Nutrition and diet in the work place

Anthonyk2010

We are trying to have more healthy options on the menu in our canteen at work. I'm looking for suggestions or anyone who has experienced this in there work place.

El_Dangeroso

I think a really salad bar would please everybody.

No sad looking, half gone off lettuce. Mayonnaise should be a condiment, not coating every vegetable. The dressing should be made of real olive oil.

You could include boiled eggs, marinated cooked chicken breast, marinated cooked salmon and plain tuna for protein.

Veggies: Peppers (sweet peppers and bell), olives, lettuce, whole avocados (they go brown if left chopped and exposed), beetroot, pickles, shredded cabbage and cabbage (plain), cucumber and tomato.

Chopped nuts would be nice too.

Hot counter-wise, freshly made stir-fries, minute steaks, freshly cooked veggies (not sad looking ones that have been under a lamp for hours)

eclectichoney

Temple_Grandin wrote: »

You could include boiled eggs, marinated cooked chicken breast, marinated cooked salmon and plain tuna for protein.

Why does almost every salad bar in this city feel the need to mix mayonaise in with tuna all the time?? That is the single most annoying thing in most of the work canteens / delis I have tried.

El_Dangeroso

eclectichoney wrote: »

Why does almost every salad bar in this city feel the need to mix mayonaise in with tuna all the time?? That is the single most annoying thing in most of the work canteens / delis I have tried.

Yes, as a long time victim patron of multinational company canteens, I have yet to find plain tuna.

teacosy

Anthonyk2010 wrote: »

We are trying to have more healthy options on the menu in our canteen at work. I'm looking for suggestions or anyone who has experienced this in there work place.

You might find the information from the Irish Heart Foundation helpful

http://www.irishheart.ie/iopen24/happy-heart-t-8_201_206.html

Red Cortina

I guess that I don't really appreciate my work canteen enough! They offer both plain tuna and tuna mayonaise..

In my work canteen there is a salad bar, a sandwich counter, a soup station and about 3 hot counters. In the salad bar they offer a plain, undressed salad selection along with other various dressed salad options. And they have olive oil and balsamic vinegar so that you can make up your own dressing. On the hot counter and soup station they say which option is gluten free, dairy free etc which is great for me:)

El_Dangeroso

Red Cortina wrote: »

I guess that I don't really appreciate my work canteen enough! They offer both plain tuna and tuna mayonaise..

In my work canteen there is a salad bar, a sandwich counter, a soup station and about 3 hot counters. In the salad bar they offer a plain, undressed salad selection along with other various dressed salad options. And they have olive oil and balsamic vinegar so that you can make up your own dressing. On the hot counter and soup station they say which option is gluten free, dairy free etc which is great for me:)

Jealous.:mad:

I don't even have so much as a fridge or a microwave at the moment. Avocados, tins of sardines, pickled beetroot and the odd cold egg muffin are my lunch staples.

Red Cortina

Temple_Grandin wrote: »

Jealous.:mad:

I don't even have so much as a fridge or a microwave at the moment. Avocados, tins of sardines, pickled beetroot and the odd cold egg muffin are my lunch staples.

I dunno is a good thing or a bad thing. I reckon that if the canteen choices were really bad it would force me to bring my own food which would probably be better quality than what they have. I have both breakfast and lunch at work and I highly doubt that the eggs that I get there for brekkie are either organic or free range. Same with the olive oil that they have, it is stored in a clear bottle so no doubt it is not the greatest oil in the world.

My next plan to 'dial it in' would be to try and have my breakfast at home and then after that look to start bringing in my own olive oil and meat for lunch to eat along with the undressed salads which they have.