Food expenses for a trip to the tribunal?

cyclonebri1

Or you could just try to get the rest of us to pay for it, as in the op's case. Bit sick to be honest,

Ugnaught

Derivative wrote: »

I find it a little strange that you "haven't seen" people eating their own food in the high street.

Noone is going to look at you funny for eating a sandwich on a park bench. That's what park benches are there for!

And even if they do, so what? They're the idiots for spending ridiculous amounts of money on prepared food due to lack of preparation (oho...).

I like that bit, unfortunately in our consumer capitalist society it is expected for us to spend spend spend. I did manage to venture outside the other day and got the courage to quickly walk for a couple of minutes through my local shopping centre (without being banned). Walked past a cafe with lots of people sat at tables eating/drinking, but didn't see any one else eating or drinking elsewhere except at the cafe.

Could you go to Starbucks and bring bread and ham from Tesco?

I am a strange odd person, i think that's why i have social anxiety.

Ugnaught

scottnsharon wrote: »

Go away and stop researching social anxiety and lunchboxes in public areas Now please bu'gger off! :T:T:beer::beer::D:p

I've been getting social anxiety using this forum - I deliberately didn't look at it after i posted my response for 3 days cos i was expecting to be unpopular and slandered. Took me 3 days to get the courage to look at it.

Why the big fuss over £4.75 anyway? compared to £1000s a year.
Would you deny all the people say claiming HRC and LRM DLA claiming (70.35+18.65)x52=£4628 a year from claiming a one off £4.75 meal? (that's 0.1%, a 1000th, a tiny fraction) I get obsessive OCD about numbers.

Ugnaught

Patronus wrote: »

Social anxiety doesn't work that easily. If you have it badly enough to be needing benefits, it wouldn't matter if you had a car or not, either way, you wouldn't go out that much. Only if you had to. When I had SA, I would not under any circumstances go on any form of public transport and if I couldn't get a car ride then I didn't go.

Everyone has varying degrees and different kinds but I do think if you have it bad enough to warrant benefits, public transport and the like would be an absolute no-no.

What if you were to get a lift in a car with strangers?

seven-day-weekend

Get bread. Get ham. Get newspaper. Put ham between two slices of bread. Sit on bench. Read newspaper. Eat. Simple.

You could even celebrate by having a sliced tomato on your sandwich and a flask of tea to drink.

It is perfectly normal behaviour.

Nutz666

!!!!!!! Why hasn't this STUPID thread been closed? Yes, you are a strange odd person who wants something for nothing. Whatever you would normally eat at home for lunch, take that with you. Its no extra cost to you then.

Ugnaught

Strange, odd = mental health problems, Aspergers syndrome. I haven't looked at this thread since i last posted over a week ago cos of my Generalised Anxiety Disorder with the trolls/cyberbulling.:(

Something for nothing? I remember now I used a voucher from my 'stupid' local newspaper to get a free toffee flavoured muffin from Greggs bakery two years ago in 2010.:)

Would it be wrong to take advantage of one of the free meal deal vouchers that Moneysavingexpert's Martin Lewis has promoted?:money:
http://www.itv.com/lorraine/money/martinlewis/martinsrealdeals-week3/
Martin's Real Deals
Web exclusive: ‘Free’ Greggs grub with 30p paper


Find one Greggs voucher every day in the Daily Star from today until Sunday 22 January 2012, which you need to take to a Greggs shop (valid in England, Scotland and Wales) on the day you bought the paper to get the free item. The paper costs 30p on weekdays, 60p on Saturday and £1 on Sunday. You can get one ‘free’ eat out only item and you must use the voucher on the day you buy the paper. Items include:

• Thursday - Doughnut worth around 75p.
• Friday - Breakfast roll worth around £1.70.
• Saturday - Pizza worth around £1.50.
• Sunday -Muffin (triple chocolate or Sicilian lemon) worth around 85p.

http://www.offeroasis.co.uk/freebies/food_and_drink/free_greggs_sandwich_voucher_in_the_mirror_newspaper.html
All this week the Mirror Newspaper are giving away free vouchers for sandwiches at Greggs. Just buy a copy and take the voucher inside to your nearest Greggs

Derivative

Ugnaught wrote: »

I like that bit, unfortunately in our consumer capitalist society it is expected for us to spend spend spend. I did manage to venture outside the other day and got the courage to quickly walk for a couple of minutes through my local shopping centre (without being banned). Walked past a cafe with lots of people sat at tables eating/drinking, but didn't see any one else eating or drinking elsewhere except at the cafe.

What do you mean by 'it is expected'?

Here is a rule I like to live by in life. It's not always correct, and it has an air of arrogance about it, but it's served me well so far -

If everyone else is doing it, it's probably not something I should do.

What does the average person do? They spend hours per day staring at a flashing screen (Television). Millions upon millions of people waste their precious time on this earth watching reruns of reality TV shows.

The average person (in the UK) has children in early life without the provision to provide for them, and then we see the results on this forum when people claim 'it's hard to raise a family'. It is when you decided you could do it in rented accommodation starting with a few grand in the bank.

The average person runs a car when they probably don't need it, thus throwing thousands a year down the drain on fuel.

While the average person does all of the above and then spends £4 on a sandwich at a shop, I'll spend £1 and pocket the difference. I have no money troubles as a consequence.

Does it make me arrogant to state the above? Perhaps. They can live their life the way they choose, I'll get on with mine and not have to worry about ever making the rent for the foreseeable future.

Could you go to Starbucks and bring bread and ham from Tesco?

Why would you want to go into Starbucks? Use public owned property like a park bench.

Though I do often use restaurants as space to get things done - if I visit a far away town for example, buying a £1 coffee at McDonalds and using a table to get on with some study work or reading a book.

Do other people look at me and think 'that's a bit odd'? Maybe. I don't really care. The only people that make comments are themselves probably insecure. Why would I care what these muppets think of me?

I am a strange odd person, i think that's why i have social anxiety

Being a 'strange odd person' is a good thing in this world. You have an inbuilt advantage in that you should be able to recognise that others' behaviour is self-destructive.

Anubis_2

Ugnaught wrote: »

I've been getting social anxiety using this forum - I deliberately didn't look at it after i posted my response for 3 days cos i was expecting to be unpopular and slandered. Took me 3 days to get the courage to look at it.

Why the big fuss over £4.75 anyway? compared to £1000s a year.
Would you deny all the people say claiming HRC and LRM DLA claiming (70.35+18.65)x52=£4628 a year from claiming a one off £4.75 meal? (that's 0.1%, a 1000th, a tiny fraction) I get obsessive OCD about numbers.

If £4.75 isn't a big deal, then pay it yourself. While I am on benefits, it saddens me that others out there try to claim for every extra available. I have never claimed such extras and it really is taking the proverbial. Be grateful for what you already recieve. I do think these extra allowances for food and similar while you are out of the house should STOP.

seven-day-weekend

If the OP has Aspergers' Syndrome, as s/ he says in post 48, then they might not know what behaviour is socially acceptable.

So I will say it loud and clear: It is acceptable to make your own sandwiches at home and sit and eat them in an outside public sense.

There is also nothing wrong with using a free Greggs voucher and eating that food outside.