How much do you spend on lunch?

Recently? nothing if I am bringing food from home, alternativly now and again I splash out about £2.20 for 4 pieces of BBQ chicken thighs from Tesco hot deli counter sometimes

Works out cheaper and more filling than paying £2.50 for Sandwich, £1.00 for sausage roll, £1 for crisps and chocolate
 
I used to spend around £3 a day on average but as it soon adds up I now make lunch at home and take it to work instead.
 
Nymins said:
Tastes nice so I don't really mind! Don't have canteen facilities here and the local Spars' premade food is horrible.

£3-4 for a sandwich from the shop is a joke. I only ever buy their premade pasta things if I'm desperate and didn't bring anything in.
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Furry muff :D

I used to know this guy whose entire diet consisted of:

cheese rolls (same type of cheese, cut not grated, same type of bread, nothing else)

cheese and tomato pizza (same brand)

fig rolls

orange juice or cola
 
used to be quite a bit with an average spend of about £5 a day

now I have a wife and kid

1 loaf of bread, 1 jar of sandwich spread, fruit and that's me for the week :D

so i'd say about a fiver :)
 
billysielu said:
The logic continues in my head like this...

So what am I gonna spend this fortune on? I'd quite like better lunches. :D
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No, nice piece of steak or leg of lamb and some good wine for my tea once in a while. Each to their own eh! £120 is 1/3 of our monthly food spend anyway so is quite a bit of money for us.

I would spend £6+ a day on coffee if I let myself but just stick to tea as they only have the instant at work.
 
I plan my weekly meals and aim for 3-4 dinners that can be lunch the next day.

If I have non-lunchable dinners, my weekly spend is usually around £7.

Prespective:

Sunday night we had a baked potato each with our dinner, so there was another potato each for Monday's lunch.

Monday dinner: Pork ribs (not lunchable)
Tues lunch: Ham, cheese and apple sandwiches
Tues dinner/Wed lunch: Sausage casserole
Wed dinner/Thurs lunch: Hamburgers
Thurs dinner/Fri lunch: Spag bol
 
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I used to buy from the local butty shop but it was costing me about £5 a day! So I started buying a large chicken and cooking it on a Sunday and eating that with some pita breads for lunch in the week. Now it costs me about £7 a week! :)
 
There's a cheap café near where I work. Baguettes are only 99p, paninis are £1.49, jacket potato + 2 fillings £2.10, etc.

I usually get baguettes on 3 days, Panini on one day and some other hot food on the 5th day so overall less than £7 for the week.

Before I discovered that café I used to keep nutella/peanut butter here at work and bring in home baked bread. That used to work out to less than £2/week.
 
The work canteen is free so a grand total of £0.
The only thing I spend money on is a coffee after lunch but there is a Costa in the office and a large coffee is £1 (subsidised I guess).

I'm actually saving a fair bit of money by stuffing my face at lunch and then just having a quick light dinner in the evening.
 
Around £1.50 on some kind of brown/granary loaf
Anywhere from £2-£4 on filling.

I take 1 sandwich (2 slices of bread) to work and that does me until I get home. I am a small eater :D
 
Col_M said:
The work canteen is free so a grand total of £0.
The only thing I spend money on is a coffee after lunch but there is a Costa in the office and a large coffee is £1 (subsidised I guess).

I'm actually saving a fair bit of money by stuffing my face at lunch and then just having a quick light dinner in the evening.
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That's a setup to be jelly of. Slice of toast for breckie, a massive feast for lunch, and something small for tea.

who needs a food budget!
 
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