The €5 lunch

Heisenberg.

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Balmed Out

Try Brackens on Paul street next door to amicus (old gingerbread house) Great sandwiches with a cofee is around a fiver. Nothing fancy but excellent value

Bros123

Make a few ham sandwiches and fill an empty coke bottle with milk.Problem solved.Or even cheaper,luncheon roll.

Kazbah

Any Spar, Centra etc will sell you a roll/sandwich and hot/cold drink for around a fiver.

coolmoose

ya a lot of centras/spars etc do a hot chicken roll/drink deal for lunch, around the 5 mark. centra grand parade always has a good selection.

Bros123

Jaysus whats wrong with making a few sandwiches for yourself?And a drop of milk or get water from the toilet taps at work.

dulpit

Water from the toilet taps? Nice...

I heard that there's a Chinese restaurant on Patrick's St. that does like a full 3 course meal for around a fiver... But that could be bollocks too...

Tree

mulligans in parnell place. soup and bread or a savage toastie will be under a fiver.

missingtime

On Wednesday, Abrakebabra (Patrick street) do a meal deak for €4. Can't really get better than that.

Burger/Kebab, Chips and a drink.

It's always very busy though.

TheDriver

Always get some billy roll in a roll from tescos and value label cola, should set you back no more than a euro, get a weeks lunch for fiver.....
(Not noting the Doctor Bills for impending diabetes etc)

Tree

TheDriver wrote: »

Always get some billy roll in a roll from tescos and value label cola, should set you back no more than a euro, get a weeks lunch for fiver.....
(Not noting the Doctor Bills for impending diabetes etc)

spend the extra few cent on corned beef man! billy roll is mank!

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Agamemnon

The Scientist wrote: »

I usually dont drink pints on weekdays mornings

Pfffft. Lightweight. You'll never handle this weekend - by this time tomorrow, you'll be having your stomach pumped.

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pro_gnostic_8

missingtime wrote: »

On Wednesday, Abrakebabra (Patrick street) do a meal deak for €4. Can't really get better than that.

Burger/Kebab, Chips and a drink.

Good one MissingT .................. good to know that! Cheers.
Think that Hillbilly's have a cheapish (2 for 1) SnackBox on Tuesdays also.

Bros123

What ever happened to making a few sandwiches at home?
And if you put the milk in the freezer the night before it will be defrosted and chilled ready for you to drink at lunchtime.

Raskolnikov

McDonald's.

Hamburger meal for €3

rymus

four star pizza.. lunch special for €5. includes yer coca cola

Bros123

You would get a week of sandwiches from a tin of corned beef and Aldi have diluted orange for 80c.

dahamsta

Corned beef is lovely and all, but a week of it? Womit like!

Tree

mmmmmm corned beef.

aparently there's some place int eh english market does nice sammages

RoundyMooney

Nobody does the packed lunch thing anymore.

I tried it for a while, but got lazy.

I suppose if we all stuck with flasks and luncheon roll, the economy would collapse

Tree

as would your stomach, luncheon roll is mank

Heisenberg.

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Bros123

Tree wrote: »

as would your stomach, luncheon roll is mank

But you can get the one with the smiley face on it.
I like to use food colouring to paint different accessories(i.e glasses,curly hair,eye patch etc)on them for different days of the week,Monday always has a sad face and Friday always smiles.
I find it makes lunchtime fun and adds variety to the weeks sandwiches.
Also if you have a flask make some Bovril now that the cold weather is setting in.
Hot beefy bovril,theres nothing like it.

dahamsta

Luncheon roll I can handle in moderation, but bovril? Jesus, no!

dudara

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Nobody does the packed lunch thing anymore.

I suppose if we all stuck with flasks and luncheon roll, the economy would collapse

I bring a lunch with me 3-4 days of the week. As long as you have access to a microwave, the sky is the limit

Tree

the smiley face is billy roll.

cold pasta makes a nice lunch too. but not everyday

Bros123

Tree wrote: »

the smiley face is billy roll.

cold pasta makes a nice lunch too. but not everyday

I like to call mine Sylvester not Billy.

corcaigh07

gers deli on mccurtain st does the best chicken rolls in town for 3 quid!

razorblunt

When I was working in town during the summer I found that Quay News, over at the Flying Enterprise, used to get a hot chicken roll and milk for under a fiver.

