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I have various teas and packets of soy sauce, salt and pepper. Food rarely survives for long in my office which is one reason I tend not to keep it around - I eat it.

I want to be the kind of person who can keep goodies in their drawer, but I've realized, after mowing through bag after bag of yogurt pretzels, yogurt raisins, and chocolate chip trail mix that I just.can't.do.it.

No I keep a few mini-cans of low sodium V8 on hand and a box of Vanilla flavored Kashi GoLean oatmeal, which is filling and pretty nutritous.

Set of silverware, take out napkins, violet mints, cranberry apple cherry cliff bar, 2 lemon Luna bars, Ginger-Lemon Yogi tea and some salt and pepper packets.

I have a job where I am in different client offices every day, so I don't have a snack drawer at my desk. I do, however, keep a few snacks in my purse or computer bag. My latest craving is raw almonds from the Whole Foods bulk aisle. They are great for snacking because they keep you going in between meals.

I have:
almonds
a variety of bars (TJ's almond bars, antioxidant bars, apple pie lara bars)
dried cherries
honey
brown sugar
tea: boulder blues; white guava tea; english breakfast; organic raspberry leaf; green moroccon mint; vanilla black; earl grey cream

At my previous job, I was known as the one to go to for a sugar fix. I always had chocolate or candy on hand! (I still do, but I'm new at my current job, so no one knows yet!)

In my snack drawer is: half a bag of Hershey's kisses, a bar of Lindt fleur de sel chocolate (awesome!), Nile spice soup mix, tea bags, sugar packets, stir sticks.

Mine looks a lot like yours! In my drawer, tea, sugar packets, smattering of silverware, jar of peanut butter, bowl, and a few instant coffee packets. In the (non-working) microwave, my mouse-proof storage: multigrain saltines, oatmeal, a cocoa packet and .... a bowl of Easy Mac (shame!).

I only wish I had a drawer to store my snacks in. As it is, my food basket contains a small tub of soya almonds, a mostly-finished bag of skittles and assorted plastic cutlery and condiment packs.

I don't keep too much in there; right now I have 2 luna bars, two boxes of tea bags (green and white) in addition to some individually wrapped bags of tea, soy sauce packets, altoids, individual sized balsamic vinaigrette pakcets, a portable coffee filter with some ground coffee in a tupperware (the coffee at my office sucks) and various plastic utensils and a tupperware bowl.

Tea (for regular consumption, not snacking) and a couple of packages of instant oatmeal for dire emergencies.

If there was anything more edible in there, I'd have eaten it. I have zero willlpower when I'm hungry. As I type this, I can hear the candy bar machine whispering softly.

I have a box of cereal, a bag of raisins, a small tupperware of salt, some pistachios (which I haven't had the guts to eat since the recall but also haven't gotten around to seeing if they were on the recall list), a small bowl, some silverware and napkins. Milk is, of course, in the office fridge.

There are two sources of candy on the floor and one of sunflower seeds and boxed raisins. Naturally, I'm often grabbing candy. *sigh*

2 single-serving no-sugar-added applesauces; a small container of bulk almonds; a small container of salt; a Fibre One bar, an All-Bran bar, and a small bar of Lindt 70% dark chocolate; a 100-calorie bag of Baked Cheetos; and a bunch of Crystal Lite single-serve packets. Most of the food in there is stuff I haven't eaten at lunch, except for the almonds and the "emergency" chocolate.

I'm lucky enough to work in a place that allows me to keep a mini-fridge in my cube, so I usually have grapes, yogurt, soy milk and an emergency frozen meal in there. Plus diet soda and refillable water bottles.

Dry goods are limited to a box of cereal, an orange, fat-free popcorn and fat-free pudding. And occasionally a can of soup. It's helpful having the snacks around, that way I save in my wallet and around my waist -- I won't go raiding the vending machines or cafeteria when hunger strikes. :)

Laura
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Right now there are soy nuts, 2 luna bars, wasabi peas, cup a soup (at least 3 years old), green tea and Finn-Crisp crackers. In the fridge is a jar of natural peanut butter. Other things making regular appearances are dried apricots, raisins, individual natural applesauces, almonds, laughing cow cheeses and string cheese. And, of course, the evil cupboards full of M&Ms, Kit Kats, Snickers, Dove chocolates, Bit-O-Honeys, etc., etc. provided by the company. It's really beyond me why they do that, but they do.

Green tea
Earl grey tea
Peanut butter filled pretzels :)
A Clementine
Two cans of Amy’s Organic soup
My silverware
chopsticks
A hand towel & Deodorant (for when I bike to the office)
A small Tupperware with Almond butter
A small Tupperware with protein powder
A salt and pepper mill
a headband

I must have a slightly anxious personality or something because if there's no food around, I am starved. If there are snacks to be had, I won't touch them.
I have a job where it is tough to keep food on hand. A granola bar/ bag of trail mix in the purse is about the best I can do.

