[Closed] Cheapest possible food stuffs for lunch at work??

bread roll, tin of mackerel.

jam / marmalade sarnies.

better for you than a pot noodle.

could do the whole week for a quid in aldi at a guess.

Smart price hoops, smart price pasty(s). Around 60p-£1 dependant on portion size.

Packet flavoured rice, under 50p

Make a big vat of soup at home and freeze it in portions?

When I make me and the families dinner I always make an extra one then box it up for a work lunch.

I also make a lot of home made soups - yesterdays was pea and ham using dried peas and leftover ham. That made about 4 big portions and cost about £2 in total.

Orthe low carb option, tin of value tuna (circa 27p) and some black pepper liberated from the canteen.

9p noodles (inflation may have ruined this student staple, but any of the value range noodles which used to be 9p a few years ago).

Cereal if you get free milk..

a bag of porridge lasts longer than Plutonium

Hay is pretty cheap - £2.50 a bale if your lucky

leftover sandwiches (normally 75% of the order) acquired from meeting rooms after they've finished - FREE

cous cous, vegetables and tuna.
filling, nutritious and protein, buy weekly and in bulk, less than £1 a day.

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This week I have been lunching on mushrooms, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, grapes, carrots, spring onions and cubes of cheese, with a banana for pudding. I have sufficient fresh to see me through the week, and although the cheese, peppers and carrots will last more than a week and therefore will not need to be a regular purchase, my shit maths tells me that start up costs to do the same are £9.80, according to the website of a popular supermarket - using the same website, I'm estimating second-week costs as £3.36, which brings my lovely, fresh, healthy and tasty lunch to around £1.32 per day.

I've never worked it out before, but that kicks the pants off of the £3.80 I was paying daily for sandwiches, crisps and a snickers. Go me! 😀

Vegetable couscous salad
Vegetable pasta salad
Soup and bread
3 Pita with cucumber, tomato and hummus

All of these under £1

today I had a cupasoup and a bag of crisps.
couldn't be bothered getting up from my chair. which has wheels to whizz around the shop.

After looking in my bin....so far today I have eaten....

a Cadbury brunch bar
A Fudge bar
A Chicken tikka pasty
A Tuna Salad Baguette
An Activia Yoghourt
An Orange
A flake

Was about to peel a banana but after compiling this list I decided to put it back lol

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There are 5 of us in our office and we discussed one of us each day making a dinner time meal. Making it at home, putting it in the slow cooker at 9am and all tucking in around 12.

It was a great idea but it was a non starter due to meetings/visits etc.

We were all paying £3 plus a day and we thought we could make a decent dinner for 5 for less than a Tenner.

The lunch of champions…..

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You could have partaken of a sausage roll AND a cheese and onion pasty for 99p. Just imagine how satisfied you'd be feeling now

Oh… and couscous isn't food. I've not worked out its actual purpose for being in existence, but its definitely not being eaten. Its like wasps. Its reason for being constantly baffles me

Make a big vat of soup at home and freeze it in portions?

This. Costs pence, healthy (careful with the salt though). Great for using left over veg. Stick some pulses or beans in it for protein.

sardines, beans & couscous with home-grown rocket, chillies, tomatoes & cucumber

Supplement with chilli sauce made out of the chillies

Sainsbury's Basics Lasagne or Bolognese Pasta Bake - 75p

Surprisingly good for how cheap they are; British beef, free-range egg, no preservatives or other rubbish. I'd be amazed if you could find better for the money tbh.

tin of soup and bread roll. c.£1

idiotdogbrain - Member

Sainsbury's Basics Lasagne or Bolognese Pasta Bake - 75p

Surprisingly good for how cheap they are; [s]British beef[/s] Eastern European horse, free-range egg, no preservatives or other rubbish. I'd be amazed if you could find better for the money tbh.

FTFY.

I used to work with a bloke who had beans on toast for his lunch every single day without fail. Thats well under a squid. Especially if you get dole beans instead of heinz

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918 ]A toast sandwich for 7.5p[/url].

Toast one slice of very cheap bread and place it between two untoasted slices of the same cheap bread. If feeling flash, you can butter the toast and add salt/pepper.

330 calories
9.5g protein
12g fat
55g carbs

Grated carrot and houmous in pitta bread. Maybe a hint of chilli sauce as well.

Grated carrot and houmous in pitta bread. Maybe a hint of chilli sauce as well.

sardines, beans & couscous with home-grown rocket, chillies, tomatoes & cucumber

I wouldn't even feed a prisoner of war crap like that, even as a punishment 😆

I'm assuming all you soup eaters don't commute by bike.

I felt like death after 4 days of soup at lunch and 7 miles each way to work!

use the cheap student method that kept me rapier thin, pale, interesting and gothlike

nick some tomato sauce sachets from Mc D's ,canteens or any other available location, add to a mug of hot water, bit of salt and pepper...et voila.... instant soupy stuff that you can pretty much live on

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Herbalife for me. 🙂

loaf of bread - £1.00
cooked ham - £1.00
bag of salad/lettce - £1.00
cucumber - £0.65
cheddar cheese - £1.80
baxters sliced beetroot - £1.00

so = £6.45 / 5 = £1.29 a day.

all prices from tesco.

Not as cheap as other suggestions, but chuck it all together and it makes a great piece(sandwich)!

