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This person’s problem can be solved by a sandwich. Takes like 3 minutes to make, or can be prepped earlier, no cooking necessary, has color, is fresh, not frozen, beats any fast food meal in price and quality. Also can even be healthy if you shop wisely. Can be different every day. Can be hot or cold. The possibilities are endless. Sandwiches are the best.
Sandwiches were literally invented to be home made, portable fast food, for hunters, workers, and the like. Not only are they ok with being wrapped up and carried, if made right they actually get better when wrapped up and squashed.
You can even eat it riding a horse!
I agree sandwiches are the best. But my metabolism is just too efficient at turning carbs into fat and high blood sugar. There’s just no substitute for good bread in a sandwich, all attempts at compromise/substitutions ruin the whole thing.
wraps are just as convenient and use far less bread, i love a good turkey wrap for lunch
Even a wrap is too much white flour right now. I bought some Low Carb High Fiber Whole Wheat tortilla wraps, but they’re serving the same role as Discworld Dwarf Bread: I look at them and remember the time I tried to eat one, and decide I’m not that hungry after all. I don’t even have to worry about them going stale, because they can’t become less appealing.
… With all currants in it? Just like mother used to forge.
I don’t mind the taste of the “healthy” tortillas. I generally prefer the taste of whole grain bread and pasta over white flour variants. My largest complaint is that they all seem to disintegrate when you look at them – probably a gluten thing, but they all just break or shred instead of hold together, which defeats the purpose of wrapping your food in them.
I settled on OLÉ “Xtreme Wellness” high fiber wraps. They’re stretchy and they even toast/grill well. They’re good for sandwich wraps but also soft tacos and small burritos.
Father Sam’s brand low carb wheat wraps. Try them
What type of bread are you using, and how thick are your slices? These work fine for me, but theres also rye versions. frutimian.no/2016/08/…/matpakkebrod-i-langpanne/ - note link is in norwegian.
I dont mind spending time preparing if it means i get great taste.
This looks like a nice recipe for later on once I lose enough weight to start adding a few carbs to my life that aren’t from vegetables. No grain or starch right now.
I don’t have this problem, but lettuce wraps are shockingly good too. A good sturdy lettuce, sliced turkey, smoked cheddar and some chipotle mayo (canned chipotle en adobo, pureed, just mix some of it into mayonnaise to make a spread.) Onion if you have it. I don’t understand why it’s good, it sounds like nonsense but I do this when I don’t have time to make bread, but do have good lettuce or homegrown lettuce in the garden. It is delicious and feels good to eat.
You’re right, lettuce wraps are good and it’s been awhile. Next time I look at that dwarf bread I’ll get out a romaine leaf instead.
Don’t forget lettuce sandwiches.
What do you consider ‘good bread’? Don’t buy supermarket bread, go to a good bakery and get some nice, freshly baked whole-grain bread, that should be much more difficult to turn into sugar.
Even homemade whole-grain bread, while delicious and healthy in its way, has too many non-fiber carbs when you’re trying to minimize them. And my body is unfortunately very efficient at converting the starches to blood sugar. As for bakery whole-grain bread, (and of course the supermarket kind) the ingredients almost inevitably include “wheat flour” which is white flour, not necessarily bleached but minus the bran. This is because bread that is not only “made with 100% whole wheat” (which just means it contains SOME 100%-whole-wheat flour!) but is made with ONLY whole wheat flour (plus any other whole grains) doesn’t rise very well. I’ve struggled with it myself and made some bricks, despite being able to bake gorgeous loaves when allowed to include some unbleached bread flour in the mix. Go ahead, ask your baker. And then enjoy the bread, it’s still great for most people.
I don’t know anything about baking bread so I can’t tell you how they do it, but in my country (the Netherlands) whole grain bread has to be made from 100% whole grain flour by law. If you add any other kind of flour you cannot sell it as whole grain. There is plenty of delicious whole grain bread for sale both in supermarkets and bakeries.
Get some keto bread. It’s basically pure fiber in bread shape. The aldi keto bread is fantastic
Or cook a big batch of your own soup at the weekend. Then microwave it for lunch.
Someone needs to raise their sandwich game.
Or, buy lunchables. Yes they’re cheap. Yes they’re fantastic
There is another option.
Just going to put this out there, cook too much the previous night, don’t eat all the dinner you cooked. Place the remainder into some form of container; transport said container to work with you the next day.
Lunch is sorted when you make your dinner!
That’s crazy talk.
The same meal again? Crazy talk
Didn’t know psychopaths were just showing themselves like this on Lemmy, wtf
I just cook bigger portions for dinner and eat that as lunch
Right! I’m surprised this isn’t a more popular approach.
Yes, it’s so obvious. It doesn’t take significantly longer to cook a double portion.
£4 sounds pretty cheap if it’s a decent meal
Meal deals are rarely ever decent. They’re enough to get you through the working day if you sit at a desk all day.
It’s a sandwich, pocket of crisps or a chocolate bar and a drink.
I would murder my whole family for a $5 sandwich meal deal in the states. Even fast food by my work is double that, and you’re still only getting America-quality food packed with sugars and preservatives.
As an American who spent time living in the UK - ‘sandwich’ is a generous description of what you get in a £4 meal deal. Some meal deals have things made from actual food but good luck finding one of those at that price.
It’s an appropriate amount of food in terms of calories, but it does leave one distinctly dissatisfied.
Yeah I’m usually more interested in nutrients than calories. Otherwise I’d just have a Guinness for lunch
So more like £8 or 10
California here. $15 minimum. Less if you give some shitty app all your data.
I mostly eat leftovers from last night’s dinner for lunch.
Leftovers gang checking in. Sometimes it tastes even better the next day.
If you want to minimize cleanup and effort, just use a rice cooker.
