March-ing and Munching 2013 - Take your lunch to work thread.

Candlewick

Kittiej, I am going mad as I have included the weekends :rotfl:in my original target. There are actually 20 work days for me in March (good lord I am doing myself out of my weekends :eek: ) so minus 2 but probably 1, my target will be 18 may be 19.

CW

MrsPorridge

Thanks for the welcome folks. I have 19 work days - 2 of which I am on a course with lunch provided So I will aim for 15 days to take lunch to work. Usually go out a couple of times a month with a colleague.

kobrakai

I've got 16 days of work this month - week off at the very end of March, so am hoping to save £80 by not buying lunch this month.

DD265

Hi all

I'd like to join in please.

For the last three weeks I haven't bought anything for lunches at all - normally I'd buy them at the weekend but I've managed to go on leftovers (one week I had a roast beef dinner S/M/T, then braised the beef and had it with rice/veg W/T/F!) and food out of the cupboard.

Tomorrow is stretching me a bit so to keep today as a NSD, I'm opting for a banana sandwich! :rotfl:

I've worked out 20 work days for me in March so I'll be taking lunch in from home for each of them.

AFK_Matrix

Gah I kind of missed posting on the Feb thread!!! Been so busy at work lately its been ridiculous!! But I still did my lunches although I had a week where I did get lunch at work so not as good as January.

So going to try harder in March!!!

tealady

Hi and a special thanks and Hi to Shortie.
Thanks for the sandwich ideas, I have a packed lunch ever day and tend to do the same things most days, it is great having a list of ideas. I might print it out and put it on the fridge.
Good luck to every one, hope the ideas inspire you to some great money saving.

SmarterNotHarder

Hello! Wandering in for the March thread. MARCH!!! Be Christmas before we know it at this rate!

Thank you To KittieJ for starting us off again, and to Shortie for the list, I must make more effort to use the ideas!

I'm on annual leave all next week, so that along with the bank holiday, I will have 11 workdays this month, so target of 11

And a big hearty welcome to the newcomers! :grouphug: Have a dodgy group hug!

Good luck everyone!

mineallmine

Hello!!

Been busy pack lunching it for weeks, or brown bag as our US friends call it. But today, nothing. Different shift at work at short notice. Pah.

But I'll be back on track on Monday. :j

Like I said in last months thread I bought a perfume using money I'd have spent on packed lunches. It's only a posh one too.

So that's really motivating me. £25 on over priced food or a perfume treat. Clearly not going to do that every week but it makes you think.

kittiej

:hello:Hello everyone :j


Everyone is doing really well with LTW-ing, and we have new posters as well which is fab :T

Hellos and welcomes to tealady and DD265 :wave:

CW - you are not alone in your moments of madness believe me

MrsP - you're a lucky girl getting 2 free lunches this month, I've got lunch envy :drool:

kobrakai - £80 to be saved is a really good amount, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you

DD265 - don't forget to call by to let us know how you're getting on / share lunch stories :dance:

Hey AFK - don't worry about the blip. Our thread motto is

"It's OK to falter otherwise how would we know what success feels like"

tealady - actually you've come up with a really fab idea re printing out the lunch ideas, I might do that myself. :T

Hi SNH - like you I have a week off in March so both LTW days and petrol costs will be reduced - hurray! :j

Hi mam - yes well done with your perfume purchase :T you'll be able to buy a new outfit next at this rate

I've only got 13 working days this month :j and I've seen the back of one of those already, this idea of stating the actual working days is making my job much more bearable

Keep going, and as Wolfie used to declare "Power to the People!" Tooting Popular Front rofl.

pawlala

I always make my own lunch: sandwiches (usually ham and tomato, or homemade egg mayo), banana, apple, and yoghurt. I have been adding Christmas cake since Jan as I got given a huge one at Christmas. Depending on what I am doing that day I will make a full flask of coffee. I will finish off the coffee when I get home if I haven't during the day.