When you spend hours in front of a computer screen every day, no matter how good your intentions are – eventually a deadline will require that you wind up eating a meal by the keyboard and then one meal turns into more and soon you’re eating “stuff” that is nutrition-less and garbage simply because it’s convenient to grab and run and get back to work…

I don’t like to eat anything that doesn’t do my body good so I try to keep fast snacks around that are good for me and the family.
We try to only eat local and organic foods and we won’t touch fast food which (besides the fat content) is because we don’t eat genetically modified foods. Don’t know about you but eating human, animal and bacteria DNA in our food because the USDA says it’s okay for us just doesn’t work.

Anyway one of my favorite sites is The Vegan Lunch Box and she made these groovy little oatmeal packets that are great to have around ….

Homemade Instant Oatmeal Packets

I leave for work a little after 6:00am, and by the time my break rolls around at 9:30 I’m ready for a breakfasty snack. Fruit is good, but having access to hot water made me think of instant oatmeal, the kind that comes in little packets flavored with yummy maple and brown sugar.

The problem is, most prepackaged instant oatmeal is full of junk, and I HATE oatmeal with salt in it. (My mom never put salt in our oatmeal; the first time I had salty oatmeal at a restaurant I gagged.)

So, I decided to try making my own instant oatmeal packets!

….Read full post from Vegan Lunch Box here