Congratulations you now have a healthy, cheap meal you can make at home or at work. If you eat directly out of the cooker you only need to clean your spoon. No cutting board needed either.
Don’t you need to clean the rice cooker?
I’m not trying to be a smartass, I’m just that desperate that I’m hoping to find out you don’t need to.
Mine has a non-stick pan. It all comes down to how quickly you empty it. Emptied immediately, it rinses clean. If it sits around while I eat, I’ll need to scrub a little
This. You can use it back to back a few days and get away with not cleaning it. Then a quick soap rinse takes care of the issue.
I’m a pretty good cook, but I don’t think there’s enough here to get it done. Do rice and lentils take about the same amount of water to cook? How much oil?
It’s one of those “by feel” recepies. I would say 1-2 tablespoon per person. Red lentils fall apart and give a grainy texture, which you may or may not like. Black (or Beluga) lentils come out fine, or maybe a bit al dente, same for brown lentils.
Thx for the tips, I’ve never put anything in my rice cooker but medium grain rice and water
Old rice/pasta with olive oil, garlic and cheese is great too.
Rice with oil? Doesn’t it make it unsticky?
It depends on how long you cook it, I prefer it not very sticky. Longer cooking times will make it a bit softer and more sticky.
Rice cooker was a surprising win for me - usually single use appliances are not worth it, but a rice cooker is, plus you can do more with it than you expect. I have rice much more frequently now that it’s just a matter of clicking a button
I have a basic 6c model that feeds my family with two hungry teens, and currently costs $20 online. Has worked great for years of 3+ meals/week. Non-stick pan makes cleanup simple, although I am trying to get away from non-stick coatings so may replace it soon: stainless steel pan version costs $40
Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort
Same in the UK, where the post was written.
Also, there’s literally a Greggs on every corner or a greasy spoon that’ll make you a sandwich for 2.50
Lunch is my favourite. Nothing beats a fine sandwich with cheese.
Peanut butter and provolone is one of my favorites
I’ll never understand how can people eat sandwiches every day, especially those with some kind of meat in them. I’m not vegetarian but eating sandwiches for more than two days in a row make me want to puke.
Do you eat the same thing for breakfast every day? I do. But for whatever reason, lunch and dinner is different. Can’t eat the same thing twice.
Dumb brain
I don’t. But I’m a rich american who can afford to be picky and eat different stuff for every meal and eat 1-2 meals a day from restaurants regularly.
I am one and it’s peanut butter every day. For 3 years basically every working day has had a peanut butter sandwich. And that’s how the next 30 some years are looking too. It’s fine. I can live that way.
That’s a fucking delicious 33 years.
A sandwich can be a thousand different dishes if you get creative
I eat sandwiches every day, and the same thing or small variety. I’m not eating for the experience, I’m eating to not be hungry. I can make and eat a sandwich is less than a minute, so I can get back to doing what I want to be doing.
If I really don’t feel like a sandwich, there’s always toast.
Why?
Idk
this was a productive thread
Genuinely, why? Personally, I’m happy to eat basically same meals for a few days before they get boring, and you can vary your sandwiches a lot of you so desire.
I also eat pretty much the same breakfast every day. For lunch I can vary what’s on the bread and the type of bread. That’s just how things are here. It’s not the nicest, but it saves a lot of time and money and can also be quite nice
Peanut butter? Upgrading to natural peanut butter made all the difference for me, so it’s no longer just for kids.
I even get decent marmalade, which definitely doesn’t work for kids, or a dark amber maple syrup. I currently have apple butter, which goes nicely on a peanut butter sandwich, or with a scoop of cottage cheese on the side
Might try it, I never ate peanut butter or maple syrup
a lot of people eat the same food several days in a row, or several meals in a row.
you only feel that way because you see food as pleasure to be enjoyed. not as a necessity for living. lots of people eat to live.
I don’t want to enjoy every meal
Just not to feel sick because of them
Not Mongolian I take it?? Lol
You don’t have to make the same sandwich every day.
Same in Germany. We have bread with butter and cheese. It’s a blessing with a good bread
Yeah I just make a peanut butter sandwich and prep some fruit and bring it to work. Easy, healthy, and filling
I will ask my cousin about it lol
It’s called a sandwich.
For anyone who is confused, this user is talking about a sandwich. That is what is called a sandwich.
Hope that cleared it up!
I’m guessing that’s covered by the £4 meal deal, and they’re just too lazy to make their own
The trick is being able to eat the same meal for the entire day. Cook once and eat it throughout the day. lol
But seriously: for the week. I have multiple family members who do this and used to do it myself: most meals last up to a week in the fridge, so just put a little extra in Sunday night so you have leftovers for lunches.
My previous version of this was to start each week with giant: salad, pasta salad, fruit salad. Then I have a complete meal, including variety by just throwing a protein in the toaster oven.
I’m trying to restart something like this now that its back to just me all week: I have a 10 lb pork shoulder for the smoker!
You can just… not? Having two larger meals a day isn’t that weird.
I have adopted the “Central European” diet:
One large meal a day and then leftovers + bread and toppings.
Occasionally might have more but that’s my daily meal plan and works pretty great.
Bread is a life saver. If you don’t have time to cook just eat some bread. Healthy (depends on the kind of bread) and you don’t have to worry about beeing hungry an hour later.
And honestly, you can make a lot of really good bread quite quickly. Leaving out proofing for a bit, it’s less than watching an episode of a show. Bread it also easy enough that you can totally watch a show while making it, and not worry about chopping off your fingers lol
What does the rest of the world do then? Cook twice or thrice a day? That’s just silly.
I disagree. I like cooking and since I'm working from home I can make something nice and fast at home for lunch. But I probably would have agreed back then when I worked at the office.
I love the cooking but hate the cleaning up part.
