[Closed] How much does your lunch cost?

Apart from the fat, salt and sugar content of the crisps and tomato soup, that's really healthy. Oh, and there's a bit much in the way of carbs.

Mine is £5 per day but normally rubbish due to the apparent lack of cooking skill by anyone at my station or the fact that lunch time is seemingly the best time to set a car on fire :'(

Do you only eat half a tin of soup?

£3 - Sainsbury's meal deal.

Some home made soup and a banana. I'd be surprised if it cost more than a quid. Feeling quite hungry though as I type this!

im living in slovenia at the moment doing a placement. Here as students you get student coupons, as many as there are working days in the month. Which basically gives us a 4 course mean at most restaurants in the city for around 2-4 euros!
Bargain!
usually get salad, then soup, then a main dish, then dessert but thats often crap like cheap cake or a bit of fruit

Ham salad (made night before)
Activia yogurt
Orange
small Kit Kat

Probably about a quid. And more healthy than your junk 😉

left over friday nights fried rice and sweet & sour spicey chicken; too tricky to calculate cost to me 😀 though cost to the NHS maybe quite large

Mine today:

Home made soup: works out about 50p per portion
A bag of walkers baked crisps: 20p
A low fat yog: 35p
Banana, Pear and satsuma: maybe 50p?

Can you tell im from up north and saving for a house!?

Philpots Hot Special, marinated chicked on ciabatta with salad. Tyrells salt n pepper. Diet Coke. £6.20.

On water and plain bread tomorrow.

Considering I grew most of it myself the price would be very close to £0 which is just the way I like it

No point in wasting money on food when there's bike stuff to buy

turkey/stuffing butty £1.20
apple/banana/pear 20p each

£1.80.

Most days, 3 slices of salami, maybe a mushroom and 3 or 4 eggs. Less than a quid easily!

Bubble and squeak rosti with fried egg, followed by apple crumble and custard; £3.35 with my staff discount in the hospital canteen, with a free unlimited supply of corporation pop. Covers all my scrawny bodies needs, nom nom nom...I rarely bother cooking much at home.

Probably about a quid.

Chorizo
eggs x2
beansprouts
courgette
marrow
shrooms
sweet peppers
chilli pepper
garlic
onion
cheese

All scrambled up in a pan with a bit of humous on the side.

Do you work in a kitchen?!

At home most of the time. 😀

Normally bachelors condensed tomato soup, diluted with milk, white pepper 3 slices of bread then some raisins, probably about a quid.

Today was leftovers tho, kofta tagine and bread. Mmmmmmmm

edited for stupidity reasons

Tuna and cucumber butty (no mayo 😥 ) pint of skimmed milk = £1.30

I have no idea but work varies on taking something in, grabbing a sarnie at the garage, take away of some description but that has the risk of being called out and it going cold or pies.

If I'm at work, it's free - at home, about £1. Wrap, salad, chicken (usually), granola bar and sometimes a bag of crisps.

Today's lunch was 4 slices of home-made sourdough with ham and some salad leaves. Cost pennies?

Mine costs as much or as little as the local cafe charges. I really like cafes. A packed lunch, no matter how delicious I make it, is just a disappointing way to eat.

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2 for 99p at Greggs. Sausage-tastic! Why would anyone opt for anything else?

Most days, 3 slices of salami, maybe a mushroom and 3 or 4 eggs.

Living the dream!

1/2 pound lobster and a bottle of Cristal

Less than the £5 I used to spend at a sandwich shop... and I eat more and of a better quality.

Is a salad leaf, lettuce?

Ham sandwhich
walkers
banana

so probably less than a quid.

use to spend 5 or 6 quid every day going to the shop until i realised how much I was spending

I generally make a massive load of bolognese or some-such on a Sunday evening, which lasts me all week for lunches.

This week, for example: 1 packet of beef mince £3, some mushrooms, jar bolognese sauce £1.80, 1 onion £0.16, other mixed veg £1 and a few hanfuls of pasta £0.50 (& gas to cook it £?)

Works out at ~£1.50 per day plus gas!

Happy with that.

