Do you have to eat from tupperware at work and are you worried about your diet? We have good news: make a healthy tupperware is easier than it sounds. Eating at the office doesn’t have to mean carrying pasta or rice containers every day. In this post we are going to give you some ideas, guidelines and general tips to be able to carry in the tupperware and continue to carry (or start) good eating guidelines.
To know what portion of each food to put in the tuppers, I advise you to follow the guidelines of the Harvard plate. Remember: half of the plate that is of vegetables and fruits, a quarter of proteins and another quarter of carbohydrates.
What are proteins? Meats (red and white, although less red meat is better), fish (oily and white, shellfish, canned…), eggs, legumes (their contribution is very important for vegetarians and vegans).
What about carbohydrates? Cereals (always whole grains) and / or tubers (such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.), as well as fruit.
Let’s see how to apply this with real Tupperware recipes:
7 ideas of healthy recipes for Tupperware
- Endive, pomegranate, artichokes, asparagus salad with chickpeas and mussels.
- Thistle with cooked potato and extra virgin olive oil, with chicken, turkey or textured soy tacos (vegetarian-vegan).
- Vegetable salad with salmon tacos and cooked sweet potato.
- Brown rice with artichokes, wild asparagus, mushrooms, peppers, onion and a can of Tuna in olive oil.
- Lentils with rice and collard greens with a little paprika.
- Roasted vegetables with roasted potatoes with a little extra virgin olive oil and grilled tofu or cod tacos.
- Vegetable puree with rice and a couple of chopped hard-boiled eggs.
Tips and tricks for eating from tupperware
- Bring the food in good Tuppers. I recommend the glass ones (they clean better and do not change color) although they have more weight.
- For salads as a vegetable recipe, I advise you to take the dressing separately to add at the time of eating.
- You can cook vegetables, legumes, one day a week and thus have them ready to combine throughout that week.
- You can use the ready-made cups of rice, quinoa to save time, although the truth is, it does not cost much to cook it in a day.
- Fish, which is not usually very frequent to take to work due to the smell, although I think they are a very good option, they can be canned, or a marinated or smoked salmon or cod.
- Use extra virgin olive oil; in addition, all kinds of spices can be used.
- All this has to be included within a good dietary and lifestyle guideline.
Dra. Arantza López-Ocaña
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