I have noticed that most people "fall off the wagon" when they are caught without the foods they can eat. Whether it be out with the family and everyone ends up starving and goes to McDonald's or you woke up late and didn't have time to fix a lunch and Snacks to take to work.. it will happen to us all, eventually. I know that many of you have plan B's in place for such occassions and I thought it would be great to get some tips from the pros.

I know Puddinpie uses the suck and seal thing for her meals. I've seen some great ideas and recipes from her on this topic and would love it if she'd share that again here.

I personally was thinking about keeping one of those small insulated lunch bags handy and tossing Slim Fast shake and maybe a pouch of tuna.

Anyone else have clever ideas that have saved your bums from making wrong choices out of desperation and starvation?

ReneBean, why don't you put a small cooler (soft-sided) in your car with some blue ice? That way you could keep things in there all day. It wouldn't be good for things that need to be refrigerated, but for stuff that's OK to stay cool ("room temp") it would work. Then just bring the blue ice in from the car every night and freeze it overnight.

I have TONS of soft-side cold bags. If you don't have one or can't get one, PM me and I can send you one.

I was thinking the same thing.. came here to post it. Great minds think alike!

Besides, this is for when youre out and about.. wouldnt you have the AC running some too?

Photo Nut, you and I think alike in more ways than one Happy to know you.

One other thought on this thread. Before I was banded, I would enlist my dh to assist me in limiting my sugar intake. I would purchase Reese's pb cups (my favorite) and he would hide them. Then when I had a craving, I would ask him and he would give me one pack (instead of the normal 2 or 3 I would eat if they were just in the pantry). Perhaps some of you can use this method with the things you want but you don't want to eat too much of?

Thank you Gadgelady, happy to know you too Any fan of mine is a ..well.. heh.. Good grief, Im starting to sound more like Dawg everyday. *laughs*

And speaking of him, NO WAY would I let him hide my goodies. He is so mean to me, every time I said I was having a craving he would say something like, 'Go walk on the new treadmill for 15 minutes first'. *pouts* He took away the scale batteries and hid them. I only get to weigh once a week now. And I love weighing every 20 minutes! *sobs*

Beanie I wouldn't recommend you storing anything in your car, wouldn't want to take a chance on something going bad and getting sick. Carry something small in your purse...get a bigger purse

The 100 calorie packs are not as tempting as you think....but they do take the edge off if you want something sweet or salty and don't want to go overboard on the calories. I doubt you'll eat more than one (b/c they aren't like the real thing).

One thing that works for me is when I go to BJ's wholesale (its like sams club or costco's) is I buy the box of single serving low fat microwave popcorn. Its already portioned out and low calories. Hmmmm Beanie you could put one of them in your car and by the time you go home at night your car will smell like a movie theater lol.