Skip to content
  • Register
    • We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

    snacks when your at work

    Posts: 152 Member
    edited January 27 in Food and Nutrition
    Hi I'm at work starving so I was just wondering if anyone has any snack ideas on the go when you didnt plan for it.
    I have ate all my snacks and dont work by grocery store. Any suggestions on low calorie filling snack you eat when on the go and didnt bring it with you?

    Welcome!

    It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.
    Sign In
    Register

    Replies

    • Posts: 26 Member
      Do you mean out of a vending machine?
    • Posts: 894 Member
      I always stash a box of Clif Bars or Special K Protein Bars in the office. If I can't pack something in the morning or get out for lunch, I always have something to fall back on.
    • Posts: 479 Member
      I have a box full of chocolate almond granola from Trader Joe's at work and I usually have a handful. I know you said something not planned, but for the future if you keep a big box handy and usually pack snacks but forget, can turn to that as backup?

      I'm curious as well though about whether this is getting something from a vending machine or nearby grocery store as opposed from home.
    • Posts: 479 Member
      I always stash a box of Clif Bars or Special K Protein Bars in the office. If I can't pack something in the morning or get out for lunch, I always have something to fall back on.

      I have a stash of clif bars too! I use it as a last resort though.
    • Posts: 442 Member
      I'm confused? I will just tell you some snacks I bring. I don't know how to make them appear if I don't want to go to a store or didn't bring them but I do fruit (grapes bananas etc), nuts, apple and peanut butter, greek yogurt, low fat string cheese, hard boiled eggs, hummus with veggies or wheat thins. Sometimes even some sun chips :)
    • Posts: 2,250 Member
      Paper is high in fiber. :laugh:

      ...or just go find something. Make the best choice you can. Eat it. Log it. Move on. One snack isn't going to break you. :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 275 Member
      I always have Suzie's spelt and flax seed cakes and sunbutter in my desk. I also have containers of Simply Asia soup in case I don't bring a lunch.
    • Posts: 465 Member
      I always keep a stash of walnuts, fruitcups, peanut butter and apples and string cheese at the office for when I need an extra snack. If not I would hit the vending machine and that would not be good. There is very little that is healthy in it. Also drink some water to fill you up.
    • Posts: 1,143 Member
      I have Baby Beles in the fridge, and soy nuts in my desk.
    • Posts: 211 Member
      When I don't bring my snack to work I will take a poptart from the vending machine and eat just one and share with some co worker the other one. Drink lot's of water and believe me you'll get full.
    • Posts: 1,190 Member
      I have in the afternoon either some fruit or 2 tablespoons of 25 percent reduced fat Skippy Peanut Butter and around 4pm I'll have either a single serve bag of popcorn or some Special K Seasalt chips
    • Posts: 1,670 Member
      There's got to be a health freak in your office that probably has a stash of healthy snacks. Wait until they go to the bathroom and raid their desk.
    • Posts: 152 Member
      I'm at work and i get only half hour for lunch which is timed because i work in a call centre so cant be late.
      so the only thing around me is foodcourt and convience stores. I brought my breakfeast,lunch and two snacks with me but im still starving so just trying to think of what else i could eat
    • Posts: 894 Member
      Almost forgot: the obligatory twinkie diet link.
      http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

      If you can hold it, then skip the meal. If you think holding it would result in a binge later, then just get something from the vending machine, add it to your MFP diary, and move on. The next day stash something healthier in your office or in your car.
    • Posts: 965 Member
      Convenience stores have fresh fruit, maybe even some packaged berries/watermelon, etc. They usually have yogurt or cottage cheese. Or hard-boiled eggs. Very filling!
    • Posts: 14,517 Member
      Vending machine items that are "not the worst" thing in there .....

      Packets of trail mix ..... nuts, raisins, chocolate chips

      Whole grain "baked" chips ..... still salty but better than potato chips

      "Plain" granola .... not chewy, not chocolate coated (not glorified candy bars)
    • Posts: 72 Member
      I bring enough apples and Greek yogurt with me on Monday to last through the week. My favorite snack is plain Greek yogurt with a tbsp or 2 of cherry preserves stirred in. I also love apple slices with a smidgen of peanut butter.
    • Posts: 703 Member
      Trail mix makes a good snack when I'm at work.
    This discussion has been closed.

    Welcome!

    It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.
    Sign In
    Register

    Quick Links

    Categories