Hello fellow monkeys,
This probably sounds like a joke, but I'm 2 months into the job and I'm burning a hole in my wallet going out to buy lunch everyday. I want to try and bring lunch from home a few days a week. What do you guys do for lunch if you bring it from home?
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I do the same, there’s always an economical option you just gotta look for it or the healthiest would be bringing your own meal. I sometimes bring my own food
What do you usually bring though? I have not much time to cook (obviously)
oatmeal and protein powder lol hits the macros and is dirt cheap
I mainly bring my meals when I’m on a diet so mainly, salad and grilled chicken, protein bar, banana, grilled salmon (salad) etc.... you can bring anything. I have a colleague who would bring his wife cook and it smells horrible sometimes. Nothing specific but it’s what you like
You're bringing fish and yet you complain about other people's smelly food?
I do eat grilled chicken salad and salmon salad. I bet you're on the vegan diet, you must voted for Hillary too
Its the same troll making multiple accounts just ignore him
I like the post and your recommendation. Not seeing why they're throwing ms.
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Taylor Farms Asian Chopped Salad Kit is amazing. Add baked chicken breast or thigh (tastier) brushed with olive oil, sea salt, and a tiny bit of sesame oil and rice vinegar, and you have a $5 lunch that's filling, energizing, and good for you.
Ah you’re an intern so that makes sense. I can imagine that’s fine but like don’t stink up the office or maybe eat in the kitchen
I was an intern last year, full time now.
Do you have seamless money for dinner?
For me, eating is about efficiency.
Most days I bring in steamed potatoes and steamed veggies from home, which I pressure-cook in the morning while I shower/shave/dress.
I also keep a bag of dry whole rolled oats under my desk, which I microwave for my dinner.
I also have a bottle of soy sauce that I add to the oats, and eat them savory.
I don't generally go out to eat because it's a waste of time, and food is not healthy.
Around here food is too oily, and also I'm plant-based so I don't eat animal product stuff, which what most food around here is.
I wish I could get salads around here, but there aren't any, really.
I'm always on the lookout for efficient plant-based recipes if anyone has suggestions.
god you sound lame
You should eat hemp seeds so you get all your amino acids. Otherwise, a 100% plant based diet leads to nutritional deficiencies.
Soy sauce and oats sounds disgusting
This. What a complete and utter insult to both oats and soy sauce.
It's actually quite good. I also sometimes will put in mushrooms, tomatoes or zucchini into the dish when I cook the oats. The oats basically serve as a higher-protein substitute for rice, that can be cooked in the office microwave in 3 minutes. So basically anything that goes well with rice goes well with oats. Soy sauce, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc.
Convinced you're a robot. And for love of god please stop formatting your posts like some LinkedIn life coach.
lol
Just switched to https://www.realfoodblends.com/</a">Real Food Blends. Great stuff. Can definitely recommend!
Are you seriously eating that stuff? For people with feeding tubes?
Yeah? I'm obviously loading it into my tube system.
Meal prep for the week on Sunday. It may get monotonous brining in similar foods for 2-3 meals a week but it's quick when you cook in mass and you have more control over what you eat. Chicken, salmon and things like lentils/chichpeas are easy to cook large portions of. Also have raw green/veg as a side dish and some rice. Great meals which are quick and good for you
i tried this as well, but I find some of the food - eg beans - go sour by mid-week. How do you prevent this?
Vinegar or lemon/lime juice
I like cooking massive oven portions, then putting half of it in the freezer
If I am on diet and going to gym, I usually bring in chicken and or fish plus vegetables and fruits.
Not working out, then I just go to the cafeteria. Going to start working out soon for my own sanity and give my wallet a reprieve.
At night, order a salad and a sandwich with your Seamless $$$. Eat salad for dinner, and put the sandwich in the refrigerator for the next day. Repeat process the next day.
Who said there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Def used to do that a lot. Now I cook mostly now that I'm out of IB, whatever I make for dinner I'll make extra for lunch the next day, then once or twice a week I"ll eat out for lunch
some colleagues may find it questionable- do so discretely
I bought a Costco 120 pack of instant ramen and make it in my protein shake bottle for all my meals
Eat the same food that you would buy. Cooking takes 20-30 mins. Make enough for a week and then put it in a container and then microwave it at work. Bob's you uncle
Some cheap options though to bring to work that I have used in the past: packs of tuna, hard boiled eggs, baked sweet potatoes, bring a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread. loads of fruit. hummus and carrots.
When I tried to save money on food I'd meal prep on Sunday while watching football for Monday through Wednesday, and then I'd let myself go enjoy lunch out on Thursday and Friday with friends.
Doing this is manageable. You save a bit of money, feel healthier, but still get to socialize a bit at lunch each week.
This is great advice and is something I can actually commit to.
Intermittent fast until dinner -> eat a huge dinner on the late night meal budget /s
Have you found energy/productivity to be lower throughout the day, or the natural norepinephrine to combat it.
Food carts near Rockefeller (if you're in vicinity) are DOPE
I brought my blender to work so i can make smoothies, I made one for my MD last week and he liked it but he said it needed more sugar. Yesterday actually, I made peanut butter protein shakes for the dept MDs. You should look into it
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mealpal.com
Seems great for consumers, but Moviepass 2.0?
no, because the model is free advertising.
the restaurant gets just enough money to cover the cost of the food Lets say for a $6 meal, the restaurant gets $4 and mealpal gets $2 (i'm not sure what the actual split is..but that makes sense). $4 is the cost of the food...and the staff would be there already.
The restaurant only offers a few items from their menu to mealpal customers. however, if you try something and like it, perhaps you'll order off their regular menu in the future and pay full fare. This is free advertising to the restaurant...and $$ to mealpal.
unlike moviepass...there is a limit to the menu...its just a taste.
mealpal. order meal the night before, walk a block, scan the stupid thing, walk back to the office and eat
mealpass takes your unused meals, so i'm guessing that and $1-2 from the restaurant nets a healthy margin.
as well i believe they charge the restaurant a monthly fee. the whole model is super scalable and requires no real expensive things except the software engineers to code it and staff.
this is why i choose the 12 meal plan instead of the 20 (so, 3 a week on avg)
In my banking days I'd deal with shelling out $10-15 for lunch every day. One perk of being in a hedge fund now is that a lot of them pay for / cater lunch.
the most important thing about getting lunch is that you don't stand out. as an intern i used to get a rotisserie chicken everyday and stink up the entire office, i also eat it with my hands like a barbarian.
you should perhaps cook your own king crab, lobster, and birds nest soup.
Where I'm at, it's probably ~$3/day cheaper to bring food than to eat out and I'll gladly pay $3/day to get the fuck out of the office and walk outside for 10 minutes to go get food.
Lolok
I make my own and bring it to work.
Hell of a lot cheaper than paying $10+ a. day eating out
Smokeshack Fries Shackmeister ale (maybe 2)
I do intermittent fasting and only break my fast at dinner (this is not a joke). Its not as bad as it seems once your body gets used to eating at 6PM but socially difficult sometimes.
Do you do this on the weekend as well, or just during the week?
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