Hogzy

4star lunch time special.

9" pizza + 2 toppins + can of drink for €5

Nice to indulge now and then but wouldnt recommend everyday!

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StandnDeliver

banana,brown roll, and a drink from dunnes or tesco healthy!Gotta have a bit of fruit

bill_ashmount

Roll with 3 fillings, banana, apple, small carton of milk.

Less than €5 in any Spar shop.

MidnightQueen

Come to think of it most of the suggestions are takeaway meals for under €5. What about the people who want healthy food instead of fatty food? Its ridiculous but people are paying alot more for a healthy meal!

run_Forrest_run

corcaigh07 wrote: »

gers deli on mccurtain st does the best chicken rolls in town for 3 quid!

it makes me worry that a shop can cook and sell chicken plus the bread and fillings for €3 and still make a profit!! I have to question the quality of the food, especially the chicken

But I have never been there so maybe I am being unfair.

dahamsta

Speaking of healthy food, I'll be all set for my first breakfast roll in several months shortly, please post your nominations for the best breakfast roll and/or hot chicken baguette in Cork.

adam

pow wow

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

it makes me worry that a shop can cook and sell chicken plus the bread and fillings for €3 and still make a profit!! I have to question the quality of the food, especially the chicken

But I have never been there so maybe I am being unfair.

Most of the time they don't cook the chicken themselves though, and if they do it's from frozen fillets which are a lot cheaper. I worked in a deli years ago where every day we'd buy about 30 chickens from the Chicken Inn and I'd spend all morning slicing them up for sambos. We tried moving over to the 'prepacked sliced chicken' which looked more mechanically reclaimed than chicken and the customers hated it. I think the standard has improved a bit for prepacked chicken now!

wazzoraybelle

KittyKat wrote: »

Come to think of it most of the suggestions are takeaway meals for under €5. What about the people who want healthy food instead of fatty food? Its ridiculous but people are paying alot more for a healthy meal!

Quay coop Lunch for €8.50 will do you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Healthy and €8.50÷3=€2.66 per meal

Kold

wazzoraybelle wrote: »

Quay coop Lunch for €8.50 will do you for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Healthy and €8.50÷3=€2.66 per meal

They need to shove some beef in that crap and then it might be food ^_^

wazzoraybelle

ha ha

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sunnyside

Kold wrote: »

They need to shove some beef in that crap and then it might be food ^_^

Have you tried it? I love Quay Co-Op food and I'm not a vegetarian.

Judes

Slightly over the €5.00 mark - but you can get starters/main course/coffee for €7.50 - China Gold on Patrick's Street, entrance next door to Wallis, restaurant upstairs. But that's when you want a big feed. You get to sit in a restaurant, get waited on by really friendly staff - and for €7.50 - you can't go wrong.

And I agree with poster re. the O'Flynn sausage stall - YUM!!! J

taram

Falaf al's off Castle Street: Falafal/Kebab and a drink for a fiver during the week with a student ID. I may be addicted!

Kold

The staff may be ignorant trolls but you really can't beat the sandwich deal at Daybreak's deli on Gilabbey St (By St Finbarres).

A nice big sandwich (the bread is lovely), packet of taytos and can of coke for 3.50.

steps_3314

The deli next to the kop shop in Blackpools Watercourse Road. They wont be beating.

dahamsta wrote: »

Speaking of healthy food, I'll be all set for my first breakfast roll in several months shortly, please post your nominations for the best breakfast roll and/or hot chicken baguette in Cork.

adam

MJOR

Judes wrote: »

Slightly over the €5.00 mark - but you can get starters/main course/coffee for €7.50 - China Gold on Patrick's Street, entrance next door to Wallis, restaurant upstairs. But that's when you want a big feed. You get to sit in a restaurant, get waited on by really friendly staff - and for €7.50 - you can't go wrong.

And I agree with poster re. the O'Flynn sausage stall - YUM!!! J

here here yum!

chuci

the soup place in the english market. soup and your choice of bread for 4.50 and its healthy too.

Fabio

Joop is it?