Healthy snacks you keep with you

[honeybee]

I leave the house at 5:30 am and dont get home 4 nights a week until after 5:00pm. I try to keep healthy snacks with me at all times to keep myself from going thru a drivethru. What kind of snacks/meals do you keep with you?( I eat tuna, canned oysters, chicken breast, lean cuisine meals, cottage cheese, protein shakes, etc., and I have access to a fridge and micrwowave at work.) Thanks!!

 

[w8lifter]

lean cuisine meals

If you have access to a fridge and nuker you're set! Make all your meals and bring 'em w/ you!

You can take anything, prepared ahead of time and store it in the fridge and nuke it when you want it!

 

[nikegurl]

i have a dorky little insulated back that i don't leave home without these days. hard boiled eggs travel nicelly. cans of tuna - you can drain and open ahead at home and put in little tupperwares. chicken breast all that. i'm lucky to have a fridge at work though. but stuff will keep in there for hours - add an ice pack if needed.

you can cook sweet potatoes and nuke them after to rewarm. i keep oatmeal in my desk and cook it in the microwave. old fashioned oats too - not instant. still cooks in 3 minutes but watch out for boil over.

weekends are harder for me though. really is cool to have that little kitchen at work. takes planning but you can do it.

i have to remember that myself so i don't screw up on weekends. for me - my screw ups usually mean missing food and that's not good.

 

[Ironguy]

Any bars?

Have you considerd protein bars? If so, which ones? Anyone else use 'em between meals, or on the run?

 

[lina]

Bars have a lot of sugar. Try making your own.

 

[Twin Peak]

How do you make your own bar??? Do you have a recipe?

 

[I Are Baboon]

Chex Mix. Yummy!!! Ok, not the healthiest snack in the world, but certainly not the worst either.

Of course, protein bars are a regular part of my diet (my office desk always has a supply of bars in it).

 

[lina]

Protein Pumpkin Bars
This makes 6 (7-8) bars:
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 cups oats
18 egg whites
2 whole eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 cup pourable splenda
1 packet protein powder ( I used Myoplex this time)
1-2 tablespoon vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
(salt)

Spray a 6 mini-loaf pan with pam. Mix all ingredients and cook at 350 F for 20-30 min. I pour it into the 6 mini-loaf pans. Each loaf is now a meal/protein bar. Makes 6 bars. Total cost about $3 or about $0.50 a bar. What I like about this also is that there are no added sugars. Wrap them individually in foil/saran wrap and refridgerate if not eaten right away.

It should taste moist and chewy. Check the macros on fitday, may change depending on your protein powder.

cal: 216 cals
protein: 23.6 g
carb: 24 g
fat: 2 g

I'm working on a Peanut Butter Chocolate version but the first time I made this, I overcooked it so it tasted like cardboard. I'll have to try this again to make sure it was the fault of overcooking and not the recipe.

 

[w8lifter]

Mmm, thanks for the recipe that sounds good...I bet Sweet potato would sub for the pumpkin!

 

[RoCk79]

You said 18 egg whites, and 2 whole eggs, is it just me or isn't that wasteing a lot of food the egg yolk? Is there any kind of egg beaters or something that we can use so we dont have to throw away all those egg yolks?

 

[lina]

Yep, the first time I did this I used egg beaters ( I think it was 1 carton + 1/4 cup eggbeaters) but it turns out regular eggs were much cheaper.

Yep, I have eggyolk guilt on my hands too.

 

[RoCk79]

It actually did turn out to be cheaper? Hmm...I will look into that, I can't stand wasteing perfectly good (and tasty) food like that...Thanks for the info!!!