I go to the gym during my lunch break so I need to have food around to eat at my desk. Right now I have Trader Joe's flax seed oatmeal, Miso Soup packets, 2 grapefruits, Emergen-C and honey. When my boyfriend and I go grocery shopping we will buy 3 boxes of somethings so we can leave one at home and each take one to work.

We are a small office (just 11 of us) but have a full kitchen w/ a dishwasher so all of the dishes, utensils, etc. are in there. I've got a ziplock with various tea bags and a jar of cinnamon (to sprinkle in bad office coffee and canned tomato soup!) in my drawer. I bring my lunch almost every day so sometimes a leftover granola bar or a can of soup is floating around but not often. When I started at the office (my first desk job out of college), I would have snacks and things all the time. BUT a growing waistline made me put the stop to that. Now I take a few minutes in the morning to assemble a healthy lunch and snacks (could be any of these boring but good for you items: pre-cooked steel cut oats, cut up veggies, kashi cereal or granola bars, soup, salad, leftovers, yogurt, etc.). That way I can still snack but within the limitations of my lunch bag for the day.

A jar of Creamy Jif
A package of English Muffins
A package of V-8 Soup (which I didn't like and I'll never eat this package)
A large baggie filled with condiments and Tea bags
A tin of Trader Joes mints
1/2 a pack of Starbursts (which I'll probably never eat)
And one Hershey with Almonds "nugget"

tea, granola bars, ritz crackers and tortilla chips. i also have clickable mini pepper/salt mill/grinder. comes in handy if i need to season the lunch i pack.

Right now I've got a box of low fat honey graham crackers, a can of peaches (leftover from my breakfast trend of cottage cheese and canned peaches), jar of peanut butter, two boxes of tea I never drink and two cartons of soup from Trader Joes (butternut squash and garden vegetable) in the hopes that if I start bringing sandwiches to work, I'll eat them.

I've also got a carton of homemade yogurt in the fridge for that peanut butter, yogurt & graham cracker snack you posted (it's my breakfast) and a green bag for apples (I get them from the farmer's market, which is this afternoon!).

I've kept sugar at my desk and consumed it all withing 3 days. So, that doesn't really happen anymore.

Back when I didn't work from home, I would keep a box of Kashi cereal, some tea, clif bars and dark chocolate squares in my desk, but that job was so heinously oppressive that if a chance arose to go out and get a snack, i.e. get out of there, I'd often just do that instead.

2 boxes oatmeal: Trader's apple and blueberry
1 bag snap pea chips
sample Yogi teas
1 box Yogi throat comfort (for when the germs are flying)
Aleve

Bag of chips leftover from two weeks ago (holy cow, what will power I have!)
Salt n' Pepa
Soy sauce
Assorted cutlery
Tamari Almonds from Trader Joes
Roasted Chickpeas
Teensy tiny jar of balsalmic vinaigrette for my daily salad.

Current inventory... a package of TJ's trek mix granola bars, two bags of Argo Maté Tea, a jar of Spice House Chai Mix, a box of mixed varieties of sugar cubes from Mauritius, a bag of cacao nibs ginger nibs from the Spice House, a bag of dried persimmons, a bag of freeze dried mangosteen, four different TJ's indian fare meals, and a bag of hoarded Cadbury Mini Eggs from Easter, plus napkins and tea filters. I also have a can of "Christmas in a Cup" black tea and a bottle of TJ's mesquite desert honey on my desk, as they don't fit in the drawer.

My lab has a fridge (in which I currently have plain yogurt and fresh berries), plus plates and silverware, so that's all in a common area. I keep my own glass on my desk.

A box of peppermint tea, some Quaker simple harvest hot cereal, a single serving of mandarin oranges, some pistachios, som trader joe's granola, 3 single serving microwave popcorn,forks, knives, spoons, salt and pepper and 8 mini dove dark chocolate bars (there was 9 but you know I had to open the drawer to see what was in there and couldn't help myself).

herbal black tea
granola
flax meal
almonds
sunflower seeds
mcvittie's biscuits
yogurt bowl
salad bowl (vintage pyrex bowl)
wide variety of mugs and water glasses

in the fridge: english muffin, almond butter, yogurt.

I don't trust myself (I don't mind snacking, but I do mind boredom eating-it's pointless when I can just window shop instead!), so I just have tea. I do bring a slice of cake every day though with my packed lunch so if I get hungry I can eat that early. How boring I am!

In my desk at Work, I have:
Chocolate Covered Almonds
TJ's Dark Chocolate Wedges
High Protein Granola Bars
A coffee cup, a fork and a spoon.

