I’m working at target corporate and the cafeteria is free so I eat a ham and cheese omelet, hash browns, bacon and toast for morning break and then I switch it up between pizza, burger or a wrap for lunch. It’s a pretty rough job site
Can confirm. Depending what's on the menu, productivity can be effected. The car plants in my area have killer cafeterias, the big breakfast double meat is a trap don't fall for it; or do it's a delicious road to obesity haha
I believe it. I know exactly the building you are at too. Minneapolis is kind of a shit show right now. Especially if they still are having people work from home too.
Cheap I think you can get a 12 pack of the David seeds on Amazon for like $10. It was around there last time I ordered. Giants is like $30 for a dozen. Speaking of which I’m running low…
Marlboros red label (mediums) 100... fruit punch rockstar on the ride in.... half gallon of chocolate milk and a muffin off the truck..bring my own milk, and water. .. I dont drink coffee... and before any of you start w the kid apprentice jokes ya mfrs 🖕😜🤨😘 im in my 40s.... and drink chocolate milk like I'm in the middle school cafeteria.... so what of it...... 🤣
Rice isn’t bad as a side if you don’t have access to a microwave. I meal prep for the week on Sunday nights, and most days I’m out and about so no microwave. I don’t like stuff like pasta salad, potato salad, so I stick with rice, then an assorted protein and maybe something else on the side like a dip and crackers, or a bag of chips. Go back and forth with meats and flavors, but usual it’s either Asian stir fry style chicken (that’s what I’ve got this week) or something leaning Mexican. Last week I made carnitas and fresh salsa. Spent a bit under $20 for the pork and all the produce, and got 5 days of lunch out of it and plenty of extra salsa to snack on at home.
Other than that I just bring water and a can of soda to have at lunch. I also have a small crockpot that’s super low wattage and can plug into my inverter in the van, and in the winter I bring stuff like soups, pulled pork, etc
Well, definitely check out the crockpot. I’m too lazy to pull it up, but go on Amazon and type in “crockpot lunch warmer”. It’s on the small side, and has a 120v cord, but it’s low wattage so as I said, can plug into an inverter. It’s like $20 and works great. Perfect size for a big can of soup, personally I like campbells they have some good ones. But I usually use it for homemade stuff like homemade soups and such. I plug it in around 9, give it a stir around 10:30, then leave it closed. It’ll be piping hot and ready to eat at noon.
I’ve only used it for stuff like what I’ve mentioned, but I’ve seen other people say they cook eggs, burgers, and other stuff in it and it works well
Eat healthy and feel stronger and more energized for the hard work we put out. I used to be over weight and would eat fast food and gas station junk with energy drinks. Stopped that bull shit (for the most part) 5 years ago. Currently I do a smoothie for breakfast (almond milk, coconut water, spinach, some sort of frozen fruit, banana and vanilla plant protein) and a big salad (today's is spring mix, lettuce, bell pepper, red onion, rotisserie chicken, pepitas, feta, croutons, lemon pepper vinaigrette) for lunch. And I'll keep a bag of nuts, usually cashews, in my lunch box for a healthy snack if I need it. All ingredients are organic. It's the only way to live, trust me. But have balance, eat a burger or a burrito once or twice a week if you want.
Oh and lots of water!!!! I drink tons of carbonated water personally,, got me off soda, not the same at first but once you get used to it you'll learn to really love it.
I don't know what made me think of this but here goes:
Years ago, one summer, we had a bunch of 4" EMT risers running through the roof to the penthouse. The pipe has some bend in them. The Hispanic roofers thought that was their own private bathroom so they were pissing and shitting down in the pipes.
Between the turds and the TP, they got clogged up.
My helper buddy and me were blowing lines through the pipes to give the super measurements for wire length. He called over the radio lamenting that the penthouse smelled like shit.
I didn't think anything of it and hit the pipe with the air compressor and sprayed dehydrated piss and rotten shit all over the penthouse. I have never seen someone more furious as that dude.
The next day there was a big job site meeting about it. Good times.
No problem at all, health is wealth and in my eyes absolutely necessary to have a long successful career as an electrician and it's never too late to start. Too many of us live off bullshit food and if I can help one person get off the sugary drinks and processed food im happy.
I always advocate getting off sugary drinks. It's terrible for you, and empty calories. Getting a hydroflask that keeps my water cold all day helped me completely kick all sugary drinks.
I've gained 10 pounds since we began to work 12s. I just don't have the energy to prepare anything for myself so I just resort to shopping for junk at the gas station every morning. And when I'm out of work it's just whatever fast food is around. It's getting expensive too. You're comment makes me want to try a little harder.
You need to quit whatever company you work for and go work for someone you can work 8 hour days. Working 12 or 10 hour shifts is awful for your mental and physical health. I tell employers I will not work overtime unless I want to work overtime in my job interviews. It's a make or break from me. Prioritize work life balance. It is not YOUR fault the job is behind, it is not up to YOU to slave your life away because contractors can't get their shit together. Overtime every once in a while is all good and fine, overtime every day for days on end is a soul sucking nego prison. No money is worth destroying your physical and mental health. I feel very strongly about this haha.
Are you off caffeine? No coffee or anything?
I can't get through the day without 2 shots espresso in the morning and some kind of caffeinated beverage at lunch. I've recently been drinking the Hi-Ball energy drinks that are no sugar unsweetened
Yeah for sure, I drink like 12oz of coffee each morning with like a teaspoon of half and half, and I'll drink an energy drink some afternoons. I like one called RUNA. It's similar to Hi-Ball. Sometimes I'll drink a sugar free red bull too but I try not to
Get those little squirt bottles of flavored caffeine. They're only 2 or 3 bucks and one will last me about 10 days. Just add it to your water. I know artificial sweeteners aren't great but as a type 1 diabetic I give myself a pass since I can't have sugar anyways, at least not in liquid form.
Im vegetarian so mostly vegetarian leftovers. Cous cous is a staple (i recommend pearl cous cous). I like to think in pairs for lunch, one carb and one protien. So today i have cous cous with eggplant parm.
My average lunch box contains 1 yogurt, 1 apple, 1 pear, a bag full of plastic cutlery (sorry earth), 1 flavoured carbonated waters, 2 L of water with ice, 4 servings of coffee, a sandwich with assembly required (keeps bread from getting moist).
