Ja-NEW-ary 2013 - Take your lunch to work thread

mineallmine

Packed lunch savings now up to £20. Really hope I can keep this up.

Had a disaster with fruit. Bought some bags from L%dl and a local small supermarket and both contained rotten (black!) fruit in them. So had to bin the lot. So I'm going back to buying fruit individually and from the green grocers.

I even bought from Pepsis so hubby would feel hes not missing out. About £1.50 for 6. At his work they cost 90p odd for one!

lionheartedgirl

Hi all, sorry I haven't been on for a while, but have just gone back to college today. You'll be pleased to hear I resisted all bought food, nothing from the cafe and nothing to munch on the bus home!

I took a banana and a cupcake with me and these kept me going until I got home for lunch. I was very tempted, found it really hard but stuck to my guns :rotfl: :A

I think I've saved myself at least a fiver going on my pre-Christmas spending habit /

next day in is Wednesday... hope I can maintain the good work!

I haven't caught up with everyone but will be back tomorrow.

clairey_em

Kittie, I did have a good weight watchers one, I'll try and find it for you... Not that I'm insinuating you need to lose weight, I just haven't come across another!

Shortie

AFK_Matrix wrote: »

Hey Shortie,

Um not to belittle Juno in any way but did you mean me for stopping the takeaways? As I don't think Juno is, sorry if this is incorrect though!!! And welcome Shortie to stopping those oh sooo yummy takeways but ooohhh sooo bad as well lol. Keep us updated how you do on the takeaway front, 5 days and counting here :T

OOoh maybe I did, sorry I was reading in a rush and must have got myself in a muddle... (which is typical of me!)

babes21

Well done everyone. I have a week off work this week so if i go quiet I'm not buying lunch just have a few well deserved days off .

I take quite simple lunches as I always have different main meals for when i get home. My favourite lunches to take are soup with bread rolls and either baps or wraps with my choice of filling.

I may make some Pasta for a few days for when I return next week.

Shortie

kittiej wrote: »

Hello Shortie :j I wondered where you'd gone! You most definitely won't be treading on my toes by helping out, I thank you for asking. All the lovely peeps on here have been saying what their favourite three lunches are so I was thinking of making lists under different headings - savoury/ meat sandwiches, sweet sandwiches, other types of lunch eg salad, soups. I can't really concentrate on it atm because I am really busy but hopefully this weekend I can devote some time to it. Once the lists have been compiled they should be easy to maintain (in theory anyway) so if you would like to make a start then please feel free I can copy and paste into the first post then.

Coolio, will compile them into Notepad this week and send them over before the weekend, then I can pm them to you to copy and paste into one of the first posts

juno

I am really proud of myself today! I had practically a no spend day! I did have to buy some cranberry juice because I have a problem with my kidneys and they were flippijg hurting, but other than that I took my lunch and bought nothing more.

I did remember my Rumbler yoghurt:-)

Also had asparagus soup and packet of crisps. All were bargains so lunch cost about 62p.

Shortie

Morning everyone! Just finished my train cuppa and today's breakfast is a banana and a couple of cookies, and lunch is 2 crusty tiger rolls with cheese and chilli jam. Mmmm

Tonight's dinner is pasta bake so hopefully there will be some spare to have for lunch tomorrow and will break the ' sarnie run' up a bit!

helejenkins1

Hi guys.
Thanks for letting me join this thread. Lunch is where I spend way too much of my wages and working it a supermarket makes it so convenient to just go and grab a £3 meal deal everyday aswell as more drinks and treats on top of that.

Today is the second day that I have taken my own lunch. Just scoffed down a ham and cucumber sandwich and a cup a soup, it's lunch time to me as I've been here since 6am. That's saved me at least a fiver already this week.

Knowing I've got somewhere to report how I'm doing will give me the motivation to carry on rather than giving up after a couple of days.

Carcluster

Carcluster wrote: »

And I'm off!
5 cans of soup (RRP 59p, 400g size) in Morrison's for £2, plus I had to get the only microwave-safe £1 soup bowl I could find in Poundland! (Got a nice Warburtons mixed seed loaf there, too). Fortunately there was a can opener in the staff kitchen!
so.. first week, with the one-off soup bowl: £4 lunches!

Don't worry - I'm not going to do an update every day, but... Vegetable soup today, fleshed out a little with some left over pasta I had, which used to be my lunch option - but remembering to cook it and optionally make up a pasta sauce at home was a issue; this "lunch at work, buy on Monday" regime frees up that time at home also.

P.S. Had mushroom yesterday - why is mushroom soup "wobbly?"