Saturday, June 10, 2006

Civil 3Delicious: Healthy Snacks Especially for Civil 3D Users- Fruit Snack Corridors and Lunch Corridors

Those of us who have spent the better part of our days drafting and using CAD in any form for a significant amount of time know that it is hard to snack-n-draft simultaneously.

But that doesn't mean we don't get hungry!

THE RIGHT HAND: Constantly on the mouse. Not available for manipulating food.

THE LEFT HAND: Occasionally in use for hitting ESC, typing entries, etc.

Therefore, whatever we eat must not require the use of the right hand and should also not require the full time use of the left hand...if it involves the left hand, it cannot get the left hand dirty, unless we want smears on our keyboard. And since most of us don't allow even the cleanest hands to touch our LCD, the chances we will grease up our keyboard are slim to none.
(Although with close inspection the lefthand side of many hard core users' keyboards do have a telltale glisten and occasional orange dusty residue.)

These complications have limited the lunch and snack choices of most CAD users to:
1)Mountain Dew
2)Diet Coke
3)Lollipops (can be held in mouth while left hand being used)
4)Corn Dogs (see #3)

Thanks to the Civil 3Diva- you now have a healthy solution to your lunchtime woes!

Pack yourself Fruit Snack Corridors and Lunch Corridors

No fuss, no muss, no cooking or right hand required! Keeps you alert without the caffeine blast and gets some vitamins and protein into your system.

Fruit Snack Corridor

Your Assembly:
Any skewer or similar stick that isn't too long, but also gives you room to hold it once all of your food is on it.

Choose Your Subassemblies:
Strawberries
Halved peach or nectarine
Chopped kiwi
Chopped apple
Chopped dried apricot
Any fruit!

Make Simple Corridor: String fruit on your skewer leaving enough room at the end to hold.
Add transitions: Brie cheese chunks, soft carmels
Daylighting: Yogurt or chocolate dipping sauce

Lunch Corridor

Your Assembly:Any skewer or similar stick that isn't too long, but also gives you room to hold it once all of your food is on it.

Choose Your Subassemblies:
Cooked Turkey, Chicken or other coldcuts (ask the deli to "slice thick" then cut into cubes)
Cheese Cubes
Chopped Cucumber
Grape Tomatoes

Make Simple Corridor:String meat and veggies on your skewer leaving enough room at the end to hold.
Add transitions: French bread chunks, firm large diameter pasta like rigatoni, jicama
Daylighting: Ranch salad dressing, honey mustard salad dressing, any other dip or sauce

Keep a stack handy in the company fridge.

No fridge access? Make your Fruit Corridors with dried fruit only, or, in case of emergency malt balls, caramel popcorn, and snack sized snickers.



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