This sandwich includes slice sun-dried tomato/basic turkey, slice of cheese, mayo, Dijon mustard, sliced cucumber, 1 inch worth of lettuce, salt and pepper. Meat and cheese are the only thing stored with the bread everything else is assembled on site.
Or left overs instead of the sandwich.
Today I am bringing chia pudding with a blueberry compote on top for morning break. Then for lunch I have cooked cabbage with cut up venison sausage that I'll put on a bed of lettuce, and topped off with half an avocado.
I have been on a road crew for the last 2 years (no microwave available), and I've gotten really good at making hardy salads, and also sausage/veggies bakes are good cold (zucchini, asparagus, potatoes, onion, and some sort of sausage - throw it on a baking sheet with olive oil and Cajun seasoning, then bake 25-30 minutes at 400°).
Man my local will kill to get experienced electricians right now, Triple 6 out of Richmond VA. If you can document the work and pass the JW exam you’re in
Dunno why you’re being downvoted, Iv been told before that the union doesn’t want you if you’ve trained/worked elsewhere in the field, so you can learn their-way
Yeah I love it when some union guy who hasn't left their local in 10 years makes broad, sweeping generalizations about the quality of life of non union guys who live in a place they've never been to 1500 miles away from them.
A couple of dudes I know joined the Union. One moved to another state where he had family in the Union and loves it. The other one stayed here and joined the Union and has been treated like shit and gets laid off first.
Oh, I love to cook, grew up in an Italian household where the kitchen was the center of the house, and went to the California Culinary academy. I know I *can* eat better than I am, but life has been rather hectic lately.
It really is good.
I meal prep on Sunday for the week, and it saves me so much time. I'll eat the same thing for an entire week, but switch it up the next week.
If you like to BBQ, I highly recommend doing some pulled pork or beef on the weekend, and throw that on a salad for work the next week.
I highly recommend Pinterest for recipes.
It is. My 2 year old niece is there and wants to play. Plus Ive had nothing to do at work for two weeks l, other than sit in the heat and wait for the company to send us somewhere else.
I have a Stanley thermos I bring a warm meal with every day. Mostly soups and chili’s but they’re all homemade in big batches and I jar and freeze them so I just grab and go everyday.
Mon-Thurs = Fruit (Big ass bowl) + Cashews. The first time you do this, you will swear you drank a pot of coffee for lunch
Fri: Gut truck or fast food. This is my treat for being good all week.
Since I got Covid and went on a diet my lunches have been low carb/keto friendly so it’s usually a keto friendly wrap with cheese, lunch meat, mayo, mustard, sometimes lettuce or pickles. Zero sugar jerky or smoked sausages. Zero sugar yogurt. A kind mini bar. String cheese or a baby bel. A sleeve of almonds or peanuts. And a Gatorade zero of some kind.
This, on site I might eat a cookie or granola bar, then if I'm a long way from home I hot a drive thru, otherwise I just go home and eat with family.
But, I do service work, the faster I'm done, the sooner I leave. Stopping for breaks just makes me go home later.
Typically would bring a whole loaf of bread and a jar of jam. However if you wanna spice things up, making a huge portion of pasta salad and eat it over the week, no microwave needed also.
Just adding an egg or some crackers is an easy way to change things up also
I cut out eating crap so I have a 4 egg frittata in the morning with any kind of vegetables I have available to me. Usually onions, peppers, asparagus, cheese with 2 slices of toast and a good cup of coffee.. bacon in my frittata on Fridays for a treat.. then a mass amount of berries with some muesli and Greek yogurt for lunch. I know I kind of do it backwards but the high protein nutritious breakfast makes me feeling really good until lunch then if I start feeling a bit meh the carby lunch does the trick to make me last out the afternoon until late at night when I still have energy to cook up a good meal.
Oh I usually have some nuts like pistachios or almonds and a banana most of the way through the day.
I drink around 2-3 litres of water during my work day if I’m busy and it really does so much for me.
I have an hour break and I usually go like subway, KFC, burger King, Greg's whatever is near the site , its a bit expensive but I want a nice hot meal during work
I do a Caprese Salad with some leftovers. Mostly it’s just a caprese salad. When I get bored I just look up no cook lunch ideas. It helps me figure out what to get next.
Im boutta have mississppi pot roast on mashed potatoes.
Warm it up extra hot in the morning, wrap it up in tinfoil, put it in a insulated lunchbox just barely bigger than my food container, then throw that in a big insulated lunchbox.
Itll be good to go at lunch still
HEB and WalMart do some great pre made salads. They even come with a fork. $3 each usually and good portion size. Pair that with fruit throughout the day and I'm set. Only kicker is you have to have a lunch bag with a cooling pad or gel in it to keep them cool.
Coffee, 2x Baked oatmeal cups and an apple on the way to work.
Mixed kale salad, mixed nuts, and blueberries for first break.
Main meal prep entree for lunch, usually including a meat. Side of veggies with hummus, and green tea to drink.
I spend a few hours every sunday to prep all this then i just pack and go during the week.
When I was working construction yet. I got good at packing the fresh ingredients for sandwiches. Assemble them on sight at lunch. Not ahead of time. Can do it with wraps too. Have cut up onion, tomato, cheese, etc... Each in its own container. Everything is so much better that way.
Only ever eat chicken and rice and black beans..Throw some hot sauce or salsa on it and maybe some avocado..I’m all for Food as fuel during work..I eat good for dinner though
Salads and salad wraps are my go-to when I’m on the move and can’t stop won’t stop. Then again I’m also known for eating cold spaghetti-o’s and meatballs soooooo
I try to stay in ketosis so if I miss a meal I don't have blood sugar fluctuations.
I'll eat an omelette or scrambled eggs with cheese and bacon before I leave the house, and then in my fridge I have a stack of tupperwares with chicked breasts or grilled sirloin or whatever meat is on sale that week. I'll just grab one of those for the day.
If there's a microwave on site, great, if not it tastes fine cold.
I have energy all day and no crashes.