Pro tip: cook in and eat from one pot :D
but what about the 5 knives and 3 spoons i’ve used preparing the ingredients :(
Open dishwasher when you start. Instead of putting those things on the counter or in the sink, out then directly in the dishwasher
Just use one or two and if really necessary clean them? I cook complex meals somewhat often and never use more than one knife and 1-2 spoons.
I look forward to lunch every day. I make myself a wrap with some sort of oven cooked filling and a bunch of fresh veggies and some apple slices and a small bag of wasabi peas for dessert.
The heck kinda dessert is wasabi peas??
Good Lord I am happy I can handle my shit and not have to publicly post my executive dysfunction for the planet to see.
I am pretty sure I have ADHD and I still manage to meal prep.
Even if you cant, you can literally just have a backup plan like mine, for when I forget to cook I have some frozen chicken strips, potato wedges, and green beans, throw it all on a sheet pan and into the convection oven for 20-25 mins, boom you have a decent meal, bit more pricey than doing it from scratch, but it’s quick and low effort
I do have ADHD, and while I can manage meal prep, 99% of the time I just can’t be bothered. But I force myself to do it, because the alternative is eating a bag of crisps and a big bar of chocolate and feeling like crap all afternoon.
I make slow cooked chicken burritos and freeze them. Takes about 1 hour of prep, and about 6 hours to cook so it isn’t easy, but I only gotta do this occasionally. If I do this in conjunction with meal prep it takes a lot longer to prep, but then I can have a work week of food, and have like 8 burritos for when I’m too lazy to cook.
I’m okay cooking for just myself but I have a toddler and celiac wife so I use cook smarts. Takes away so much of the planning.
So much of these news aggregate sites are morons reposting the same tired posts from absolute crayon eaters who bloviate about how critically incapable they are at basic life functions.
I’m soooo ADHD, sitting through that lecture yesterday was rough! 🙄
You’re so quirky! Whats your gamer tag??? Do you play MLP?
Some of us are given free meals to eat in our paid meal breaks.
Nothing fancy though. Most times, the chef only makes a starter or a dessert. Rarely both.
Jokes on you …. I’m in the US and my company is trying to bribe us back to the office with good free lunches. Still can’t compete with work from home but half and half is working so far
there is no free lunch
Sandwiches are never a bad option.
There’s probably some situation where it’s a bad option.
Funeral procession?
In Brazil, if you work more that 6hs a day, the company have to give you lunch. The majority of them, give you a pre paid debit card that can be used in restaurants. This mean that they are a lot of money there that can be used in restaurants, so any office building have lots of restaurants around.
From my union contract, I get 40R daily to lunch, and the restaurant I go they serve “prato feito” (beans, rice, salad, meat) for 25, and use the rest for some icecream or to eat something with my wife at weekends.
That’s actually a very cool concept.
It’s works close with transit costs too, the employee can opt in to pay up to 6% of its salary, then what is miss to cover all the transit costs is paid 50/50 by the employer and the government. For example, if I need to take a bus (5R) and a metro (5R), that sum to 20R daily in transit costs, 20R × 22 working days = 440 at month. Suppose a salary of 2000 * 6% = 120. The employee pay 120, the employer 160 and the government other 160. I’m fortunate to be in a position where I don’t need that benefit anymore because I live in bike distance to the office, but it saved my ass when I had to take a bus to the metro station, a metro and then another bus every day.
Damn, didnt knew that brasil had such bonuses. I don’t know how good your public transport is, but having this option is great.
It’s not even an age thing, but more an economic issue, I never ran into this as an issue when the cost of eating out was affordable. Don’t feel like prepping lunch the night before? Screw it, I’ll pickup something during my lunch break for $3-4. But now that $3-4 is $10+
I find you can’t even get a sandwich anymore for less than $15.
(Fast food may be slightly cheaper. I wouldn’t know because I don’t frequent fast food chains.)
For some reason fast food is even more expensive. You’re not missing out on anything.
my weekly work lunch is a soda and a sandwich with a bag of chips. It’s $20. 5 years ago it was $12.
There’s a variety of lunches that are cheap and insanely easy though:
Like sure, some of these things rely on having leftovers laying around to dress up a bit, but I think that’s a reasonable thing to expect of most people.
Cooking takes SO MUCH TIME when you’re single. But eating out is so expensive. It sucks.
Good news, they’re making eating in expensive too, so you can get the full experience!
If you practice and prepare you can cut down on some of the time. I used to live right next to a street of fast food joints so it was never worth it to cook myself from a time standpoint unless I was just having some frozen garbage. Now it’s a 15 minute trip to pick something up if there’s no line so I cook a lot more and with experience I’ve been able to streamline things so it goes faster. Also make enough for 2-3 meals when you cook and then “leapfrog” through the week eating the leftovers. That way you don’t have to cook every day but also don’t have to eat the same thing every day.
If you find a few recipies you really like and learn how to do them from memory, and then make them a lot, you learn lots of efficiencies and shortcuts that save a ton of time. Making stuff without a recipie at all is even faster.
If you don’t have a freezer that can hold two weeks worth of meals, buy one. I have three homemade frozen pizzas and a half dozen chicken pot pies waiting right now.
I can cook a whole roast chicken on Sunday and enjoy chicken tacos, chicken sandwiches, etc. all week.
I can cook a five liter pot of chili/soup/stew and freeze it into pint containers; I’ve got a nice hot meal any time.
Slow cookers are another option.
My problem with that is defrosting. It requires timing and planning, which is tough due to impromptu work based meals. And some stuff once frozen tastes like crap defrosted.
I do liberally use the slow cooker.
What are you defrosting?
You don’t have to defrost anything except raw meat and even that can go straight into the oven if you want to season it after it’s cooked. If you have a frozen pizza/pot pie just throw it in a pre-heated oven.
Also, you can defrost quickly with a microwave.
