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#The Best Foods (and Strategies) for Eating at Your Computer Everybody eats at their computer at some point. As much as wed recommend tearing yourself away from your computer when the munchies hit, lets be realistic: Youre not always going to do it. So when you are eating at your computer, you can at least opt for some more keyboard-friendly options. We recently asked you what your favorite keyboard-friendly foods were, and you guys had a lot of great suggestions#oth of good foods to eat and strategies to keeping your workspace clean. Here are some of our favorites#Good Foods that Dont Make a Mess Many of you wrote in with some great food suggestions that wont make a mess (or will be easy to clean up). Some of the best included: Wraps and Burritos, if youre skilled and dont let any sauces or dressings spill out the end. Also, if you keep the foil or bag on the end, youll be less likely to spill. Sandwiches tend to be more prone to crumbs than wraps, though if you put the end of it in plastic wrap or something similar, you may be able to get by. Meats like steak, chicken breast, or ham. These are great because, unless you put some sort of sauce on them, they dont have much to drip on your keyboard, and they wont get anything messy on your hands. Fruits and vegetables tend to be pretty neat and wont get anything on your hands. Id be wary of the juicier fruits like apples, which could drip juice on your keyboard and get quite sticky. Dried fruits and nuts are really good ideas too. th salad dressing. The great thing about salad is that, while its easy to drop pieces of your salad all over the place, those pieces are usually big pieces of lettuce, cucumber, or whatever that are easy to pick up off your keyboard without making a mess. Foods that act as glue#:#A number of you noted that certain foods, like mashed potatoes and refried beans, are great not only for their lack of mess, but because they can act as a kind of glue#that holds more difficult food like rice or peas easier to eat without getting all over the place. Cereal, in a cup or a bottle: Cereal is likely to spill milk and small flakes all over the place, but many of you noted that eating cereal in a cup, or even in a recycled water bottle, takes away all the mess. Non-sugary drinks in travel mugs: Sugary drinks, like juice and pop, are going to be very sticky if spilled. Alternatively, travel mugs are a great way to avoid nasty spills. All in all, the best foods are ones you can eat with utensils (so you dont get anything on your hands), foods that come in large pieces rather than small (so you can easily pick it off if you do spill), and solid, dry foods that arent crumbly. If you have some food that you cant eat with traditional utensils, chopsticks work really well as a replacement. Strategies Many of you also had great suggestions of ways to get around the food problem by protecting and cleaning your keyboard, rather than avoiding certain foods. What I personally do at home is use my sliding keyboard tray to my advantage. My keyboard slides out from under the top of my desk, so when Im eating, I just slide it away and go to town. My particular tray leaves a lot of room between the keyboard and the desk, so I can even slip my hands in and type at the same time if I want to#t isnt the most comfortable or ergonomic, but it works just fine while Im eating lunch. If all else fails youll need to clean your keyboard. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati d

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