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Eating on the go

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Find healthy food that travels well. Some suggestions: cottage cheese, yoghurt, celery, peppers, carrots and apples. Throw some berries into a plastic container with cottage cheese and nuts and take it in the car with you.

Make it the night before. For a new sensation, try taking a baked new potato as a snack. They're as portable as you can get, they taste great cold and are a veritable vitamin store.

Think unusual foods. The most healthy 'energy bar' you can get is a lean-meat organic sausage. Grill right through, mop off the fat with kitchen roll and you’re away.

Think differently. One person's ‘unusual’ is another person's delicious, so experiment with your food choices. Cut up an apple and eat it with a single serving of tuna, for example. Ditto with celery. Or discover your own combinations with accessible foods like nuts, cheese, fruit and seeds. Use them creatively, or eat them straight out of the package.

Use your blender. Many office-bound people forget that a blender is an easy accessory to keep in the company kitchen. Buy some fruit and plain yoghurt, add some low-fat milk and blend it together for a low-fat, healthy smoothie.

Ditto for the microwave. It only takes about four minutes to make real porridge (not the packaged kind), and you can add some dried fruit or soya milk and take it with you anywhere in a lidded container. Plus, if you sweeten it with some honey and then let it get cold, it almost tastes like dessert.

Make a list. Until you get good at this, don't try to think on your feet. Make a list in advance of possible combinations that might be available wherever you're going, or that you could easily take with you. One of my favorites is celery with cottage cheese. There's got to be at least a half-dozen others just as good. Discover them.

Vegetable juice is a lifesaver. Fresh vegetable juice is one of the best things for you, but in a pinch there's always canned tomato juice and V-8. It takes the edge off your appetite and quenches cravings like nothing else around, and you can get it anywhere. Add celery, leave out the vodka, and you'll almost feel like it's happy hour.

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