for those who buy lunch..

Robsweezie

How much do you typically spend? And what's reasonable to you? I'd go with a subway, a deli wrap/roll or soup most days so about 3-5.

johnnyskeleton

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so

Moo Moo Land

Usually roll and a coffee for €6-€7.

Tombi!

I usually go for 6 quid, give or take a few cent. Roll and a drink. Consider it a rip off.

jester77

Well, it depends on the day and how busy I am. No 2 days are the same. Today was not busy so I went to a steak house and spent around €15. Other days I might just spend €4 on a kebab. It probably averages out at around €8-9.

failinis

Occasionally (2 times a week maybe) and its tea/sandwich for £3 or soup/roll £1.99

KERSPLAT!

I'd normally bring lunch but on the odd occasion I don't it'd be a roll/sambo/wrap/soup so about €4. Not so bad!

Dunno how anyone can justify €6-7 daily when the food you likely get isn't half as nice as the food you'd prep at home. Each to their own I suppose!

groucho marx

Lunch is for wimps

Robsweezie

Tombi! wrote:

I usually go for 6 quid, give or take a few cent. Roll and a drink. Consider it a rip off.

Some of the sandwich/ bagel places would rip you to be fair

Sand

4.85 Euro. Exactly.

The Sidewards Man

I have the dinner for lunch, sandwiches and rolls are useless unless you sit at a desk all day and pretend to work.

murpho999

Don't get why people spend €6-7 a day on lunch for sandwiches/wraps.

Based on 48 working weeks that's €1440-1680 a year just for lunch that is not really that good and not so healthy.

I go to supermarket at Monday lunchtime, buy stuff for the week for about a tenner, this is for meat, salad, cheese, and fresh wholemeal bread rolls. (I freeze them so, they're fresh each day). I find it nicer, and healthier as well as cheaper. Also saves me having to waste valuable free time standing in a queue.

RayM

I try not to - especially in UCD, where a very small wrap costs over €5. Throw a couple of coffees and a mid-afternoon muffin into the equation and I could easily find myself spending €70 a week on lunch/snacks.

Winterlong

When I am in the office it would be a meat and 2 veg ..or a curry or stir fry for €5.
When working from home it is a ham and cheese and tomato toastie for naathin.

_Brian

Very hard to get a complete lunch out for €5, I would have got a chicken wrap or similar, tea and fruit, usually about €7.

Started bringing my own lunch about 18 months ago and once you get a routine it's easy and saves so much. I'd say I spend €7 a week now.

hairyslug

If I don't bring the leftovers from the previous night's dinners it'll be a chicken roll, about €4

Your Face

2 pieces of eight for spiced rum, a side of vension and roll in the hay with a busty wench.

GoldFour4

Can find myself spending anywhere from €3.50 to €8. Feels so much better to bring in lunch though. Finding the time to make it is difficult but well worth it. Save a fortune both in terms of money and on % of lunchtime spent queuing for food.

Kevhog1988

I work away a lot but buy food & prepare in my room. also have breakfast in room & even cook an evening meal using a camping cooker in the evenings. Live on about £10 sterling per day.

duchalla

Rushing out the door this morning, I left my sandwich on the worktop :-/
So today I'll begrudgingly spend €3.80...

Boom_Bap

I'd normally bring a lunch with me but on the days where there is no cheese or meat for my sammich at home I'd hit the local deli counter.
It would normally come to about 6 or 7 euro with the addition of a drink and a packet of crisps.

Moo Moo Land

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I'd normally bring a lunch with me but on the days where there is no cheese or meat for my sammich at home I'd hit the local deli counter.
It would normally come to about 6 or 7 euro with the addition of a drink and a packet of crisps.

Nice baps?

Boom_Bap

Moo Moo Land wrote: »

Nice baps?

Oddly enough I don't normally go for a bap.

DontThankMe

I don't need to buy my lunch since i'm vegan, i just head down to phoenix park at lunchtime and eat some of the delicious plants and grass that is everywhere.

I buy a sandwich everyday, few different places in town I head to that do high quality sandwiches and then I usually head to subway once a week. Typically 5.50 a day for the sandwiches (just the sandwich I get them to take away and make tea back at the office) or a bit more in subway.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Depends, anything up to 15 euro.

