Your Lunch Hour ?

Estella

So what/where do eat for for lunch hour. Do you bring a packed lunch ( I know, I sound like an auld wan) Do you have a decent cafeteria in your work place or college. And if you do eat out, where is the best place, food and price wise you go ?


I'm thinking Stevens Green with a cup of coffee and a roll is quite nice (and cheap) in this weather.

SV

If not in a hurry..Drive home, cook something up..
If kind of in a rush, it's KFC drive through time :rolleyes:

All else failing..bar of choc out of vending machine :(

Sherifu

Restaurant usually.

Nightwish

I bring in a box of cereal at the start of the week. I have a bowl each day followed by 2 slices of brown bread. I eat outside the office when the weather is nice, as I'm lucky enough to have nice surroundings outside.

Terry

If I'm working and I remember, I'll bring a packed lunch.
If I forget, then it's a crappy roll from some kip.

Msfc

Bring a packed lunch, eat in the tiny staff room, no canteen or decent shop near by!!

Flukey

I bring my own lunch. That way you know what you are eating, and it works out cheaper than going out everyday. It is extremely rare that I eat out, or even go to buy a roll in a nearly shop. If you do eat out every day, stop doing so for a week and bring your own lunch in and see how much cheaper it is. I should get out of the office more often at lunchtime, and go for a walk or something, but I normally stay in.

Loopy

Bit of everything really. Deli next door to me in work so normally twice a week grab something there and then eat out the rest of the week.

Yesterday though, we went to a place and for 2 salads and tea it cost €30 for 2 of us - FOR SALADS!!! God damn bloody rip off, my fault for paying it though but it was my turn to get it so didn't want to come across as a tight arse but if I had of been on my own I would have left it. Rip off Ireland:mad:

Piste

I was buying lunch from delis for a while, and super-delicious though they may be, I figured I could make just as delicious sandwiches at home and save my money.

Raoul

Donnybrook Fair for me most days. Its pretty nice except I keep gettin this scabby chinese girl all the time, buts hardly any chicken tikka on me roll.:mad:

Had a BK today though. Dont even like them that much just fancied a whopper.

biko

As it's Friday we always go to Tamarind and have a bento box. Most other days I cook something for lunch or go into town for sushi/sandwich from McCambridges.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I usually bring my lunch to work, saves money and wasting your lunch queing up for food!

burgess1

The school canteen is awful (teachers complain that we're tired etc because of our diet but the canteen only has pot noodle, chocolate, soft drinks and chicken burgers :rolleyes:) so I usually bring a packed lunch or grab a roll in Londis.

JMB88

Usually go to O'briens for a sambo. Such a ****in' ripoff tho!

Wertz

Packed lunch: sambos, fruit, crisps, bars, yoghurt...costs me about 30 quid a week....if I was eating out of shop/deli I'd be spending twice that and eating less, not something I do that often unless I sleep it and don't have time to make up a lunch.

ciano1

burgess1 wrote: »

The school canteen is awful (teachers complain that we're tired etc because of our diet but the canteen only has pot noodle, chocolate, soft drinks and chicken burgers :rolleyes:) so I usually bring a packed lunch or grab a roll in Londis.

Ours has chips,curry chips,chip buttys and eh.... chocolate

Duiske

Lucky enough to be working a few minutes from home now, but when I was in Dublin I was working a 2 minute walk from Parsons on Baggot Bridge. Sambo's were amazing, and were worth waiting in line for.
Often seen the queue extend back over the bridge.

LivingDeadGirl

I always bring my own lunch, it's a waste to be buying it everyday imo(unless you can really afford it :cool:) when you can bring in nice stuff from home. I usually bring a big tin of tuna or salmon, some fruit and maybe a Nutrigrain or Alpen bar(sugar boost I can't resist ) into school with me. I swear that tuna keeps me full ALL day long!!

c - 13

I'm living across the road from work so I usually just walk home for lunch hour and have something already made in the fridge. Throw on a few episodes of something while i'm there. Proper time to relax.

We dont even have a fridge in the office and with the heat here anything with butter/mayo etc can turn and you'd be as sick as a dog the next day so its the safer option too.

Usually I take half an hour and grab a sandwich from our canteen. Sometimes I meet someone and go to a restaurant. Sandwiches are only 1.70 and nice so I don't think it's too expensive

Gone West

We've got a good canteen, so sometimes go there, there is a forest and walks, gardens etc out the back so I usually go out with a book, sit under this tree and read if the weather is nice.
Sometimes I'll just pop up to that fresh supermarket and grab a wrap or bring in my own either, or go down to the beach and read there and eat lunch there.

tman

I usually make some sandwiches the night before and bring them in (pastrami and egg today... I was in the mood for trying something a bit random:p)
We get the occasional hot lunch in the cafeteria, and there are usually rolls and sandwiches to be had, so a lot of the time I just take the lazy option and get one of those.

Jemmy

Usually supervalu or superquinn!

Anyone working in Greystones?
Wana do lunch?!:D

truecrippler

In work, usually a Bagel out of the Bagel factory or a freshly made Chicken (there's pink sauce on the chicken and I've been eating it for years now but I cant remember the name, my brain is messing with me and annoying me, wtf) roll with tomato, onion, lettuce and cheese. Bottle of water, packet of crisps and a Toffee Crisp.

