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  • Mmm - I guess mine is about £1 as well -sandwich, piece of fruit and a cereal bar.
  • Will buy lunch one day a week, which can be from £4 to £8, and make homemeade salad the rest of the time, which probably costs about £1 a day.
  • no more than a pound , whatever is left in fridge after the kids have finished,which is normally out of date stuff they dont like!!
  • Depends whether I bring my own lunch (which I often do so I'd love a lunchbox!) but, if not, I spend around £2.50-3 in the canteen. Today I have spuer cheap and delicious homemade carrot and pasrnip soup which must have cost about 50p to make and lasted 3 days!
  • Around £1.50
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  • I spend approximately £4.00 a day on my lunch alone and my partner spends about the same.
  • Probably around £1.50-£2. I tend to take in home made soup or sandwiches but the extra snacks like yoghurt and fruit will probably push the total up.
  • £5 a day on lunch
  • tamarto
    tamarto Posts: 832 Forumite
    About £2 give or take.
  • elj2287
    elj2287 Posts: 154 Forumite
    I try to spend as little as possible by taking a packed lunch. I would guess roughly over a week it works out at about 50p.
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