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How You Can Eat Healthy at Work and Home

Great Snacks for Work

As a busy healthcare professional, you probably never get a break to sit down and eat a snack, let alone a decent meal! Between treating, charting, scheduling, and prepping, what time do you have left? It’s easy to grab something out of the vending machine, but there’s a better choice.

Packing snacks ahead of time and throwing a baggie or two into your lunch, purse, or briefcase can ensure that you have a healthy snack on hand. It also means you have a chance to think about what you are putting into your body and you get your snacks ready for the week. Here are some of our favorite quick and easy (and healthy!) treats:

The Health IQ Test

1. Breakfast time. Which has more calories?

A blueberry bagel
A blueberry muffin

• Dried fruit

• Low-sodium mixed nuts

• Carrot and celery sticks

• Instant oatmeal

• Yogurt

• Cottage cheese

• Low-fat cheese and crackers

• Frozen seedless grapes

• Homemade trail mix (nuts, carob chips, dried fruit, etc)