What’s in Johnny Law’s Cooler?

If I saw that cooler in the hospital, it would have either donated blood for transfusion or donated organs for the OR.  However, if you are a cop apparently, it has your Paleo Zone Challenge meals for the shift.  I’m thinking of buying this officer a pretty new cooler bag so that a medic doesn’t mistake it on an accident scene and go rushing to the hospital with his 2 am snack.

Since my “What’s in Your Cooler” post received a lot of positive feedback last week, it’s going to become a weekly feature during the 30 day challenge.  Who cares what’s in your bathroom cabinets, your purse, or your car’s console?  Food is at the forefront of our brains right now, so let’s indulge.  Geoff is a police officer from www.crossfitfrederick.com who ends up working the night shift for part of the month.  When he’s not working, you can find him either at the Box, Go Pro-ing something, or writing very witty and funny comments here.    He told me his biggest obstacle for the challenge was giving up his love and addiction of soda.  He doesn’t drink coffee, so the sugar and caffeine burst he receives from soda helps him stay focused while he’s arresting the guy who really didn’t do it, who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and just happened to have “some dude’s” gun on him.  (If you don’t work in police, fire, ems or emergency/trauma, you may not get that statement.  It’s something we hear pretty much daily, from every “bad guy.”)

Geoff also has the added torture of watching his fellow officers go out to eat.  He can join them, and smell the restaurant foods and see the ice cold sodas, or he can sit all alone in his cruiser and eat out of his American Red Cross Blood Donation cooler.  He is eating a 14 Block Plan, with 5 meals per day.  He has the added task of figuring out when his “day” begins and ends when he is switching between working day and night shifts.  His blocks are broken down into a 4-3-3-2-2 meal schedule, but he varies it depending on when he sleeps and goes to work.

The cooler.  I think I might be the only person reading this blog that finds this funny. 

 The packaged up product.  He’s very neat and orderly, I might need him to organize my plastic container storage, because mine’s a disaster. 

The 3 meals: 2 oz. chicken cooked in coconut oil with 1 cup butternut squash; A Protein shake with 2 cups of broccoli and 2 cups of cauliflower (excuse me, “burp”), and ½ tsp sunflower seeds; and a 4.5 oz portion of ground beef, 1 cup spaghetti squash, 1 cup green beans, 1 cup raw carrots, and ¾ tsp of sunflower seeds. 

He drinks 24 oz. of water with every meal and again with his workout, and that puts him at his body weight.  He also runs the risk of being stuck in his car on a call or investigation for sometimes hours, so he might be eating his food without heating it.  By the way, last I checked, Geoff was still going without his beloved soda – Way to Go Geoff!

Again, planning and preparation is the key for organizing your workday meals.  I pack my cooler the night before, because I certainly am not capable of making food decisions for the entire day at 5:30 in the morning.  Are you packing a cooler during the week at all?  If you think your cooler is genuinely interesting, or actually what’s in your cooler is genuinely interesting, then email me the pics.  Yours might be next!  Happy Tuesday!