Are you ever embarassed by your money-saving ways?

Ladyhawk

funkymonkey849 wrote: »

Maybe they are jealous, but I think they genuinely think what I eat is weird, one of the comments was 'it looks like you're eating a garden'

Stand up for yourself and say something along the lines of "Yes - and your point is exactly what?" Make them feel like the weird ones for not bothering to make something yummy!

My colleagues are all jealous of my lunches. Usually tuna salad on rolls with loads of interesting bits and peices in, jelly, a cake, some fruit etc. Having said that... I don't think that they would dare to make a derogetory comment!

jcr16

don't let it worry you. at end of day if your happy and your enjoying your lunch then who cares really. i never let anyones opinions bother me any more about what i do. i know i am happy and enjoying life fully. other out siders think really doesn't phase me. in fact i feel sorry for them .

but having said that, i make and bake loads of stuff fr the kids lunches. and sometimes i do feel for my hubby when i make his lunch. picture this. my hubby is a strapping 6ft 4 chap, ex rugby and ice hockey player so a big build. sometimes he has been building sites full of chap's eating their bugers from burger van etc and he opens his lunch box to find pink decorated fairy cakes and chopped up ready to eat fruit salad's, lol. i kinda make the kids lunches fun and carry on to his. although i have drawn the line at using cookie cutters on his sandwiches . he says he don't mind tho.

Patchthedog

My work colleagues already think I'm weird. No car, mobile phone is an ancient PAYG. I've had some of my clothes since I started work there a couple of years ago. I don't wear high heels and go on about celebrities and the Xfactor etc.

My food is weird. Home made rye bread sandwiches etc.

I like walking and cycling and being active and actually do other things at weekends besides driving to the supermarket.

I like charity shops.....

Oh no!!!!!!!! There is no hope for me!!!!!!!!!

Love to all oldstylers

Anna

misskool

Next time they eye your lunch ask them how many preservatives and E numbers their lunch have got. :P

Most of the people I work with bring our own lunches so it's not a big trend and all of us swap any random food that someone happens to bring along (international place).

CupOfChai

Pfft, people who are going to be rude about someone else's lunch, of all things, are not worth bothering about!

Is this quite a common thing, do you think, a culture of buying lunch and seeing anyone who brings theirs in with them as odd? It's just I've never experienced it, wherever I have worked there has always been a mix of people who brought in and people who went and bought, or those who did both, but no one went about making rude remarks about someone else's food or habits!

I have however seen people where I work at the moment who will load up their canteen card with what seems to us like loads of money to be putting on it, who are clearly buying their lunch every day there. It might just be my group who thinks these people are mad...

Stoney_G

Patchthedog wrote: »

My work colleagues already think I'm weird. No car, mobile phone is an ancient PAYG. I've had some of my clothes since I started work there a couple of years ago. I don't wear high heels and go on about celebrities and the Xfactor etc.

My food is weird. Home made rye bread sandwiches etc.

I like walking and cycling and being active and actually do other things at weekends besides driving to the supermarket.

I like charity shops.....

Oh no!!!!!!!! There is no hope for me!!!!!!!!!

Love to all oldstylers

Anna

I know exactly how you feel!!! I'm everything free and so the lunches I take in often look quite strange!! Tasty and super healthy though I don't have a television or read celeb magazines and my hobbies are totally alien to most people.

However, I'm stupidly happy with my life and that's all that matters

Jevvers

Good Lord, what eejits! I have noticed that more and more ppl at my work are bringng their own, myself inclded so you never know you may start a trend eventually. Not that I'm taking credit for my colleagues switching to packed lunches, I just think there's been a gradual culture shift. Could have something to do with a two-year pay freeze!

If you can bear it maybe cook a batch of brownies or biscuits and share them out - you could win them round that way unless they really are irredemable gits.

And omg how cute are those bento boxes? Lovely!

Butterfly_Brain

Don't let them get to you hun they are the losers - eating carp everyday and worse paying money for it - the joke's on them.

Keep doing what you are doing and sod 'em x x

babyshoes

FlutterbyUK your job sounds a lot like mine! I am the only female with 3 male colleagues and a handful of male students in the 14-16 age group. My colleagues don't make derogatory comments about my leftover food, they sometimes bring in leftovers too and if it is something that looks/smells nice we will always let others have a taste.

The kids, on the other hand, can be very rude, especially if it isn't something they recognise or if it smells strongly. I have offered them a taste countless times, but it is usually refused. I do also take an interest in what they are eating, and show them how to read the label to see what additives their food has in it, not that they care at that age anyway...

The one thing that gets the most 'euuuuwww' noises are fresh figs. I love them, and always treat myself when they are in season, but the boys usually won't even taste them. Oh well, all the more for me!

flutterbyuk25

babyshoes wrote: »

FlutterbyUK your job sounds a lot like mine! I am the only female with 3 male colleagues and a handful of male students in the 14-16 age group. My colleagues don't make derogatory comments about my leftover food, they sometimes bring in leftovers too and if it is something that looks/smells nice we will always let others have a taste.

The kids, on the other hand, can be very rude, especially if it isn't something they recognise or if it smells strongly. I have offered them a taste countless times, but it is usually refused. I do also take an interest in what they are eating, and show them how to read the label to see what additives their food has in it, not that they care at that.

I always offer mine a taste if they ask about what I'm having. I often take sticks of veg in and they seem to be obsessed with my celery sticks at the moment! I had whole radishes other day and they had no idea what they were. Sad really.

x