Poll: Bring or Buy Lunch

HF62808 · January 2012

Do you bring lunch to work or buy?

If you bring, what do you usually make for lunch?

HF62808 · January 2012

I buy every day for several reasons. Mostly it is an excuse to leave my desk, go outside for walk to grab food and usually drag a friend with me. I'm afraid if I bring I will never truly get a break. However, I need to save some money in 2012 and want to try to bring at least 2 days a week.

The Big D · January 2012

I bring almost every day. I agree its tempting to go get something just to get out, but it can be such a huge money suck.

I usually stick with deli meat sandwiches. Getting the nice stuff from the deli at the grocery store makes it feel nicer.

naylon511 · January 2012

Eat the free meal provided at work Embarrassed

If not though, I'd buy. I despise making lunches and then carrying them around in my already heavy bag.

TeacherTiff · January 2012

When I was teaching I packed my lunch 99% of the time. Except on some chicken nugget day, lol.

DH on the other hand eats out every.single.day and it drives me crazy! It's SO expensive!

JusLyn678 · January 2012

I try to bring my lunch as long as we have stuff in the house to bring.

I typically bring left overs from dinners through out the week. If I don't bring my lunch I get hospital food from the cafeteria.

mucutiepie124 · January 2012

JusLyn678:
I try to bring my lunch as long as we have stuff in the house to bring.
I typically bring left overs from dinners through out the week. If I don't bring my lunch I get hospital food from the cafeteria.

This! I usually treat myself to lunch once a week too:)

Rangergal9 · January 2012

We can't leave school so I bring every day. Some teachers buy the school lunch, but yuck... no thanks. I usually bring soup or sandwich, then a cheese stick, grapes, apple, red peppers... basically always a fruit, veggie, cheese stick and then the soup or sandwich.

morrigan08 · January 2012

We have a cafe at work where everything is $5 or less (soup 3, pizza 1.50 a slice). So we have lately been buying lunch. I should be bringing it more often and need to start 2 days a week.

nursecheryl81 · January 2012

I usually bring my lunch most of the time. Occasionally if we dont have anything to bring, I will buy.

The things I usually bring are either leftovers from previous dinners or a lean cuise/healthy choice steamer, fruit and a granola thin.

Famousamos1231 · January 2012

I usually bring lunch with me. I think it saves money and time that it takes me to go across the medical center to find something to eat.

I take anything from soup, salad, leftovers and sandwiches. I always have a greek yogurt and usually a fruit or veggie.

JNicMTek · January 2012

I always bring lunch. Some Fridays my bosses will buy Panera for us all, but that can't be counted on. I believe you're in MA, I work on Rte 1, the idea of leaving the office, finding food, and circling back isn't always an option in the time I get to take.

I'll bring leftovers, a sandwich, tabuleh(sp?), soup, or salad

I'll have a yogurt and some sort of carb to help snack on and make it through the day.

MrsJaay · January 2012

I go home for lunch pretty much every day. I'll eat out on Fridays sometimes to celebrate the end of the week.

I'm not going home today though and packed some leftovers. I usually end up w/ a turkey sandwich (I do the deli too BigD) with carrot sticks or wheat thins and laughing cow cheese. Today is leftover cajun pasta. Yummeh.

sunshine608 · January 2012

I buy or go home for lunch.

WE don't have a microwave near my office. I can use the one in the janitor's closet if I catch them or I can drive or walk to another building and use the one in there. By the time I've gotten in my car and driven ( cause I'm not wasting my lunch hour walking) its seems pointless.

We have a cafeteria that I can eat in, but that gets old and its really not the best food.

Plus no one here brings lunch and if they do, they eat in their cars. Belch

So I go home or go out and buy.

trickeytricky · January 2012

HF62808:
I buy every day for several reasons. Mostly it is an excuse to leave my desk, go outside for walk to grab food and usually drag a friend with me. I'm afraid if I bring I will never truly get a break. However, I need to save some money in 2012 and want to try to bring at least 2 days a week.

All of this, mostly the part about if I don't leave, I don't take a break from my desk/phone.

There are some days I bring lunch, or skip the eating part of lunch and just go to my car, and put the seat back with my Kindle.

amybyrd · January 2012

Bring--our school lunch sucks and we only have 25 minutes and aren't close to anything. I usually bring leftovers or a lean cuisine, yougurt, and several pieces of fruit.

Mrs.MillerJune2008 · January 2012

combo of both. I used to bring all the time until I got really good at cooking meals that didn't leave tons of leftovers.... At least once I week I MUST get out of the office for my sanity. And recently I've been so tired that I've bought more often than brought. Yesterday I went to the store over lunch and bought some lean cuisine meals so I only had to worry about snacks for a few days Smile

MrsL628 · January 2012

For me it's a combination of the two. I've been slacking a lot more lately at home though & have just been buying sandwiches or lunches at school. When I bring from home it's usually either a sandwich or leftovers.

MrsAllieH · January 2012

I almost always bring food, but sometimes when we have a freelance team in the office the job will buy everyone in the office lunch. That's been happening very frequently recently because one of our executive producers really likes having the teams buy lunch. I've had free lunch all week.

swimmerette00 · January 2012

I get school lunch every day. Our food is actually really good and I get quite a lot for less than $4.

Beth&Derek · January 2012

amybyrd:
Bring--our school lunch sucks and we only have 25 minutes and aren't close to anything.

Pretty much this. We technically have 30 minutes, but by the time I bring the kids to the cafeteria, it's closer to 25. We've got a Subway that's not too far from work, but I couldn't get to my car, get to subway, get my food, and get back into work in 25 minutes or less, nevermind have time to eat it. Also, we don't have a parking lot at work, so moving my car would mean I would lose my spot and probably end up parking further away.

I have a few go-to options that I alternate between:

-yogurt, a piece of fruit, and a granola bar

-hummus, taboule, a pita, and a piece of fruit

-a can of soup

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