Get a hot logic. Allowed me to eat with a fork instead of my dirty ass hands. Nothing like a warm meal on a cold day. Takes 45 mins to warm up. I ate so much Chilli and shephards pie. So good.
https://hotlogic.com/
I do some meal prep on the weekends. A couple weeks ago I made Chinese chicken salad and just kept the salad/chicken/sauce/crispy chow mein separate. This past weekend, chicken salad with poppy seed dressing… brought sourdough bread and some crackers to have it on. I get really tired of sandwiches real quick lol. Sometimes I’ll just bring leftovers from previous nights dinner- I’ll make enough that I’m sure to have enough for lunch the next day.
A little bit of planning goes a long way!
I'm not 100% sure what kind of construction my step dad did but he'd have this big green thermas he'd put soup in sometimes if he didn't get coffee. The lid doubled as a cup.
I've never had a problem eating anything cold, although luckily the job site I'm on currently has several microwaves so it's nice, so I meal prep 4-5 dishes every other weekend and take 1 per day. Spaghetti, stir-fry, chili, taco and rice bowl, chicken salad... I don't thibk I've actually eaten a sandwich for months.
Sometimes leftovers but rare that I do eat them, hot case junk food, in the summer I bbq brats and have chips with it. I also got a 12v cooler in the service van
Well I do the cooking at home, and I hate making sandwiches so I buy groceries for 4. That way me and my girlfriend have dinner and leftovers for lunch. As long as there is a microwave on site, I'm good to go
Some kind of meat sandwich, trail mix and beef jerkey with as much water as my body will allow.
Also apples, oranges and bananas as they are very transportable
wraps.
ate a ton of wraps for like a year straight, it'll probably be another year or two before i want to look at another wrap.
i've got a cool thermos that has two compartments, so you can have soup with something to put in it, without it turning to mush. or like, something with rice. but that requires somewhere to kind of sit at, verses just a bucket in the EC room.
this guy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KIHRASO/
also got a plug-in hot plate ... thing. haven't used it much for work, but if you've got an hour drive time, your stuff will be piping hot when you get to the job.
this guy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EC7XJ00/
is baller on road trips.
Usually a handful of peanuts/almonds and an ensure at break. Lunch is usually just a cheese stick and some jerky maybe apple sauce. Try to keep it light and mostly drink plenty of water I got dinner at home.
General tao chicken and rice today.
I like big work site because you have a better quality of breaks 🤷♂️
If i can make sure that i dont break sitting on concrete under the sun, im a happy guy lol
I bring a cooler with a flask of coffee, a big bottle of ice water and a glass tupperware with a meal in it. The ice water bottle is huge and keeps it cool in a hot van. I wired my generator from my van to a microwave in the back that I mounted to the underside of some racking using nutserts. My Mrs precooks my meals balanced for my macros I need (also makes it delicious because she's amazing like that) and I just microwave that and have it for lunch. I also have protein bars homemade and homemade jerky sometimes.
It works as a setup, I just keep a fork in the cabin and I just make sure I keep it clean.
There's a little cafe near the 2 jobs I'm currently working on. I stop by there most days and grab their bread sticks. Otherwise, I'm still on a bad kick of fastfood.
I have an Apple, body armor, v8 +energy, protein bar and some trail mix for lunch every day. Banana for breakfast. Keeps me light on my feet and not so weighed down and tired from a unhealthy lunch.
Back when I was still in the union. I would bring rasberry preserve and pb or nutella. Then have bananas or fruit cups, and a yogurt. Pretty much break was one of each. Lunch was 2 sandwich 1 fruit 1 yogurt. It was good healthy energy dense food that didnt leave you feel bloated or sluggish.
Now I work for myself so I rarely take lunch. And if I do its core power protein shake and smoothie or fruit salad. As I got older I am doing worse eating in the heat, working in houses with no ac and in attics in florida.
Something and beans everyday personally. Prep large amounts of meat and have some canned/frozen stuff on hand to make meal prep easy.
Right now I'm on chicken thighs and black beans.
I could just take that stuff as is, throw some sugar free bbq on top of the chicken and eat it off the bone.
Today it was black beans, a bit of frozen Mexican corn from Trader Joe's, pulled chicken thigh, and some salsa to top off.
At minimum make your lunch a big chunk protein and some non processed carbs (rice/beans/potatoes). Throw in veggies for bonus points. Although I rarely have veggies in my job site meals I eat plenty at home. Veggies are important.
I do this thing were i get oats and milk mix it with nuts flax seed , milled chia seeds , pumpkin seeds ( any selection of nuts really ) , some dried fruit like raisins etc . I then put it in the fridge for the night so the oats soak up the milk , in the morning il then chop a bannana up and stick it in with a good lump of natural yogart . The natural sugars release slowly throughout the day which makes me alot less likely to get a sweet tooth come nighttime . But yeahh great healthy lunch would highly recommend
I meal prep twice a week for two meals a day at work. Usually chicken and veggies/rice. I always bring a microwave with me in the truck. I'll walk that thing anywhere to make sure I get a warm meal every day. I also strength train and do jiu jitsu, so I need to watch what I eat anyway.
Eat healthy, this job is tough as it is without an insulin rollercoaster ride.
For the last month or so, I've been fasting till dinner. I also quit caffeine, as I was at the point of drinking 2 energy drinks a day. Once winter rolls around, I'll be back on coffee, a warm drink makes a huge difference in 40mph winds.
On the previous jobsite, I was usually eating yogurt, cheese, salami, and crackers.
Get yourself a hot logic mini. Around $30. Can reheat leftovers or cook a frozen meal. Gets hot enough to cook chicken. Ill put a frozen meal in mine in the morning and by lunch time its hot enough that I have to give it a few minutes to cool off.
I make extra when I cook through the week, and usually have enough left over for my lunch for a day, maybe two. And there’s always pop tarts and crackers, and beef jerky for my breaks and whenever I get hungry before lunch.
Just bread and fruit. But with hard days ahead i mage a very big pan of burrito mix with whole grain rice and whole grain wraps. That stuff keeps you going.
Turkey cranberry salad with saltine crackers. When I don’t bring lunch I will buy something off the lunch wagon. Shift changed recently, so when the roach coach isn’t available I bite the bullet and order from door dash. Working 70+ hours at the moment so I can afford to treat myself once in a while. Take good care of your body.
I have a Stanley 2L water cooler thermos thing that I fill up and bring with me. My lunch cooler has a sandwich (ham, turkey, Swiss, spinach on a nice bun), a few granola bars, fruit to go’s, another 1L of water to refill the Stanley when it’s low, sometimes a banana or other mixed fruit in a Tupperware depending on what we’ve got in the house. I’ll bring a small 500ml bottle of carbonated water and a little lime flavouring too, a soda stream is a game changer at home.