Soup, beans, pasta. Also, for cooking: frozen meat. Veggies are also difficult, yeah there’s flash frozen veg that can work but that requires cookery too.
Store made frozen pizzas and pies taste like crap and are expensive. Homemade ones take a lot of time.
Soups are still good especially with a crock pot but I get so sick of soup.
I’m lucky because I have an Italian food shop near me that makes homemade uncooked pizza. I can take it home and cook right away or freeze. Same with the chicken pot pies.
The main thing I’d say is get in the habit of making giant servings and freeze them. I will make 5 liters of stew/chili/soup on a Sunday and freeze it in pint containers. A different recipe the next Sunday. Now I’ve got 20 meals sitting in the freezer.
It takes as much effort to make a big meal as a small one; make a meal big enough for four people and freeze three portions.
Yeah same. I just try to cook a meal on Sunday but it doesn’t get me through the entire week. Not to mention I usually need a second meal at night when I work out. It’s too much.
Cooking takes the same amount of time whether you’re single or not?
Like wtf.
Pasta boils at the same speed regardless of how many people are in the house.
That’s the problem. It’s more efficient with bigger meals. If you’re single, you have to cook and then clean. If there’s two of you, you can divide tasks.
I have good news for you:
Being single doesn’t mean you can only cook single portions of stuff.
You can cook two portions, and have an entire meal ready to eat anytime during the next few days.
You might even find yourself adventurous and cook three portions, and have TWO whole meals ready to go.
But be wary, most people who just learn the ability to plan ahead quickly get carried on and start preparing 5, 6 or even 7 servings ahead of time and I only recommend this for experienced meal preppers who know what they are doing.
Also, clean as you go, and cleaning suddenly doesn’t become this insurmountable task.
I swear to god half of the people in these threads are not fit for life.
The other half are armchair quarterbacks who can’t fathom that anything is ever difficult for other people.
Reheating leftovers is a gamble. Sometimes reheated food just tastes like ass, no matter how good it was fresh.
It still takes twice as much effort, IF the recipe you’re making leaves time for it.
Jesus, you condescending fuck, you think I don’t know this shit? Are you so damn arrogant you think no one else has figured out meal prepping? You think you’re goddamn einstein because you discovered cleaning as you go? We fucking know. And it sucks.
Douchenozzle.
of course I am being condescending.
I am talking to a supposedly grown ass man having mental breakdowns because they have to clean the dishes after cooking.
Hahaha learn to cook. Stir fry takes under 30 min. BLT in like 5 min. Pizza in under an hr including making the dough.
I see you never have to wash dishes or chop vegetables.
They’re like parallel processes. Rice takes about 20 min. Start that first and you can have the stir Fry done before the rice finishes with plenty of time to clean up. A sandwich leaves just a knife and cutting board. Just rinse that off. And if I was making pizza I’d make the dough the night before and the rest is simple, clean up when the pizzas in the oven.
Personally love leftovers. Make extra rice, use the leftovers in a burrito or something. Make extra pizza dough and put some in the freezer, etc
I’ve seriously considered buying MREs because I can’t be bothered to meal prep.
It’s still basically canned food, it’s just that the can is a pouch. It’s more expensive too.
Most MREs that I’ve looked at are a bit more elaborate than your average canned product.
But the idea is the same, yes. It’s more interesting than your typical canned meal, and it’s more expensive, but the quality of the food, if you can call it that, is not dissimilar.
MREs usually are a more “complete” meal with a variety of components, while canned meals are just a volume of a single component.
For me it’s mainly that it adds variety.
And sure, there’s MREs that are like, stew, or soup, that you would probably be better off just grabbing a can of ready to eat Campbell’s or something… But there’s way interesting options than that too.
I once saw a “taco” MRE. It was little more than some “beef” (that you had to heat up) and “cheese” and some other fairly sad toppings on a small tortilla… But I would still take that over a can of chunky beef soup any day.
The nice thing is that MREs are shelf stable for a really long time, so you can get a box of them and shove them in your trunk, or into a desk drawer and then you don’t have to worry about lunch for a month. Longer if you occasionally go out for lunch with coworkers to local food places near your workplace.
Presently, I don’t work in an office (my job is 100% work from home), so I don’t really need it. I can get the same variety from a frozen meal, which is arguably easier, and it’s definitely cheaper than MREs.
I also have considered buying a few boxes as emergency food and throwing them in the trunk of my car. I live in Canada, and getting stranded in a blizzard isn’t impossible. I have access to my trunk from the cabin of my car, so I shouldn’t need to get out to get them and I could stay nourished while waiting for rescue. MREs are supposed to be paired with heating/cooking packs, which would help the car warm up when I’m having one, and with a decently sized container of drinking water, I could wait weeks for rescue, as long as I have adequate protection from the elements (jackets, blankets, etc), and some way to dispose of my bodily waste without contaminating my “living” area. I almost always travel with a radio (I’m a certified amateur operator, aka, ham radio), and a battery bank for my cellphone.
For a couple hundred dollars (maybe? Maybe more? IDK what the prices are for MREs right now), myself and a passenger could survive for a while being stranded in the white wasteland of Canada, without really having to do anything… Just waiting for rescue.
With global warming, last year we barely got snow where I am, and I don’t travel much, so the whole thing is on the back burner at best. The idea was to have it, and if I don’t need it, a few months before everything expires, the MREs become my lunch, and I buy a fresh box for my vehicle.
Yeah, there’s some stuff on the side, but get a can of chef boyardee, a sealed packet of crackers and a pop tart, and that’s pretty much it. Add some Qwik and Gatorade powder for hydration, maybe. At 250$ per 12-pack it’s more expensive than eating out.
I’m involved with the Canadian cadet program, and these are the exact ones we eat when we go on expédition, they’re nothing fancy. They are convenient, though.
$20 CAD each (ish) and they come with the heater?
