What can you expect from the present day work life? High salary packages? Greater recognition? Honors? Challenging assignments? Monetary as well as non-monetary incentives? Vacations in five-star resorts? Big cars with chauffeurs? These are not all that you can expect from the modern day work life! You can expect several health issues as well! Acidity, indigestion, stress and weight gain are the other additional perks offered by today's work life. But you need to take a deeper look!
Have you taken any initiative to solve office related food issues? Do you really bother to take meals properly at your workplace? Or you just skip lunches and utilize the lunch breaks in doing the tasks assigned to you? Taking small frequent meals after every 2 to 3 hours is not only good for weight maintenance or weight loss, but this can also help to keep digestion problems at bay.
Here are some mini meal ideas for you:
- Low-Calorie, Cooked Snacks: When it comes to carrying a separate snack for the evening, it sounds like a chore! So the best option is to see what is being served in your office canteen. Instead of opting for some snacks like vada pav , choose healthier snacks, like dhokla, idli, egg white omlette, brown bread vegetable sandwich, uttapam, soups, cutlet, bhel puri and popcorn (without added salt, butter or cheese). These are low-calorie, healthier items. But always remember to check the quantity. Too much consumption of these snacks can prove to be bad.
- Raw, Uncooked Items: Fruits and salads without dressings or with low calorie dressings like curd or lemon are healthy snack ideas! But it is always better to carry a whole fruit with you as cut fruits are subject to oxidation and might lose some vital vitamins as well. You can carry fruits very easily - just put an apple or an orange in your bag! If you order a meal for yourself, you can choose to save the salad in it for the later part of the day. Else, you can have it in the mid morning meal! Often, canteens serve fruit chaats and green salad. This is a convenient option because you do not have to carry anything from your home!
- Nuts: Raw or roasted almonds, peanuts, raisin and soybean act as good stress relievers and can be included to prepare a healthy mini meal. Apart from being good sources of protein, they are rich in certain essential fatty acids and amino acids, which can boost your metabolism as well as your immunity. The best part is that you can store some nuts easily in an airtight container, which you can keep in your office drawer or in your locker. So you don't need to remember to carry it every day!
- Beverages: Drinks like coconut water, buttermilk, fruit juice, milk, light coffee and green tea are ideal if you need instant refreshment. These can also serve the purpose of mini meals by allowing you to cut on the time gap. These beverages are healthy, low-calorie options and thus, these are helpful in weight management.
Apart from these items you can also keep a pack of oat cookies, whole wheat biscuits or even multigrain biscuits in your bag. These biscuits and cookies are easy to store and can make a very healthy mini meal. Reducing the time gap between the meals is the way by which you can keep acidity and indigestion away! You cannot escape or change the sedentary nature of the modern-day jobs, but making some changes in your meal patterns would allow you to combat the effects of the stressful work life.
You are right when you take more amount of coffee then you can face many health problems. But you can take 1 cup of coffee in a day thats means very little coffee with skimmed milk & 1/2 tsp sugar.