It is Sunday morning. Hopefully you will wake up well-rested, stretch out your arms, and open your eyes to a sunny day. Maybe you will have a warm cup of coffee, some eggs with toast, or maybe you will even get really lucky and have some homemade pancakes. After that you might relax with the Sunday paper, catch up on the news, or watch some cartoons with your kids. Of course, you will do all that while still in your comfy pajamas. On Sunday morning, you can rest easy because the next work week is still a distant 24 hours away.
As the day wears on, you might run some errands, meet a friend for lunch, or do some laundry. But by Sunday evening, you will have the unfortunate revelation that Monday morning and that-thing-that-shall-not-be-named (ie. work) is right around the corner. You will start gearing up for the week, thinking about what you need to accomplish, what you will wear for work, and hopefully you will think about what you will eat for lunch during the week.
Maybe you have a catered meeting on Tuesday, and lunch with a co-worker at that new burger joint on Friday. The other days you will probably bring your lunch, and I would wager a guess you will eat sandwiches, leftovers from the night before, or healthy portable foods like fruits, yogurt, or hummus. Some days if you are extremely busy, you might not even have time to eat lunch at all! Am I describing your week about right?
I wouldn't call myself a fortune teller, but I can also reasonably predict that by the time 3 or 4 o'clock comes around, you will be looking at your watch - your eyes will bulge with astonishment as you realize there are still several hours to go and lots of work to be done before you can eat dinner, and you are hungry. Your energy from lunch is gone (if you had time to eat anything at all) and you are seriously contemplating a vending machine run. It is a situation of serious food desperation, and we have all been there.
At the root of this problem lies the simple facts that:
A.) You are hungry.
B.) You have failed to anticipate you would be hungry.
C.) As a direct consequence of B., you have no food on hand.
You could also make the excuse that:
D.) You anticipated the hunger strike, but had no time to rustle up some grub.
Ok fair enough. But since this problem occurs on a daily basis for most people (and amnesia is not currently an epidemic), fact B. is clearly ridiculous. If you are honest with yourself, I am sure you can agree that you know you will be hungry. So really, the reason we suffer through these late-afternoon snack monster attacks is that we don't take the time to prepare.
I know we all have busy lives full of very important things to do, but let me tell you how you can feed the snack monster with something healthy and delicious that will give you the energy you need to finish the day strong. You can make it in 5 minutes over the weekend, and these snacks should last you for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Now that sounds like quite the payoff doesn't it?
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