I tend to be someone who keeps extra food on hand at work. Raw veggies in the refrig, yogurt for my breakfast, etc. Then there is the office personal “snack drawer” - right? We all keep snacks at work??? I also work with people who are HORRIBLE about packing food from home and then being at work with “nothing to eat and I’m SOO hungry!”
So, if you had to dump out your desk drawer snacks for sharing, what do you have to offer???
(this is the office version of “what’s do you keep in the refrigerator” - haha!)
My desk drawer contents right now:
Jar of Blue Diamond Sriracha flavored almonds
A few random Hershey kisses w/almonds
2 packs of fruit snacks
A container of apple/cranberry/walnut instant oatmeal
A couple of Special K pastry crisp 100 calorie bars (cannot tell you how old they are!!!)
That’s all I have to offer. If we’re having an office snack drawer picnic, what can you offer up?
Butter Rum Nips…30 calories each. Can’t chew them so they last a long time. However, you can’t talk with them in your mouth either without sounding garbled.
I have some apple cider dry drink mix packs, green tea bags and unsweetened ice tea in the fridge.
I have about 4 kind bars, 2 boxes of soup, triscuit crackers and some emergency chocolate! I also usually contribute individually wrapped reese cups for our communal candy drawer. I also have a variety of K-cups for our Keurig machine.
Satsumas (or mandarins?) and apples - I bring a few in the beginning of every week and then eat them during the week. We get some much junk brought to the kitchen for sharing that I would not dare to bring any candy or sweets of my own!
One Pure Protein chocolate peanut butter bar and two tins of sardines in olive oil (and six kinds of tea). I ran out of crackers last week and need to bring in more. There are always bite-size candy bars at the reception desk but I haven’t had one of those in at least three years.
I work three easy miles from home and about half a mile from a Trader Joes.
I also have lots of hot beverage choices. Crystal Light packages (though they are quite old), a bag of coffee that I use my reusable Keurig cup for one cup each morning, various teas, and a couple different Trader Joe Chai Latte mix jars.
Caution: I used to keep snacks in my desk drawer. Then our office suddenly had a rodent problem. Keep any snacks in a plastic container with a lid, or in a refrigerator!
It was amazing what the remains of a bag of microwave popcorn looked like after a mouse got into it. Took me a while to figure out why I had symmetrical rows of popcorn kernels in my desk drawer!
My wok snacks are in our freezer at wok. it is 3 lbs bag of frozen cherries and individually wrapped by me pieces of mozzarella cheese. Each consumed every working day.
I have two tins of loose tea from England. My daughter gave me one and her husband gave me the other. I don’t drink tea much, the loose tea is real pain at work, but I never, ever drink tea at home. I have spilled each one of them one time each and had to call for emergency janitorial. If this is what English office workers do … ugh. This tea will never run out. Then I also have a tin with some hot cocoa packets, those do get used and I have to replenish from time to time. If I kept actual food, I would eat it all in one day. I’m always hungry.
We have rodents too. Sometimes they are seen scampering down the hall. But so far no problem with the tins.
Nothing in the drawer anymore as I tend to eat it all too quickly when work gets stressful. We have a fully stocked lunchroom, so if I get desperate, I’ll buy snacks there. But I generally just try to plan well and bring enough food and snacks from home to keep me for that particular day.
Unlike the healthy food everyone else seems to stock, I have: 2 cherry pop-tarts; 1 chicken and 1 beef bouillon cube (will have to use these up soon as it is now officially spring); 2 tea bags; 1 package oat and honey granola bars; 1 mint life saver (found this way in the back; I’m guessing it’s at least 5 years old :(); 1 yogurt and 1 Diet Pepsi in fridge.
I can’t keep snacks at my desk at work. I would eat them when I’m not even hungry. So I just pack my lunch everyday and that’s what I eat. There is no shortage of food available at other people’s desks and on “special” occasions (it doesn’t take much for an occasion to be special around her) so there is stuff around if I want to cave, but so far I haven’t.
Disclaimer: after 3 years of living in China, I always have hand sanitizer, tissues, and an extra granola bar in my purse at all times. That pretty much covers all possible emergencies. So if i were to get really desperate, I could raid my emergency granola bar.
Nothing. In general I do not snack between meals. I make it difficult for me to snack. But every once in a while I would have cravings for Snickers bar.
I haven’t worked full-time in a while, but when I did my favorite snacks were two apples (replaced daily) – one for a midmorning snack and one for the ride home --, a crunchy granola bar, ginger tea, and a box of dried cranberries or raisins (in case I wanted something sweet).
I’m not the type to keep snacks in my work area as I found I concentrate better when I put off my first meal of the day until I’m half-way through my workday. I don’t tend to snack much during the day, either.
Also, some offices I’ve worked in banned stocking of any food items outside the pantry/kitchen/fridge areas due to past issues with rodents/vermin, some supervisors feeling eating at one’s desk presents an “appearance of unprofessionalism”, or in one extreme case, a clumsy colleague who fumbled some drink which ended up killing his computer workstation and caused a minor explosion and much smoke.