Subway, toasted sandwich and soup, noodles, something from m&s, chopped, lemon. Depends what I'm feelin

Sh1tbag OToole

murpho999 wrote: »

Don't get why people spend €6-7 a day on lunch for sandwiches/wraps.

Based on 48 working weeks that's €1440-1680 a year just for lunch that is not really that good and not so healthy.

I go to supermarket at Monday lunchtime, buy stuff for the week for about a tenner, this is for meat, salad, cheese, and fresh wholemeal bread rolls. (I freeze them so, they're fresh each day). I find it nicer, and healthier as well as cheaper. Also saves me having to waste valuable free time standing in a queue.

I might start doing that again now that things are tigering and breakfast rolls are reaching the €5 mark again, fellas in hi-vis are starting to lengthen the queueueue a bit too much for my liking as well and the car park does be filled with many 161 Navara crew cabs. Could save around 1,000 quid making my own rolls which should pay for an extra 20 or so hours of full-throttle jetskiing, might have enough change left over for a gallon of 2-stroke

timmy880

Used to be able to keep it under a fiver but I work in a business park now that only has one shop so it's about 5.50.

Kamili

murpho999 wrote: »

Don't get why people spend €6-7 a day on lunch for sandwiches/wraps.

Based on 48 working weeks that's €1440-1680 a year just for lunch that is not really that good and not so healthy.

I go to supermarket at Monday lunchtime, buy stuff for the week for about a tenner, this is for meat, salad, cheese, and fresh wholemeal bread rolls. (I freeze them so, they're fresh each day). I find it nicer, and healthier as well as cheaper. Also saves me having to waste valuable free time standing in a queue.

This!

I try to do the same. I've even branched out and started looking up recipes that I can use a microwave to cook. Cous Cous with peppers, chillis and cooked chicken, or rice with prawns and vegetables, that type of stuff. Much easier, cheaper and tastier, and leaves me feeling fuller for longer.

Lia_lia

We have a subsidised canteen at work. So usually about €4 for a main course. It used to be cheaper though! I still bring in my own food sometimes.

rattler202

I buy a sandwich everyday from the shop across the street and make tea in the office, it costs 4 Euro. I find it better than having to buy bread and all the stuff for a sandwich, make it the night before , clean up after and bring it to work, then clean out a lunchbox after. Easier to throw out the wrapper at the end. Time is money and life is to short to stand around freezing bread and making sandwiches.

I prefer to make my own lunch. I'd have some decent ham, chicken or turkey in a salad or sandwich so the cost of that wouldn't be much cheaper than a deli but 2/3 days a week I'd bring a meal to microwave.

Meatballs or good quality mince with veg, seasoning & rice or pasta. 2 such meals cost about €5 to make and are imo tasty and relatively nutricious with the whole grains & veg.

Duggy747

I just steal my co-workers lunches

scdublin

Bring in my lunch everyday and have done since I started working. Not only to save money but to try and keep me away from the temptation of crap food.

Samsgirl

I bring my own. Usually a bit of previous evening's dinner. Today it's spag bol.
Or I cook a bit of of pasta and chop some cucumber, tomato and grated carrot into it. Then throw in some chicken/ ham or tin of salmon. Bit of sweet chili sauce over it and it's very tasty.

Making lunch is too much effort, the stuff isn't fresh and you don't get near the same choice or else you would end up throwing out loads of stuff at the end of the week if you bought the amount of sandwich filling choice and bread choice you have in multiple different sandwich places in town (also would end up spending nearly as much). I also hate eating dinner food for lunch so the whole leftovers from the night before isn't appealing in the least.

Its well worth the cost of buying lunch for a much nicer and fresher sandwich and I also like the excuse for a walk into town and back at lunch time.

Kamili

Eleanor Crooked Spine wrote: »

Making lunch is too much effort, the stuff isn't fresh.

to be honest I think stuff at deli counters is less fresh than the stuff I've brought in, and tends to be very processed.

Penny Tration

Kamili wrote: »

This!

I try to do the same. I've even branched out and started looking up recipes that I can use a microwave to cook. Cous Cous with peppers, chillis and cooked chicken, or rice with prawns and vegetables, that type of stuff. Much easier, cheaper and tastier, and leaves me feeling fuller for longer.

