New job - already fed up with unhealthy ‘working lunches‘

Cost effective a little like a modern day equivalent of feeding papers in a work house - let them eat cake attitude , while the most senior probable have expensive proper food.
I know I’m being extreme but ( especially if you’re a big profitable company like OPs) either treat your employees with respect or in the least don’t insult them with fake genorisity of cheap , low nourishment calories

What an insufferable bore you are.

Surely you can figure out just taking your own lunch into the meeting!?

either bring a cold packed lunch or suck it up and eat at the junk. It’s once a month, not every day. I bring a healthy lunch most days and am conscious of being a healthy weight etc. but I’d eat the dominoes and Greg’s and enjoy it. Once a month will do you no harm.

On the off chance this is a genuine post, you are coming across a bit judgy and inflexible. Would it really be such a hardship to eat a homemade sandwich once a month or microwave some soup? It feels like you believe your lifestyle is superior to those that quite like a Greggs sausage roll, live and let live I say. Our dietary choices do not make us better than others.

Women? Eating pizza and Greggs?! I truly have never heard of such a thing

reread your comments & think about why they’re daft

Oh come on. Surely you are smart enough to be able to get some food on the way in to the office that offers you some healthy snacks/eating but also means you can have a slice of pizza or something?
I go in to London once a month for a work meeting. There are loads of Tesco expresses or M&S foodhalls on the way through to the office. I use M&S only because thats the food shop at my train station to set me up with snacks for the day. I feel like you are being a bit dramatic and could plan better.

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OP - this is why we don’t support you - you’re being a dick.

For crying out loud!!! It's once a month, suck it up. How entitled of you to think you can have a longer break than the others, just so you can have your own lunch I think you need to grow up and realise that not everything is about you.

But the majority seem to like it, the OP stated that in her post

I personally prefer eating healthily but once a month eating unhealthy food wouldn’t bother me, she doesn’t need to gorge herself on it?!?

Surly a cold lunch once a month would be more manageable than dominoes or Greg’s.

I dunno, the more I think about it , it’s kind of insulting to be given dominoes and sausage rolls. Employees aren’t there to be fed whatever like pigs at a trough that need a feed. There’s junk food and there’s proper food. Companies should show their employees respect and allow them to eat well. Rather than treat them like paupers at the work house !

Get a hot food flask. Works for stews, soups, veg, rice etc.

We don’t support bitchy windups merchants. Back under your bridge Brian!

On the off chance this isn’t actually a wind-up thread you’re enjoying hugely, OP, and this is actually real, there’s only one thing you need to do:

Get therapy for your eating disorder.

Well you totally lost any sympathy from me there.

I'm a size 20 on top 18 on bottom and I wouldn't touch Dominos or Greggs with a bargepole. As for the enduring popularity of foods like McDonald's I'm at a loss. I'm a small eater and a healthy one. For example I gave away all but one of my easter eggs and I only finished that yesterday. I'm a big apple shaped lass like my grandma, whereas my sisters are petite pear shapes like my mum. It's genetic, they eat more than I could and neither of them hit the treadmill like I do. And I'm sick to fuck of people like you insinuating that I'm a tubster due to bad choices or overeating. Fat people are not bad or lazy or continuously filling themselves with Greggs.

You're obviously just a typical mumsnet fat shamer. Someone so obsessed by your diet that you track your macros and yet you can't even think of a single cold lunch to satisfy your needs? Pretty shit that.

You might want to consider that intermittent fasting has many benefits. You should probably just go without.

Doubt it will cure that judginess though.

"A mix of genders" Rightoooo

Did you read the thread where they started insulting their fat colleagues and got banned for it? Did that not give you a clue what the pile on was about?

Have some pizza!

may i suggest a pack up so you can break it out when they eat there provided lunch :)

Why can’t you just have a salad that you bring from Home alongside half of a sausage roll or a slice of pizza? I really think you’re overthinking this.

Don’t be the one that’s hard work. Figure it out without impacting others.

The assumption that only smart people can have 6 figure salaries… 🤣 Have you been around people in finance? (I’m sure there are lots of smart people in finance but in my experience it’s definitely not a given).

But OP not sure what the pile on with you is about? I’d absolutely hate to waste my cheat day on Greggs or Dominoes. But I’d just make up a healthy salad box for one day a month. No big deal.

There's not even an argument in my post. Is what you really mean that if people say something daft, I ought to ignore it instead of giving a reason why it's daft? Why do you think that's a good thing?