Eating after eve/noc shift

[Mascosa]

I am just starting out as a nurse and when I get off evening or not shift all I want is a bowel of cereal, haha. My choices could be worse but I'm hoping to maintain my bodyou and healthy choices. What are your tips for eating when you get off nights or eves?

[Meeshie]

I make sure my meals are all prepped prior to starting shifts. When I come home in the morning I can just toss my pre-prepared container in the microwave and eat. Takes all the thought and work out of it.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I removed cereal and most processed breakfast foods from my diet about three years ago. The more I ate cereal, the hungrier I became.

When I worked 12-hour nights, I drank a ready-to-drink Premier Protein shake during the drive home. The 30 grams of protein tamed my hunger and helped with sleep.

[loriangel14, RN]

Oatmeal with maybe a banana.

[Jules A, MSN]

I used to have a light breakfast type meal. Egg sandwich, cereal or oatmeal and fruit. If I didn't eat anything I'd wake up in about 4 hours starving and wreck my sleep but if I ate too heavy like a lunch or dinner type meal I didn't sleep well.

[GM2RN]

I have been really into toasted hummus and tomato sandwiches lately. I eat one most days when I get home and it's enough to satisfy my hunger without feeling like I have a lump in my stomach when I lie down to sleep right after.

[Medic2RN33]

Well, first off, I wouldn't be eating cereal from a bowel. So many things that could go wrong with that!

That being said, I work nights myself. All I do is treat my day like someone who works days does.

Wake up at 3pm, have breakfast. Bring food to work to take care of lunch and dinner. More small snacks than big meals really. And when I get home at 715am, go to bed.

I have never believed in the whole breakfast in the morning, lunch in afternoon, dinner at night.

Eat how you normally would working a day shift.

That's just me though

[Emergent, RN]

How about some fish and chips and a pint of Häagen-Dazs? Would that be OK?

[Mascosa]

Gotta love autocorrect, haha! Thanks, Medic2RN33.

Thanks for the tip. I tend to do okay with noc shift. It's mostly my evening shifts I don't exactly know how to handle.