The Office Desk Diet Challenge

(Note to readers: diet is what you eat, not eating to lose weight.  This is just to keep me alive through the work day lol)

So - I'm in an interesting conundrum:

I work for a private university and, normally, I eat my lunch in the cafeteria on campus ($4 meals woo!)  However at the end of April the students go away and that closes until August.

Now - I hate taking my lunch for two reasons. The first is that I am not usually fond of leftovers as unless my wife makes a really good dinner AND enough that our family does not eat absolutely everything, there is not much good to take.  The second is I really do not like doing a lot of "prep" work the night before.

So we now have some guidelines for the challenge of feeding me through out the day.

1. NO LEFTOVERS
2. Meals must be packable into a small lunch box
3. Meals must have no more than 15 minutes prep time the night before
4. No more than $20 a week may be spent on food

So - those are the rule.  Let's also think about some other critical things to do:

• Meals should contain both protein as well as carbohydrates in order to sustain energy through the day
• Meals should ideally contain some sort of vegetable  
• Where possible, ingredients that can be "stashed" in my desk long term
• Dehydrated vegetables and ramen may feature heavily
• Bread will not - too bulky and spoils easily
• Mass weekend meal prep is a good idea.  This may include things like boiling eggs, cooking chicken, etc.

So for the next month I hope to start trying out new recipes and posting them as well as their reviews. I'm setting a goal of one per week minimum.  Please comment here if you have any suggestions!