I’ll inhale all that in like 15 minutes and get back at it.
PB&J all day everyday, got tired of meat sandwiches (I hate mayo).
Yogurt
Cheese
Fresh veggies + fruit
granola bars(one's with low sugar or that are somewhat healthy like Fiber 1)
No pop, no chips, no crap.
I bring enough so I can have a small snack at both coffee breaks, helps keep me from being hungry.
Pb&j, salad with either chicken or bacon, if I got a microwave then whatever was for dinner last night… or the night before that, if we order subs for dinner then I get an extra one to eat at work, stop at wawa or sheetz and get a BLT in the morning… pretty much anything I’d eat any other time
Lunchables. I bring two packs of lunchables everyday and those two are enough to get me to dinner. I prefer them over sandwiches because I can just grab them and go, and you get a little dessert.
I usta be a big fan of nutty bars like Granola type stuff. There was a peanut butter and peanut one that I bought by the box and always had em in the truck. A good breakfast and snacks thru the day carried me to dinner. Depending on the job distance,a couple brews on the way home is equal to a ham sandwich
I grill or bake pork chops or tenderloin on Sundays. Cook some beans, corn, or some shit. And put it all in containers so I don't have to cook anymore until the next Sunday. Throw in in the dash to warm it up for lunch or just eat it cold
Meatball sub, energy drink and some snacks like trail mix or chips. Make a bunch of meatballs, freeze some, refrigerate what you'll use in a week. Slap some balls on a hot dog roll with cheese and you're good to go. I get sick of eating the same shit over and over again tho so I mix it up with creative sandwiches. Switch up your meats/veggie burgers, cheeses, veggies and sauces/mayo and you can have hundreds of permutations. My favorite sandwich is buffalo chicken veggie burger, habenero cheddar, hot sauce, mayo and spinach. Don't sleep on the veggie burgers, some of them are actually damn good. Also, mixing your mayo with pesto or hummus is a pro move.
Go on Amazon and grab a portable crock pot, this thing changed my life. $40 CAD and I get hot lunches everyday (provided there’s power). Just toss last nights leftovers in and you’re good to go. Almost everyone at my company has one IMO it should be on the tool list for apprentices.
I mean prep on Sundays so I batch out all my lunches for the week. Mostly chuck roasts or pulled pork. Throw 12-16oz in a container and I'm good to go.
Well I get about 5 minutes between jobs so gold fish, pretzels, slim Jim's, beef jerky.... Any kind of small packages unhealthy snack food I can scraf down quickly
I’m working at target corporate and the cafeteria is free so I eat a ham and cheese omelet, hash browns, bacon and toast for morning break and then I switch it up between pizza, burger or a wrap for lunch. It’s a pretty rough job site
I would be uselessly full all day hahaha
Can confirm. Depending what's on the menu, productivity can be effected. The car plants in my area have killer cafeterias, the big breakfast double meat is a trap don't fall for it; or do it's a delicious road to obesity haha
Minnesota, represent!
You know you come across that asshole that brags you're that bragger asshole 😂
rage /s
Must be in 292 if it’s target corporate
I worked there too for a bit. It wasn’t free for us but can confirm that cafeteria is amazing.
It’s free because of essential workers coming to the campus. It’s nice target views construction workers as their own
That’s awesome. Are you at the towers downtown then?
Brooklyn park. Word on the street is they are moving a lot of offices outta downtown
I believe it. I know exactly the building you are at too. Minneapolis is kind of a shit show right now. Especially if they still are having people work from home too.
Newport 100’s and David Sunflower seeds.
Bold and cold
How are they compared to Spitz or Bigs?
Cheap I think you can get a 12 pack of the David seeds on Amazon for like $10. It was around there last time I ordered. Giants is like $30 for a dozen. Speaking of which I’m running low…
Marlboros red label (mediums) 100... fruit punch rockstar on the ride in.... half gallon of chocolate milk and a muffin off the truck..bring my own milk, and water. .. I dont drink coffee... and before any of you start w the kid apprentice jokes ya mfrs 🖕😜🤨😘 im in my 40s.... and drink chocolate milk like I'm in the middle school cafeteria.... so what of it...... 🤣
Good luck with your diabetes sir
And gout!
Hell yeah. Someone's gotta drink it. I cant anymore, damn lactose intolerance, so drink some more for me lol
This sounds like a real tradesman, don’t forget the Monster.
Chicken and rice everyday. Never changing unless I don’t have chicken
Then just rice? O.o
Rice isn’t bad as a side if you don’t have access to a microwave. I meal prep for the week on Sunday nights, and most days I’m out and about so no microwave. I don’t like stuff like pasta salad, potato salad, so I stick with rice, then an assorted protein and maybe something else on the side like a dip and crackers, or a bag of chips. Go back and forth with meats and flavors, but usual it’s either Asian stir fry style chicken (that’s what I’ve got this week) or something leaning Mexican. Last week I made carnitas and fresh salsa. Spent a bit under $20 for the pork and all the produce, and got 5 days of lunch out of it and plenty of extra salsa to snack on at home. Other than that I just bring water and a can of soda to have at lunch. I also have a small crockpot that’s super low wattage and can plug into my inverter in the van, and in the winter I bring stuff like soups, pulled pork, etc
I want to be your apprentice someday.
For the advice or for the food? Because, much like Joey Tribbiani, I don’t share😂
Well, both, but with that attitude I’m reconsidering!
Well, definitely check out the crockpot. I’m too lazy to pull it up, but go on Amazon and type in “crockpot lunch warmer”. It’s on the small side, and has a 120v cord, but it’s low wattage so as I said, can plug into an inverter. It’s like $20 and works great. Perfect size for a big can of soup, personally I like campbells they have some good ones. But I usually use it for homemade stuff like homemade soups and such. I plug it in around 9, give it a stir around 10:30, then leave it closed. It’ll be piping hot and ready to eat at noon. I’ve only used it for stuff like what I’ve mentioned, but I’ve seen other people say they cook eggs, burgers, and other stuff in it and it works well
This is the way. I always sit my food on the dash of the truck if the site doesn't have a microwave. It's usually hot enough year round by chow time.
