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Eating on the Run

Unfortunately, eating in a healthy manner is not always easy. Modern-day lifestyles often make it difficult to plan where or what to eat. As a result, it’s easy to fall back on fast food as a simple, quick solution.

While fast food is fine once in a while, eating high-fat, high calorie foods more frequently can seriously compromise your health over the long-term.

Healthy eating is more important than ever when you're trying to keep up with a hectic schedule. It is therefore smart to keep a few healthy snacks or meals around your office or workplace, or in your kitchen at home. If you know you’re going to be rushed at lunch or dinner time, simply grab a “meal-to-go.”

Healthy Fast Food
The following snacks/light meals require minimum or no preparation, and will provide a nutritious solution when you’re eating on the run. You may want to put several of these meals together and store them in your refrigerator in resealable plastic bags.

If you find yourself driving around at mealtimes, you may wish to tuck a couple of healthy snacks into your glove compartment as well.

Canned or packaged fruit in fruit juice, carton of one percent or skim milk, two or three low-fat cookies such fig bars.
Carton of low-fat yogurt, fruit leather, low-fat granola bar.
Vacuum-pack of tuna with wholegrain crackers, apple, slice of fat-reduced cheese.
A handful of almonds and a few raisins or dried cranberries; vacuum-sealed flavoured tofu serving, low-fat oatmeal cookie.
A banana with low-fat muffin, a latté sweetened with a little honey.

If your office has a refrigerator, you will have more choices. If not, you can keep dairy products such as yogurt and milk cool by slipping a frozen plastic ice-pack into your lunch bag.

If you do find yourself at fast food restaurants more often than you’d like, you will probably still have a choice of one or two healthy meals - a soup and salad with wholegrain roll, perhaps, or an entrée sized salad. If a hamburger appears to be the only fare, simply request it with half the dressing or, better still, more tomatoes and lettuce and no dressing at all.

The Value of Meal Replacements
Not eating breakfast or skipping lunch because you are too busy to eat is not a good idea. The body needs a consistent supply of fuel to generate energy, and not meeting this requirement will make you feel tired and listless. In the long-term, skipping meals, or eating snacks that do not supply the correct balance of nutritional elements, can seriously compromise your health.

Most meal replacements (drinks and bars), provide well-balanced nutrition and are available in a variety of flavours and textures. If you are investing in meal replacements, be sure that the formulation you choose is not high in calories or fats, and that it is supplemented with the vitamins and minerals you would normally find in regular foods.

London Drugs meal replacements provide a well-balanced formulation of proteins, fats and carbohydrates combined with a full spectrum of vitamins and minerals.