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SunnyDyRain Enthusiast
SunnyDyRain
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I have a hetic schedule, I often have no time to go home to eat. Today for example, i'm working 8-5, then I need to be 45 minutes away in an hours time for 6pm. I've done it before with the help of Taco Bell, Burger King and Arby's. This is the first time i'm doing this gluten free, and I'm looking at not being able to eat again when I get home tonight at 10ish. I'm afraid tonight I'll be hungered into something glutened...

Any ideas how to deal with this? I can't even stop at a grocery store to get soup and salad becasue they are all full of gluten! I feel bullied by this diet into being a slave to my kitchen.

Why should I have to choose between being a slave to the bathroom, or a slave to the kitchen?

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wolfie
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If you can get to a Wendy's, they have a few different gluten-free options. You can find the gluten-free menu on their website. If anything get a baked potato and a frosty to tide you over.

Maybe next time if you think about it in advance, pack yourself something to eat from home. That way you know it is safe and you won't starve and be tempted to cave and eat gluten.

Nancym Enthusiast
Nancym
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It takes me about 5 minutes in the morning to pack myself both lunch and breakfast. I do my cooking on the weekends and rely on bagged salad greens (with added chicken/salmon/nuts/chopped veggies). All it takes is a little pre-planning. :)

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BFreeman
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I have a hetic schedule, I often have no time to go home to eat. Today for example, i'm working 8-5, then I need to be 45 minutes away in an hours time for 6pm. I've done it before with the help of Taco Bell, Burger King and Arby's. This is the first time i'm doing this gluten free, and I'm looking at not being able to eat again when I get home tonight at 10ish. I'm afraid tonight I'll be hungered into something glutened...

Any ideas how to deal with this? I can't even stop at a grocery store to get soup and salad becasue they are all full of gluten! I feel bullied by this diet into being a slave to my kitchen.

Why should I have to choose between being a slave to the bathroom, or a slave to the kitchen?

What about keeping nuts and dried fruit in your car for this kind of thing? Get a kind you really like; for me it would be salted cocktail peanuts and the dried cherries the health food store 5 minutes away from the office have. (I can only buy a handful at a time or I would eat the whole thing.) You could also keep a box of gluten-free crackers in there and have cheese in the office fridge at all times to go on them.

BF

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SunnyDyRain
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It takes me about 5 minutes in the morning to pack myself both lunch and breakfast. I do my cooking on the weekends and rely on bagged salad greens (with added chicken/salmon/nuts/chopped veggies). All it takes is a little pre-planning. :)

I would love to be able to eat a salad! But It gives me D :( The only way i'm able to keep veggies in me for any length of time is to eat them as part of a meal (like soup and a side salad)

I also am so not a morning person... I've been bringing lunch the last 2 weeks to work, but forgot it 3 times.. can't think right in the morning!

I'm getting hopeless!

SunnyDyRain Enthusiast
SunnyDyRain
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What about keeping nuts and dried fruit in your car for this kind of thing? Get a kind you really like; for me it would be salted cocktail peanuts and the dried cherries the health food store 5 minutes away from the office have. (I can only buy a handful at a time or I would eat the whole thing.) You could also keep a box of gluten-free crackers in there and have cheese in the office fridge at all times to go on them.

BF

The nuts sound great, but i'm worried about dried fruit and the upcoming summer season...

I will try to keep food in the fridge, but I have tendancy to eat them as soon as I can. :(

SunnyDyRain Enthusiast
SunnyDyRain
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If you can get to a Wendy's, they have a few different gluten-free options. You can find the gluten-free menu on their website. If anything get a baked potato and a frosty to tide you over.

Maybe next time if you think about it in advance, pack yourself something to eat from home. That way you know it is safe and you won't starve and be tempted to cave and eat gluten.

I forgot about Wendy's! I need to see if there is one on my way... Yum Baked potato!

Thanks!

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Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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I keep a stash of soup in my drawer. Just grab a bunch when you do remember.

Generic Apprentice
Generic
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stick a note on the door knob so when you leave the house you remeber your lunch...that's what I do when I need to remember something.

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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stick a note on the door knob so when you leave the house you remeber your lunch...that's what I do when I need to remember something.

Actually, Muir Glen and Wolfgang Puck and Amy's make some super yummy soups, I just buy a whole crapload and bring them and a canopener to work and leave them in my desk. They're easier to determine if they're gluten free, they don't have all those unpronounceable ingredients. Also, SunnyDy, you might try putting those nut/fruit mixes into baggies in individual servings on the weekend and store them in your glove compartment every week, that way you forget about them until you're hungry and you only have a baggie's worth at your fingertips.

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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you can avoid the 'not a morning person' issue by packing your lunch/breakfast the night before. leftovers are a good place to start, but things like tuna (I make mine with avocado and tomatoes, and eat it with tortilla chips) or eggs (I like mine on rice cakes - not the salt-free rice cakes, because those taste like cardboard) also need only take 5-10 minutes or so.

alyssasgabby Rookie
alyssasgabby
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I would love to be able to eat a salad! But It gives me D :( The only way i'm able to keep veggies in me for any length of time is to eat them as part of a meal (like soup and a side salad)

I also am so not a morning person... I've been bringing lunch the last 2 weeks to work, but forgot it 3 times.. can't think right in the morning!

I'm getting hopeless!

I will put a folded up sticky note on my keys (car, house, etc.) that I know I have to grab in the morning. When I grab my keys, anything I need to remember to take with me, is right there written on the sticky note. Nuts sound great. Also, do you have access to a refrigerator and microwave at work? If so, you can take a potato with you and keep it in the refrigerator and pop it in the microwave. I like to put mine in a zip lock bag, not closed all of the way, pop it in the microwave and the bag helps keep the heat next to the potato and it cooks faster in the microwave.

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