What do you bring to work for lunch?

65 cents ... MINGYA! Ours are $1.25.

 

Vending machine at my job wants $2.50 for a Vitamin Water. They give us free Gatorade and water, we work outside in the heat, kinda nice to give us stuff.

I usually bring PB and J, does wonders for my energy.

 

Lots of leftovers, generally. Sandwiches other days.

 

Today, it's a roasted turkey sandwich with mozzarella, roasted red peppers and basil.

 

That sounds amazing.

 

I can't believe the number of people in a generally underpaid profession who eat out every day -- usually a sub or hamburger-fries type thing that probably costs $6-7 a day.

I make my lunch every day - sandwich, yogurt, piece of fruit, granola bar

I eat what I want, when I want, and it costs a fraction of cafeteria food

 

So you eat the same thing for lunch every day?

 

I'll go a week at a time where I'm eating the same thing every day. You can do tuna salad on the cheap, either serve it with pita bread or crackers, and you've got lunch for a whole week for less than $10. Yeah, it limits variety, but it's healthy and it keeps me from spending $40-50 a week on takeout lunches.

You can switch it up, obviously. One week it's tuna. Another it's turkey breast on wheat. Plus, since I work at home so much, it makes sense to eat lunch here.

 

Best thing about the office I work at is the subsidized vending machines. A can of pop is 25 cents and bags of chips are 30 cents. So if I bring a sandwich and a granola bar, I can buy a drink and chips to go along with it for 55 cents and be good to go.

 

I can usually go a couple days eating the same thing. Definitely not a whole week.

 

Chef Boyardee low fat ravioli

 

Because of my living situation, I spent three years living on fast food. I regret most of it.
The last two and a half months I can count on one hand the number of times I've gone fast food and still have a finger or two left over. I just feel ill eating that crap now.

I moved two and a half months ago and have brown bagged it since. It was a change fuelled by a sudden jump in living expences which has turned out to been great health-wise. I found out I actually like that 12 grain bread, which is weird because I have always hated whole wheat unless it was homemade.

I usually take a couple of sandwhiches -- often PBJ or some kind of deli meat -- two pieces of fruit and two sprite zeros. Pop at work is $1.25 so I try not to buy from there if I can help it. Even a choclate bar from the machine is $1.50. No cafeteria although there is a lunch room.