August Bring Your Lunch To Work Challenge

Lauralozzle

Working from home today so much easier to resist temptation

Monday

Leftover lemon pepper chicken, feta salad, potato salad and houmous/Greek yogurt dip.

Lauralozzle

glass_half_full wrote: »

Hi FatVonD,
Please can you tell me what YS stands for, I am probably being dumb. Also, how can you get a sandwich for 36p?

It means yellow sticker - i.e. Reduced section in the supermarket. You can bag great bargains!!!

glass_half_full

Lauralozzle wrote: »

It means yellow sticker - i.e. Reduced section in the supermarket. You can bag great bargains!!!

Oh I get it :T

Working from home today.

Todays lunch : Pitta bread, Goat's cheese, tomato and an apple. Cost £1 so saving of £2.

Did some baking to use up some fruit reaching the end of its life today and made a banana cake and an upside down pear cake so should help for the week's lunches also.

FatVonD

Yep, YS = yellow sticker. I live about 50 metres from a small Mr T and pop down most nights at final reductions time to nab a sandwich for the next day. They used to reduce by 90% but just lately it's only been by 80% but still bargainous and it means I get a good variety of fillings. They're always still fine the next day, I've only ever once had one that smelt a bit iffy :eek:

Maggie_Bob

Maggie_Bob wrote: »

I'm in for this challenge please - trying to save money in general but also because we still hope to buy a house some time this year so pennies towards moving costs and fees will help! I'm (recently) veggie, have access to a microwave and boiling water at work, and there's a Tesco down the road I need to avoid visiting every lunch time!


Yesterday: Rice and bean salad, heated up with olive oil drizzled through it. Did visit Mr T but only bought my fruit for the week (bunch of bananas, pack of flat peaches)


Today: quiche and salad, yoghurt and fruit.


Good luck and good lunch every one!

Need to catch-up! Listing what I brought in (or if I was naughty, bought) for lunch, usually have a supply of fruit etc to snack on


3rd: Rest of the quiche and salad
4th: Charity bake sale at work so I bought Spanish Omelette and scone for my lunch (£3)
7th: Rice & bean salad
8th: Rice & bean salad
9th: Rice & bean salad
10th: Tesco meal deal (£3)
11th: Leftovers from tea the night before (but I've forgotten what!)
14th: Leftover pasta bake
15th: Leftover pasta bake
16th: Leftover butternut squash curry

glass_half_full

Ok, quick update so I don't forget.

Tuesday - basically forgot but had some home made banana bread - cost practically zero - saving £3
Today - sardines on toast, banana, apple - approx - 65p saving £2.35

Not very exciting I'm afraid!

FatVonD

:TI'm being really tardy about posting again, so far this week:

Monday, pack of 2 sausage rolls, 65p
Tuesday, jacket potato cooked by my mum and grated cheese supplied by me, £1
Today, a YS turkey and emmental filled pretzel, 35p and crisps 33p

So over three days a total of £2.33 saving £6.67

squanderscouse

Joining in a bit late (but better late than never I suppose!)

This week so far I've had:
Tuesday - Chicken wrap from Pret - £3.88
Wednesday - leftover homemade vegetable soup
Thursday - leftover cajun chicken pasta

Great challenge, thanks for resurrecting

glass_half_full

Morning all,
Yesterday's lunch.
Bread roll, houmous, banana, cereal bar. £1.21. Saving £1.79.
Starting to become a habit now.

Maggie_Bob

Didn't have the Butternut squash curry on Wednesday as migraine struck and I didn't feel like eating anything much (I lasted the day on a couple of bananas and one of those Nakd bars).


Sooooo, I had the curry on Thursday and I've got the remaining portion today (thankfully it's been in the fridge and I trust my rice cooking not to poison me!). That means this week's lunches have been entirely 'free' as they've been made with leftovers - hurrah!