Healthier? workplace breakfast / lunch events

[ny biker]

When I worked for the University Heart Center, we would have breakfast meetings. Food (paid by donations in unrestricted accounts, not taxpayer money) consisted of cereal, milk, danishes and always bagels & cream cheese. Once, a newly hired admin assist decided that the Heart Center should not have cream cheese. You should have seen the uproar at the meeting. She ended up going to the cafeteria & buying individual cream cheese tins. I warned her...

Did she expect you to eat dry bagels?

(And why not get rid of the danishes, too?)

[Dogmama]

This was many years ago when fat was EVIL but sugar was OK

[GLC1968]

I've noticed a change at my company - but I also know that it is intentional. Events almost always have both healthy and non-healthy items. Breakfasts usually include bagels and cream cheese or muffins, but they are also now including fresh fruit and hard boiled eggs too. Lunches always have salad options alongside the less healthy things. Though, we often have entire buffet lunches of nothing but healthy food (though, for most, healthy means tons of whole grains and beans and I don't eat those...but I applaud the effort, for sure).

I say it is intentional at my company because I know the members and efforts of our wellness committee. They sponsor events like health fairs, 5K races/walks, healthy lunches, gym discounts and even a community garden...during work hours. I'm trying to lobby them for covered bike parking and discounted light rail tickets as well....