Stop buying sandwiches

Jewelleryfan · 28 December 2009 at 7:13PM

This is so me too :rotfl:

I used to be a nanny which was great as i ate at the house and didnt have to provide my own food

But now i work in a school so i try to take my own lunch. My sandwiches dont taste as nice as shop bought ones and i get bored easily. I've tried crackers/crisp breads with all sorts of fillings and now im bored of that :rolleyes:

All the other people bring in pot noodles, microwave meals or they go to the shops.

Its so tempting to go to the bakers, fish & chip shop, news agents etc but im going to be more strong willed and try to think of more interesting things to eat :T

tiny_courageous · 28 December 2009 at 7:19PM

I'm so easily tempted to buy sandwiches.

Sometimes I'll take in leftovers (lasagne, pasta, stew) and that makes a nice change because it's like a proper meal.

katenut · 28 December 2009 at 7:20PM

I agree with you all!! I find that varying my bread helps a bit - I often pop into local Co-op on way home and can pick up nice rolls reduced to 10-20p - this helps me make nicer sandwiches. If we've got rubbish bread I just dont eat the sandwiches and end up buying something else. Tortilla wraps are nice for a change as well.
Leftovers are good if you have a microwave at work - I make a bit extra for tea and take it for lunch the next day

I like the idea of a packed lunch challenge - I'm gonna set myself a challenge of taking my own lunch every day in january! Reckon this should help my diet as well

xx

sparkleisshopping · 28 December 2009 at 7:25PM

Me too! I need to stop spending on food at work. I normally buy a scone in the morning which is 63p, then jacket and beans for lunch which is £1.30 which I don't think is too bad, then most days I buy something from the vending machine which is 50p or so. So, that's at least £12 at work each week! I think I'm going to start putting a jacket potato in the oven when I make dinner to take for lunch the next day and heat it up in the microwave at work.

Jewelleryfan · 28 December 2009 at 7:27PM

sparkleisshopping wrote: »

Me too! I need to stop spending on food at work. I normally buy a scone in the morning which is 63p, then jacket and beans for lunch which is £1.30 which I don't think is too bad, then most days I buy something from the vending machine which is 50p or so. So, that's at least £12 at work each week! I think I'm going to start putting a jacket potato in the oven when I make dinner to take for lunch the next day and heat it up in the microwave at work.

That is exactly what a girl does at mt work and it aways looks yummy

I might try it with cheese and salad :j

izzydogsam · 28 December 2009 at 7:28PM

Me me me me! I do soooo many of the things in all of your posts above. And even worse, when I buy sandwiches at the supermarket I'm also wasting petrol to drive there and back, buying magazines and other crapola I do not need! :mad::mad::mad::mad: And.... I also buy fattening things like chocolate, crisps and fizzy pop - nooooooo!

I just don't feel like I get a proper break when I stay in the office and eat something 'HM'

. Excuses, excuses, I know.

Maybe we should all share some ideas for interesting lunches so we can vary what we are all taking to work?

bramble1 · 28 December 2009 at 7:30PM

I love the idea of the jacket potato! Going to try that next week!

chicagrande · 28 December 2009 at 7:38PM

Poosmate wrote: »

I have this problem. I find sandwiches made by someone else always taste better than home made ones (WHY!?) - I think that's just all in the head though.

Do you have anyone in work that you would be able to swap lunches with? I have a different problem in that there's nowhere local to my job that I can pop out for lunch so tend to have cereal, soup, noodles etc in my drawer (along with most of my colleagues). If I don't fancy what I have then I can swap with a colleague - might work for some of you?

Horace · 28 December 2009 at 7:54PM

izzydogsam wrote: »

I just don't feel like I get a proper break when I stay in the office and eat something 'HM' . Excuses, excuses, I know.

Take the sandwich and eat it outside away from the office - sit on a park bench or something.

Shop bought sandwiches taste different because of the added fat, salt and E numbers. A ginsters ploughmans sandwich has around 4g of salt in:eek:

I think its a case of being organised at the start of the week when you do your meal plan (you need a meal plan when you go shopping anyway). Don't take cash to work with you either and that way you are not tempted into buying rubbish. A home made lunch is more nutritious and less fattening than a shop bought one - use different breads (not that plastic pap like hovis and warburtons or tesco value) - try rye bread, onion bread, tomato bread etc.

Puddleglum · 28 December 2009 at 8:09PM

What I do is put a portion from dinner each night into a container and then bung it in the bottom drawer of the freezer. I don't label it - anything in that drawer is lunch. Then when I leave for work in the morning I grab a lunch surprise from the freezer, it doesn't slop over the car, and defrost it in the microwave. It is very cheap and has the element of surprise.