It can be tough to keep focus and energy on some long long days, what are some good snacks or lunches people eat to that help keep them going?
Trying to avoid the gas station as much as possible this year and look for some healthy alternatives, a go to for me has always been some peanut butter with celery or bananas!
I lived on Vienna sausages and cheese crackers for years.?ÿ For a vegetable I opted for pickled jalape?ños.
Don't eat like that much anymore after paying the doc to roto-rooter a couple of clogged coronary arteries.?ÿ I do keep fruit around in the truck when I need a snack.?ÿ Apples and oranges mostly.?ÿ Not because I like them that much, they just seem to keep and travel well.?ÿ Jerky is my go-to for a protein fix.
Depends....
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PBJ
Dried fruit/fresh fruit
Mixed nuts: in summer salted.
Winter add cheese and meat. Summer mod: 3l camel bak stuffed with ice for makeshift cooler with same.
Granola bars or loose.
Nothing because of time and dipping manholes
Same as you but with Turkey sandwich and Gatorade or other drink with electrolytes added. ?????ÿ
@flga-2-2
Yeah...dont get me started on the fluids CDO obsession. I spent many thousands of hours hiking the deserts of the western USA.?ÿ
The 3L camelbak stuffed with ice is the redundancy for the electrolyte and water pack I used to carry on addition to my sensor or gravity gear.
Turkey always makes me sleepy....for dinner only.... ?????ÿ
My preference is sausage sticks (venison while I have them) and prepackaged crackers. At all times my luncj bag is partially packed, 3 waters, 2 varieties of cheese crackers, 2 of peanut butter, pencils, pens, scale, extra lead, a pocket knife to cut my apples, sugar, sweetener, cramer packs for when I have to order my coffee and they cannot get it right. If I am actually planning to be all day, I grab some sausage sticks, as of this minute there are only 3 left in the fridge, which means 12 bites along with 2 packs of cheese crackers, an apple and orange or tangerines. If my wife(able assistant) rides along she will throw in extra?ÿ water and fruit. The lunch bag goes along even on running around days, to keep the water handy. Wife will usually opt out to make sandwiches for both of us and include carrot and celery sticks.
Paul in PA
Just packed today's cheap lunch - peanut butter sandwich with some raisins on top, a small fruit cup, and Power Ade Zero orange drink. If I know it is going to be a rough day and I'll need a treat, and if one is nearby, then the go-to is an Impossible Burger, no fries.?ÿ
Frozen PBJ Uncrustables
https://www.smuckersuncrustables.com
?ÿOne grape & One strawberry.
Frozen pouch of applesauce. ?ÿI feel like an astronaut when eating this one but probably look like a 50 yo toddler.
Small handful of cashews.
Water. ?ÿGatorade. ?ÿCoke.
This is only for those rare days I plan to stay out on-site and usually work straight through the lunch hour, then all the frozen stuff is mostly thawed by around 2:00-ish when I stop to snack.
Back on the farm; you had to get up early, or the milk you put on your cereal was warm...
But most of the time, Grandma fixed bacon and eggs. Then you went out and worked the fields. Around 10 o'clock, Grandma would bring out bologna sandwiches, coffee and cookies. At noon we'd come back to the house for a big dinner; usually some kind of roasted meat, gravy, potatoes and a vegetable. Back out to the field and around 3, she'd bring out more sandwiches and something sweet. Around 6 it was back to the house for another big meal then a sweet snack before you went to bed. Then back up early, to do it all over again.
I know, that's not what you were looking for. Farmers are a little bit different than surveyors; so we need to look at our nutrition differently. But the bottom line; if you're burning a lot of calories, you have to have a lot of calories to burn. If not; then not so much...
I hope everyone has a great weekend! I know I will!
Dougie
Carrying gear around and being on your feet all day burns some calories, but nowhere near as much as a lot of the farm work that you refer to.
In the long run, the waist line tells whether the balance of calories to work is right.
Good nutrition is more complicated than just calories, so as Uncle Paden mentioned, sausages and crackers don't give the best results.
Had a neighbor who prided himself on being able to eat a half gallon of ice cream for a snack when working hard on the farm.?ÿ His wife learned to bring out an unopened carton of it to him on hot days, especially if hauling small square bales of hay.
@paden-cash?ÿ ?ÿ Plant Sterols and Omega-3.?ÿ ?ÿ I really miss my Beanie Wienies.?ÿ ?ÿBananas, granola bars and low sugar Gatorade.?ÿ ?ÿYes, I still eat Jerky also, with roasted Almonds though.
coffee and cigarettes.
There is a little box of Tuna Salad and crackers thing - find it alongside the tinned tuna in the store - that makes a decent field lunch.?ÿ?ÿ
I keep a daypack filled with single serving jerky pouches, whey protein bars and a dried figs.?ÿ It is augmented with fresh fruit.?ÿ Pretty much my lunch of champions.
This winter I installed an inverter in my newest work rig, you know, for charging batteries and so on, wired into the trucks electrical system. Picked up a little microwave for fifty bucks, the kind made for an RV and found a nice little nook to strap it down in the back. One nice thing about working in below freezing temps in winter here, no need for a freezer. Cache in the back has an assortment of frozen burritos, tamales, these steamed buns stuffed with pork I find at the oriental grocery, left over pizza. Hot food is so nice when working out in the cold all day. Not exactly roughing it. A little expresso machine would be nice.?ÿ
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@rj-schneideri find a flask of Crown Royal works great. Keeps you warm, plus you never know when you might get snake bite.
Might as well throw money and Eric Clapton in for good measure. ?????ÿ
well back in the day we would put a can of something or other on the exhaust manifold. Worked great except for when we forgot about it or failed to put a vent in the can.?ÿ