5 Days, 5 Lunches: Best In Office Meals

5 Days, 5 Lunches: Best In Office Meals

Posted:Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:00:19 +0000

The office lunch. It comes around every day, and each time we’re no more prepared than the last. We want to fill up our few free moments with something delicious, but more often than not head down to the same old cafe for that same old sandwich. We’d like to choose something healthy, but end up turning to what’s fast and not necessarily nourishing.
We’ve set our team to work, trying out a week’s worth of delicious dishes and rounded up the best office meals.
Monday: Chomp
Lovely lean lunches delivered to the office door? Yes please! Chomp create a menu of two unique lunches every week and will deliver their offerings right to the door, as long as you place your order by 5pm the day before. We love that their meals are made using locally sourced, free-range, seasonal produce and are prepared on a daily basis (no week-old frozen lunches here!). We recommend finding a buddy in the office and ordering both selections to share – you’ll want to try all of these flavour-packed dishes.
RESCU Loves: that these meals are made from locally sourced produce, supporting Australian farms and supporting our bodies with fine fresh food.

Tuesday: Pitango Soup
It’s been a chilly winter and although we want to keep our lunches low in calories the salads and sushi of summer are no longer hitting the spot. It’s at this time of year that we turn to the hearty soup for to warm us up from the inside out. Our favourite pre-made soups come from Pitango. These guys use no additives and preservatives in their product and boast a selection well beyond your regular minestrone, tomato or pumpkin. From Portobello Mushroom to Moroccan Chicken with Mint or Chickpea and Cumin, we’ve got our office fridge filled to the brim with soups to suit the whole team’s tastebuds.
RESCU Loves: Vegetable and Quinoa soup, make a major dent into your five a day and get a hit of grains to boot – delicious!

Wednesday: IsoWhey Complete Mixed Nut and Banana Muffins (recipe below)
On Wednesday we find ourselves in the heat of the working week. Running from meeting to meeting, we need something protein-packed, healthy and accessible to haul us through the hardest part of the week. Zoe Bingley-Pullin is our go-to for high energy food and head over heels for her IsoWhey muffins. These muffins taste every bit as delectable as their high-fat peers but without the work on our waistline. Yum!
RESCU Loves: These muffins are super simple to bake. We get to let our inner-bakers out without the risk of creating a concave catastrophe.

Thursday: Eat Fit Food

If you’re looking for a diet overhaul that will extend well beyond your lunch, look no further than Eat Fit Food. Amongst the sea of meal delivery services that have flooded the market in recent years, Eat Fit Food stands out as one of the most creative and clever. These aren’t frozen meals or stale sandwiches, these are the kind of meals you’ll be fantasising about all morning. Your breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks will be delivered to your home every day, early in the morning (usually before you’ve even woken up). Just take to work, microwave, and get ready to treat your tastebuds to something special.
RESCU Loves: These meals are delivered right to our door while we sleep – talk about service!

Friday: Dim Sum & Co 
instead of ducking out to yum cha where your dumplings come with a side of MSG and the travel time eats in to your day, enjoy a feast of Dim Sum & Co with your colleagues on a Friday afternoon. These ready made selections of Yum Cha hit the spot and with various steamed options, won’t blow the diet either. Whilst spring rolls need an oven, their BBQ Pork Buns, dumplings and dim sum can be steamed using the office microwave and taste every bit as fresh and flavoursome as the selection you’d get at your local restaurant.
RESCU Loves: Chicken and Water Chestnut Sui Mei, these bite-sized delights are warm, filling, and exactly what we crave in winter. And at just a handful of calories a pop, they’re diet friendly too!

IsoWhey Complete Mixed Nuts and Banana Muffins

Ingredients:
2 cups chopped mixed nuts (almonds, macadamias, cashews)
1 cup IsoWhey Complete Banana Smoothie
2 cups organic buckwheat flour
1 tbsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Celtic salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup milk
½ cup agave nectar
1 egg
2 cups mashed bananas
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

Method:
1. Mix nuts, IsoWhey Complete powder, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and cinnamon in one bowl.
2. In a second bowl, add milk, agave, egg and mashed bananas and blend.
3. Stir banana mixture into flour just until moistened. (Batter will be lumpy)
4. Grease the muffin tin cups with oil. Spoon mixture evenly into cups and bake at 200℃ for 15-20 minutes.