Scrumptious September 2013 - Take Your Lunch To Work Thread

Nellie77

Thanks for the support KittieJ. :beer:

Another successful day (7/19) cereal bar for breakfast from desk supplies and leftover pasta and a yoghurt for lunch.

I did go to the shops but just had a browse in the bookshop to give me ideas on what books to get from the library so another NSD for me. Yippee. :j

kittiej

Hiya Nellie - you're most welcome

Well done on another successful LTW day and as for the books what a good idea :T

I think once you start doing the small things like taking your lunch to work etc it makes you look at other areas to make improvements.

Some great successes going on, well done :T:j:T

georgette

Day 7 down!

I bought a sneaky chocolate bar as an afternoon treat, but I'm not really counting that...

kittiej

That's OK georgette, we'll overlook the choccy :drool:

Well done!

Teacher79

Leftover sweet and sour pork and rice (cooked at home, not take away!) for lunch today.

Sorry my posts are brief....work is consuming my life:eek:

trixie888

No work today but it's playdate at my place.

Sweet champorado for the kids which was prepared by the nanny before she left for Denmark this morning.

Chicken and vegetable soup for the mommies.

Except for the pasta and the veggies - everything else came from the cupboard. All need to be cooked before reaching to the forgotten point and already expired.

Guilty here, i am used to just throwing items because they are already expired. Well, it is not happening anymore.

kittiej

Hi Teacher, don't worry about the brief posts I can imagine that you'll be inundated with work atm.

Well done, I'll update you :T

kittiej

Hi Trixie, you seem to be grasping the frugalista lifestyle with both hands, it becomes addictive

Enjoy your play date and well done for using up what you already have :T

trixie888

I have no other choice KittieJ. Learning it the hard way and still trying to watch out my attitude towards bargains. Money handling so to speak...

I also have to search the cupboard on anything that I know I can prepare for next week's lunch.

kittiej

You'll get there Trixie, have you tried keeping a spending diary? This can be a handy way to see where money is being spent on little bits and bobs.

Having a budget and sticking to it is another way especially if you pay for groceries with cash because that way you can see how much money you have left of your budget instead of putting items onto a card and not really knowing where the money has gone.

Meal planning is a useful resource. Plan all of your meals for the next week and only buy the ingredients needed for those meals.

There are quite a few tricks you can use to help