Simply Happier

For many of us who work at a conventional job, eating a healthy lunch can become quite a difficult task. In order to eat a truly healthy lunch (and not just eat salads every day) you would need to stop eating out almost completely. This means a meal would need to be prepared at home for taking to work every day. Doing this every single work day can become a task which is easily forgotten about as laziness quickly sets in.

Often the last thing you want to do after coming home is to spend the little free time you have making a mid day meal for the next day. Thus, this task can often get left unattended and the cycle of eating quick, cheap and unhealthy food can easily begin.

Listed here are some useful tips on how to break this cycle and keep it broken once and for all. With a good amount of self discipline, you may finally be able to enjoy healthful food at work with as little trouble as possible.

Tip# 1 Prepare what you can on the weekend.

Instead of doing the preparation the morning of, or night before, it is easier and much more efficient to do most or all of the food preparation on the weekend when you actually have the time to do so. This basically saves you from yourself. It helps prevent boredom/stress/laziness of the work week altering your food selection by not giving you the opportunity to go the lazy route during the week and just order quick and unhealthy food.

Even if you only prepare a portion of your meals ahead of time, at the very least you are still giving yourself an extra reason to be motivated. It will be harder to neglect finishing preparation during the work week when you already have half(or more) of the next days afternoon meal prepared. You’ll know that it will be less work, and that it would be a waste of time and effort if you do not use what you had already prepared.

Tip# 2 Buy once, and buy things that will last the week

When you go shopping for your afternoon lunch food for the week, it is useful to buy things that will last the entire week. For example, if you know that you are going to go through an entire bag of carrots in only a few days, get two now instead of having to run out in the middle of the week for more.



Tip #3 Make a list

Make a list of everything you will need before you actually go shopping. This will help ensure that you will not need to run out during the middle of the week for more food(which may tend to motivate you to go for the cheap unhealthy food instead).

Tip# 4 Go for Whole vs Pre-Cut/prepared

There is now a wide variety of food that can be found already pre-prepared for you such as pre-cut pineapple, watermelon, carrots, etc. The advantage of these foods is that you save yourself time by not having to prepare them yourself. The disadvantages can vary widely, but for the most part you may be sacrificing taste, quality, and nutrition, and even money. Pre-prepared foods can be more expensive, contain preserving chemicals, and look artificially fresher than they really are.

Tip# 5 Stay away from packages.

For the most part, you are better off staying away from the packaged items(with a few exceptions). If you are going to buy packaged/frozen dinners, you may as well just be eating out. The point in buying and bringing food with you instead of going out is to get fresh, healthy food (unless your only goal is to save money).