£1.50 wouldn't even buy me the cheapest sandwich in our canteen.

nickf - Member
Apart from the fat, salt and sugar content of the crisps and tomato soup, that's really healthy. Oh, and there's a bit much in the way of carbs.

Ok, well apart from the crisps.

Carbs, not an issue. i need them for the ride home 😆

I went through a stage of making a massive batch of food for thr week, but then got lazy, couple this with a few pots exploding in my bag on the way in, I was just put off.

Nothing today so £0.00

Do I win a prize?

Is a salad leaf, lettuce?

All lettuce are salad leaves. Not all salad leaves are lettuce.

£3.89 Boots meal deal - Higgidy Pie normally, choc-chip muffin, Naked Blueberry smoothy.

Nothing today so £0.00

Do I win a prize?

No lunch for me today either. Can i share the prize? Is it food?

Most days, 3 slices of salami, maybe a mushroom and 3 or 4 eggs.

Living the dream

Actual lol 😆

Either leftovers (so marginal, given overall weekly food cost) or something from the canteen at work (so £3-5ish, depending on greed).

Will be more leftovers shortly. Mainly because food I make is healthy, not like factory bread, crisps and industrial soup..!

I usually have a "Pasta 'n' Sauce," these days. Quite filling and ASDA are doing 'em for 50p at the moment. Do I win?

I pushed the boat out today, got a tin of Heinz soup and a couple of big teacakes (rolls / baps / muffins / barms / regional variation name of choice) so that probably ran to about a quid.

Free (taxpayer funded) canteen at work 😀

Tuna + cucumber sarnie
2 x apples

About £1.50.

I forgot my wallet today and all I had on me was £1.20 in change. Managed to get a cheese sandwich from Asda for a pound (I know, living the dream) but since I get an allowance for lunch of close to a fiver I'm actually the best part of £4 up on the day.

Homemade potato and leek soup with blue cheese. No work at the moment so plenty of time.

I have leftovers most days, so the cost is contained within the previous night's food budget. On the days I don't have them, lunch here is £2.50 for a choice of baked spud OR soup OR baguette OR normal meal-type thing.

About 2 quid.

Mr_C - Member
I get an allowance for lunch of close to a fiver I'm actually the best part of £4 up on the day.

That's quality. Not found many companies doing that.

I make it at home so about a pound at a guess. The most expensive part would be the chicken drumstick or the half can of tuna.

rice /pasta /beans
mixed veg
chicken /tuna
tomatoes
olives
seasoning

Kev

Jam 'n' cheese sandwich - home-made of course - so not a lot of pennies.

Will - you forgot to budget for a creme egg, have you overdosed?

£1.60ish odd for me.
4 slices of hovis bread (small loaf bakery made, not from a supermarket)
2 slices of turkey and a generous spread of cranberry sauce.
1 clementine.
1 very small choclate bar.

This is the lamest one-upmanship thread yet. how come you aren't all suffering from malnutrition. a 1 quid cheese sandwhich from asda!?

Pasty, tin of hoops. £1.30.

At a guess about £1.75

Tin of tuna + salad, h+b mayo, evoo and oatcakes. And perhaps a bit of yogurt and fruit.

Food for the day .-
Apple
Bannana
Orange / Satsuma / Clemantine
Peach / Nectarine / Pear depends on season
2 rounds of Sarnies , Ham or Chicken + extras
2 - 3 penguin biscuits
chunk of malt loaf or cinnamon Bagel
Mini Chedders 1 small pack
Cost , not sure. C £4.00 probably

I get £5 lunch allowance too, went overboard today but I did buy water for the week 😉

Asda

12 bottle 500ml water £2.29
6 wholemeal Pittas(got 3 left) £0.55
Deli ham 3 slices £1.29
packet of seed/nuts/raisins £0.89

total £5.02 🙁

but I have water for the week in the car and pitta for tomorrows lunch so will be in profit after tomorrow 😀

cereal at about 10am

various fruit (apples/oranges/bananas)

peanut butter sandwich for lunch 1.00pm

flapjacks and brownies about 3.30pm

tea and coffee all day

cost.....

free all provided by the boss at work

(snacks change daily, crumpets and jam tomorrow i think)