That’s actually pretty good for pricing. The ration heaters are not cheap.
Dont forget to put it on a tray.
I’m not a monster.
Nice. Mmk…
Yes, it does end.
it ends when you become lunch
What’s wrong with Kramer’s method of just bringing a sleeve of crackers to eat at work?
And what do you do down there all day?
TCB. Taking care of business.
Really? I’ve been an adult for quite a while and I always look forward to lunch (all meals, actually). Plenty of quick, simple, and appealing meals to make.
I don’t understand; could somebody please explain?
Prepping food is hard and buying food is worse. The meme comments on the burden of needing to feed yourself as an adult.
Still doesn’t make any sense at all. Is she suffering from some sort of eating disorder?
Yes the disorder is being lazy (or lacking the drive to cook) and poor (or not wanting to spend money on food). Being 30+ compounds these disorders, thanks.
Thank you for explaining. I appreciate it.
Sadly, I can’t say I share her perspective. I regularly struggle to buy food, so… ¯\_(°_°)_/¯
This bitch has first world problems and she thinks they’re huge.
In reality it’s as simple as a sammich so she just looks dumb.
Most of my lunches are leftovers, but many of them are things like a burger or a bratwurst that I can cook with little effort. Or I can buy something.
Imagine complaining about £4 for lunch, I’m lucky if I get out for under $20.
I interpreted it as a 4 pound tv dinner. But maybe I’m reading it wrong.
[Edit] Now I am doubting what even a meal deal is
british people are poor
Well, what do you want to eat? I guess if you don’t want to prepare your own food, those are the only options, whether at work or at home. Otherwise, make whatever you want and take it to work. Cook more food than you need for your dinner and take the leftovers. Make a salad (tons of options for them), make a sandwich. You don’t have to eat canned soup, make some nice homemade soup and freeze a bunch of individual servings to grab and take. The possibilities are endless.
Microwaving some leftovers might be an option. You get the great food you put effort into making, without actually having to make the effort at lunchtime.
Honestly they should just make nutrition bricks. Just combining nutrients into a brick. It could even be modular so you can add/remove various nutrients based on your nutritional needs. The perfect life would be working for the nutrition brick manufacturer and then going home to eat some nice nutrition bricks.
They do. They taste like shit.
they also make shakes that do this. also taste like shit.
Foamed up shit, but yeah… still shit.
That’s what cliff bars/energy bars/protein shakes are.
Why do you believe a “nutrition brick” would be at all more appetizing than the things described in OP?
Doesn’t need to be appetizing, just not downright nasty. Of course, a pill would be the desired form factor, but you couldn’t fit that much in a pill
Just go to prison and have a nutriloaf ffs.
The nutrition brick manufacturer would absolutely not allow you to take nutrition bricks home. You’d have to buy them like everyone else
Imagine your biggest realization as an adult being a wrong opinion.
Yes, eventually it ends when you’re promoted to middle management and you have to forage for granola bars and cookies during the few seconds you get between meetings. Stay an IC for as long as you can.
That sounds like a toxic-work-culture thing that I’m faaaar too European to understand. I’m off for a two hour lunch, don’t text me
It’s been years since I’ve eaten food away from my desk. And God forbid I should forget to bring food and need to run downstairs for sixteen seconds to purchase something. That’s truly one of the seven deadly sins.
Is a proper meal period with rest not guaranteed by law?
Or is it, but it’s hard to fight for it because the workplace culture is shaped differently?
I’m in the state of Georgia: no provision for breaks are given at all.
I used to live in the UK: I think the rule was employers are required to give 30 mins per 10 hours worked, cannot be in the first or last hour.
Oh man that’s brutal.
Yeah here in Switzerland it’s similar to the UK rule. Any shift longer than 6 hours needs to be interrupted by an unpaid but uninterrupted break of at least 30min for eating, such that there isn’t more than a 6 hour continuous work period on either side of the break, IIRC.
Our standard for full-time employment is 8.4h per day. (That’s a bit high in comparison to neighboring countries). It’s very usual that you get your eating break somewhere between 11:30-13:30 o’clock, maybe on rotation with coworkers if you need to keep the phones staffed.
In my office job we all go together from around 11:45 to 12:45.
Combination of being salaried plus industry culture.
TIL I’m European
Look I’m not saying that cooking your own lunch is a prerequisite for being an adult. However complaining about the quality of prepared food while not acknowledging you could just cook is sure as hell immature.
This thread just oozes of early adults that don’t understand how to spend 30 minutes preparing meals
Or possibly people living in milquetoast office park suburbs where the restaurant options are dogshit.
No shortage of good lunch foods in downtown Houston.
But even then my statement holds true
Eating out isn’t exactly cheap though. Hardly sustainable for most people doing that every lunch.
There’s nothing at my workplace other than a shitty microwave oven and we’re not allowed to leave the factory for lunch or dinner.
I still manage to eat decent meals because I’m not a lazy bum.
If you are in an office environment, where do you prep?
If you can’t make a sandwich and take it to work with a muslie bar I dunno what to say other than good luck kid.
One guy at works makes a toasted ham and cheese in the toaster. I shit you not, he just flattens it and crams it in one side for a bit.
Make a sandwich = buy a sandwich.
Because “make” = “buy”
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Because eat a sandwich = eat a sandwich.
Nothing against an occasional sandwich, but the “meal deal” referred to above is basically just sandwiches.
Make a sandwich = $5
Purchase sandwich = GDP of Haiti
19.5b USD is a quite expensive Sandwich.
You bring it from home. Or find a home office job.
At home before or after work.
Me, living in France, where a cafeteria room is mandatory, 1-2h long lunchs are the norm and your employer has to give you at least 4-5€/day to buy lunch:
Sad American noises
Do I want to get 6 hours of sleep and then pay $25 for a shitty meal, or get 4.5 hours of sleep and cook something that I hope tastes okayish reheated in the microwave tomorrow?