I wouldn't even feed a prisoner of war crap like that

herbalife - i got a torrent of abuse on facebook from herbabummers when i merely suggested that fitness,health and well being didnt come from a powder and that it was one of the best known pyramid schemes out there.

cbmotorsport - Member

idiotdogbrain - Member

Sainsbury's Basics Lasagne or Bolognese Pasta Bake - 75p

Surprisingly good for how cheap they are; [s]British beef[/s] Eastern European horse, free-range egg, no preservatives or other rubbish. I'd be amazed if you could find better for the money tbh.

FTFY.

cheap though binners!

for very good reason! 😉

As well as my failure to see the reason for couscous, I'm also convinced that humous only exists after an oversight left some enterprising individual with an enormous surplus of tiling grout and some cheap, readily available garlic flavouring.

Super Noodle sandwich

Soup is definitely the cheapest. Ready prepared packet of chopped vegetables from Tesco (£1.10), or Aldi (89p), and that will make you 4 or 5 good sized portions.

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apples
oranges

lidl locally which is handy @ work

This morning porridge oats (£.59 for 750gram bag) with milk from staff canteen (have most mornings and lasts ages)

lunch - pitta wholemeal x 3 (toasted) containing some grated cheese with tinned mackeral,topped with rocket and other leaves. side of baby plum tomatoes.plain yoghurt for desert

banana at 3pm.
commute home 14miles

cooked ham - £1.00

where can you get ham for £1?
as in ham made from pig.

Flybywire - lYou do realise that, as you read this, in the staff canteen there's a meeting going on to find out "which *ing * keeps nicking all the ****ing milk!!!" 😆

good point 😳 - at least I've reduced my daily tea intake to recompence 😉

local company here banned breakfasts at work.... made front page of the PnJ and everything.

wouldnt work in my office - would be mass rebelion

brakes - Member
cooked ham - £1.00
where can you get ham for £1?
as in ham made from pig.

says 86% pork.

Would buy better stuff myself from the deli, but if cheapness is the plan well it can be had(food is one thing i dont' mind spending money on.).

the mrs used to work at the supermarket deli - the things she saw nearly turned her vegi.

not all is as it seems with supermarket delis.

imagine giant spam cans - when are then cut up in the machine and presented on lovely plates to make it look nice.

Chinese supermarket noodles come in dozens of flavours that actually tast good compared to super noodles or pot noodles. 35p and upwards in Lancaster.

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Other than I feast mainly on left overs (I cook too much on purpose) or as my daughter puts it seagull diners

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=276308312

115g lasts 8+ days?
I would struggle to stretch that much ham out to 2 days.

brakes - Member
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=276308312
115g lasts 8+ days?
I would struggle to stretch that much ham out to 2 days.

Grated carrot and houmous in pitta bread. Maybe a hint of chilli sauce as well.

I wouldn't even feed a prisoner of war crap like that, even as a punishment

Tell you what - a carrot and humous sarnie really hits the spot. I think its one of the best things you can put between two slices of bread and is one of my favourites for lunch on a long ride. Great with crispy bacon in too if its meat-less-ness causes moral offence

Malt loaf and peanut butter.
There's a super sized Soreen one for £1 available at the moment but I have had Morrison's basic 29p ones in the past.
Or porridge, but you need golden syrup as well.

I am sure cooking too much of whatever is for dinner then microwaving it at lunch time is both the best and cheapest option.

I go to costco, buy massive amounts of all the ingredients for not much money, today I have used £3 worth of mince, £1 worth of chopped toms, some herbs, worcestershire sauce, and a whole packet of spaghetti from the Nisa 64p, so under £5 worth of stuff, and that will feed me, the wife, both kids, the MIL and there will be a lunch, probably 2 left over. whats that, assuming kids eat half portions, £5/6 so 83p per portion

if we cook extra it just HAS to go in the bin, or the freezer for a few months, then it goes in the bin. this is because all food goes off immediatly and you will die a horrible horrible food poisoning death. or so my bat s**t crazy wife seems to think!!!

personally I'll stop eating something if either my eye water when I smell it of it crawls out of the fridge under its own power

If that 'toast sandwich' link is to be believed, you always have the option of Fitless Cock.

I generally have a Pasta 'N' Sauce which can be had for about 50p, or leftovers from last night's meal which is essentially free food.

small veg soup at work is 36p, I start eating the desk by 3pm mind

Dahl costs very little to make and if you a stock cube or 2 it makes an excellent lunch, probably costs at most 30p a portion if you buy indian spices rather than barts one, add 100g of rice which costs 15p based on tesco 4kg basmati bags and you have a substantial lunch.

There is some pretty poor food suggested here, even if it is pennies. If you have heating facilities at work for a pound you could easily make large batches of soup / slow cooker meals. Much healthier and tastier.
For the person who mentioned soup not sustaining them for riding, it depends what's in it - watery consommé no, hearty soup yes.

Bag of spinach, packet of beetroot, few tomatoes about £3 and will last all week. Throw on a bit protein, tuna , mackerel etc for say a pound a day and you have a weeks lunches for £8.

Top em off with snack time visit to Gregg's for about the same again.

The cheapest I ever managed (as a student) was half a cup-o-soup a day with supermarket own brand sliced loaf - divvied out to last the week.

Lemon curd sarnies.
Food of the gods.

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