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.
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. https://frutimian.no/2016/08/12/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.
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 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
You can even eat it riding a horse!
Or cook a big batch of your own soup at the weekend. Then microwave it for lunch.
Good Lord I am happy I can handle my shit and not have to publicly post my executive dysfunction for the planet to see.
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?
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.
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
Here in the Netherlands a lot of people just eat sandwiches. I usually take them with me to work. Not a lot of effort
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 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
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
Same in Germany. We have bread with butter and cheese. It’s a blessing with a good bread
Lunch is my favourite. Nothing beats a fine sandwich with cheese.
Peanut butter and provolone is one of my favorites
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
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 :(
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.
Someone needs to raise their sandwich game.
Or, buy lunchables. Yes they’re cheap. Yes they’re fantastic
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.
Eating out isn’t exactly cheap though. Hardly sustainable for most people doing that every lunch.
But even then my statement holds true
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.
It’s pretty good though.
You bring it from home. Or find a home office job.
At home before or after work.
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.
I’m in the state of Georgia: no provision for breaks are given at all.
Oh man that’s brutal.
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.
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
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.
Didn’t know psychopaths were just showing themselves like this on Lemmy, wtf
The same meal again? Crazy talk
Imagine your biggest realization as an adult being a wrong opinion.
£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
I mostly eat leftovers from last night’s dinner for lunch.
Leftovers gang checking in. Sometimes it tastes even better the next day.
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.
