Healthful Dining At Your Desk
Pack breakfast and lunch with cold packs if a refrigerator is not available. Heat chili, soup and other hot foods until very hot; then pack in a clean, insulated container warmed with boiling water.
Packing lunch takes little time and allows you to choose what you want to eat. Hayes also suggests preparing a couple extra servings when you're making dinner so that you have lunch leftovers.
A quick rule: Include whole grains, dairy and a fruit. A muffin made with whole grain cereal, along with milk and a banana, is also satisfying and easy to eat.
Many of us eat more food at work than we do at home simply because working hours span mealtimes and snack times. We grab breakfast foods from home or pick up something to eat at our desk.
If you have been told to eat less sodium to help control your blood pressure, limit snack foods that are overly salty. Area grocery or health food stores may offer more lower-sodium choices.
Banana-Wheat Muffins
Streusel
1 tablespoon Gold Medal ® all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, softened
1/3 cup slightly crushed Whole Grain Total ® cereal
Muffins
3/4 cup mashed ripe bananas (about 2 medium).
1/2 cup milk.
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar.
3 tablespoons vegetable oil.
1 egg.
11/4 cups Gold Medal ® all-purpose flour.
21/4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
11/4 cups slightly crushed Whole Grain Total ® cereal.
1. Heat oven to 400 ° F. Grease bottoms only of 12 regular-size muffin cups. Stir together streusel ingredients until crumbly; set aside.
Stir in 11/4 cups flour, baking powder and salt just until flour is moistened; stir in 11/4 cups slightly crushed cereal. Sprinkle streusel evenly over batter in muffin cups.
3. Bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Many of us eat more food at work than we do at home simply because working hours span mealtimes and snack times. We grab breakfast foods from home or pick up something to eat at our desk. Stir in 11/4 cups flour, baking powder and salt just until flour is moistened; stir in 11/4 cups slightly crushed cereal. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 full. Sprinkle streusel evenly over batter in muffin cups.
