Keeping food cost down - work

Pestilence said:
I've made that mistake once, and once only. With homemade crab cakes.

The stench was absolutely rotten. I thought my boss was going to attack me the way he reacted. Not to mention the office was open plan at the time! :o

In terms of cheap lunches, leftover chilli/spag/curry from the night before + medium to large potato + microwave = cheap and tasty lunch.

At the moment I'm on a bender of Ainsley Harriot branded Rice packs(Mexican, Szechuan, Golden etc.). Can do them in the microwave and then add a bit of hot sauce and cooked chicken/ham a few minutes before the end. Lovely, and far below £5 a day.
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Yeah. Thankfully it's not an issue where I work now but in previous jobs I've felt like murdering people. It always seemed to be the people with incredibly poor personal hygiene that also liked to microwave fish. Perhaps they hoped if they made everyone smell as bad as they did nobody would notice their natural body stench.

rotters said:
i was talking about these cold in a salad, delicious.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=267137199

Ive never worked in an office but are you forced to eat in the place you work ie at your desk? are you not provided a coffee room?
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Have you tried the sweet chilli mackerel that Tesco sell? Absolutely divine :)
 
realBabelfish said:
he brings in tins of mackerel etc and eats out of the tin. stinks to high heaven
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Nowt wrong with Mackerel from the tin, tbh. Tin of mackerel in tomato sauce slapped on top of a bit of wholemeal toast. Nice, cheap and healthy.

Sure it smells a little, but it's not particularly rancid -- and, as said, not microwaved. :D

Apparently if somebody reeks the place out by microwaving something, if you stick a piece of sliced lemon in a small bowl of water and microwave that for a couple of minutes it can clear the stink pretty quickly. Haven't tried it myself, though.
 
Make fresh bread (cheap and easy to do) or buy wholemeal stuff. Try your local butcher for some sort of meat to put in it for a sarnie instead of buying most of the garbage that a supermarket sells. Here in Barnsley theres a butchers market with an insane amount of choice and its brilliant for sandwich meat. Brilliant fresh cuts of whatever meat you want, cheaper than the supermarkets charge for wafer thing rubbish.

I probably spend £5 per week on my lunch, if that.
 
i have soup for lunch when on earlys and whatever 'healthy' ready meals are available for £1 when on lates.

i enjoy good food and thats just not available so when im at work i eat just so im not hungry when i either get home late or ive had enough to get me through to tea.
 
So popped to Sains yesterday, and picked up the following:

2x 500g blocks of Whykes Farm cheese (buy one get one free) £3.69
A pack of smoked brunswick ham slices £1
A loaf of granary bread £1.35
Some apples £2

So whilst it was £8, I only used about a 3rd of one block of cheese and 2 apples to make ham, apple and cheese sarnies for the gf and I. Even have some bread left over for toast tomorrow.

So today's lunch (2 sarnies for her, 4 for me) cost around £1.70 per person, and includes 1 of our five a day. :p
 
Four sandwiches? As in 8 slices of bread?

For a long time I just had crudites and low-fat dip for lunch. Now I make salads, although generally it is the same thing every day but when I'm doing football or exercise I'll throw in something extra like chicken or tuna. Dressings can really change it up and as a treat I'll get some avocado.

If I don't get round to making salad it'll be a sandwich/salad from work which aren't that great.
 
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