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

karens42

O what a fab idea for money saving, can I please join in I've recently dropped my shifts down in work first time in 26 years im not working 40 hours+ a week pure luxury, so would like to save a few pounds i'm quite good usually but often tempted to have a baguette or a chinese on a regular Saturday evening shift I run a taxi office so always surrounded by other peoples temptations so could quite easily save 10 pounds a week and if I dropped the diet coke too could be 12-13 pounds and quite possibly help my slimming world plan work lol

FatVonD

Welcome, Karens42.Could you turn that to your advantage and make a huge batch and sell portions to the drivers??! You could at least keep a multipack of diet coke in the fridge and charge them 50p a can!

DD265

Nice to have you Karens42!

I am up at 11/11 days for the month, doing good! OH has bought me some duck/noodle type things from Tesco - one is in the freezer and one is lunch tomorrow. Then I'll be having pasta at least once, maybe risotto and possibly fajitas this week, wherever I can make an extra portion of the evening meal I'll do so!

kittiej

evening everyone :j

welcome Karen :wave:

Sorry I haven't been devoting much of my time to you, I've had an end of course assignment to hand in by tomorrow so it been a bit stressful. Never mind it's all submitted now so I can relax a bit

Hope you've all been doing really well, I slipped on Thursday and had curry but it was only £1.50 so not a major purchase

Keep going :T

Fleurlur

Bought 4 packs of own brand supernoodles for 28p each, an 18 pack of petits filous for 2 quid, grapes for 2 quid (owch!) and bananas for 59p. Thats my lunch sorted until Thursday which is payday.

karens42

Well day 1 and rather smuggly sat with an orange and homemade baked bean lasagne from home and remembered a bottle of squash so all free from home plus slimming world friendly... O its time for spring now !

mrsdee

am working at home today after all so having leftovers from last night's dinner (new potatoes, cauliflower cheese and salmon and leek tart).
Have just made some veg curry using the last parsnip from our allotment and a couple of sad looking carrots, some chickpeas, lentils, coconut milk and tinned tomatoes. Going to be taking that into work for rest of week with rice, and some yoghurt and mango chutney on the side (assuming OH doesnt eat it all - lol!!). Also got some fruit in, some homemade cake and lowfat yoghurts on offer at lidl. No danger of starvation and all healthy and low fat (even the homemade cake!!).

Twiggy_34

DD265 wrote: »

Also, I saw that somebody in this thread made themselves jelly and I thought what a good idea so I bought some jelly cubes, but it's too cold in the kitchen to go down and make it tonight, like having a walk in freezer :rotfl:

That was me, how did it go with the normal cubes? I use the crystalised stuff as it's sugar free, hope it worked well for you!

After a long and exhausting weekend away I slipped for the first time today, however my cup a soup backup came in to action so I had this for my lunch & have been a bit more organised tonight so tomorrow's sandwiches are in the fridge ready to go.

Someone posted on the original thread that boiled egg's can be kept in the fridge in their shell for a week after cooking. I wondered how strict the week recommendation was because I boiled up a bunch of eggs last tues night as they were going to go out of date, but I still have 3 left after tomorrow...

Twiggy_34

karens42 wrote: »

Well day 1 and rather smuggly sat with an orange and homemade baked bean lasagne from home and remembered a bottle of squash so all free from home plus slimming world friendly... O its time for spring now !

Baked bean lasagne? I'm intrigued... is there a recipe for this, what are the ingredients?

kobrakai

not a great start to the week, h2b's gran died on sunday night and although i took lunch to work yesterday, i ended up taking a half day so didn't eat it! so am back on my usual lunch routine as from today, am going to be nowhere near my target for this month but never mind!