You're not supposed to eat reheated rice, just an fyi.


When I bought lunches, there was only one place to buy them, it was €7+ per day because my place of work didn't have coffee making facilities. then another 4 Euro on more coffee.


Then I realised the sandwiches were crap, as was the coffee. so I started making my own sandwiches and drinking water. Costs went down from 50-60 a week to €8 a week.

Kamili

Penny Tration wrote: »

You're not supposed to eat reheated rice, just an fyi.


When I bought lunches, there was only one place to buy them, it was €7+ per day because my place of work didn't have coffee making facilities. then another 4 Euro on more coffee.


Then I realised the sandwiches were crap, as was the coffee. so I started making my own sandwiches and drinking water. Costs went down from 50-60 a week to €8 a week.

I never said I reheated the rice though, which FYI I don't!

Penny Tration

Kamili wrote: »

I never said I reheated the rice though, which FYI I don't!

Fair enough! It came across that way because of the microwave thing. wasn't aware you could cook rice in a microwave, my bad!

TerrorFirmer

What's the deal with reheated rice? In about 20 years of eating reheated rice I've never had an issue, but it appears to suddenly be after hours favourite new warning flag.

As for lunch, usually about €4, most of the time it's a roll from Dunnes for €3.85 which comes with a bottle of water or can of pepsi. Always the exact same - plain chicken, cheese, lettuce, onion.

pwurple

Samsgirl wrote: »

Or I cook a bit of of pasta and chop some cucumber, tomato and grated carrot into it. Then throw in some chicken/ ham or tin of salmon. Bit of sweet chili sauce over it and it's very tasty.

What kind of frankenstein food is that? Thai-italian-english with some tinned meat?
Yeuch.

razorblunt

Our canteen in work is really decent, I often, if working out after work, eat a solid lunch around 12:30 and then eat light at home.
Generally a decent dish and a drink, or soup and sandwich and a drink would be in the region of £4.50.

Have a Pret every now and then too which would bump the price to £5.

Ush1

The main reason I bring in lunch aside from the time and money saving factors, is that the local Centra across from my jobs deli is a total rip off and the guy who makes the rolls is brutal!

He's I think a south east Asian guy and he clearly doesn't give a monkeys about his job. Never cleans the knife between sandwiches, butters only one side of a roll, ignores things you ask for....:mad:

Kamili

Penny Tration wrote: »

Fair enough! It came across that way because of the microwave thing. wasn't aware you could cook rice in a microwave, my bad!

if you want to go to a load of trouble try this
http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Rice-in-a-Microwave

or just buy the Uncle Ben's express rice instead!

marketty

I skip breakfast, have dinner for brunch, me supper for me tea and I'm set for the day. Saves me a bloody fortune

murpho999

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

What's the deal with reheated rice? In about 20 years of eating reheated rice I've never had an issue, but it appears to suddenly be after hours favourite new warning flag.

As for lunch, usually about €4, most of the time it's a roll from Dunnes for €3.85 which comes with a bottle of water or can of pepsi. Always the exact same - plain chicken, cheese, lettuce, onion.

Just wondering if you're in Dunnes anyway could you not just buy bread, cheese, lettuce and onion there for the week and make it yourself at work for a fraction of the cost?

Penny Tration

Penny Tration wrote: »

You're not supposed to eat reheated rice, just an fyi.

....

Not true.

You do need to be careful though, refrigerate within 90mins of initial cooking, reheat thoroughly prior to heating.

Samsgirl

pwurple wrote: »

What kind of frankenstein food is that? Thai-italian-english with some tinned meat?
Yeuch.

Try it. Tis really nice.

OldNotWIse

I'm mostly sensible and will buy bread and cheese and tomatoes at the start of the week and have that for four days but will generally have one blowout day with a nice Italian lunch with a friend and a sneaky glass

The Backwards Man

I wouldn't employ anyone who didn't bring their own own lunch. Shows complete lack of commitment and dedication to be swanning off for an hour to scoff salty paninis and guzzle Lucozade. In an ideal world, employees should eat from nosebags like horses so it doesn't interfere with their work