January save on work lunches challenge

incesticde

incesticde wrote: »

Thanks NTBY

A partial fail again today.. forgot to make sanwiches again so it was tomato soup again.

Brought a baguette from the canteen and a twix (bad, bad!!) for a total cost of almost a quid!!!

Need to start cooking again at home, feel another stir-fry coming on.

Will need two NSD at work to make my goal

Found some leftover chicken in the fridge from sunday, whipped up some veg and tats.

Lunch 2 out of 3

medini

Its getting to the hard part at the end of the week when the cupboards start to empty up, so far I have made some pasta, I will find something to mix it with.

I was cooking spag bol with slow cooker yesterday, but electricty went off during the day so the contents of the cooker was a no go.

yesterday I had leftover curry for tea and spicy chichken and cous cous salad for lunch, both homw made. no spend so far:j

Nottoobadyet

Remaining Lentil and veg soup today, which is in the fridge at work and I'll bring in a roll from home. Not even buying it on the way in, this is progress!

josephine82

I'm on day 9 and no sign of falling back into bad habits!
Yummy roast chicken sandwiches for me today!

rhilee581

I'm in!! My biggest weakness for lunchtime food is Marks and Spencer. I easily spent £20 a week there last year at lunchtime. My New Year resolution is no M&S lunches - doing really well so far - I've only spent £2.23 on lunch this week - soup, bread rolls etc. Hoping to keep to a budget of £10 a week and see how I get on!

bLaZiNgDucK

I had to buy lunch today as i didn't get out of bed in time, but that still 8/9

Kayleighpea

rhilee581 wrote: »

I'm in!! My biggest weakness for lunchtime food is Marks and Spencer. I easily spent £20 a week there last year at lunchtime. My New Year resolution is no M&S lunches - doing really well so far - I've only spent £2.23 on lunch this week - soup, bread rolls etc. Hoping to keep to a budget of £10 a week and see how I get on!

I totally agree! We have a BP garage just up the road which has an M&S shop in and their sandwiches & salads are to die for! I used to be obsessed with their Chicken, Bacon & Avocado sandwich which was delicious! However it cost £3.85 a time :eek: & was not good for Weight Watchers points either!

Had a snow day yesterday so had my jacket potato, tuna & salad today - was yummy! Almost halfway through the month now & no lunch spends!! Keep it up everyone!! :T

lisainglasgow

I'd like to say well done to everyone doing this challenge.
I stopped buying lunches when I was saving for my wedding back in 2008 and I buy a lunch maybe once a month. I realised recently that my biggest 'lunch lust' was for Boots cheese baguettes. I realised that I loved the fact that they had raw onion in them, despite not liking it generally! So I have made my own version and I still call it a 'meal deal' I bring in my crisps and a chocolate bar from home.

Why not think about your biggest 'lunch lust' and see if you can recreate it at home if possible?

Good luck!

Lollypop75

Can I join this challenge please?

I know it's quite late in January, but I haven't been working up until now. I'm on an extremely part time contract (one short-ish day a week). But I might be doing a number of extra days (and for the next week and a half I'm basically full time).

I don't know how many working days I will have for the rest of January, but I would like to aim not to buy lunches 3 out of 5 days that I'm working.

I'm doing a day tomorrow, and have my lunch ready!

longhauladdict

Hi Everyone.

Doing well so far, had lots of meetings so many lunches provided, but otherwise only bought lunch one day out of 9!!!
Am out tomorrow for lunch but get to claim that back so 2 weeks in, and am proper chuffed with myself and everyone on here!
Good luck for next week, keep up the motivation, think I'm going to put the money I would have spent everyday into a pot then pay off towards a debt at month end (was going to go out for a meal but then realised that that defeated the object of this challenge!!)
xxx