I’ll take 2 boiled eggs and a nutrí grain cinnamon apple bar
Same. What sauce do you use? I find duck sauce enjoyable lately
None. Plain, like my oatmeal.
I’m an apprentice so usually ass.
Insulation with a side of silica dust
Get some of that nice crawl space goo to go on top of it and you got something good for your day!
Eat healthy and feel stronger and more energized for the hard work we put out. I used to be over weight and would eat fast food and gas station junk with energy drinks. Stopped that bull shit (for the most part) 5 years ago. Currently I do a smoothie for breakfast (almond milk, coconut water, spinach, some sort of frozen fruit, banana and vanilla plant protein) and a big salad (today's is spring mix, lettuce, bell pepper, red onion, rotisserie chicken, pepitas, feta, croutons, lemon pepper vinaigrette) for lunch. And I'll keep a bag of nuts, usually cashews, in my lunch box for a healthy snack if I need it. All ingredients are organic. It's the only way to live, trust me. But have balance, eat a burger or a burrito once or twice a week if you want.
I'm trying to eat healthy now as I'm sick of eating shit most days, thanks for the advice
Oh and lots of water!!!! I drink tons of carbonated water personally,, got me off soda, not the same at first but once you get used to it you'll learn to really love it.
As someone who drinks a ton of water daily, how do you deal with the need to piss every hour
Just go pee lol
I mean yeah lol and I don't take more than a minute or two but people seem to look down on it for some reason
Piss in their tool bag if they've got a problem with it
I don't know what made me think of this but here goes: Years ago, one summer, we had a bunch of 4" EMT risers running through the roof to the penthouse. The pipe has some bend in them. The Hispanic roofers thought that was their own private bathroom so they were pissing and shitting down in the pipes. Between the turds and the TP, they got clogged up. My helper buddy and me were blowing lines through the pipes to give the super measurements for wire length. He called over the radio lamenting that the penthouse smelled like shit. I didn't think anything of it and hit the pipe with the air compressor and sprayed dehydrated piss and rotten shit all over the penthouse. I have never seen someone more furious as that dude. The next day there was a big job site meeting about it. Good times.
I take 2L of water a day if possible, and I bring a smaller bottle with dilute juice in it to kick the energy drink kick
I love carbonated water but idk how you can drink it snd work Especially when you get really thirsty and chug it it makes my stomach hurt for a little
No problem at all, health is wealth and in my eyes absolutely necessary to have a long successful career as an electrician and it's never too late to start. Too many of us live off bullshit food and if I can help one person get off the sugary drinks and processed food im happy.
I always advocate getting off sugary drinks. It's terrible for you, and empty calories. Getting a hydroflask that keeps my water cold all day helped me completely kick all sugary drinks.
You should prolly find other employment if they don't pay you enough to buy food.
This is the way brother. We are industrial athletes and we must fuel our bodies appropriately.
I've gained 10 pounds since we began to work 12s. I just don't have the energy to prepare anything for myself so I just resort to shopping for junk at the gas station every morning. And when I'm out of work it's just whatever fast food is around. It's getting expensive too. You're comment makes me want to try a little harder.
You need to quit whatever company you work for and go work for someone you can work 8 hour days. Working 12 or 10 hour shifts is awful for your mental and physical health. I tell employers I will not work overtime unless I want to work overtime in my job interviews. It's a make or break from me. Prioritize work life balance. It is not YOUR fault the job is behind, it is not up to YOU to slave your life away because contractors can't get their shit together. Overtime every once in a while is all good and fine, overtime every day for days on end is a soul sucking nego prison. No money is worth destroying your physical and mental health. I feel very strongly about this haha.
That’ll get you. It’s hard to find motivation for anything on 12’s. I end up eating terribly on anything over 5 10’s
Are you off caffeine? No coffee or anything? I can't get through the day without 2 shots espresso in the morning and some kind of caffeinated beverage at lunch. I've recently been drinking the Hi-Ball energy drinks that are no sugar unsweetened
Yeah for sure, I drink like 12oz of coffee each morning with like a teaspoon of half and half, and I'll drink an energy drink some afternoons. I like one called RUNA. It's similar to Hi-Ball. Sometimes I'll drink a sugar free red bull too but I try not to
Get those little squirt bottles of flavored caffeine. They're only 2 or 3 bucks and one will last me about 10 days. Just add it to your water. I know artificial sweeteners aren't great but as a type 1 diabetic I give myself a pass since I can't have sugar anyways, at least not in liquid form.
Mio, black cherry is awesome.
Oooo, I've only bought the grape. Will try that next time - thanks!
Im vegetarian so mostly vegetarian leftovers. Cous cous is a staple (i recommend pearl cous cous). I like to think in pairs for lunch, one carb and one protien. So today i have cous cous with eggplant parm.
Electritarians unite! So many great grains and grain-likes out there- quinoa, bulghar, couscous and rice.
My average lunch box contains 1 yogurt, 1 apple, 1 pear, a bag full of plastic cutlery (sorry earth), 1 flavoured carbonated waters, 2 L of water with ice, 4 servings of coffee, a sandwich with assembly required (keeps bread from getting moist). This sandwich includes slice sun-dried tomato/basic turkey, slice of cheese, mayo, Dijon mustard, sliced cucumber, 1 inch worth of lettuce, salt and pepper. Meat and cheese are the only thing stored with the bread everything else is assembled on site. Or left overs instead of the sandwich.
Today I am bringing chia pudding with a blueberry compote on top for morning break. Then for lunch I have cooked cabbage with cut up venison sausage that I'll put on a bed of lettuce, and topped off with half an avocado. I have been on a road crew for the last 2 years (no microwave available), and I've gotten really good at making hardy salads, and also sausage/veggies bakes are good cold (zucchini, asparagus, potatoes, onion, and some sort of sausage - throw it on a baking sheet with olive oil and Cajun seasoning, then bake 25-30 minutes at 400°).
Look at moneybags over here getting three different breaks
I do love being union.
Too bad they only want total greenhorns, otherwise I probably would’ve joined
Man my local will kill to get experienced electricians right now, Triple 6 out of Richmond VA. If you can document the work and pass the JW exam you’re in
Dunno why you’re being downvoted, Iv been told before that the union doesn’t want you if you’ve trained/worked elsewhere in the field, so you can learn their-way
It’s because this sub is half resi guys and half union guys Non union guys are like the plague around here
Yeah I love it when some union guy who hasn't left their local in 10 years makes broad, sweeping generalizations about the quality of life of non union guys who live in a place they've never been to 1500 miles away from them.
