nuts in your trouser pocket (make sure they're something like peanuts or almonds etc that are big enough not to get stuck to the bottom of your pocket). Take a two minute break and go to the staff room, drink some water and eat from the little packet, or (don't think bad of me!), go to the toilet to take a leak and just eat the packet there and then. I know nuts/seeds can get a little expensive, but if you go to some stores they sometimes have good deals. Otherwise I just get salted peanuts and wash the salt away thoroughly - really cheap option!

    If your staff room has cupboards for storage, keep a Tupperware container and put a protein powder in it, keep a shaker nearby and just drink 20g of it on your break - it takes 1 minute!
  • Restybaby2012
    Restybaby2012 Posts: 568 Member
    pickles

    Apples

    Popcorn

    cheese sticks

    beef jerky (not often)

    lotsa water or s/f lemonade
  • Lucinda1013
    Lucinda1013 Posts: 27 Member
    yogurt, hard boiled eggs, carrot and special k crisp bars
  • Lucinda1013
    Lucinda1013 Posts: 27 Member
    wtg on the weight loss :)
  • benstopper
    benstopper Posts: 3 Member
    Cottage cheese, casein protein powder with water, beef jerkey, rice crackers, almonds. Any food containing no / low sugary carbs for between meals is my general rule.

    ... And lots of coffee

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