August save on work lunches challenge

titchthepunkess

Hi, Can I join please ?

I aim to buy 3 lunches (on butty Friday ) so 16/19 home lunches

Thanks

Nics

eleanor73

Can I join please? No bought lunches for the whole of august (including payday!!!):beer:

danothy

Managed to bring my lunch in today, off to a good start.

Rachel021967

Kids and I fed and watered before we went out this afternoon. So that's 2 days without a shop lunch.

MacsReturns

Good luck to all with the challenge - I visit too infrequently to join in, but I'll happily share a tip or two from my own 'lunch challenge'.

I realised that my habit of 'popping out' for a sandwich, samosa and slice every day was getting a bit steep (not to say unhealthy and fattening!) Bit by bit I trained myself to wake up five minutes earlier :eek: and make a packed lunch for work. This helped bring down the £3 to £5 daily expense. Maybe a couple of loaves a week, and some filling... but I was also buying muesli bars, adding another couple of quid a week. Cut those out in favour of bananas (only £1 for a week)... Then I joined the Coop to get divi (my village shop is a Coop...) added a Coop member's credit card for extra cashback. THEN I discovered TasteRadar (see thread in 'Surveys' section). With £25 a month to spend on fresh fruit and veg, that now covers my daily lunch of a banana or apple, some grapes, a tomato or two, and reduced my sandwich element. I also discovered when the Co-op mark down their bread, so weekly bread and rolls is only about £1, too. I think I'm now getting paid to eat lunch everyday I'm sure the weight will come off eventuallly

HTH and remember you can save money AND eat more healthily :beer:

MrGreen

#9 - d3mon4ngel, #10 - nodwah, #11 - Jamrock, #12 - swampduck, #13 - titchthepunkess, #14 - eleanor73

You've all been added to the list, Good luck.

MrGreen

Rachel021967 wrote: »

Kids and I fed and watered before we went out this afternoon. So that's 2 days without a shop lunch.

That's what we do when we go out, today we had lunch at home, then took a bottle of diluted squash with us to the park, on the way we popped into Tesco and got a 8 pack of fab for 99p, the kids were entertained and had ice cream for 99p, so a great cheap afternoon.

josephine82

Can you add me please for August?
0 bought lunches for me this month!

d3mon4ngel

No lunch bought yesterday, though didn't bring packing up so just went without. Surprising how well SQL can keep my mind off food

No packing up brought again today, though no excuse as I was up in plenty of time Hopefully can keep myself busy enough to keep my mind off it again.

415SanFran

Yesterday was a close call,
I remembered my lunch but the drinks sat on the worktop all day, was about to go to the coffee shop that costs about 3quid for a coffee, then I remembered I had a couple of fruit teas in my purse that twinings had sent me free, a few weeks ago.
So emergency averted, must remember to replace them, for the next time it happens.