No such thing as a free lunch?

[bonj2]

More like seven or eight quid in Itsu generally when I do buy lunch here.

So if you up the average to seven pounds fifty then that works out at:

46*5*7.5= £1,725

you spend SEVEN OR EIGHT QUID in the canteen? rip off.
you wanna walk down the road and go to a kiosk that sells jacket potatoes or something.
I often get a jacket potato with beans, AND a cornish pasty, AND a large baguette to eat later before cycling home, for about a fiver.

 

[tdr1nka]

We save £4 a day in bus fares just cycling the school run alone!
And we all have packed lunches too.
Skint but happy tho.

 

[bonj2]

I really don't understand skint people who live in london. London's an expensive place to live. OK, it's good, but it's not worth being skint for.

 

[Keith Oates]

Making your own 'sarnies' can be a bit of a bind in the mornings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rikki]

Making your own 'sarnies' can be a bit of a bind in the mornings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get someone else to do it. That's what my wife and children do. mug

 

[Arch]

Today I have a bread roll (one of a pack of 6 reduced to 30p to clear). 5p. Two slices of salami - about 6p. Cream cheese - at a guess, 5p's worth. One donut from a reduced pack of 4 - 10p (luxury!). Tea - I can make at work - call it a 10p for milk and teabag. That's <counts> 36p.

Yesterday, due to not getting to the shops the day before, I had to buy a sarnie, crisps and twix from Morrisons - and that only set me back 1.86 (but the sandwich was pretty thin on filling).

£5 for lunch, what a luxury!

 

[Arch]

Oh, and I don't save anything by cycling, except time, coz otherwise, I'd walk...

 

[domtyler]

Today I have a bread roll (one of a pack of 6 reduced to 30p to clear). 5p. Two slices of salami - about 6p. Cream cheese - at a guess, 5p's worth. One donut from a reduced pack of 4 - 10p (luxury!). Tea - I can make at work - call it a 10p for milk and teabag. That's <counts> 36p.

Yesterday, due to not getting to the shops the day before, I had to buy a sarnie, crisps and twix from Morrisons - and that only set me back 1.86 (but the sandwich was pretty thin on filling).

£5 for lunch, what a luxury!

Yuck!

Who would want to eat like that though?

 

[Mr Pig]

I'm the same. I was thinking about how much I could justify spending on a new bike, then I realised a £500 bike would pay for itself in no time on comuting alone! We have a car but it's the rest of the family who use it most, I could live without it.

 

[Alcdrew]

It is amazing, I've just done some quick sums and I save a fortune. Worked out todays packed lunch cost me circa £1.36, so say an average of £1.50 PD, compared to the other day when I went over Tesco and got lunch as I left my packed one at home which cost me £4.80. I'm saving £3.30 PD based on say 200 meals a year (to allow for days off work and days I forget/ don't have packed lunch) I'm saving £660 per year, on food alone. Been awhile since I drove to work, but sure that used to cost me £10 a week in petrol, then other running costs of average £600 per year(service, MOT, Insurance etc..) thats at least another £1000-1100 per year.

So total saving £1,600-1,700 per year. Not quite as good as DOM, but still good.

 

[Crackle]

Who would want to eat like that though?

Pensioners. You see them kicking each others sticks out at the 'reduced to make a quick buck, before it goes to dogfood' section.

Include the costs of making your own lunch, bread, filling, biscuits/crisps and you won't be saving that much, half what you think. I think I went to the trouble of working it out once and found I could just compete with the 'man in a van' sandwich makers, knocking 'em out at £1.50 a throw. Mine were better quality though, I think he actually raided the supermarket bins

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Yuck!

Who would want to eat like that though?

Nothing wrong with that. Salami and cream cheese is nice.

 

[Maz]

Today I have a bread roll (one of a pack of 6 reduced to 30p to clear). 5p. Two slices of salami - about 6p. Cream cheese - at a guess, 5p's worth. One donut from a reduced pack of 4 - 10p (luxury!). Tea - I can make at work - call it a 10p for milk and teabag. That's <counts> 36p.

Are you Martin Lewis in disguise?

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Nothing wrong with that. Salami and cream cheese is nice.

I suspect that Dom is more used to fillings of hand harvested scallops smoked over sessile oak chips and garnished with dill and fingers of gravadlax.

 

[domtyler]

I suspect that Dom is more used to fillings of hand harvested scallops smoked over sessile oak chips and garnished with dill and fingers of gravadlax.

Who told you?