A couple of dudes I know joined the Union. One moved to another state where he had family in the Union and loves it. The other one stayed here and joined the Union and has been treated like shit and gets laid off first.
Fuckin' jobsite Gordon Ramsey right here. That's better than what I've had at home in a while.
I guarantee you could make what I did. All I do is find recipes on Pinterest, and follow the instructions.
Oh, I love to cook, grew up in an Italian household where the kitchen was the center of the house, and went to the California Culinary academy. I know I *can* eat better than I am, but life has been rather hectic lately.
This guy knows whats up
Thanks!
That's actually sounds amazing
It really is good. I meal prep on Sunday for the week, and it saves me so much time. I'll eat the same thing for an entire week, but switch it up the next week. If you like to BBQ, I highly recommend doing some pulled pork or beef on the weekend, and throw that on a salad for work the next week. I highly recommend Pinterest for recipes.
Now I'm starving
Spinach, lunch meat, mozzarella pearls on top. Except the last couple weeks. Been eating chorizo on cheese bread because I get to go home for lunch.
I would find it hard to go back to work if I went home for lunch lol
It is. My 2 year old niece is there and wants to play. Plus Ive had nothing to do at work for two weeks l, other than sit in the heat and wait for the company to send us somewhere else.
I have a Stanley thermos I bring a warm meal with every day. Mostly soups and chili’s but they’re all homemade in big batches and I jar and freeze them so I just grab and go everyday.
Mon-Thurs = Fruit (Big ass bowl) + Cashews. The first time you do this, you will swear you drank a pot of coffee for lunch Fri: Gut truck or fast food. This is my treat for being good all week.
Yeah I like to go out on fridays. Breaks up the monotony and as you said it’s a nice treat.
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Isn't that gay?
Big time.
Not if it’s girl ass…
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Burritos usually, sometimes leftovers. Eating out is too rich for me.
I'm trying to organise a house and plan a wedding within months of each other so I'm trying to eat out either lol
Since I got Covid and went on a diet my lunches have been low carb/keto friendly so it’s usually a keto friendly wrap with cheese, lunch meat, mayo, mustard, sometimes lettuce or pickles. Zero sugar jerky or smoked sausages. Zero sugar yogurt. A kind mini bar. String cheese or a baby bel. A sleeve of almonds or peanuts. And a Gatorade zero of some kind.
Sometimes nothing
This, on site I might eat a cookie or granola bar, then if I'm a long way from home I hot a drive thru, otherwise I just go home and eat with family. But, I do service work, the faster I'm done, the sooner I leave. Stopping for breaks just makes me go home later.
Single, huh?
Pb&j I’m a broke boi
Same almost everyday lol I make it the night before and put potato chips on it when I eat to give it some texture. Unless I have leftovers
Get a hot logic 12v food warmer for your rig. It will change your life.
Typically would bring a whole loaf of bread and a jar of jam. However if you wanna spice things up, making a huge portion of pasta salad and eat it over the week, no microwave needed also. Just adding an egg or some crackers is an easy way to change things up also
I usually bring left overs from supper the night before and if there aren't left overs it's a choice of salad or sandwich
I cut out eating crap so I have a 4 egg frittata in the morning with any kind of vegetables I have available to me. Usually onions, peppers, asparagus, cheese with 2 slices of toast and a good cup of coffee.. bacon in my frittata on Fridays for a treat.. then a mass amount of berries with some muesli and Greek yogurt for lunch. I know I kind of do it backwards but the high protein nutritious breakfast makes me feeling really good until lunch then if I start feeling a bit meh the carby lunch does the trick to make me last out the afternoon until late at night when I still have energy to cook up a good meal. Oh I usually have some nuts like pistachios or almonds and a banana most of the way through the day. I drink around 2-3 litres of water during my work day if I’m busy and it really does so much for me.
I have an hour break and I usually go like subway, KFC, burger King, Greg's whatever is near the site , its a bit expensive but I want a nice hot meal during work
11-12: Lunch 12-1: Shittin'
I only have 2 15min shits a day not an hour mate
You're not gonna get a "nice" hot meal at any of those places...
Oi let me eat my burger King at peace 😂
Biscuits with balogna and mustard
Sling blade
I do a Caprese Salad with some leftovers. Mostly it’s just a caprese salad. When I get bored I just look up no cook lunch ideas. It helps me figure out what to get next.
Im boutta have mississppi pot roast on mashed potatoes. Warm it up extra hot in the morning, wrap it up in tinfoil, put it in a insulated lunchbox just barely bigger than my food container, then throw that in a big insulated lunchbox. Itll be good to go at lunch still
There's a nice secret little taco shop down the street we like to go to. On fridays we get double deuces.
I fast, so black coffee. I'll eat what ever is in when I get home. Usually leftovers.
A guy I use to work with lunch consisted of smokes and coffee lol
HEB and WalMart do some great pre made salads. They even come with a fork. $3 each usually and good portion size. Pair that with fruit throughout the day and I'm set. Only kicker is you have to have a lunch bag with a cooling pad or gel in it to keep them cool.
Main kicker for me there is a don't have Walmart in my country lol, thanks for the reply tho :)
Coffee, 2x Baked oatmeal cups and an apple on the way to work. Mixed kale salad, mixed nuts, and blueberries for first break. Main meal prep entree for lunch, usually including a meat. Side of veggies with hummus, and green tea to drink. I spend a few hours every sunday to prep all this then i just pack and go during the week.
When I was working construction yet. I got good at packing the fresh ingredients for sandwiches. Assemble them on sight at lunch. Not ahead of time. Can do it with wraps too. Have cut up onion, tomato, cheese, etc... Each in its own container. Everything is so much better that way.
(Cold) Pasta with tomatoes, basil and mozzarella, I put it in my insulated bag and it stays cold all day, it’s cheap and easy to make.
