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

32b3in2013

That sounds lovely Candlewick

I have made and frozen my work sandwiches for the week. Cheese slices and 4 different types of wafer thin meat. I will take a small container of pickled gerkins to work with me to add to the sandwich at lunchtime I bought a bag of satsumas, 5 small packs of grpes and some baked stars too, so I am pretty much sorted for the week.

If I can stick to this, I will have saved around £50 this week :money:

kittiej

Hi 32b, £50 saving is a tidy sum :T

I've been lurking on the OS board and they're talking about taking pasta salads to work, I am craving pasta now!

Oh why oh why did I start a foodie themed thread? Each time I read about lovely recipes and scrummy food I end up staaaarving I am quite literally going to end up house-sized :rotfl:

Good work all :T

FatVonD

I've never seen frozen sandwiches, Kittiej, but I *know* that bread freezes so if I've ever seen something frozen in a supermarket then I figure it's okay to freeze as a sandwich filling!

I took advantage of a 2 for £1 offer on crusty rolls on my supermarket shop and then ran out of freezer space so I have bagged them separately and put them in the freezer at work. If I take out one a day when I arrive they will defrost by lunchtime.

Today I had cheese in my roll and there's enough left for another day. I will try to eke out another days filling from tonight's tuna/peppers/sweetcorn jacket potato topping for tomorrow.

I spent £1.88 this morning on a pack of crumpets and a multipack of crisps for the week but, assuming I can rustle up something from home for Friday, aside from my Wethersp00ns lunch on Wednesday I shouldn't have to spend anything else

Avogirly

Hi, would it be ok if I joined in please. I'm currently doing Slimming World, so it is soooooo much better for me to bring my lunch to work with me, however, sometimes I do get a bit lazy and nip to the coop round the corner. I have got 17 days at work this month (not counting today!) so I will go for 17 please!

FatVonD

Avogirly wrote: »

Hi, would it be ok if I joined in please. I'm currently doing Slimming World, so it is soooooo much better for me to bring my lunch to work with me, however, sometimes I do get a bit lazy and nip to the coop round the corner. I have got 17 days at work this month (not counting today!) so I will go for 17 please!

Hey, nipping to the co-op is okay (in my book) as long as you're buying ingredients and not ready-made stuff

Welcome aboard!

kittiej

Evening everybody :j

Hi FatVonD, I love crusty rolls but they seem to go stale really quickly . Well done with the savings :T and I see what you mean about the frozen food ideas = making suitable sandwiches for freezing.

Hi Avogirly :hello: welcome to the thread. If you need any inspiration then there are some good ideas on the first post.

32b3in2013

Evening

I had my first frozen sandwich today , it was OK, but it was still a bit frozen so I had to toast it! I still think it is an excellent idea

I did consider getting tomorrow's sandwich out of the freezer tonight, but I like the idea of taken it to work frozen!

I haven't spent any money at work this week yet

32b3

kittiej

Hi 32b - you can be the frozen LTW experiment and experiencer Great to know how these things turn out. Very well done on the savings too :T

I have taken my LTW both days so far, another 2 to go, I had grated cheese and pickle on malted bread and it was lush I had cheese and coleslaw yesterday and that was pretty good too. I don't know if anyone else has tried the value multi-pack of crisps from Tesco but they are nice @ 5.5p a packet and there's 3 flavours :j
I need to eat as cheaply as possible until 'Bang and the debt is gone' :rotfl:

FatVonD

kittiej wrote: »

I don't know if anyone else has tried the value multi-pack of crisps from Tesco but they are nice @ 5.5p a packet and there's 3 flavours :j

We buy those on the weekends when we have both sets of kids because they go through them like a plague of locusts! I liked it when they did the packs of just ready salted as they were lush! `I'm not keen on the salt and vinegar but the cheese and onion ones are good enough too.

I have prawn cocktail this week from the reduced shelf, not my favourite flavour but, hey, it makes them last longer

mrsdee

hi everyone
hope you are all enjoying your lunch! I have eaten mine already .

Had cheese and pickle sandwich made with home made granary bread and it was lovely. Had some cherry tomatoes on the side, as always, and a piece of cake (usually have that in afternoon, but couldnt wait that long!) and a yoghurt. I have a banana on standby for mid afternoon - lol!!

Am working at home tomorrow so may have something different - pitta bread with houmous and olives or may make some soup... lentil and whatever veg look like they need a change of direction! Did our food shop on Monday evening and no need to do any more shopping now till Saturday .

"Speak" to you all tomorrow! Have a great rest of day...