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  • little_amy_r
    little_amy_r Posts: 1 Newbie
    I spend roughly £3 a day on food.
  • MrsCH
    MrsCH Posts: 14 Forumite
    I always take lunch to work with me, often sandwiches made from whoops bread and whoops cooked mead so probably no more than £1 a day. We have an allotment so at the moment I am making lots of veggie soup to take for lunch and eating apples from our tree. So very cheap at the moment.
  • meinirann
    meinirann Posts: 8 Forumite
    About 70p. I always take a can of soup with me to work and heat it up in the microwave.
  • chestergrimes
    chestergrimes Posts: 6 Forumite
    about £3 per day on average, including 5 peices of fruit
  • clouds21
    clouds21 Posts: 51 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hello
    My lunch is approx. £1 per day as I take mine in. Usually home made soup or salad, carrot and/ or celery sticks, nuts/ raisins, rice cakes or a muesli bar. Sometimes I treat myself to a sandwich from the canteen which brings my lunch to about £2.60 but it doesn't taste half as nice as my own stuff!
    Clauds21
  • moneysavingjack_2
    moneysavingjack_2 Posts: 2 Newbie
    I started spending up to £4 or £5 a day and decided that with the debts I have I couldn't go on any longer - so for the sake of just getting up a few minutes earlier I now make my sarnies and it probably costs me a max of £1.50 a day now
  • Food_lover
    Food_lover Posts: 1 Newbie
    Between £2-£4 :>
  • dornbil
    dornbil Posts: 4 Newbie
    Would think on average my lunch costs approx £2 per day. Depends of course on what my wife gives me!
  • mymamma
    mymamma Posts: 72 Forumite
    Probably costs £2-3 per day, I try to make my own.
    Lost 38.5 lb with SW so far, 56LB to go!:A
  • bryana_2
    bryana_2 Posts: 6 Forumite
    About a £1.00 a day (pack up)
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