Lunch: Analyzing the costs of packing and eating out.

[spaceman]

tuna ten for a dollar!


thread OVER~!

 

[oddyager]

Packaged cold cuts contain alot of preservatives though.

I mean you could eat cheap and so on, but you also have to keep health in mind.

 

[edro]

Wow...

My food budget for 1 week is ~$100.

I eat 6-7 meals a day (for fitness). For lunch, I go out to eat with co-workers, which costs ~$6-8 on average. I spend about ~$50 in groceries.

 

[mchammer187]

i'm not a huge fan of campbell's soups

chef boyardee > campbell's and its only $1

 

[desy]

Lunch shouldn't cost more than 2-2.5 but to buy it for 3 is outstanding cheapest I can find it for is $4-5 but I can bring my own sandwich and get hot homemade soup for 1.25

 

[Rogue]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1698658

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

i swear some of you people must be stick figures. in highschool my mom used to make me great lunches.

sandwich (pbj or turkey)
capri-sun
granola bar
fruit
fruit snacks

i have no idea what that costs, but it was damn good.

 

[Whisper]

Yeah, I generally eat a lot for lunch, too. Well, more like a lot throughout the day. Back when I used to pack lunch for work, I'd generally bring two sandwiches, a smallish bowl of salad, and some type of "main course," such as a large bowl of beef stew. I'd usually eat the main course, a sandwich, and the salad for lunch, and then the second sandwich (and whatever else was left) for a snack before heading to the gym. I also would eat breakfast everyday, a decent-sized dinner when getting home from the gym, and then a snack a couple hours after that.

I love food.

 

[UTmtnbiker]

Between my wife and I, we probably spend about $400 to $500 per month on groceries. She enjoys cooking and generally I get 4 to 5 home cooked meals a week. We always pack the left overs as lunch. As somebody who doesn't really like sandwiches (what's up with PB&J, I just don't understand it) this is a godsend as a comparable lunch is about $7 to $8 here and it burns an hour of time, which of course can be good or bad.

So for me lunch today consisted of:
Pork medallions with stewed apples
Corkscrew pasta salad with sun dried tomatoes and pine nuts
Cut up pears and oranges
2 x chocolate chip cookies
2 x fresh (last night) baked rolls
Bottle of water

I figure, over the course of a month, if I went out to lunch, it would be around $150 for lunch alone. Let me put it this way....in 2 months, that's an AMD X2 processor. Hence, why I upgrade so much! I earned it!

Of course, you have to find somebody who likes to cook dinner and likes to pack lunches the night before.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Hmm....how to get my gf to pack my lunches for me.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Hmm....how to get my gf to pack my lunches for me.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

1. ITB
2. She makes you lunch
3. ???
4. Profit!!