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What meals do you guys prepare the night or day before your shift? I'm tired of eating out at fast food joints. What foods or recipes do you prepare? I'm look preferably for foods you can leave in your backpack or lunch box? thanks!
 
Oh I love this thread, already... If I cook the night before, I try to do a pasta dish or maybe a chili (chicken corn chili has been my recent addiction) of some sort. They're filling, and you can make a lot at a time. I also frequently prepare salads the night before and mix them up when it's actually time to eat. I usually bake some chicken/fish/beef the night before to mix with it. This is assuming you have a cold pack to put in your lunch box, or a refrigerator...
 
I make a big frittata (12 eggs, ham, peppers, onions, a little shredded cheese) on Sunday and cut it into slices....that and a piece of fruit is my breakfast all week.

Lunch is either pre-made salads that I pick up at the store, or sandwiches that I make at home. Fruit and cheese sticks for snacks.

I carry it all in a small cooler with an ice pack.
 
I try to make my guy a good hearty breakfast before he leaves for his shift. Some days I've done scrambled eggs with sausage while another day I did french toast. For lunch he usually takes a sandwich with some chips and fruit. Then for dinner I make either a chicken and rice type dish or pasta. Whether he gets calls or not I like giving him a carb at least with dinner so he's not absolutely starving throughout the night. If he gets peckish I try to give him healthy options like a cup of noodles rather than him getting a bag of chips or candy at the store. Seems to do well. Just gotta pre-plan things.

I'm really hoping to do a lot more cooking this year. Yummier and even healthier meals! =)
 
I've appreciated a well rounded meal more as I've gotten older. I was never taught how to cook/prepare a meal. Even into my thirties I was still pretty ignorant.

Having a well rounded meal, every meal, will do wonders for you. Plus, in the long run, you will save so much money preparing meals vs grabbing food at fast food restaurants.
 
Embarrassingly, I have the typical 19 y/o man's diet: Cold cereal w/ black coffee for breakfast, a red bull for lunch, and leftovers/ fast food for supper, with assorted junk food throughout the day. I'm definitely not a model healthy eater.
 
For our short early or late Day shift I prepare a Bread with Cheese or Ham and Milk, for our long 11 hours Day shift I prepare a Bread, Yougurt, Salad, fruits, milk shake Green tea and a bottle of water. For Night shift I buy a Pasta dish with salad in a Restaurant near our Station and a bottle of water.
 
That's cool. Are you mixing it at work or bringing it in a thermos or something?
 
Brandon O said:
That's cool. Are you mixing it at work or bringing it in a thermos or something?
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I mix up two 24oz thermos bottles the night before, throw some ice cubes in, and put them in the fridge overnight. They'll stay reasonable cold until ~10pm the following day. I usually will buy a sub or something to eat during the day as well, but it's just so convenient to have ~1500 calories ready to go at any time. Saves a ton of time and money (preparing real food might be cheaper but takes time, buying food saves time but costs more money...), and it's easy to "eat" at any time even if you're getting slammed with calls.

I never had to take a lunch break during my hospital rotations (unless I wanted to), which was cool.
 
I just buy ingredients to make meals and cook at work. I even grill out sometimes.
 
Try raw vegan for a day or 2. I do a 48 hrs shift where I buy 4 half gallons of naked smoothie drinks and some raw almonds thats more than enough to last 2 days. Where I live the naked brand smoothies and the off brand are about 7$ for a half gallon which comes out about the same or cheeper than eating out. I keep it in a cooler with 2 ice packs.
My energy and mental clarity is great on a raw vegan diet.
 
I take a shaeology shake for each morning I'm on shift (powder, then stick it in the blender with milk) and I take some frozen chicken breasts and various sides for each day's dinner, with lunch being tuna and something or a sandwich. But then again I work flight and have a station to go to.
When I was on the bus I always had a station and would bring usually some kind of pasta with a meat in it, and just reheat it when I wanted food (72 hour max shifts)

When I worked in Pecos and worked 168 hour shifts, myslef and my partner cooked a lot at the station, and brought very little prepared food. But then again there were few fast food restaurants there.
 
Did you and future work out your differences about flight?
 
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