I find that dark chocolate has a caffeine and sugar kick that elevates my mood and helps get me through the afternoon. The protein in the almonds helps, too.

I keep greek yogurt in the office fridge.

rice cakes, dried cranberries, a banana, lime-flavored sparkling water, peppermint tea, a juice box of chicken broth, raw sugar packets, and a bag of grape and strawberry flavored nerds (thursday is candy day, i put it out on my desk to make people like me).

but i usually prefer meat. :)

More kinds of tea than I can count. One fork, one spoon, one butter knife. A small glass bowl. Two instant ramen style soups. Instant oatmeal. Cough drops, instant miso soup, and Lara bars. And the current highlight - rice cakes and a jar of peanut butter. I usually have some almonds too, but those are all gone right now.

I often bake cookies and fill the cookie jar in my office for my co-workers, but I try to stay away from those.

I like how many people keep tea in their drawer. Me too.

Sometimes I've got those Biscoff individually wrapped cookies in there, or raisins, or possibly crackers.

Often I have these canned meals that are actually pretty good:
http://margincomments.blogspot.com/2009/03/fancy-french-mre-meal-ready-to-eat.html

in my desk drawer:
- publix salted rice cakes
- redenbacher's natural microwave popcorn
- mary's gone crackers
- NUT-rtrition mixed nuts
- emergen-C
- yogi tea (peach detox and throat comfort)

in the mini fridge:
- vlasic baby dill pickles
- mini babybels

in the kitchen cabinet:
- kashi honey puffs
- 2 cans of amy's soup

Nothing, because we have mice. And I try not to eat snacks, except for a whole wheat bagel & a yogurt or HB egg that I bring with me daily and eat late in the day. That way when I get home I'm not ravenous, and I can go out and work in my garden for an hour before I make dinner.

- Gummy bears
- Lemon Lift tea
- Breakfast cookies

and money for when I loose my self control and hit up the vending machine for Reeces Peanut Butter cups. YUM!

-Trader Joe's ginger chews (coincidence?)
-A big tupperware of almonds
-One-a-day vitamin
-Flaxseed oil vitamins
-1 orange starfriut herbal tea bag
-Napkins

This is a good opportunity for me to actually see what I have stashed in my drawers

- orange (replace daily)
- banana (replace daily)
- 100 calorie pack almonds
- granola
- honey
- green tea
- oatmeal
- applesauce
- chicken and rice soup
- wasa crackers
- shredded wheat

Apparently I can live a few days if the my building is ever taken hostage.

Mine's pretty sad - a couple of packets of oatmeal, apple sauce, salt shaker, and a luna bar.

I've got:
-the ginger chews (as well as the same brand's hard candy version)
- 4 boxes of tea: earl grey, chai, vanilla caramel, and some cold brew for my own iced tea
- trader joe's chai tea latte mix
- 2 cans of soup
- 1 box of high fiber oatmeal (cinnamon swirl... mmm)
- canister of mixed nuts
- honey bear (for all that tea)
- box of trader joe's savory, sweet and tart trail mix bars

Also I just finished my last luna bar today but I usually have a huge stash in there.

lots of tea
chocolate-covered espresso beans
a couple of microwaveable soups
microwave popcorn

... I would love to keep chocolates or cookies in there, but I just can't, like others have mentioned. they disappear in a flash.

HA! When my office got remodeled, it went from a drawer to a whole cabinet! 4 boxes of tea, 3 boxes of half eaten girl scout cookies, 3 cans of soda, 2 bottles of water....a box each of plastic forks and knives, a stash of napkins, a couple of mugs...styrofoam plates and bowls, honey for my tea, 2 bottles of salad dressing spray, and about 6 nutrisystem entrees (in case of emergency)...oh and don't forget the hot cider/chocolate packets...(don't worry...i share all of it!)

No job here, so no snack drawer, but OMG those ginger chews are the best. Love the ones with peanut bits in them too.

When I did work at the bank, there was always something around. Very much a boredom snacking friendly environment. We always had coffee, hot chocolate, powdered apple cider mix (better than the coffee) and some sort of sugar fix. Also, for those late Friday nights when there were only two of us closing...a Domino's cheesy bread box does fit in a deal drawer!

I always have tea and chocolate in my desk. I consider those "office supplies" at this point. If I'm out of chocolate, I'll go to the store on my lunch break to prepare for that 3pm craving.

There's also usually a couple of granola bars (I cycle through a variety of brands and flavors...usually Kashi or Nature Valley) or peanut butter cracker sandwiches and some crystallized ginger (good for tummy aches).

Sometimes I end up with a stray bottle of soda or juice from a function.

