April save on work lunches challenge

MrGreen

Welcome everyone to the April save on lunches challenge, now into it's forth month.

If you've not already done so please let me know what your target is for April and anyone new, this challenge is to help you reduce the amount of money you spend on lunches at work by bringing in food from home, you'll find lots of people on here to help you with ideas and they have really motivated me over the past few months, I've posted the links to the previous months challenges below.

Challengers:

#1 - Mr Green - 2 bought lunches, the rest from home.
#2 - Nottoobadyet - No spend
#3 - Milanos - 13/16 days with no spend
#4 - Maysmummy - 13/15 HM lunches in April
#5 - Charliegirl - no bought lunches
#6 - Elfen - No bought lunches
#7 - natsplatnat - no lunch spend
#8 - La escocesa - 19 home-made lunches
#9 - Kate_Pixie - one bought lunch per week, so that's 4 in the month
#10 - tazzy2010 - no lunches in April
#11 - Treacly - 18 'no bought lunch' days
#12 - Drea - no bought lunches, starting 6th April
#13 - baxgttdi -
#14 - Pee - not buying sandwiches more than 50% of the time
#15 - josephine82 - no bought lunches in April
#16 - determined new ms - 18/20 hm lunches
#17 - 415SanFran - Only buying 2 lunches
#18 - swampduck - No more than two bought lunches - 19/21
#19 - BEAT THE DEBT - No lunches
#20 - butdoineedit - 4 bought lunches
#21 - joanneiwonderland - 4 "bought" lunches in April
#22 - The Moo - Four Bought Lunches
#23 - huh_muh_guh - buying 3 lunches
#24 - so here we are - 19 lunches from home
#25 - Stoney G - no bought lunches in April
#26 - emilyka - No bought lunches in April
#27 - fraja - All lunches from home
#27 - Shadowsfall - Last 10 days lunches from home

March lunch challenge
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2307423

February lunch challenge
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2247401

January lunch challenge
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2247401

elfen

No bought lunches for me

natsplatnat

I'm in! Please sign me up for "no lunch spend!"

Many thanks!

La_escocesa

Thanks Mr Green and Nottoobadyet for keeping the challenge going! :beer:

I'm in for 19 home-made lunches in April!

(Thought I was going to struggle today - 1st of the month! Imagine my failure face! :mad:- but a tin of sardines saved the day! Toast and sardines in tomato sauce. Tasty! And an orange.)

Happy bank hol weekend, everyone!

La xx

kate_pixie

Hi all,

I'd like to take part in this if I may. Can you sign me up for no more than one bought lunch per week, so that's 4 in the month.

Really need to address this major source of pointless expenditure.

Cheers xx

tazzy2010_2

:j Ooo me me me! Brought no lunches in March and am aiming for the same in April! :j

milanos

Almost forgot my rolls this morning, had to run back to get them and as a result I missed my bus to work and was nearly half an hour late. At least I never spent anything on my lunch tho

Treacly

Yay! Thanks MrGreen for running this wonderful challenge for all us desk-bunnies. I've deliberated and I've cogitated and I'm allowing myself one bought lunch per week in April, giving a hopefully-not-too-challenging-target of 18 'no bought lunch' days. And here I am chalking up my first success with a rather fetching beef and avocado salad, toffee yoghurt and a banana, yumyumyum.

Drea

Ohh can I join this, been struggling with how much I spend on lunches each day! Not too sure how to do it but I'll worry about that come Tuesday :rotfl:

Bit confused as to what "no bought lunches" means though... you still surely have to buy something? Sorry, I'm being daft

MrGreen

milanos wrote: »

Almost forgot my rolls this morning, had to run back to get them and as a result I missed my bus to work and was nearly half an hour late. At least I never spent anything on my lunch tho

The same thing happened to me, I was waiting for the bus and it suddenly dawned on me that I'd left my sandwiches at home, so I went back for them.

Lunch from home first, punctuality second!!

milanos

MrGreen wrote: »

Lunch from home first, punctuality second!!

Absolutely! It did help that I knew the boss wasn't going to be in the office today