Bizarre (for me) request, snacking

[same_sky]

I need to eat more snacks. Does anyone have any good ideas on what kind of thing I can take with me to work to eat in mid-morning? The main requirements are that this snack not be hard to prepare or store, preferably not something too sweet, and ideally, not too junky. It doesn't have to be very large or filling.. potato chips will do the trick but I work on cutting OUT the chips, not adding more in. Actually, the smaller the better.

Since I've been taking metformin (which is for insulin resistance, in case you're unfamiliar with it), I have struggled with horrible bouts of queasiness. It seems to come and go.. will be worse for a week and then better for a while. It's usually at its worst in the mornings, hitting its peak by near lunchtime, and no, I'm not pregnant unless you're suggesting that I've been pregnant for six months without noticing. :) I've tried various things.. from cutting back on sugar to blaming it on my vitamins, but it's still persisted. This week, my hypothesis was that I should eat more often, so I had a mid-morning snack... and every day that I did that, the queasy stayed away.

So my current theory is that my blood sugar is a bit too low and I should have a snack in the mornings. The trouble is just that I have no idea what to eat because my usual method of snacking is to eat fewer, not more, and those that I do eat for snacks now and then are not things I want to introduce into my daily diet. So.. what kinds of healthy, yummy things do you people snack on? I've tried a few cereal bar type items, but they're a touch too sweet and a touch too.. processed for my liking. (Not that I am one of those anti-processed foods people, really. Just don't care for these too much.) Salty is also a bonus, as the salt seems to help quell the queasy. (I really don't want to talk about how much McDonald's I've been eating lately. Yuck. But when everything else makes you feel like puking, it's really hard to feel guilty about it, that's all I can say.) I've been rather upset about the queasy lately (and yes, I'll bring it up next time I go to the doctor) because it is now at the point where I can't remember what it's like to not be nauseous half the time, or worry over what will trigger it.

p.s. I really don't like yogurt, and most fruit I can think of classifies as either too sweet or too much effort to easily eat at work.

Also. If you ever think of cutting off a mole with fingernail clippers, uhh.. try to refrain.

p.s. Since it is often hard to see how you appear to others in a disconnected environment such as LJ, I have another question for my friends. Do I come across as the kind of person that doesn't care about my family?

Comments

[jax-in-sweden.livejournal.com]

I am terribly sorry if you thought, I meant you don´t care about your family. That was not my view at all. I live so far away from my family and would probably do anything to have a four hour drive to visit them. I guess I am going through a stage of "really missing my family, blues" and when I read your journal it made me sad to read that the drive to them sounded so tiresome. Please do not think I was being nasty, I am not like that at all. I apologise again, and in future I will refrain from commenting on someones post who I don´t know.

[reebert.livejournal.com]

pretzels
pine nuts, other nuts too but those are my fave
crunchy soy beans
peanut butter crackers
slices of walnut bread, this takes preparation but you can bake it on the weekend

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I was going to comment on your reply, actually, but then I thought perhaps I really did come across that way so I wanted to ask before I did so. I wasn't really concerned that I *don't* care about my family, but I think it's so hard to tell how you DO come across that I thought it might just seem that way from what I say about them, if you know what I mean. I didn't ask it to be mean, I was genuinely interested and kind of wanted to know if anyone else got that feeling before I replied to your comment. I really didn't take it all that personally, and I didn't expect you to read it before I got around to replying! :) So, no, I didn't really think you were trying to be nasty, I just wanted to know.

As it happens, I told M (aren't those Swedish husbands grand?) once after we got married that one of the things I was bothered by the most was that I didn't get to spend as much time with my family as I wanted to. He was totally in shock because he had never in his life met anyone of our age group who spent even close to as much time with their families as I do mine. Right now it's just that M and I get to spend almost no time together since he works--he works the equivalent of three weeks in a two week span--all the time, and we're trying to find a house, which we can't do in the evenings since he's at work, and in the rest of the free time we have, we keep going to family events on non-scheduled weekends so we don't have much time for anything else. :)

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that my feelings weren't really hurt and I didn't mean to upset you if I did, and I'm not mad now, either. I was mainly just surprised because in my real life, people can't believe how often we're running back home to visit... that's why I thought I might come across differently here. :)