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Due to my father's illness, most of my available time has been spent traveling to and from his home. As a result, I've absolutely been eating like shit for several months, and it's starting to catch up to me.
Do you have any recommendations for gas station/convenience store/hospital cafeteria food that might be less bad? I try to meal prep and pack ahead, but it's not something I can do all the time.
Sorry to hear about your father's illness. If you don't have the opportunity to eat well, to avoid deficiencies I'd at least recommend supplementing Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, Magnesium, Vitamin C and maybe a B Complex. Vitamin D might not be necessary if it's summertime where you live and you get enough sunshine. These should help with the effects of stress.
Some basic nutritious foods you could try if you don't have much time would be microwaved baked potatoes (wash and poke a few holes in each side of a large potato and cook for about 8 minutes depending on how large the potato actually is), canned sardines or mackerel (I find the ones that come canned in tomato sauce pretty tasty), canned oysters once a week for zinc, bananas and coconut water for potassium, hardboiled eggs that you can make once and eat throughout the week.
Not sure if they have them at convenience stores or gas stations but salads with olive oil and vinegar could make for a quick nutritious meal. You might be able to find a place that does take out salads near you.
Hope this helps.
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If you can tolerate the taste and texture, and are price-insensitive, I maintain that Huel Black isn't a bad option. I find a brand-name BlenderBottle works better than the one they "give you" with your first order. A real blender or stick blender better than either, but not as on-the-go friendly. You probably want to chew something at some point, and I wouldn't recommend it being your primary "food" for enjoyment of eating. But if you don't have time, it can sustain you essentially indefinitely, as far as I can tell.
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Go for less processed foods. Rule of thumb: Shorter expiration dates (when comparing within a category). Fresh fruits, plain cashews and other nuts if you don't have allergies, whole eggs, chickpea snacks, unsweetened beverages, greek yoghurt, protein shakes, peanut butter on whole grain things. Avoid eating too much dried fruits (they're often packed with sugar through processing, and in any case, bad for digestion in large amounts).
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I think meal prepping is probably a waste of time, a lot of the time. Why not just buy mixed nuts (or cashews or almonds or whichever one you prefer) and your favorite fruit? Harder to get easy vegetables, but nuts and fruits are healthy enough and pretty easy. You could do edamame for protein, or protein bars, or the occasional rotisserie chicken.
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Might depend on region, but sandwiches could be your best bet (if you're in Wawa territory, hoagies are the way to go)? Meat, bread, vegetables; or tuna salad? Try and go for light on the mayo/sauce? Or maybe some of the superfood smoothies as a grab & go?
That's not a bad idea. There are a lot of Wawas and Wawa competitors on my route.
My biggest issue is I walk inside and grab the first food-shaped-object that I see.
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