Office hours 8 to 5

I also work full time. Normally I have healthy snacks in the office like kashi bars or honey oak bars and etc. I also have oatmeal at work (we have a fridge so I can store milk at work). For lunch I normally go out to giant which is a grocery store, there i get frozen food only b/c it helps me control my exact calories. When ever I don't feel like having frozen food, I'll have a salad from their salad bar and only add healthy things with light dressing (less then a spoon full). I also get a yogurt while getting my lunch and I either get fresh cut fruit from the salad bar or I'll get a apple or banana for my pm snack. Trust me I spend the exact same amount (maybe even less) by going to the grocery store to get lunch and my pm snack. Then what my lunch would cost me at a deli would cost me.

I have a large re-usable snack bag I take with me to work every day. Since I work at a bowling alley, temptations are RIGHT THERE! When I work an 8 hour shift, I bring enough for a light meal and two ten minute snack breaks. A lean Cuisine meal most days. Or pasta with veggies and chicken. Laughing cow cheese wedges with wheat thins. A mix of fruit like strawberries and apples. Hell take leftovers from the night before in a small portion. If you can eat and snack I would do that. You won't have to eat such a big meal knowing you can have a snack later. String cheese, home made trail mix. I stock my bag up so it's like my own vending machine. Then I get to choose from all my snacks on what to eat.

Hummus isn't to bad, I usually just eat a tablespoon at a time 1/2 a serving and I dip celery/carrot sticks in it or sometimes 1/2 a piece of pita bread or flat bread. I don't worry to much about the fat in it anyways because I never have a problem staying under on fat.

I brought a special ice pack tub to keep my home made chicken salad extra crispy. Bit of a pain as it needs to go in the freezer each night but oh so worth it for a tastier salad. Low fat natural yoghurt with nuts for pudding (I buy a big pot and put a bit in a small tub), a piece of fruit and a decent portion of mixed seed round out a typical day in the office.

We have a "snack drawer" at work which seems to consist of nothing but cookies, chocolates, poptarts, and the occasional graham crackers. I used to open the drawer and snack from it and it ended up being a disaster for the waistline, obviously. I slowly began bringing a small bag of strawberries or blueberries, etc. Now I don't even open the snack drawer because I know there is no nutritional substance in there whatsoever.

Now I bring variations of fruits and vegetables; e.g. strawberries, blueberries, blackberries (my favorite), roma tomatoes, celery, carrots, grapes, pineapple, bananas, etc. I'll occasionally bring in a green smoothie (fruit + green vegetable smoothie). I bring a ton of water! I typically bring 3 or 4 bottles of water into work (reusable water bottles - plastic bottles would be too expensive long term). I also bring in pretzels for snacks. I really like Snyder of Hanover's honey wheat pretzel twists. I also like Kashi's cookies that they make. They're delicious.

I am a huge soup fanatic, so typically I like to bring in some sort of soup. Usually homemade because it's easier for me to control the sodium that way. But I also eat Campbell's V8 soups, which are amazing! Yum!