Keep healthy snacks in your desk drawer or locker and avoid the siren call of candy bars, potato chips, and “bad for you” foods found around the workplace. Photo by Mark Preston.
Delicious, Nutritious Foods To Keep In Your Desk Or Locker
One of the biggest diet-killers is the temptation that exists in the workplace, when you’re hungry and there’s nothing good to snack on—only evil temptation in the candy machine, concession stand and order-in menus. While you may not have the time to plan ahead to have crudités, fat-free yogurt and an apple at the ready, here are a drawerful of delicious, healthy snacks that require no refrigeration. Your doctor, trainer and nutritionist would approve! This is Page 1 of a three-page article. Click on the black links below to visit other pages.
Who wants more bad office coffee and boring supermarket tea? For the cost of a latte, you can buy a box of the finest tea bags that will last you a week at the office. Make it green or white tea, to pack in those antioxidants. They’re also drunk without milk, so you don’t have to worry about the milk supply. Experiment with different varieties to find the ones you like best. Try the herbal blends from Zhena’s Gypsy Tea. Read our review of Tzu Thé, a higher-antioxidant Taiwanese green tea that is simply delicious. Pure Inventions Green Tea Extracts come in medicine dropper bottles: Just add a few drops to a glass of cold water and you have a delicious iced green tea, in peach, raspberry and other flavors.
Truly great teas are as complex as wine. Photo by OGVision| CSP.
Adagio Tea:
Flavored Teas & Microwaveable Brewer
Caramel, chocolate, vanilla, mango, rum and cinnamon aren’t flavors of ice cream but flavored black teas. Add a little milk, and it’s pretty close to a Starbuck’s drink. Adagio has about three dozen flavored teas that are warm, filling, anti-oxidant-filled and calorie-free. You can enjoy them straight or with a little milk. You can buy them with a wonderful infuser teapot that lets you brew everything right in the microwave! Read our review of Adagio Teas and the IngenuiTea cup-top brewer. Tay Tea creates loose tea blends so complex, they are like fine wines—always exciting and making you want another sip.
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No teapot at the office? Not even hot water? You can brew your tea in the microwave with the IngenuiTea brewer. We use it the old-fashioned way, with boiling water and loose tea leaves or a tea bag. The tea steeps, then we set it on top of our cup to let the tea flow in. Re-fill IngenuiTea with more hot water and brew another cup; then, when we finish our first cup, the second is ready and still warm.
San Pellegrino:
Sparkling Mineral Water
How much flat water can you drink until you long for something else? We drink our share, but then we turn to sparkling waters—they even make swallowing vitamins easier. Depending on the percentage of Total Dissolved Solids, they can have interesting subtle flavors (that’s why we love San Pellegrino) or be more neutral, like Perrier.
Have a case delivered to your office. It doesn’t have to be cold. It’s filling, and very good for you. Visit our Bottled Water Section to discover more sparkling waters.
Parmalat:
Lowfat Milk
If you like milk in your tea or coffee and your workplace just has powered creamers—essentially, caloric and unhealthy corn syrup and chemicals—BYO milk, in the form of individual Parmalat “juice boxes” of lowfat or skim milk. One box is good for a day (an opened box will keep overnight in the refrigerator); and what you don’t put in your tea, you can drink through the straw for a calcium boost.
