Mr. A. Having Easy ”go to” meals #1

Some days are easier than others, especially when you are trying to lose weight, and having to go shop on one of those days, usually won’t end up with a good result.

To avoiding this scenario I sugest you have 3 “go to” meals you are always able to make.
These should be:

1. Be healthy
2. Be easy and fast to prepare (shouldn’t take more than 20 mins)
3. Should always be in stock at home

This is my own go to meal #1 I will post #2 and #3 at another time

1. Stir fry x egg’s in a wok, with a little oil (I always have eggs
2. Add - Meat Salmon, Tuna, Chicken etc. (I always keep frozen chicken at home just in case
3. Add random veggies you have example. Spinach, Broccoli, tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, anything goes (try to keep a large portion of the total volume of the dish veggies for the health benefit.
4. Keep stir frying, Add, some: salt, pepper, soya, fish sauce, lime, lemon whatever you like, I usually go for soya / fish sauce and if the meet is fish I add lime.
5. Serve with: Rice, noodle or pasta, you can go for wholegrain here if you’d like to make it even healthier.

Once You get used to making this dish it can easily be done within 20 min’s and you should always have left over veggies you can use.

I love this, because it’s such a flexible recipe, its healthy it’s easy to make, and it tastes great

Mr. G. - Warm Up, Slow Start but Nice Food.

It's already August the 2nd. where I had planned to write more about what happened the day before. However, the 1st. was what I would call a very slow start. It all started and ended with myself doing 2x30 pushups for the day and that was about it :-P. The day before, on the 31st, I biked around 10km, which is pretty much nothing - 2 rounds of around 5km :).

The Lunch Dinner Stuff
On the 31st of July, I consumed stone baked oven pizza with pepperoni and another with some piglet pork. So there went any "exercise" for that day :).

On the 1st of August, for dinner I ate meatballs and vegetables with Thai curry and rice. With it being very good, I definitely could have eaten more of it, had I cooked even more :). Thus after this, I decided to gobble on some leftover homemade coleslaw salad, which consisted of cabbage, carrots and a little mayonnaise. I unfortunately forgot to take pictures, so look for images for the near future.

And All The Others
For the morning I had oatmeal and cranberries with milk. Throughout the day, I basically snacked on almonds with cranberries mixed with it. Let's just say I'm quickly running out :). I ended up also eating a box of cookies :).

All in all, a slow (possibly bad) start but expect things to pick up soon. :-)

Mr. A. - Lunch in the canteen

One of the problems I face is at work, it’s normal in Denmark to have a canteen at the workplace for lunch, and our canteen gets food from an external company.

Here is an example of one of the not so good days:

• Slices of pork fillet served with potatoes tossed in butter and herbs this cheese cream with flavors of orange and thyme
• Finely sliced ​​cabbage tossed with white wine vinegar, cinnamon, raisins, baked hazelnuts and lemon topped with lemon balm.
• Selection of cheeses with honey glazed nuts.
• Bread with love
• APPLICATION: Asian inspired chicken salad, Hunter Sausage with chornichons and parsley Roasted beef with remo and roasted onions 
• ADDITIONAL: Italian salami with cherry tomato and rucola Boiled Beef with Horseradish Cream Chest

Even though they make it sound good most of this have added something to make it a no go.

• Pork is fine, unfortunately it is especially really fatty pork - No go
• Potatoes are fine, unfortunately they soak them in butter and cream cheese – No go
• Cabbage salad would have been great, if only they had the white wine vinegar on the side instead of premixed. – Depending on how much vinegar - Go/No go
• Selections of cheeses. - No go
• Bread with Love, The rye bread is fine – Go, the white bread - No go.
• All the applications are pretty much a - No go (the Asian inspired salad had loads of dressing in it).
• The only thing there that was acceptable is the roasted beef but only if you opted to take it without the remo and the fried onions. - Go

So what is a starving employee to do if he wants to live healthy, well either you

A: Pick and choose, luckily we do have separated raw veggies and usually there are some stuff that is not on the menu and with the added rye bread and a piece of fruit you can get a decent, but very uninspired meal.
Or
B: The second option is to bring food from home

For now I am sticking with A, but with the food so often being unhealthy I have thought about changing it to make food myself, the problem is it would end up costing more, and might end up being just as limited / uninspiring as what the canteen offers, also the time it takes to prepare in the morning etc. is time I rather be sleeping :-)

If anyone have any experiences with making food from home bringing it to work I would love to hear your thoughts.