Is this some sort of British joke that I am too Indian to understand?
Edit: There was a bit of miscommunication it seems. My comment was on the food themselves and not the price.
Start going to Starbucks for lunch, instead of the roadside stall and you’ll understand.
I’m happy with cooking at 13:00. Better than having an extra-humid, stale-feeling lunch box
Why would you assume I am eating at roadside stalls? Cause I am Indian?? Ignoring that hopefully accidental racism, I do in fact cook lunch when I have the time with mostly rice with one of the premade mixes and quick vegetable stir frys. Shouldn’t take more than 20 mins to make something simple. When I am busy I usually get something either in office or nearby restaurant. A good lunch at normal restaurants usually costs about 100-300₹ per person and could get some light food within 100₹ as well. I don’t count the shit at Starbucks as a meal, maybe a snack but why a sandwich when I can get good Indian food.
I didn’t read OP’s statement as racist.
I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’
Personally, I’m always looking for the small restaurants that serve food on Styrofoam or paper plates. Bonus points if it’s attached to a gas station or the owner’s little kids are in the dining room or kitchen playing and coloring.
Ethnicity doesn’t matter, it can be a barbecue joint or some sort of Asian culture I’m ignorant of.
You see a little kid quietly coloring in a booth by themselves, you know that shit is going to be good.
With my aversion to food made out in the open, right next to running cars and open-coughing people, I stopped eating from roadside stalls by the time I started having enough autonomy.
I tend to prefer non-chain restaurants with viewable kitchens ^[those places tend to hire cooks who actually mind their coughing], but due to lack of any such desirable place in my area, eating out nearby, usually means subway (which is just, less bad).
Then I realise that with the amount of money I would spend to pay for the cheapest local meal place, I can actually cook with Ghee at home. And that topples the equation over its head.
Definitely not going back to outside food with nobody knows which oil they use.
We try and only eat out as a treat. Almost all of our my meals are eaten at home as we work from home these days. Also, my wife is an amazing cook and her food is better than most restaurants. We usually have leftovers or a sandwich for lunch.
I’m not familiar with your currency symbol? What country do you live in and are the health standards low enough that eating from a stall is a concern? That’s a different situation.
I’m in the US, so food trucks, stalls and gas stations actually have decent standards. (Often, the cleanliness in these places is heads and shoulders above corporate chain places.)
I learned to always check the bathroom of a restaurant. How clean they keep their bathroom tells you a lot about how they keep their kitchen. Small, family run, places tend to have the best food and the cleanest bathrooms, in my experience.
The first statement sounded like I am always eating at road side stalls and never had a lunch at a restaurant. Not that I would bother going to a chain like that to begin with. I am obviously not a native speaker so maybe I misunderstood it.
I am not a fan of those road side stalls, I am not a germaphobe but at least my food should be made in a clean Kitchen. Maybe because my mom would never let me try those and I grew up that way.
It’s rare, in America, for there to be an actual stall. Food trucks or carts are much more common and serve the same function. Stalls can be found at festivals and fairs.
Some of the best food comes out of food trucks. There’s a whole little culture around food trucks.
I’ve seen stalls in other countries on TV. Anthony Bourdain, for instance. He seems to accept a certain amount of food poisoning and dubious ingredients. Some of it still looks really good.
We also have the Tamale Lady phenomenon here. If you see a Hispanic lady or old man selling tamales out of a cooler, you better get some. They’ll be the best damn tamales you’ve ever had.
I’m betting they didn’t mean it to be racist. I wish I had roadside stalls as options to eat at where I work. A lot of times those end up being better quality and I like the thought of giving money to the people directly making the food instead of a corporate overlord that takes 95% of the money and makes the workers divide the 5% among all of them.
We don’t have roadside stalls around me, but that’s exactly what food trucks are for. When I used to work near a bunch of food trucks, the food was fantastic, always different, and so much better than a chain restaurant
I travel a lot for work so I’ve been to a pretty large number of restaurants and such. I’ve definitely had bad food from food trucks before, but it isn’t very common for it to be abysmal. It’s not like a restaurant that can have other factors like atmosphere, lighting, etc. If the food is bad they won’t last long. Never seen a true roadside stall any of the places I’ve been though unfortunately. I’m honestly so sick of chain restaurants. They completely take over and drive local stuff out a lot of the time.
₹300 comes at around 4 euros. 4 pounds is ~₹450, so it’s pretty close.
If you check the pricing of one of the shit-listed chains, you get hardly anything filling in that price, vs ₹90 for a full meal in some places (that was somewhere in Bengaluru).
But that’s on the high ends tho. I just had a rava dosa and lime soda for 110 in udupi so still very affordable. The term affordable depends on each person but I think you would agree it’s very reasonable.
Exactly why I suggested going to stuff like Starbucks to understand the feelings of OP.
You won’t feel what they do, if you are eating good food at reasonable places.
If you’re not eating a croque monsieur for lunch, that’s your fault, and you deserve to be miserable
Mmm calories
Just eat a small one
Croque garcon?
Do people not eat salads? Like some spinach, a nice vinaigrette, some nuts, and maybe a little sliced baked chicken, with a few raspberries or something?
What, like a rabbit?
Rabbits aren’t salads, silly. They are second order salads.
Can you say it in freedom units?
Do people not eat cheeseburgers? Like some ground beef, a nice condiment, some veg, and maybe a little sliced bacon, with a few fries or something?
Lmao - but if you look at the core ingredients a cheeseburger should be great. I wonder if you could actually make a healthy one if made from scratch.
In the context of the American general public, a healthy burger would require a very different ratio of meat to bun to veggies, at which point most people probably wouldn’t call it a burger anymore.
