What do you pack in your lunch box?

[PAERRN20]

Just curious what everyone packs to take to work. I'm in a food rut and need some ideas of what other nurses eat to keep them going for 12+ hrs!

[hecallsmeDuchess]

Rice, rice and more rice. LOL.

[AnnaRebekahN]

I'm not a big eater. When I worked night shift, I ate a good supper (breakfast?) before leaving for work. Then for my 12-hour shift I had coffee, water, sandwich, chips, veggies (usually raw, baby carrots), and maybe a sweet like a cookie, brownie, or several chocolates. I only thing I wanted to do when I got home in the morning was collapse in bed, but I usually ate some yogurt.

[wondern, ASN]

:WHCk::cookies::candycane::candy::gingerbreadman::hotchocolate::gingerbreadman::gingerbreadman: :gingerbreadman::gingerbreadman::teapot:

[teeniebert, LPN]

$2.50 for a meal tray from Dietary. I get a full meal for the price of a Lunchable, and it provides some excellent rapport-building opportunities..."So, what did you think of the turkey enchilada casserole? Nah, I didn't like it either. The soup was good, though."

[ok2bme]

I'm not a cook..so I'll either heat up soup at hand or make a pb&j

I always have green beans and applesauce with cinnamon as sides

for dessert I have a yogurt or pudding cup

and a big jug of iced tea sweetened with splenda throughout the shift

[Leelee2]

water, string cheese, pudding, veggie pizza

[April, RN, BSN, RN]

Just wanted to bump this thread! I've gotten really bored with the food I bring to work and love reading other ideas here. I find that I don't bring enough food to work to keep me going for 12+ hours. I end up either snacking on junk food at the nurses station or I get so hungry by the time I get home at 8:30pm that I eat everything in sight. The things I typically bring have already been mentioned. I do like to make things like chili in my crockpot... makes plenty of leftovers!

[RNJill]

This will sound like a bit of a random combo, but one lunch that I've found that is healthy, filling (and I DON'T say that about everything!) and tasty is Greek yogurt, already-baked sweet potato that that I just heat up in the microwave at work (with a little butter and lots of cinnamon!), some sort of veggie/salad, and a Fiji or Honeycrisp apple.

And I pretty much eat a little PB in some way during my shift :-)