If I'm in College, trip to the pub, few pints and a sambo and miss about 2 lectures. Not too bad.

Edit: Its chicken tikka.. woohoo. How could I have forgotten???

stephenmarr

usually bring lunch
ham,cranberry sauce rocket salad and port salut cheese on fresh bread. yogurt and some kinda fruit washed down with more cranberry juice.

Keano

Our canteen at work is subsidised so a dinner costs around €3. Should really bring lunch to work to get proper food.

Cool_CM

FuzzyLogic wrote: »

We've got a good canteen, so sometimes go there, there is a forest and walks, gardens etc out the back so I usually go out with a book, sit under this tree and read if the weather is nice.
Sometimes I'll just pop up to that fresh supermarket and grab a wrap or bring in my own either, or go down to the beach and read there and eat lunch there.

Beach? Forest? Where is this magical place you work? Can I work there too?!

truecrippler

Cool_CM wrote: »

Beach? Forest? Where is this magical place you work? Can I work there too?!

Sounds like Narnia to me.

Poxyshamrock

Quiznos
Subway
O'Briens
Wokking
Apache

Does me for the week

Joe Cool

Eat whatever crap the restaurant in work serves and then sit around drinking tea with the lads. Go outside if the weather's good.

Seeing as the lads are leaving the place I'll start goin' with the girls, probably end up in sync in with them too.

:cool:

Dord

Buy lunch from various delis, sandwich shops and eateries close to where I work. I should really start bringing lunch in but I'm lazy.

JohnCleary

All food is paid for in my workplace (Only ther eon work experience though) so obviously just eat there.

The food isint that exciting but it's decent food with decent enough variety (Meat / Veg / Fish option).

Happy days. All tea/coffee is free too... I don't dare think how much milk the place goes through every day

TeletextPear

i try to bring food in but i always get up way too late to make lunch so usually end up running to o'briens or centra

The tax man

Cool_CM wrote: »

Beach? Forest? Where is this magical place you work? Can I work there too?!

+1

This week I have been mostly eating rolls filled with tasteless crap.

I like to eat my main meal for the day at lunchtime.
So I usually go home to cook.

Creamy Goodness

Jemmy wrote: »

Usually supervalu or superquinn!

Anyone working in Greystones?
Wana do lunch?!:D

love to work in greystones, so many fine eateries around there.

Gone West

Cool_CM wrote: »

Beach? Forest? Where is this magical place you work? Can I work there too?!

Ireland has at least several tons of beaches, and also loads of forests!
Get a good map, find a geographic location that suits you and then find a job there. Make your job work for you, rather than moulding yourself around your job. And yeah, I do work in Dublin (near a dort line too).

xzanti

I go home, I only work 5 minutes from my house (by car)... tis greash..

Solarball10

Tis the staff canteen for me...costs about 20 eur a week, subsidised menu, so it's great, they have a good choice as well - hot meals, meat, salads, etc.... free tea. coffee, hot choc and soft drinks too....happy days

Neamhshuntasach

I work less than 5 minutes from my house. So i go home for lunch. I also get 2 hour lunch breaks because they think i do work at the weekends on the laptop. But it's really done over the course of the week. 12-2 and it's scrubs and fresh prince for me.

Flukey

Flukey wrote: »

I bring my own lunch. That way you know what you are eating, and it works out cheaper than going out everyday.

Piste wrote: »

I was buying lunch from delis for a while, and super-delicious though they may be, I figured I could make just as delicious sandwiches at home and save my money.

BrynW wrote: »

I usually bring my lunch to work, saves money and wasting your lunch queing up for food!

Wertz wrote: »

Packed lunch: sambos, fruit, crisps, bars, yoghurt...costs me about 30 quid a week....if I was eating out of shop/deli I'd be spending twice that and eating less, not something I do that often unless I sleep it and don't have time to make up a lunch.

See, I don't really buy into this whole 'it's cheaper to make your own' malarkey. Sometimes it just isn't cheaper at all, unless you scrimp and buy the cheapo cheese/ham/whatever. The meat and cheese and salads you get in Deli's in town are usually of a very high standard.

I recently bought:

Batch loaf (€1), pack of ham(€2.50), pack of cheese(€3), onions(€0.50), box of coleslaw (€3), mustard (€2) which is a total of €12. This did me for 2 days and i'd a bit of the batch bread and the mustard left over. Granted, I'd 2 sambos a day but if I'd only made 1 a day it still would have lasted only 4 days = €3 per day.

Yesterday i got ham, cheese, red onion, coleslaw and mustard on a roll for €3.60.

Plus, if you make your own, you have to eat the same sambo for 4/5 days in a row and variety is the key to everything when it comes to grub.

bluewolf wrote: »

Usually I take half an hour and grab a sandwich from our canteen. Sometimes I meet someone and go to a restaurant. Sandwiches are only 1.70 and nice so I don't think it's too expensive

That's a bargain. Even if you got everything in Aldi/Lidl I doubt you could make a decent sambo for €1.70.

I'm not bigging up Spar or Centra here, but a lot of people in work look down on others (not really, but it's hard to describe) who go out to buy their lunches as opposed to bringing in their own. Sambo snobbery for the loss

Particularly if you live on your own, It sometimes works out cheaper / the exact same / close enough for comfort to buying the raw materials and doing it yourself.