Scrumptious September 2013 - Take Your Lunch To Work Thread

itsmethatswho

Hi all, I'm looking forward to this challenge, and a challenge it will be, I very rarely take my lunch to work, and it gets v expensive buying it everyday, on average I must spend about £5 a day :shocked: This challenge will serve to save me a lot of money, as well as help me with losing weight, as I won't be making impulse lunch purchases! Good luck everyone!
Tomorrow is a good old fashioned chicken sarnie, a fruit corner yoghurt, 2 satsumas, and some carrot sticks. I'll also be taking my water bottle, and resisting the urge to buy bottles of water on the way to work. I'll need to take my brekkie tomorrow too, which will be porridge to zap in the microwave and my flask of tea

kittiej

Ooo that reminds me itsme, I have a bottle of orange squash to take to work.

FlacosFloozie

Can I sign up too? I've been really bad at this the last 2 months so need something to get me back on track. I think I have 19 working days.

kittiej

Hello and welcome FlacosFloozie :j I'll put you down for 19 days.

The very best of luck to ya

pavlovs_dog

I'm back to play 21 working days in September, but we're being fed on both of our INSETs so I'm not counting those. No bought lunches for 19 days is my aim (although I may go wild and sample the coffee in the new 6th cyber cafe one day)!

lotti379

So today I have leftover nut roast, a pack of uncl3 b3n's express rice (bought as part of a shop last week) and an apple. Food shopping again tonight!

kittiej

Hey pavlovs_dogs welcome back :wave: I'll put you down for 19 days.

Well done lotti, very organised :T

cardi80

Today I have leftovers. A lentil shepherds pie with salad which was much better cold than I thought! I still have leftovers so reckon I will have to have it the next couple of days too. I also have a pack of fruit and nut - unfortunately the healthy kind not the chocolate.

why_not_2

So, joining this challenge has paid off for me. Totally disorganised over the weekend and yesterday evening the only thing that got me to make a packed lunch was this challenge - can't fail on day 1 ! So cheese and pickle it was. But its a small victory.

Stopped at shops on the way home and now have rolls, cold meats and coleslaw for the rest of the week for less that buying lunch today would have cost.

Thanks for the motivation :-)

kittiej

Hey why not, glad we're keeping you focused

cardi I've been thinking of making a lentil shepherds pie, did you make it?

Well done and keep at it everybody :T