What To Eat At The Office?
By: Beauty
Tags: Health Foods, Eating, Office, Lifehacks, Food Waste

If you can somehow have a “common language” with breakfast and dinner, then lunch for working people often becomes a real problem. Indeed, you can’t cook anything, and you can’t sit at the table like a human being, and there are no home plates.

Of course, you have two options. The first is to have lunch in the office canteen, if there is one, or visit the nearest cafe. However, if you calculate such grocery expenses, you will get a considerable amount in a month, which you would probably need more for planning the family budget. In addition, the menu of catering establishments does not always correspond to your gastronomic tastes.

And the second option is to trust advertising and buy so-called “lunch bags” — noodles, soups and mashed potatoes. But think about it — will your body withstand a constant dose of dyes and artificial additives (carefully read the ingredients on the package at least once). Therefore, one thing remains — if you are forced to save in today’s crisis, it is better to carry lunches with you.

Despite the fact that in the office, of course, there are no such convenient conditions for lunch as at home, you still need to eat healthy food — after all, we are talking about your own health! Therefore, familiarize yourself with the basic rules of “working” nutrition and choose the best for yourself.

1. Be sure to have breakfast at home. If you have problems with this, that is, in the morning there is no appetite at all — be sure to contact a gastroenterologist: there is a high probability of stomach diseases.

2. If there is no other option than to have lunch at your desk, you will have to be attentive to your colleagues. Dishes should not be too fragrant — after all, you are not alone in the office, and this may interfere with others.

3. Do not give up lunch altogether, even if you decide to lose weight. Firstly, you risk eating twice as much for dinner, and, secondly, to earn gastritis and other gastric diseases. So, you need to eat: a) regularly b) evenly. Lunch should be at least 35% of the total daily diet.

4. The basis of working nutrition should be vegetables and fruits, and lean meat or fish. An ideal option for lunch is a piece of boiled chicken fillet or beef and a salad. Protein-rich foods (namely meat) increases metabolism. And when digesting such products, there is an active secretion of gastric juice. But, what is useful for lunch can hurt in the evening — in the evening, the activity of the stomach becomes slower, and the nutrients are absorbed much worse.

5. Foods such as nuts — almonds, walnuts or peanuts (only natural, not salty or sweet) contain a lot of carbohydrates. Therefore, if you feel that you are tired and your mental abilities are falling, instead of another cup of coffee, try nuts, and energy will increase.

6. They also satisfy their hunger with dried fruits. It is absolutely natural food, without dyes and preservatives, but with calcium (for healthy bones), potassium (which improves the functioning of the nervous system), magnesium (which normalizes blood pressure) and iron (against anemia).

7. If you feel hungry, switch to yoghurts and kefirs. Firstly, it is calcium, which many of us really lack. And secondly, the guarantee that during the day you will eat much less chocolate bars, crackers. And, most importantly, you will not be surprised — how it happened that you ate almost nothing, but gained a few kilograms, besides, you clearly do not have enough vitamins.

8. Really wanted something sweet? Then pay attention to the fruit marmalade. After all, it contains gelatin, which is very useful for muscles and the health of nails and skin. And pectin promotes the elimination of toxins and toxins.

9. Caffeine is a very ambiguous component. However, if your job involves mental activity, do not give up chocolate and coffee altogether. These products will help you get rid of headaches and relieve tension. But know the measure: a small cup of natural coffee is quite enough.

10. Now, when the cold winter is almost on the threshold, include fatty foods in your diet. That’s right, because our muscles need energy. And fats help to maintain the right temperature in the body.

11. Eat at the same time so that the body gets used to the regime and secretes juice for digestion. Therefore, always have a healthy snack with you — an apple, banana or yogurt. But do not drink, hoping in this way to “kill” the appetite — the liquid will only dilute the gastric juice.

And remember the famous aphorism: “War is war, and lunch is on schedule”!