I eat tons and tons of crap when I can't leave my desk for work. A lot of processed food unfortunately.

http://myburningkitchen.blogspot.com/2008/08/sometimes-im-just-chained-to-my-desk.html

My office had a "coffee machine" that also dispersed something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Lukewarm, even. So my drawer had a kettle, a box of Tetley tea and a box of Nordqvist Keisarin Morsian tea, sugar packets, ginger tea biscuits, and quaker oatmeal packets as well. I usually brought in some green grapes for on my desk, or chopped up celery bits for the snacking craving.

NUMEROUS packets of organic green tea with a few earl greys
individual serving packet of microwavable popcorn
2 packets of instant oatmeal (in case I forget breakfast; or forget the not-so instant kind)
fruit cup
fiber one cereal bar
some sugary "granola" bar that I'll partly crumble if I bring yogurt and frut (loL@ people who pay for starbuck parfaits)
a bottle of some costco version of vita-rain

napkins
gum

but this is for emergency, I always make sure I have a lunch with plenty of perishable snacks that I don't usually ea all oft, but its hard to determine what sort of day I'll have ; mostly cut up fresh fruit, dried nuts or a pudding cup if I'm getting hormonal =) and plenty of water.

Having all the tea keeps me from drinking soda all day

The bottom of my bag serves as my snack drawer because if I left anything in the drawer, I'd find nothing the following day. I've been toting around the same Nature Valley bar for the last month, but I never get around to eating it while working. Other than that, Extra Spearmint Gum, a bag of Ricola, and my water bottle. We're "not allowed" to eat while working. Never mind that we aren't given breaks during the six hours we're working.

Shoe box full of instant oatmeal - which the mice curiously do not eat; are they trying to tell me something?
I work long and irregular hours so anything that is brought in usually gets eaten within a day or so.

Right now we have a tub of cookie dough leftover from a happy hour - we have a toaster oven and with the leftover cookie dough have instituted a Monday afternoon cookie time. It makes Monday better.

We keep a tea basket near our printer where we all share various teas - 7 varieties to choose from, on average, and a few different types of honey. In my drawer I keep trail mix, an "emergency" packet of miso soup, gum and dried fruit, usually apricots.

A box of black tea, a jar of cereal to add to my fruit and yogurt when I don't have time to eat breakfast before leaving the house, lots of chocolate (mini reese peanut butter cups, toblerone bar, milk chocolate with hazelnuts) because I alwasy need a little something in the middle of the afternoon, a box of crackers, vitamin supplements, a set of cutlery, a bowl and a mug.

In my office we proudly display our snacks. And we're always up for sharing.
There is:
Astrid - chocolate girl who always has cadbury chocolate biscuits
Brent - Candy guy (huge candy jar on his desk)
Cherie - Conveyer of M&M's (currently featuring M&M Premiums brought back from Vegas)

I like to keep Tea and instant oatmeal in my drawer for emergency breakfasts. I also have half a bag of potato chips because yesterday I was weak and said 'YES! I DO want something from the store!"

Mmmm chips...

Our office Kitchen also has Italian biscotti that someone brought back from vacation. It's dangerous to go in there!

Licorice tea
Kashi bars
edible Easter grass
tons of gum in many flavors
fruit strips
soy nuts

sometimes I get ideas about keeping a bag of mini chocolates or something, and eating one or two a day, but then I eat all of them in a day or two...

At any given time, I've got a Japanese KitKat in some weird flavor (latest is Apple Vinegar) sitting around waiting to be sampled.

I've tried 23 of the Japanese KitKats so far:
http://japanesesnackreviews.blogspot.com/search/label/Kit-Kat

They make for good "keep around" snacks because they're generally not as addictive or compelling as regular chocolate bars, but they are sweet and interesting so I partake when I'm seriously in the mood. Their strangeness promotes control.

And I've also got some tiny chocolates from a company called Tirol to sample as well as some sort of sembei or other salty snack.

my storage space at work is small so it's limited to a few different teas and a bar of good chocolate. There is a grocery store across the street so snacks are easy to come by

@orchid64
I dunno about that! I've got some sakura flavor kit-kats and it's been hard not to eat the whole bag at once. They are a nice size for a little snack though. So, uh, I guess I'm implying that if you find yourself in excess please send them my way because I love most Japanese chocolate items.

- A bag of Craisens for salads and munching.
- About 6 LUNA mint-chocolate energy bars
- BBQ Sunflower seeds
- Extra bottle of water

Speaking of the office candy suppliers - you all have NO IDEA. We have lady here we call the Commissary. She has her drawers and her neighbor's drawers full of candy and empty desks around the office stacked full of popcorn, chips, pretzels, capri suns, water, etc. Her supply takes up about 5 desks in all. Craziness.

-Bag of Goldfish crackers (emergency sustinence)
-Vanilla coffeemate
-Random loose herbal tea bags
-Gum
-Peanut butter (in fridge)
-Tangerine/grapefruit Crystal Light singles