Fuel packed snacks/quick lunch..new job

gud4u

Hi,
I'm starting a job next week and i'ii have a 30 min break for a quick lunch. I'm hoping I'II have lunch between 1-2 as I'II have had breakfast at approx 8.30am.

What really quick snack can I have at about 10.30, when I'II have a cup of tea but can't leave the premises. I can bring a lunchbox, but it has to be something I can eat on the go, would 2 oat cakes and peanut butter do, but that's get sickly after a few days. A banana and 4 almonds? would that suffice.

I need a low gi diet, I eat oatcakes, multigrain crackers or multiseed bread for lunch but what can I fill it with.

I'd need a quick snack at 3 to keep me going till 6, my blood sugars tend to stay too low, but spike if I eat white foods/rubbish.

It's just till I get my head together in this new job, my breaks are limited and my last boss didn't mind me nipping for a break if needed, but I don't want to get off on the wrong foot in the new job. If I go too long, sometimes I just jump straight to the demon orange lucozade but that just leads to a sugar hangover.

So, pit stop type snacks, quick to eat but full of fuel, and an energy packed lunch to see me through to 6, any suggestions appreciated.

rocky

home made tapioca pudding
oat pancakes with PB, jam and/or banana

full of fuel... contain some fats so your sugars won't crash as hard. But you're mistaken to think a multiseed bread is any better than any other kind of bread, especially if you're looking for low gi foods (on another point, gi of food doesn't matter as long as you don't eat foods in isolation - get some Peanut Butter with that (white/multiseed) bread and the gi of the meal decreases).

Miss Fluff

I'd say a good old fashioned apple or some hommous with linseed bread or maybe a natural unsweetened yogurt.

confusedgirl

Celery and carrot crudites with a tiny bit of hummus is a good snack. The celery is low GI, the carrot is high GI but they both contain fibre and the celery and hummus will bring down the overall GI content.

The banana is medium GI-there's a lot of low GI fruit you can eat like oranges, apples, pears, berries, kiwis, plums so I would say buy a mixture of fruit and different nuts and seeds so you don't get bored of having the same snack all the time. You could have the apple/other low GI fruit with pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds or almonds. I really like a pink lady apple with some almonds as a snack. The higher GI fruits are exotic fruits like mango, pineapple, banana and dried fruit.

Ryvita is also another option-its medium GI like the oatcakes, bread and crackers. But I would say to get the wholegrain ryvita as it has the most fibre in it. (the one in the dark red pack!)

I do find herbal teas-chamomile is good for stress, I also like berry teas- and putting lemon or lime in my water good too.