Call it healthy enough
EAT RABBIT FOOD WITH SOME CHICKEN
New meal ideas: chicken food with rabbit
Paella says what
I skip breakfast so technically lunch is breakfast but it’s then I eat my main meal and it’s always top notch. Who wants to eat a large meal in the evening?
Me. Can’t stomach a full meal until late noon.
I do, it makes me sleepy otherwise Ill stayup way too late
Mind that stomach valve, they wear out.
Oh shits fucked lol i sleep on like a 45 degree angle
Everything bagel, cream cheese, provolone, tomato/cucumber in that order. Eat open faced. You’re welcome.
Where is the crushing existential dread and multiversal blackhole?
Go look at a tiny plant sticking out of a sidewalk crack. You’ll feel better
I used to do something like that for lunch. Next thing I knew I was crashing from not enough protein, and developing high cholesterol. Be careful eating the same basic things all the time, it’s easy to accidentally max something out without thinking about it.
Everything bagel, cream cheese, capers, smoked salmon
I think something that is missing in the minds of the “but you could just…” posters here is that the mindset of the OP doesn’t always come from laziness, immaturity, or the inability to understand how to pack a sandwich, it sometimes comes from crippling or barely functional depression.
I work from home and the thought of even making a sandwich most days in the middle of the day is just too much. I don’t want to make a sandwich; I want to go back to bed for eight to ten years and I agree that lunch is the fucking worst.
(But so is breakfast, and dinner, and all of the meetings, and work, and life generally speaking, etc.)
For sure but here on Lemmy it seems to be the case in like 80% of posts. If that many people were actually depressed across the whole population, civilization would long have collapsed.
So you’re saying a niche platform with a lot of tech guys who are actively facing layoffs daily nowadays isn’t representative of society overall? I’m super surprised.
But relatedly depression levels have risen across society over the years, it’s gonna impact the posting.
This is precisely why always working from home is unhealthy and the context switch would be worth the psychological boost it provides if not for the commute. I know people really liked the liberation of WFH at first but I just don't think it is going to be sustainable. It has nothing to do with productivity, but it's the next simmering mental health crisis.
I like how the “why don’t you just” people have now moved on to armchair psychology.
Then you are just burnout, this ain’t complicated. If you need to rest, fucking rest.
Oh wow! My crippling depression is cured! Why didn’t I think of this before? Thank you so much!
Learn how to cook. It’s not that hard to throw something together that’s good after being microwaved. The other day I made some bitter-orange chicken with rice. It was 30 minutes waiting and 4 minutes coating the chicken in the pan with the sauce.
Where’s all the people who loathe breakfast because they aren’t hungry until lunch?
Followup question because I’m not one of them. Should we not talk to you until you’ve had your morning coffee and cigarette? You know it doesn’t give you permission to act like a dickweed to everyone Amanda.
Bring my morning coffee and cigarette to me in bed and you’ll have a fast friend for life
Shit take.
As a non-UKer, meal deals are amazing.
Where is your tupperware lunch box? hmmm?
Reading this makes me really angry for some reason.
Are you an American, who gets a mandatory half hour unpaid in the middle of the workday?
😭
I’ve just started with smoothies. Some greek yogurt(has loads of protein), frozen vegetables, honey, and water(to make it a drink) and it’s already goin’ pretty well.
I agree, it’s awful to deal with.
I’ve been making my own yogurt lately a half gallon at a time. It’s dummy easy and comes out a bit thinner than most store yogurt. It works really well as a drink or smoothie base
I’ve heard of this homemade yogurt thing. I may have to give it a go depending on how much I need but for now I don’t mind buying the stuff at the store.
I know you didn’t ask for it but I’m really excited about what I’ve been up to so here’s the process: Heat milk to 180-185f basically right as it starts to foam, let it cool to 110, mix in a spoonful of yogurt (I started with store bought Greek then keep a starter from each batch to make the next), let it sit somewhere warm for 6-24 hours. The oven with the light on works well enough but there are lots of options. Then bam you’ve got more yogurt! I like to whisk mine to make it a bit smoother and I’ve been having a glass every morning with some cherry juice mixed in, 2 parts yogurt to 1 part juice
Hmmm ok that doesn’t sound too bad to do. What vessel does it go in, just a pot? Is wider and shallower better?
I do mine in a half gallon mason jar. I’ve got fermenting lids that help me pull the air out just in case but that shouldn’t be needed. I’d avoid letting it be exposed to too much air though so maybe not a pot for the souring stage
Edit to add, I really like bon appetit videos, here is one about yogurt: youtu.be/D6IyyFc1RqI?si=NxZTYsx-2l3ED1e5
smoothies aren’t very healthy or nutritious though. Blending removes a lot of the health benefits of fruit.
Well it’s good thing that not a single source I could find seems to agree with you or maybe I’d worry! The hell do you think chewing is?
Blending a smoothie is perfectly fine and does not hurt the nutrients at all.
it destroys the fiber benefits and makes the fruit essentially a form of processed sugar.
Chewing is different to blending
it also depends - are you making these yourself fresh or are you buying them? If buying them they are likely pasteurized and homogenized which removes nutrients.
Which may be irrelevant for you, but also for a casual reader any given smoothie does not automatically mean healthy. Like how eating a salad is not necessarily healthy if it’s drowned in Bleu cheese, nuts, cheese cubes, dried fruit and croutons.
Do you have a source because it really does not destroy the fibre unless you’re doing an incredible fine grind which a blender simply is not capable of, certainly for the 10-20s it takes to make a smoothie. You’ll need a source on this.
Nuts aren’t unhealthy seriously what are you talking about? A bunch of extreme examples that never really happen?
I think it’s the filtering out of pulp and other solids, leaving only sugary juice that would make it unhealthy. However the point of a smoothy is to blend actual fruit including fiber and other solids, and throw in some protein
Veggie smoothies would be even more healthy than fruit smoothies but I’m not up for trying that yet
My blender has a “Smoothie” program with varying speed and pulsing and sensing when it’s done, so it’s literally one click
If only not stuffing your face for one meal was a thing.