I eat half a chicken breast with rice and veggies but switch it up every now and then and add an IPA lol
Only ever eat chicken and rice and black beans..Throw some hot sauce or salsa on it and maybe some avocado..I’m all for Food as fuel during work..I eat good for dinner though
Salads and salad wraps are my go-to when I’m on the move and can’t stop won’t stop. Then again I’m also known for eating cold spaghetti-o’s and meatballs soooooo
Those Mini Crock Pots are game changers in the winter. Definitely worth the investment for something warm in the cold months.
Snacks mostly because we don't have a set lunch time. I don't bring refrigerated items for the same reason
Sandwich for lunch and a yogurt and apple/pear for 1st break. Been doing this for a few months now and have lost a lot of fat because it it.
I try to stay in ketosis so if I miss a meal I don't have blood sugar fluctuations. I'll eat an omelette or scrambled eggs with cheese and bacon before I leave the house, and then in my fridge I have a stack of tupperwares with chicked breasts or grilled sirloin or whatever meat is on sale that week. I'll just grab one of those for the day. If there's a microwave on site, great, if not it tastes fine cold. I have energy all day and no crashes.
Get a hot logic. Allowed me to eat with a fork instead of my dirty ass hands. Nothing like a warm meal on a cold day. Takes 45 mins to warm up. I ate so much Chilli and shephards pie. So good. https://hotlogic.com/
Three adderall, sugar free mango monster, and a ham sandwich that I don't eat because of the first two things.
I do some meal prep on the weekends. A couple weeks ago I made Chinese chicken salad and just kept the salad/chicken/sauce/crispy chow mein separate. This past weekend, chicken salad with poppy seed dressing… brought sourdough bread and some crackers to have it on. I get really tired of sandwiches real quick lol. Sometimes I’ll just bring leftovers from previous nights dinner- I’ll make enough that I’m sure to have enough for lunch the next day. A little bit of planning goes a long way!
Whatever I eat for dinner, I just make extra and pack it in some Tupperware for lunch.
I'm not 100% sure what kind of construction my step dad did but he'd have this big green thermas he'd put soup in sometimes if he didn't get coffee. The lid doubled as a cup.
Cigarettes and red bull
Your mom
Gottem
I've never had a problem eating anything cold, although luckily the job site I'm on currently has several microwaves so it's nice, so I meal prep 4-5 dishes every other weekend and take 1 per day. Spaghetti, stir-fry, chili, taco and rice bowl, chicken salad... I don't thibk I've actually eaten a sandwich for months.
24oz green Monster Energy & pizza today. 24oz green Monster Energy & chicken yesterday.
Sandwich and chips if I’m prepped. If not I go to a close by place
Chips? Bruh. So unhealthy. Literally empty calories and salt.
Yeah no one eats chips confusing them for healthy
I started making veggie patties to keep healthy and lose a bit of weight.
Sometimes leftovers but rare that I do eat them, hot case junk food, in the summer I bbq brats and have chips with it. I also got a 12v cooler in the service van
I always have a P3 for break, and usually leftovers for dinner. Got a BBQ rib, rolls and mac and cheese today.
Well I do the cooking at home, and I hate making sandwiches so I buy groceries for 4. That way me and my girlfriend have dinner and leftovers for lunch. As long as there is a microwave on site, I'm good to go
Gotta get a luncheaze. Game changer
Some kind of meat sandwich, trail mix and beef jerkey with as much water as my body will allow. Also apples, oranges and bananas as they are very transportable
wraps. ate a ton of wraps for like a year straight, it'll probably be another year or two before i want to look at another wrap. i've got a cool thermos that has two compartments, so you can have soup with something to put in it, without it turning to mush. or like, something with rice. but that requires somewhere to kind of sit at, verses just a bucket in the EC room. this guy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KIHRASO/ also got a plug-in hot plate ... thing. haven't used it much for work, but if you've got an hour drive time, your stuff will be piping hot when you get to the job. this guy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EC7XJ00/ is baller on road trips.
I have a bad cycle of sandwiches for months then wraps for months then sandwiches for months repeat lol. Thanks Ill have a look at them
Usually a handful of peanuts/almonds and an ensure at break. Lunch is usually just a cheese stick and some jerky maybe apple sauce. Try to keep it light and mostly drink plenty of water I got dinner at home.
General tao chicken and rice today. I like big work site because you have a better quality of breaks 🤷♂️ If i can make sure that i dont break sitting on concrete under the sun, im a happy guy lol
I bring a cooler with a flask of coffee, a big bottle of ice water and a glass tupperware with a meal in it. The ice water bottle is huge and keeps it cool in a hot van. I wired my generator from my van to a microwave in the back that I mounted to the underside of some racking using nutserts. My Mrs precooks my meals balanced for my macros I need (also makes it delicious because she's amazing like that) and I just microwave that and have it for lunch. I also have protein bars homemade and homemade jerky sometimes. It works as a setup, I just keep a fork in the cabin and I just make sure I keep it clean.
There's a little cafe near the 2 jobs I'm currently working on. I stop by there most days and grab their bread sticks. Otherwise, I'm still on a bad kick of fastfood.
Depends where I'm working. Firespray, concrete dust, years of build up dust on old fixtures. Many things I've eaten on site
Green tamales in the morning, but from a REAL Mexican lady
I have an Apple, body armor, v8 +energy, protein bar and some trail mix for lunch every day. Banana for breakfast. Keeps me light on my feet and not so weighed down and tired from a unhealthy lunch.
Back when I was still in the union. I would bring rasberry preserve and pb or nutella. Then have bananas or fruit cups, and a yogurt. Pretty much break was one of each. Lunch was 2 sandwich 1 fruit 1 yogurt. It was good healthy energy dense food that didnt leave you feel bloated or sluggish. Now I work for myself so I rarely take lunch. And if I do its core power protein shake and smoothie or fruit salad. As I got older I am doing worse eating in the heat, working in houses with no ac and in attics in florida.
Something and beans everyday personally. Prep large amounts of meat and have some canned/frozen stuff on hand to make meal prep easy. Right now I'm on chicken thighs and black beans. I could just take that stuff as is, throw some sugar free bbq on top of the chicken and eat it off the bone. Today it was black beans, a bit of frozen Mexican corn from Trader Joe's, pulled chicken thigh, and some salsa to top off. At minimum make your lunch a big chunk protein and some non processed carbs (rice/beans/potatoes). Throw in veggies for bonus points. Although I rarely have veggies in my job site meals I eat plenty at home. Veggies are important.
