How to make lunch simple and avoid the 3pm slump.
Works, recipes and food photography: NADIA FELSCH (nadiafelsch.com)
Lifestyle photography: THINKSTOCKLUNCHES
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We’ve all been there: big weekend,
lots on and come Monday lunch
you’re starving with nothing
prepared. Perhaps you step out
and grab a quick takeaway meal.
Or maybe you survive on coffee
and chocolate. Maybe you forgo
food altogether and just wait it out
until dinner.
A 2003 study published in the
Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice
and Research found that eating lunch
daily and ‘almost always’ preparing
one’s own meals was significantly
associated with an overall higher
quality diet. In the context of lunch
often being the largest meal of the
day, this finding makes sense. If
we skip the meal completely, we’ve
missed a window of opportunity to
refuel and to top up with essential
nutrients. If we make on-the-go and
less-than-ideal lunch choices, we’re
all but ensuring our performance
and mood for the rest of the day will
suffer as a consequence.