Tips for taking food to school and work.

[SloppyJ]

Hello everyone. I'll be the first to admit that my diet isn't as good as it should be but it's pretty damn close, and the best it's ever been. I'm starting a cycle on the new year and I'm trying to come up with good ideas to take my meals with me to school and work. The easier the better. I like to mix it up so I don't eat the SAME exact thing every day but that might change.

Next semester I have a 7:30-10:20am class and a 11:00-1:50 class with work right after it. I will workout at 5pm on these days. Every other day will be at noon. These classes will only be two days a week. Every other day I work 8-5. I can wake up early and make some eggs and have a shake but I cannot figure out what the best option is for taking food to school to eat during class that is healthy.

Here's what I have so far:

Every week make a big batch of brown rice and split it up into tuperware.
Grill chicken breasts/steak to take also.
Make PB&J or other sandwichs to eat during class.
Take hard boiled eggs
Take Granola

At work we have a fridge and a microwave. No stove. I know i'm not the only one who has to do this so please any advice you have will be great.


p.s. just looking for ideas here not help with my diet. Thanks.

 

[LAM]

for me I always found that cooking the proteins and carbs at the beginning of the week is key, very easy to fill in the gaps to complete your meals once you have that stuff already cooked. personally I don't reheat meat in the microwave, I eat it cold and just nuke my carbs and veggies. depending on the meal I might add the protein into the heated carbs to warm them up a little.

 

[MyK]

I chop up brocoli and keep it in a bowl of water in the fridge

hard boiled eggs are good

protein shake in a thermos

tubs of cottage cheese

 

[Phineas]

(1.) Buy and cook meat in bulk, portion (with scale is ideal) individually, then freeze. Meat - check.

(2.) Carbs: say in a day you eat a bagel, some potatoes, and some pasta. Wrap all the bagels for the week on Sunday night and put them in the fridge. Cook all your potatoes and pasta on Sunday night, portion, and they're done. You can freeze pasta with the sauce in the tupperware. Not sure how well potatoes freeze. I usually cook them for 4 days in advance.

(3.) Veges: make salads on Sunday night for the entire week. Brocolli? Portion it all individually.

(4.) Eggs: I usually do these the night before, but hard boiled is a more convenient way for sure.

(5.) Milk in empty water bottles.

(6.) Cottage cheese in small tupperware.

(7.) Also, if you supplement with any kind of oil you can take it in the morning before you leave home. Quick, easy, healthy calories.

 

[JPN]

cool

 

[MyK]

rad

 

[AmFitNow]

When I went to work, I brought a container of yogurt, and a seperate mini container of wheat germ. when was ready to eat, I peeled off the yogurt lid, and then sprinkled some wheat germ on top. It tasted pretty good.

 

[AmFitNow]

I sometimes would cut up some carrots and cauliflower and put those in a container. and in a seperate small container, would have my fave Ranch dressing to dip them in.
Also I would have a few plain slices of raisin bread with it.

 

[MyK]

buy almonds in bulk and throw a bag in with your lunch.

I also have a steamer and steam eggs while I shower for work

 

[SloppyJ]

Steamed eggs? what the hell is that?

 

[danzik17]

You can make scrambled eggs in about 1m10s in the microwave.

I also used to make a muesli of oats, whey protein, yogurt, blueberries, and strawberries. Put it into a container and take it to class with me. It's good for at least an hour or so.

 

[min0 lee]

Steamed eggs? what the hell is that?

I think he means a Cleveland steamer.

 

[pritih]

take healthy food which is fresh and not frozen
food contains fresh vegetables , fruits this will keep you active whole day