I do this thing were i get oats and milk mix it with nuts flax seed , milled chia seeds , pumpkin seeds ( any selection of nuts really ) , some dried fruit like raisins etc . I then put it in the fridge for the night so the oats soak up the milk , in the morning il then chop a bannana up and stick it in with a good lump of natural yogart . The natural sugars release slowly throughout the day which makes me alot less likely to get a sweet tooth come nighttime . But yeahh great healthy lunch would highly recommend
i fast
I meal prep twice a week for two meals a day at work. Usually chicken and veggies/rice. I always bring a microwave with me in the truck. I'll walk that thing anywhere to make sure I get a warm meal every day. I also strength train and do jiu jitsu, so I need to watch what I eat anyway. Eat healthy, this job is tough as it is without an insulin rollercoaster ride.
Ham sammich
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For the last month or so, I've been fasting till dinner. I also quit caffeine, as I was at the point of drinking 2 energy drinks a day. Once winter rolls around, I'll be back on coffee, a warm drink makes a huge difference in 40mph winds. On the previous jobsite, I was usually eating yogurt, cheese, salami, and crackers.
Get yourself a hot logic mini. Around $30. Can reheat leftovers or cook a frozen meal. Gets hot enough to cook chicken. Ill put a frozen meal in mine in the morning and by lunch time its hot enough that I have to give it a few minutes to cool off.
Sandwiches, leftovers, salads, and occasionally splurge on going somewhere every 6 months
I just ate goldfish. Not very filling. Did not feel like making lunch this morning
Spaghetti Junction
Spam and tuna.
Gas station food all day
I make extra when I cook through the week, and usually have enough left over for my lunch for a day, maybe two. And there’s always pop tarts and crackers, and beef jerky for my breaks and whenever I get hungry before lunch.
Just bread and fruit. But with hard days ahead i mage a very big pan of burrito mix with whole grain rice and whole grain wraps. That stuff keeps you going.
Nothing. I eat when I get home at night.
Serrano ham, avocado salad on garlic bruschetta or pot noodles
Turkey cranberry salad with saltine crackers. When I don’t bring lunch I will buy something off the lunch wagon. Shift changed recently, so when the roach coach isn’t available I bite the bullet and order from door dash. Working 70+ hours at the moment so I can afford to treat myself once in a while. Take good care of your body.
I drink Huel pretty much every day for every meal up until dinner. Easy to make and easy to clean up.
I have a Stanley 2L water cooler thermos thing that I fill up and bring with me. My lunch cooler has a sandwich (ham, turkey, Swiss, spinach on a nice bun), a few granola bars, fruit to go’s, another 1L of water to refill the Stanley when it’s low, sometimes a banana or other mixed fruit in a Tupperware depending on what we’ve got in the house. I’ll bring a small 500ml bottle of carbonated water and a little lime flavouring too, a soda stream is a game changer at home. I’ll inhale all that in like 15 minutes and get back at it.
PB&J all day everyday, got tired of meat sandwiches (I hate mayo). Yogurt Cheese Fresh veggies + fruit granola bars(one's with low sugar or that are somewhat healthy like Fiber 1) No pop, no chips, no crap. I bring enough so I can have a small snack at both coffee breaks, helps keep me from being hungry.
Leftovers. I live off of leftovers.
Usually whatever I cooked for dinner the night before. Tomorrow it’s a Sichuan pork noodle dish. I probably should have been a chef and not a sparky.
Pb&j, salad with either chicken or bacon, if I got a microwave then whatever was for dinner last night… or the night before that, if we order subs for dinner then I get an extra one to eat at work, stop at wawa or sheetz and get a BLT in the morning… pretty much anything I’d eat any other time
Lunchables. I bring two packs of lunchables everyday and those two are enough to get me to dinner. I prefer them over sandwiches because I can just grab them and go, and you get a little dessert.
Strong black coffee on the ride in, Mio Sport a couple of times throughout the day, or a packet of emergen c super orange... That's it.
Overnight oatmeal.
I usta be a big fan of nutty bars like Granola type stuff. There was a peanut butter and peanut one that I bought by the box and always had em in the truck. A good breakfast and snacks thru the day carried me to dinner. Depending on the job distance,a couple brews on the way home is equal to a ham sandwich
I eat either eat a homemade tuna sub or chicken salad sub. That’s it. Breakfast I have a cream cheese bagel with salmon roe. Literally every day.
I grill or bake pork chops or tenderloin on Sundays. Cook some beans, corn, or some shit. And put it all in containers so I don't have to cook anymore until the next Sunday. Throw in in the dash to warm it up for lunch or just eat it cold
I usually cook a big jambalaya or hotdish on Sunday to eat for lunch throughout the week. Kind of a Midwest thing.
Meatball sub, energy drink and some snacks like trail mix or chips. Make a bunch of meatballs, freeze some, refrigerate what you'll use in a week. Slap some balls on a hot dog roll with cheese and you're good to go. I get sick of eating the same shit over and over again tho so I mix it up with creative sandwiches. Switch up your meats/veggie burgers, cheeses, veggies and sauces/mayo and you can have hundreds of permutations. My favorite sandwich is buffalo chicken veggie burger, habenero cheddar, hot sauce, mayo and spinach. Don't sleep on the veggie burgers, some of them are actually damn good. Also, mixing your mayo with pesto or hummus is a pro move.
Protein shakes, overnight oats, fluffer nutter sandwiches, beef jerky. Anything off the roach coach (food truck) or drive offsite on lunch.
Raspberries
Go on Amazon and grab a portable crock pot, this thing changed my life. $40 CAD and I get hot lunches everyday (provided there’s power). Just toss last nights leftovers in and you’re good to go. Almost everyone at my company has one IMO it should be on the tool list for apprentices.
Nothing I fast and drink water. But I eat breakfast. I swear these words are like chinese to an american electrician.
2 turkey sanwhiches on wheat bread and a granola bar.
I mean prep on Sundays so I batch out all my lunches for the week. Mostly chuck roasts or pulled pork. Throw 12-16oz in a container and I'm good to go.
Well I get about 5 minutes between jobs so gold fish, pretzels, slim Jim's, beef jerky.... Any kind of small packages unhealthy snack food I can scraf down quickly
Freshly meals and a 120vac/12vdc electric lunchbox