Breakfast is the worst. Sausage, ham, pancakes, cereal, eggs, hash browns, or toast. Want a breakfast burrito? Take a normal burrito, add scrambled eggs. Want a breakfast sandwich? Swap out sliced bread with english muffin or bagel, optionally add an egg.
Screw that. I’m having leftover spaghetti for breakfast.
One of the greatest freedoms of adulthood is realizing you can have whatever you want for breakfast and nobody can stop you imo
Cold pizza breakfast hits in all the right spots.
Avocado toast! With an egg on top!
Bread in the toaster; mush an avocado with salt, pepper, lime juice; fry an egg and put it on top
A Br*tish person complaining about lunch, that’s rich.
Maybe try having a proper one, like the rest of Europe, and you will find the answer to all of your complaints.
Can you give an example of a “proper one” that isn’t cooked?
Bread with (good) cheese and some fruit.
Genuinely interested in how that is practical in an office setting. We barely have room to keep leftovers, let alone decent bread and cheese. It’s also a bit boring if you’re having it most days.
Bring an insulated lunchbox. This is easy. It only needs to last from when you leave to lunch
Depending on what the food is, you might not even need an ice pack.
There’s tons of different kinds of bread, cheese, deli meat, spreads, nuts, fruit and vegetables that you can easily make a different combination every day for a while. And you could pack a lunchbox that is enough to feed you for the day and leave leftovers at home.
Most cheese can survive a few hours at room temperature.
Don’t eat lunch. When you finally convince your boss to let you work 8 hour days with no break instead of 9 hour days with an awkward 1 hour unpaid break you can do nothing with, that’s 1 hour you can spend on yourself that you didn’t have before. Also, now you don’t have to waste as much of your spare time exercising (to fight weight gain caused by eating 3 meals a day as an adult) so the time savings are twofold.
Not everyone can do that unfortunately as it is illegal. We’re “forced” to have a lunch break, which I support the idea of, I just hate that I have to stay the extra hour when “normal” full time jobs are 9-5 and the lunch is in that 8 hours…
That was
one of the fewthe only advantage of living in Texas. It was not difficult to get out of that 1 unpaid hour “break” so I could go home earlier and get paid the same for spending less time at work. Lawmakers pushing for mandated unpaid breaks are helping corporations keep their employees at work longer.Mandated breaks should be paid. Nothing personal gets accomplished in an hour, it is just a chance to recharge so you can work even harder. For that reason, it serves the company, and should be paid time.
Just make sure you don’t compensate by snacking more
It’s frustrating as an adult with ARFID/eating disorders. I can’t bring myself to eat leftovers because I worry that they are contaminated. I’ve thrown away so much food because I won’t reuse a pasta sauce jar if it has been opened.
A lot of the common “easy” meals are things that I absolutely will not eat - spaghetti, canned veggies, ground beef. Sometimes I struggle with eating ramen. It’s fucking embarrassing but I literally cannot help it. I will gag and puke if my brain decides I can’t eat something.
Have you considered taking a serve safe restaurant hygiene class. I used to be similarly worried about food, but after learning about the safe handling and storage rules and temperature danger zones, I’m much less worried about left overs.
I got the manager certification a long time ago, and it oddly made it worse. Weird things like being convinced that my refrigerator isn’t consistently keeping temperature or that the plastic in the packaging has holes in it. Texture sets me off and there’s a lot of variation I’m sensitive to.
I can’t get a family sized bag of chips or cereal for example, because I can only eat them the same day I opened the package. I know that there is nothing wrong with them, but the thought of a stale one upsets me. I love apples, but rarely eat them because I don’t want to risk a mushy one. I know a mushy apple or stale chips aren’t “contaminated” but they feel intensely like they are.
I’d say you have to learn to trust your nose (it really is that simple) but you seem to have a condition worth to see a therapist over.
Yeah - the condition I have is ARFID. I do see a therapist, but they can’t really “cure” texture aversion. I’ve found adaptations that fit my lifestyle.
I just wanted to share because there are a lot of stigmas around disordered eating - there’s an assumption that “picky” eating is a lack of willpower or a character flaw. Food is such a basic need that our brains can be very strongly wired in incorrect ways.
Sounds absolutely horrible. I usually have to tame myself, to not eat all leftovers in the evening so I have some for tomorrow.
Diet shakes :)
This is a first world problem
Grow the fuck up.
Then you realize cooking can be a hobby!
Since COViD, I
This weekend I have a 10 lb pork shoulder to smoke. Easily pulled pork for the week and unless my kids come home from school, I’ll likely freeze a bunch
I stopped reading at “make bread”. Waaay too little free time for that
Bread is probably the least time consuming thing on that list though. There’s a whole slew of no-knead recipes out there, and it takes about 5 minutes to measure out and mix together the ingredients. After that it’s just waiting for it to rise, another 5 minutes to shape the loaf, proof it, toss it in the oven and wait till it’s done. For 10 minutes of active prep time, you can have a nice loaf of crusty white bread that’s nearly as good as something you’d find in some bougie bakery. Granted it takes a couple seconds of pre-planning since the rise/proofing times are long, but most basic no-knead recipes are super forgiving on that, and if something comes up before you’re able to bake it, you can toss your uncooked dough into the fridge for short term storage, or freeze it for long term.
Yeah, but then you read my main point. Cooking can be a hobby, something you want to do. Find that
Eating is a chore, I watch a video so i dont think about it, instant noodles are real easy to make at work, toss in some broccoli if youre feeling like a but fancy
Sorry to hear you don’t have functioning taste buds
Yes georgia, it ends when you marry mr successful and he pays for everything.