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Years ago (28 or 29  ) I would take my lunch and sit in my cubicle or somewhere in the company and eat.
Then one day my boss approached me mid-bite into my sandwich: "I need you to take this Tech Support call."
Me: "Oh sorry, I'm on lunch.
BOSS: Take the call.
Me: You can forward it to Ken. He's on right now, covering lunch.
BOSS: No, I want you to take the call.
Me: mmm....<muttering under my breath> <picks up phone>
That was the last day I ever ate lunch inside a company.
After that, I always left the premises for lunch.
28 years later, I WFH and I still go out to lunch most days. 
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I've somehow gotten used to eating one meal a day after work. The exceptions are weekends when the wife is home and puts it in front of me! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Right now, I invite previous coworkers for lunch, to catch up. If nothing planned, then yes, break for an hour.
Fancy meal is called dinner, and is after work. Lunch in Europe is bread. Not even toasted. We eat bread with cheese. Living next to Germany, sometimes a wurst is there.
I did the fancy stuff too, but it would cost the same as an hour of work. That's just not worth it. 40 hrs, minus 5 suddenly. No, just no.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Lunch in Europe is bread.
Not in my Europe! In Stockholm everyone I know has a proper meal. Take-away or restaurant (or a full meal from home).
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Bread is proper and appropriate. Anything else is luxury.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yes most certainly. But I am a spoiled brat. In Sweden everybody is spoiled!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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In Italy, lunch is also an important thing. It is composed of carbohydrates + proteins and vegetable fibers (pasta, piadina, tigelle, Apulian "pucce", etc etc... the list would be much too long, I'll stop here, but, if possible, rarely sandwiches), and vegetables and/or fruit. Almost everyone has a full meal (light or normal) based, when possible, on the principles of the Mediterranean diet.
In company canteens, there is usually pasta that is not too seasoned, proteins in the form of chicken or meat, raw, grilled, or boiled vegetables, and a fruit of your choice, all at highly discounted prices if you are an employee or accredited visitor.
Rarely do Italians skip lunch as breakfast is almost always light, and generally sweet, except in the northeast regions where the breakfast is most similar to german countries.
In Italy "breakfast", "lunch" and "dinner or supper" are mapped as "colazione", "pranzo", and "cena". In fact, their names should be "prima colazione" (first breakfast), "breakfast", and finally, "lunch".
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Been working from home for over 15 years; Covid changed nothing for me in that respect.
I have to break for lunch, or else my late afternoon is gonna be a write-off. I just get too hungry otherwise. I can't skip lunch.
That being said, that doesn't mean I'll work through lunch. I'm not getting paid any extra for working through a break (or anything else, for that matter), so I'd be an idiot not to break when I'm allowed to. Of course that doesn't mean dropping everything I'm doing the instant the clock turns to 12:00pm either - if I'm on a roll, I'll keep going until I've reached a point where I'm satisfied I'll be able to later pick up where I left off. Same for my end-of-day time. I try to stick to a consistent schedule, but putting in an extra half-hour or so is okay(-ish) if it means "leaving at a good point".
So the only "plan" I ever have is, yes, I do plan to have lunch. How exactly that works out depends on what I'm doing on a day-to-day basis.
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Eat at my desk most of the time, browsing the interwebs. I should probably step away and have a proper break.
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I live in a city. Work in a city. Regardless of being home or at office I always (well 96% always) go out, walk, eat, come back.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I've worked from home all this century. I used to take a brief break and make toasted sandwiches, or make some soup, or a salad. Lunch was also the opportunity to pop down to the station to pick up a paper, put the washing out, groom the cats and other stuff. I aimed to take lunch around 1pm but it was totally dependent on what I was doing - if I was "in the zone" it might get forgotten about until gone 3pm.
These days, 90% retired, I have a similar routine. Except that now I graze all day, and stop (if I remember) to do a bit of work.   ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I always take lunch (sandwich or whatever) and watch whatever show I'm binging. Its like a mental flush and lets me come back fresh.
Computers are like air conditioners. They don't work right when you have windows open.
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Taking later lunch 1:30/2 PM but work through lunch then use "lunch" time to nap in car or now bed since remote. Taking actual 12 PM lunch kills productivity for rest of day.
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Lunch is more than food download; a time to reset. So, walk away. May not eat but I will be away
from the desk/phone/monitor. Working from home maybe a fifteen minute nap, pet the cat, sit outside
for a bit.
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Leftovers. My wife is an outstanding cook so I usually have really good leftovers. During the panicademic I would clean the kitchen at lunch, freeing up my time in the evenings.
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Sometimes, I do one or the other as a work-from-home as well. There are times when there is a deadline for a project or I am just writing a blog or article and don't want to stop what I am doing. Other times, I make sure to go eat lunch with my little ones and my husband. It's a hard balance, I sometimes have to force myself to stop and walk away, eat like a real human and not zombie-stare work down and try to eat lunch at the same time.
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I hungry I eat. I pack my lunches when I go to the office. I try to include a light snack. A small yet decent main meal for later and some fruit and veggies.
Yesterday was a homemade(leftover) slice of veggy pizza,
Today is rice
Tomorrow the office orders food from chick-fil-a. Which is fun and unhealthy like no other.
If I am at home (50%) of the time. I have whatever left over is available and probably eat too much. Planning my lunchs makes me slightly healthier
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I always go out to lunch, it's my big meal of the day. I like just being able to relax my focus for awhile.
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Varies, some days a cous cous or rice dish at my desk, others chicken or tuna and salad way from my desk, but always make time to walk the dog at lunchtime - it gets me away from the screen and enforces a break.
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I find it useful mentally to get out of the office for lunch. Unfortunately, being a single man, I don't eat the best and my belly would tell you it's not the greatest.
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seriously? prepare a fancy meal?
My wife and I are foodies, so we cook. There are always leftovers. But you can surely whip something up for lunch. Breaks your thoughts away from code.
That said, CV19 really elephanted with my reality and still does. I was a cubicle dweller before and now I work from home. It's weird.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The problem with doing stuff you like is that you naturally gravitate towards eating while doing said stuff you like. It is a problem because that's kinda sh*tty from the health perspective, both metabolic & mental so I force myself to get away from the home office desk for lunch.
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I'm watching The Software Architecture Hour with Neal Ford with Guest Martin Fowler[^] (on O'Reilly).
Fowler said a couple of very interesting things about abstraction that get to the root of OOP.
Martin Fowler
"...the key to controlling complexity in software is the ability to build abstractions for your particular circumstance and then be able to evolve those abstractions and use those abstractions to write & compose into better solutions."
He then said,
Fowler on Spreadsheets... "one of the most successful programming environment...the most widely used programming environments that is out there is spreadsheets. For relatively simple tasks they can be very effective. But again, this inability to create your own abstractions... The fact that you all the time have to work at the level of rows & columns does end up getting in the way."
Often, people who write one-off solutions or who see the solution too simplistically (from a higher level, like a manager) think you are wasting time Engineering or Designing a solution that works to solve a Class of Problems.
Martin Fowler: "If you can't build your own abstractions, you're not going to be able to tackle anything of serious complexity."
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And Marc says, abstractions are great, but you need concrete code to get things done.
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