I've found myself spending 8-10 dollars for lunch on a fairly regular basis for regular fast/fast-casual offerings, which I think is way to much money. In an effort to save money, I started packing lunch, but I have fat nigga self-control and find myself eating the lunch I packed around 10-10:30 and buying another lunch around 2.

I want to eat everything as soon as I get in the office

especially when I ride my bike

Every once in a while I'll splurge for lunch (probably $8-$10) but most of the time, I pack.

Can you pack double the food? Eat something early and save the other half for lunch?

I'm usually packing shoes; in the winter because I'm wearing boots, and in the spring/summer/fall because I bike to work,

http://www.ortliebusa.com/subcategory.asp?category=2

that is some fat nigga shit.

over packing so he can justify eating out.

I mean...i know you one of them 7ft tall cats...so you probably got them big goofy ass feet so yeah..your shoe's probably take up a whole grip of space....
but still....
for food?....oh i'll find a way!
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One thing of tupperware, a couple pieces of fruit, a chobani and a granola bar or chips.

ones...not the cheap ones...
layer them joints...
switch to the kids Chobani tubes instead of the tubs....
ditch the chips...they're bad for you anyway...
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one of my resolutions....

but prior....$6 - $10 is what was being spent...

It helps to eat at my desk instead of heading to the cafeteria....them desserts be calling me....

The bigger/better the breakfast I have the easier it is....

My problem is that I head out for work at 5:30am by bike....and I work up a decent appetite biking in every day...so I gotta space my breakfast out between 6am - 8am...which will get me to lunch which I usually take around 11am.... I gotta have a snack by 1pm though...
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$25 a day on food at work smh.

pbj sandwiches?

sandwich bag of dorritos?

microwave dinners?

sandwich (pbj or otherwise)
chips
apple or some other kind of fruit
granola bar

that's me pretty much every day.

and i always keep a pack of nabs or a breakfast bar or something in my lunch bag.

like a 200 calorie bowl of cereal or oatmeal?

Gotta get the daughter dressed, fed and hair done, drive her to school, then back home in time to catch the bus.

>Gotta get the daughter dressed, fed and hair done, drive her
>to school, then back home in time to catch the bus.

so I generally bring in a pack of lunch meat and bread and fruits on Monday morning that will last the full week. Just make my sammiches here....

Gotta have some fruit on hand though...that's the bridge between breakfast, lunch and the big snackbeforedinner when i get home from work...
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other times, I'll hit the publix to get some wings and couple small pre-made salads, and some kinda fruit.

Turkey with cheese, lettuce tomato. Sometimes roast beef. Maybe a double-decker PB&J. Sometimes, I'll make some egg salad at home and roll with egg salad sandwiches for a couple of days.

I alternate between grapes and bananas. And throw in various granola bars.

I'm not one of those people who gets bored with eating the same thing all the time. My girl is like that so it seems like she goes thru episodes trying to get her lunch together.

that crap either.

but i'll usually make something for dinner at night, or take leftovers from what i made the night before to eat.

some fruit, maybe cheese and crackers and salad

and grab some water, i'm good.

breakfast at home
coffee at work

a snack
lunch
another snack

then dinner at home

Apples and protein bars. Lunch in this section of NYC I work in is way too expensive to purchase on a daily basis. And I don't think it's too healthy to each store bought lunches too often either.

Then a yogurt, nuts, carrots, apple etc to go along with it.
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i use the rubbermaid takealongs containers
http://www.rubbermaid.com/Category/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?CatName=FoodStorage&SubcatId=TakeAlongs&Prod_ID=RP091253

i was good with TJ kale and balsamic chicken for a while

then i just lost it
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http://www.belvitabreakfast.com/
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but i work in a neighbourhood with so many great choices that it's so hard to be frugal

my company gives us a $25 a day stipend for lunch daily though

Which I thought was ABSURD © Russell Wilson

When I first started

Now I feel like I'm barely scraping by

#fatpeopleproblems

half before I leave work for dinner

That way two meals on the company

CHEA

lol...

man...i'd eat like a KAING for lunch every DAY for $25
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I would be keeping it to the 7-8 range.

But then again I had no problem spending $10 on lunch when I was making $8 an hour

#fatpeopleproblems

i found that carrying lunch cost about the same amount if i bring enough food to actually fill me up.

b/c i'm not about that cold cut sammich life. not on a regular basis.

and leftovers?

LOL

>i found that carrying lunch cost about the same amount if i
>bring enough food to actually fill me up.

I find that the time saved by packing a lunch is of more value than the couple of bucks saved.


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..on a 2nd lunch?

damn.

wouldn't it make sense to pack a snack and eat a lighter lunch ($5)?

i had a coworker years ago that had to eat whenever other people were eating, even if he'd just finished eating lunch an hour before. ended up gettin' therapy to stop that habit.


