My lunch challenge for W/C 24 April

loopyloulou_3

I am going to make lunch EVERY night and leave my purse at home so I cant spend ANY money at all.

I think this will save me about £25 next week at the very least.

In fact am giving my purse to my OH to make sure I cant access my cards at all! EEEEEEEK Im gonna feel lost without them!

I figure once I break this habit it will get easier.... hopefully!

Jaymz

I am also doing trying to do this for this week. Infact just made my lunch for tomorrow which should mean another 'No Spend Day'

I did this a few months ago but got fed up of doing it and didn't have time in the morning but when you think about the amount of money you waste by buying sandwiches etc its silly!

sarah0404

Good luck with that! I just calculated the cost of a home made sandwich the other day. It costs........ 28p! That was for a cheese sandwich made with fairly expensive brown bread. You'd pay at least 98p for that in Tescos.

SaveMoreMoney

Quick tip : make up your 'next day lunch' when you are cooking the dinner the night before. It's done and out the way.

sarah0404 - that's an interesting 'cost figure', I'll have to have a look at todays shopping receipt and work out my 'cost figure'. Certainly a huge saving on buying a packet of sandwiches !!

Quackers

SaveMoreMoney wrote:

Quick tip : make up your 'next day lunch' when you are cooking the dinner the night before. It's done and out the way.

Thats what I do now. It's soooo much easier. I used to think that that would go soggy or wouldn't be fresh - Duh! Shop bought sandwiches are often a day or 2 old.

I'm looking forward to the warmer weather. I like hot food in the winter Although a cup a soup with a sandwich sometimes does the trick!

Last summer I'd make 2 or 3 small tubs of salad and add various 'toppings' to them - cheese/cottage cheese/quiche etc and put them in the fridge. Nice and easy to take out in the morning and take to work.

SaveMoreMoney

Tesco's :-
Sliced Wholemeal Loaf of Bread - 38p
Lettuce - 36p
Tomatoes - 34p
Ham - 78p
Chicken - 78p

I only need that lot to last a 4 day week : Friday I finish early afternoon - and either take a sandwich in to each about noon.........or cook some pasta and add anything leftover on the list above (apart from the bread).

£2.64 I think that little lot comes to / 5 days = 53p a day (thats using 4 slices of bread a day - so less than 27p a sandwich). Blimey, they are BIG mark ups in the shops !!!!!!

rallymad

I am determined to make my lunch myself all week. I've been meaning to do it for a month now, terrible.

calleyw

Also why not take leftovers. So cook an little extra and have it hot the next day. Only good if you have a microwave.

Just means you have to serve up in to a container and then pick out the fridge on the way out.

In my husband previous job they always seemed to perfer his lunch to what they had bought because it looked so nice.

Or the other thing to do if you have access to a fridge. Is on a monday go to the supermarket on the way to work and buy bread and cheese and apples etc. Then you can make your sandwiches fresh each day.


Yours


Calley

sophiesmum_2

Going to try the challenge this week and make packed lunches for myself DH and DD to take.This will save about £7 - £9 per day :eek: .
That adds up to a ridiculous amount over a year, good incentive when you look at it that way. Anyway we are all trying to eat healthy and lose weight so looks like it is salads all round this week.

sophiesmum

lynzpower

Shop bought sandwiches ( ie supermarket ones) ARE MORE than 2 days old, I used to work in tescos, and stacking the shelves was part of my job for a while.

Monday -shelf empty
Mon- go to cold store, pick box, box delivered AT LEAST THE DAY BEFORE
Mon, stack shelf,
Tue morning if any left from day before - reduce

KNowing distribution channels, if you reieve the box on Sunday, it will have been packed on Saturday, sandwiches made probably on saturday. So law of averages says, if you buy a\ reduced sandwich on tuesday, it is likely to have been made on Sat if not before. Other thing to note is often there was a number of boxes in the cold store, so pick the latest date to replensih on shelf.

Also OH mum knows someone who imports sandwich filling ( chicken mayo, tuna mayo etc) from, wait for it CHINA. God knows when it was ACTUALLY mixed, before going into supermarket sandwiches.

NO WAY IN HELL Id buy one now from knowing that. At least if yu make it in your fridge you can gurantee how long its been out of cold store for.

loopyloulou_3

lynzpower thats shocking! that has put me off shop brought sandwiches! it makes you wonder what preservatives etc they put in them. I suppose at least my home made sandwiches are healthy, fresh and I know what is in them!