America has food backwards. The majority of our grocery shopping is done in a supermarket with the top items on our list being prepackaged, precooked, and processed foods containing little nutritional value. The produce we select has been shipped thousands of miles and treated with unnatural chemicals to keep the bugs away and to maintain its shininess on shelves.

Healthy foods such as raw nuts, fish, and organic produce are expensive, which limits many families from making healthy food choices. In fact, a study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that it costs $1.50 extra per person per day to eat healthy. That’s $550 more per year for a family of four.

Along with our lack of nutrition, Americans are funding large corporations who have little regard for families or the local economy.

Working people tend to care of their health through meals significantly, according to USDA research shows improvements in diet quality among working-age adult form 2005-2010. Not only convenience and budget that office workers need, but healthiness also became a key that people concern about for their lunch today.

What’s the greater option than Quinoa, the world’s most popular healthy food?

A healthy lunch is dream for many, but it can be a challenging one to make reality. According to The New York Times’ article, “Failure to Lunch” by Malia Wollan, “Taking time off for lunch has increasingly become a sign of idleness.”

Because of this, it’s common for office workers to either snack at their desk through lunch or reach for a convenient and unhealthy meal such as pizza. It’s also common for “food altars” to appear in the breakroom, which those piles of brownies, cookies, coffee and doughnuts your kind hearted co-workers haul in.

If you’ve fallen into either of these traps, edamame can be your savior.