*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

there are rare occasions where i may forget it and on those day, i spend about $5

for a week.

and is paying significantly more than she was before and she's like where will i find the money?

i'm like when you start actually buying groceries and using those groceries to make your lunch you'd be amazed at the savings.

i saved maybe $10/week packing a lunch.

it didn't make enough difference for me to deal w/the time and effort that went into preparing food specifically to bring for lunch.

but that's me.

money on food at work when i buy groceries, doesn't compute in my budget calculator.

great for everyone else that does it. but it's not for me.

no real extra time or effort goes into it for me. *shrug*

now coffee habit is another story. but the keurig coffee choices SUCK

and i was spending about $4 to $6/day on it. so instead i typically buy lunch and spend $5 to $8/day.

he stacked the deck against saving money by making a lunch.

i typically don't have leftovers. and when i did if i ate that stuff at lunch then i didn't wanna eat it again at home. so that meant extra cooking.

no cold cuts b/c that shit gets boring real fast.

so i was left to buy and cook specific food for lunch at work. and doing that meant i was spending like $4 to $6/day on lunch. and it meant i spent my whole work day in my office bldg. plus extra time spent at home preparing those meals. and then i had to carry the meals in plastic dishes which i had to carry home and wash. all of that added up to extra time and work on lunch. i decided the relatively meager amount of $ i saved doing that wasn't worth all of that time and effort. so i stopped carrying lunch regularly.

I thought you meant you don't do leftovers because they are leftovers.

I cook for 2 and 10 years in I still struggle to cook the right amount so there is always leftovers. I'm going to make a how to cook for 2 post because I'm pretty sure I'm wasting money.

I brought my lunch (leftovers) and was real close to going out to eat just cause it's leftovers...

because it's not usually the main part of lunch that is expensive, but all the little extras that add up

i have a big breakfast.

eggs, bacon or cornbeef hash and toast

or

eggs, flax seed banana or blueberry pancakes


maybe ill have a coffee or smoothie in the afternoon, but i pretty much never eat.


i will have dinner like around 4-5-6 then eat again around 9-10pm sometimes.

>I've found myself spending 8-10 dollars for lunch on a fairly
>regular basis for regular fast/fast-casual offerings, which I
>think is way to much money. In an effort to save money, I
>started packing lunch, but I have fat nigga self-control and
>find myself eating the lunch I packed around 10-10:30 and
>buying another lunch around 2.


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i eat 6 small meals a day (three of which i take to work) and i prepare them all ahead of time at home
so lunch money is part of grocery money

for a ready-pac salad and some baked lays potato chips my job has for free

and tazo tea also from work for free

i try to make that a once a week thing IF that
japanese bento box

its cold out
we have Fooda but i didn't like todays vendor
you can spend $7-12 on that lunch

the location moved so we not longer have food trucks as close

but yes it can be that high
and thats with me tipping $4 because i be feeling bad for the delivery guys
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From the deli across the street
(Coworkers call it the dirty deli, whateves)
But I was not going out today
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because it's cold. and minimum is $10 and I just can't see myself going outside for anything.

It's not normal for me
But winter + this new location + me feeling bad for the delivery guy = coming up out of my pockets



Btw dude now knows me :(
Said " you good people"
Awww
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from spots of this ilk
http://www.duesenbergscafeandgrill.com/lunch-menu.php

However when I do have to eat out I have this thing about not wanting to spend more than $5, so that means finding somebody's value meal. If I do spend more than $5 I try to go to the dining hall at my job, it's $6.75 for all you can eat.

catch me on a good thrifty week
and its TJs bolognese with Kale

or Balsalmic Chicken with Kale

or i'll roast some brussel sprouts and make meatloaf

but i've been eating out for a few months now
=(
you can see up there how expensive it can get

i used to eat a late breakfast
BEC or egg white spinach turkey bacon wrap w a mango pineapple smoothie
but my spot closed in the fall

that would last me most of the day and i'd have cereal in the late afternoon

=(
*sigh*
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which is kinda the way you're supposed to do it, no? bigger meals earlier in the day. unless i'm heading out drinking, usually for dinner i'll have something small. a) cause i don't feel like cooking. and b) cause i don't feel like fucking cooking. its pure laziness, but it works sometimes. tonight tho...i'll be having something good for lunch and dinner, cause i'll be out.
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not compassionate....only polite.

I am not like you at all and i cannot pretend.

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really depends on where I go, but the only time it's more than that is on payday. I can't pack lunch, like ya'll said, I eat it before it's lunch time then I'm hungry again around 2, which means either I eat again or I wait until dinner.

The plus side is that most of the places near my job give the hospital a discount (15% to 20% but anything is better than nothing, so that helps.

but that's literally $40 a week and when I think of it in those terms, I'm like "WTF am I doing with my life."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-brings-lunch-from-home-to-cut-down-on-small-jo,37912/

I know it all adds up, but you have to ask yourself how much your time is worth. Packing lunch would mean waking up earlier each day, buying more groceries, and having to carry my lunch around. Worst of all, carrying tupperware back and forth. FOH. And dinner leftovers usually get eaten the following night.

Not gonna do it.

On Mondays I stock my office and breakroom fridge with a weeks worth of yogurts, fruit, and soup. Then I buy a sandwich at the sub shop across from work every day.

They are building a Publix across the street from the office, so I'm looking forward to copping a 12 inch sub and eating half one day, and half the next.