Ja-NEW-ary 2013 - Take your lunch to work thread

kittiej · 5 January 2013 at 9:26PM

Moomin that's a magnificent amount saved, very well done to you :T £29.61 fab. What are you going to do with your new found wealth

kittiej · 5 January 2013 at 10:07PM

Just to let you all know that I have put a link on the first post for sandwich fillings but as you read you will see that there are links to other lunchtime ideas.

Happy reading!

juno · 5 January 2013 at 11:41PM

My second favourite lunch is a pasta dish that I can eat cold - probably tuna and sweetcorn.

kittiej wrote: »

Hey juno that is a fantastic idea! You could do that with Quorn roll too, and I love Quorn roll and coleslaw sarnies and Q and tomato and onion.

Just thrown ingredients into the sc for chilli. 4 portions should work out at 55p each plus bread roll at 8p sees me at 63p leaving room for something else out of my £1 per day budget.

This MSE stuff if brilliant :T

I don't actually know what quorn roll is, but I'm sure that would work too

I find that if I'm using the really thin ham I'd use several slices anyway, so one large folded over is about the same amount but much easier to use.

babes21 wrote: »

I'm starting to do this too, I succeeded last week (all but one day) and managed to save at least £15 just in the 4 days.

That's brilliant!

FatVonD wrote: »

Brie and grape is yummy! M&S also put cranberry sauce in theirs toobut we don't buy M&S sandwiches any more do we girls?

I've decided scrambled eggs on toast is my third favourite though (sorry cheese and tomato and brie and grape!)

I love brie but hate grapes. Actually, I haven't ever tried them, but something about them puts me off. I love raisins, though.

I've never bought an M&S sandwich. I do love their sushi, though

WelshWoofer wrote: »

Still not back in work (monday:eek:) but have not succumbed to a Subway, Greggs or takeaway all week, Quite secretly proud of myself as I have been out and about.
Been shopping today and have my munchies ready planned in the fridge - just have to remember to take them now.

I forgot to take my reduced Rumblers yoghurt to work today

I took my soup - which I even got from the fridge next to it - but somehow forgot the best bit.

kittiej · 6 January 2013 at 12:04AM

Aww juno, when are you working next, we could give you a shout out - juno you forgot your Rumblers!

AFK_Matrix · 6 January 2013 at 12:20AM

Hello fellow ex buying lunch workers lol

Well another miricale for me today, I had the last of my gammon in a sandwich for lunch this afternoon and then cooked my own food from the fridge tonight. So that's 2 bits of saving done as I would probably have definitely gotten a takeaway for lunch and might even have done it for dinner too!!! So that's like £15 odd saved just today!!!

Oh forgot to add my fav sandwich fillings:

Sausage and ketchup or mayo or branston pickle (try the pickle its OMG yummy lol!!)
Gammon with salad cream
I also love a chicken maryland with added sasuage :eek::D

penelopedee_2 · 6 January 2013 at 3:31PM

Afternoon all. My three fav sarnies at the moment are:

Chicken and cranberry sauce/jelly
Cold sausages and onion relish
Cheese and home made coleslaw

Salads I like are:

Cold duck and spinnach, raddish, pepper & carrot
Cheese, ham & whatever salad is in the fridge
Chicken and cold bacon bits

Kittie, use any of the bits my from previous post if you want to.
My work mates are pretty good at taking in lunches - they like couscous and salad or cold pasta with chicken. Once is really into beetroot salads. They also bring in chopped mixed fruit in tub as we have a fridge we can store in it (but I prefer my Christmas chocolates personally).

I'm carry the process into weekend lunches now. Yesterday was ham and egg sarnies (using up Christmas bits). Today is another christmas lunch with the spare chicken I bought just in case and the remainder of the veg. The spare sprouts have also been cooked up and frozen ready to have in the week.

Amazingly, given that the 2 boys were off school this week my shopping bill was only £35 for foodstuff, the kitchen is still full and we've only had to get in some more ham for the lunch boxes. Not sure what they will say about getting mince pies every day though

Have a good Sunday afternoon all.

vics199 · 6 January 2013 at 4:09PM

First week of no buying lunch completed! Probably not that much saved for me as I would have only bought something once or twice in recent months, so maybe £5 saved. But thats still £5 that I didn't waste.

I had a cheese and salami roll today - using up the rest of the salami I bought at Christmas.

Tomorrow shall be a cheese and pickle roll and then 3 more days of using up the now frozen parsnip and ginger soup.

Betty_Crumble · 6 January 2013 at 4:50PM

i have just divied (?) up into little resealable bags
pretzels
chocolate cake
nature valley bars (2 are too much)
cadburys animal biccies from christmas
scones and butter portions ( cant remember where I acquired them from)
and the last of the mince pies yaaaaaay
make them easier to grab to put in the lunch bags

we're having sfc wraps tomorrow and whats left of the other half of the scones i made up with jam and clotted cream

those birds eye chargrills work out good £wise for wraps when they're on offer
going to cook extra pasta the day we have pasta bake so we can have tuna pasta for lunch the next day

kittiej · 6 January 2013 at 5:34PM

Hi Guys

You all seem to be doing incredibly well - woo-hoo keep it up :T

Betty you are really organised, much more than I could ever be

vics - phew you managed to have a rest from the parsnip soup! Very well done on saving yourself a fiver that's terrific :T
penelopedee and AFK_Matrix- you are doing magnificently also :T well done for avoiding those take aways AFK and Penelope what a good idea to carry your lunch ideas over to the weekend, I might have to consider this as well.

It's a good job I made chilli yesterday as my DS2 has eaten all of my bread by having jam on toast! I get bread from work but now DH is having to buy another loaf from a regular shop so that's going to be over a pound instead of 60p. Oh well he's paying

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Sorry guys I haven't had chance to compile that list of fave sw or lunch ideas but I promise I will get round to doing it. I have an accounts assignment lurking in the background atm but that will be gone after Thursday then it's Marketing yippee, I love marketing, finding out about how retailers sell us their products!

Oh and I thought I would just mention the little food flask I bought. I tested it out last night by putting boiling water in it at 7pm, at 11pm the water was still very hot and at 11am this morning the water was still warm enough to eat had it been food so I expect great things from my £7.50 spend lol.

I will report back later, keep up the good work everyone.

pavlovs_dog · 6 January 2013 at 6:10PM

I've been getting ready for my first day back at school. I've made up fruit salad (extra in a tuppaware box for the next few days... I try to save time by doing as much chopping as possible in one go).

This is made up of a funsized apple, 1 kiwi fruit, a slice of honeydew melon, some tinned mango slices and a few spoons of the syrup from the mango tin to stop the fruit turning brown. The blue bowl sits within the lid of the plastic bowl. That contains some granola that I bought in home bargains today. probably add a yoghurt to my fruity granola creation for my snack at breaktime.

The main event then is my salad box. Pics from left to right show salad base (chopped cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumber, julienned carrots, some baby gem lettuce leaves and a few chopped baby beetroot). I topped this with a squirt of salad cream, a hard boiled egg and some chopped turkey. On top of that went half a pack of cous cous.

Finally, I bought some supplies in Home Bargains today. The fruit slices were 89p for a pack of 5 (each pack contains 3 biscuits), the malteaser sachets were 99p for 5 and the tinned spahetti were 29p each (dated until 2014). Finally the mugshot was 30something pence. They will live in my cupboard in work for when I need a treat or forget my lunch.

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