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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Why don't you make your own? Pasta salad and its many variants are sooo easy to make and keep well for one or two days. That's Apeface's tip of the day. I've got some great packed lunch recipes as I eat five days a week at my desk and I work in a uni (imagine the shit that passes for food round here in student canteens).
I used to eat these kinds of things and I noticed three things:
a) My stomach was fucked;
b) I was spending craploads of money;
c) I didn't even enjoy them.
I never get sick traveling as my stomach has been subject to all known and unknown viruses thanks to eating at work. Picnics and packed lunches are the new black!
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:26, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

...I probably should make my own. I used to make sausage pasta pots which were pretty wicked, but since I've moved to London I think I've got more lazy with my lunch as its just so easy to buy food from a shop!
I like your tip of the day! Thank you muchly! :)
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:30, Reply)

If you want to be sad and share recipes once you get your arse into gear, I'm a recipe junkie :)
Muaks
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:39, Reply)

Mainly with point 2.
I used to buy lunch 5 or 6 days a week, and was spending a ridiculous amount of money. I've been having packed lunches most days this last year, and I've saved loads.
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:37, Reply)

I figured out I'd spend on average around 10 EUR a day at work. That's 70 EUR a week, 280 EUR a month, 3,360 EUR a year....
Adds up pretty scarily! I need to quit smoking too, and I'll be buying a Ferrari this time next year.
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:42, Reply)

I'm theoretically saving £5 a day from no longer smoking, but I've not really seen any benefit.
I suppose I don't go overdrawn as often, but that's hard to quantify.
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:44, Reply)

Perhaps the key is to putting what you normally would spend into some kind of hamster-protected saving device?
( , Mon 1 Jun 2009, 13:56, Reply)
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