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  • It really depends on how organised I've been and if I've been out the previous night.

    If I get up in plenty of time I take lunch with me - approx £1.50

    If I don't then anything upto a fiver.

    Approx twice a month I go out for lunch and can spend approx a tenner.
  • jamtart6
    jamtart6 Posts: 8,302 Forumite
    about 50p as I make it home made!

    But we have a not for profit cafe at work where today I bought a cup of tea, penguin and cheese sandwich for 60p which is relatively good when you forget your lunch!! :o

    :ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A

  • LyndsayJ
    LyndsayJ Posts: 49 Forumite
    My lunch is cheap, something like beans on toast if at home, it's the children's packed lunches that mount up (and eldest one's school meals at senior school - now packed lunch four days a week and 'treat' dinner money on thursdays!). Always on the lookout for useful food packaging options so fingers crossed!
  • mazza1970
    mazza1970 Posts: 352 Forumite
    PPI Party Pooper
    I take sandwiches with me or pasta salad, so probably no more than a pound a day.
  • jamgirl
    jamgirl Posts: 215 Forumite
    always take a packed lunch......£1 ish!
  • I usually have home-made soup and a sandwich or cheese and biscuits with a piece of fruit so I guess under a pound since I grow my own veg for soup.

    If it's lunch in the pub or cafe then I try to keep it under a fiver, but that's only once in a while.
  • Jolaaled
    Jolaaled Posts: 1,063 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I used to make up sandwiches (egg, cheese, peanut butter etc), but now take everything pre-assembled..i.e. bread roll, lump of cheese, apple, bag of nuts.
    Comes to around 75p per day..sometimes a bit less.
  • It depends on which sandwiches are yellow stickered, today it was 75p :)
  • Hi
    My lunch is usually free as I have a pack up from home

    Regards

    crisisann
  • D&DD
    D&DD Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    *swoon* lock'n'lock boxes :D I lurve these :j sorry :o !!

    Lunch is usually whatever is walking out of the fridge that day..kids have the fresh stuff in this house :rotfl: Usually homemade goodies..not forgetting DS3's strawberries which cost a packet when we haven't any ready in the garden.Works out to around £2 a day for 5 probably with about £1 being for strawberries :D
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