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What I Ate in a Week: Aliya’s Food Diary

Here at Grubhub, our employees are pretty obsessed with food. Every day, weā€™re making sure delicious food finds its way to your door….and to ours. Say what? Correct, we too order from Grubhub (so meta).

With our ā€œWhat I Ate in a Weekā€ series, youā€™ll get a sneak peek into the lives of actual — never not hungry — Grubhub team members. A nice benefit that happens to come with our jobs is what we call ā€œmealperksā€ — our weekly Grubhub stipend. Clearly, weā€™re using this to get the best bites in town each and every week.

On deck, we have: Aliya, a coordinator on our Social Media team. Get the lowdown on her delivery highlights of the week and top ordering hacks.

Letā€™s meet Aliya.

Hi my name is Aliya and Iā€™m on the social media team here at Grubhub! Iā€™m born and raised in Brooklyn so definitely a ā€œfoodieā€ to say the least. When it comes to trying new things…very few foods are off the table. I love all seafood and definitely enjoy a great steak (cooked rare, donā€™t @ me). I love eggs for any meal of the day (particularly a good runny yolk), and actually donā€™t like potatoes (I know, I know, donā€™t sue me.) I have a pretty busy schedule and hate dirty dishes so I tend to order-in a lot, however, recently Iā€™ve been trying to eat pretty ā€œcleanā€ so I try to order foods that still fit the bill.

Warning: SORRY if this is a little snoozy for you sweet-toothers. šŸ˜‹I swear everything still tastes great!

And here are my top delivery eats from last weekā€¦

Salad, Tuna

Tuna Salad from Gotan:

First up, Gotan. I have been pretty obsessed with this salad for months now. Itā€™s the perfect mix of a simple and light salad, but also filing. It comes with tuna salad (with light mayo), avocado, cherry tomatoes, and a poached egg. For a #protip I typically order a second poached egg or extra chicken to go with it.

Salmon Poke Bowl from Poke Time:

Next up, I almost always get sushi or a poke bowl midweek. This one is from Poke Time. When it comes to poke bowls I always make my own. Iā€™m a huge fan of salmon so obviously had to get that as my main protein, along with seaweed salad, edamame, avocado, sesame seeds, and tobiko for a little extra flavor. I typically get brown rice as the base.

Clean Green Protein Juice from Juice Press:

I wake up super hungry, so some nights Iā€™ll pre-order juices for after a morning workout! This one is from Juice Press and itā€™s the ā€œClean Green Proteinā€ juice which includes spinach, kale, banana, hemp protein, almond butter, chia seed, coconut nectar and homemade almond milk. It tastes amazing and is a great way to incorporate some veggies early on in the day (and I guess some chia seeds and hemp protein never hurt anyone?)

Gluten-free Chicken Meatballs from Market Crates:

One of my go-toā€™s is Market Crates which does a great job of making yummy, healthy food. I love their gluten free chicken meatballs; I probably eat it at least once a week. Their meatball platter also comes with two sides. I ordered the Greek chickpea salad and the cucumber, tomato & avocado salad – but there are some other fun options like mac and cheese, thai noodles, sweet potatoes, etc.

Tune in next week for the latest edition of ā€œWhat I Ate in a Week.ā€ Will it make you hungry? Probably...but, we can help with that.