Any night shifters out there...need suggestions

[OneSpoiledRN 0]

I will be going back to work in a week. I will be on regular foods at that point and would love some input/sample menus for my work days. Typical work day is i wake up around 4:30p and leave for work at 6p. Get off at 7a and head home to sleep by about 9-10a and do it all over again. Would LOVE some help from anyone with experiance.:biggrin0:

[wannalise 16]

Do you typically eat multiple meals at work? I used to do grave shifts in nursing homes, and would rarely eat or enjoy mass amounts of vending machine food and diet coke.

[BlackBerryJuice 349]

Ah, I miss the 4 am Denny's runs after those "19-year-old male with profuse vomiting, alcohol ingestion" 911 calls!

These days, when I'm away at school all day, I pack hardboiled eggs, small yogurt containers, Protein shakes, and a couple of wheels of Babybel cheese - Gouda is my favorite, it's quite soft. I don't know if you are doing a low-carb thing, but I also like fruit. Right now, I've got plums and persimmons in the fridge.

[LeonidStar 0]

I'm wondering how I'm going to do this too, especially the whole "small sips of Water all day" thing. I work graveyard in the lab, 10 hour shifts. We get 2-15 min breaks and a 30 min lunch. In reality I'm lucky to get 2 breaks. It's going to be a PITA to unglove/ungown/wash everytime I need to get a drink of water. I guess I will cross that bridge when I come to it. I'm thinking of telling my supervisor that I just need more, smaller breaks.