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Eating healthy while working from home
Jen Ecker
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Jen is a busy mom who strives to balance running her life and a business. As chief pixel surgeon and co-founder of shines & jecker laboratories, she combines her design and coding skills to create great websites. When she's not on the web, Jen spends her time with her 11 year old son who faithfully contributes his opinion on all her projects.
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Being a freelance web designer and now co-owner of a web design company has allowed me to set my own work hours and location for many years. There is nothing handier then being able to work from home, especially when my son is sick, or the weather is bad. And some days it's just nice to stay home and not get wrapped up at the office.
So with being able to work at home you would think it would be easy to eat healthy. You can decide at noon and prepare fresh what you feel like eating. And no threat of eating out when there are leftovers just a few feet away ready to be heated up. And how about the chance for variety? You can skip PB&J and quickly grill some salmon and asparagus for your mid day meal.
However I have found that eating healthy while working from home is perhaps more challenging than the days when I head to the office. I've narrowed my trouble down to the following: Read more »