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AIBU?

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Original poster

...to eat my packed lunch even though it's only 11.30?

21 replies

OTheHugeManatee · 15/12/2010 11:29

Well?

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Haribolicious · 15/12/2010 11:34

No....go for it! Have you got something scrumptious?!

AliceWorld · 15/12/2010 11:35

No you must wait till 12.

Laquitar · 15/12/2010 11:36

What's in your lunch box?

sleighBELLasringing · 15/12/2010 11:36

I am starving too - but I will wait until 12.00 >

LifeIsButtercream · 15/12/2010 11:36

YANBU - enjoy!

OM NOM NOM NOM!

Actually, maybe YABU - you should probably have some biscuits now, and lunch at 12noon......

( butter wanders off to find delicious Biscuits)

theevildead2 · 15/12/2010 11:37

YABU< you'll only regret it at 4 when you're properly starving.

jacquiel · 15/12/2010 11:37

have it now, and have a snack in the afternoon when you are starving because you ate it now!!

theevildead2 · 15/12/2010 11:38

says she who has already had about three meals by now, I'm pregnant though

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OTheHugeManatee · 15/12/2010 11:39

I don't eat wheat, so I can't have a Xmas Biscuit.

My lunch box has in it:

Quinoa with wilted spinach and fresh coriander, some courgettes and the sauce I cooked chicken in from last night. And an avocado.

Still holding off...barely...it just feels wrong to be having lunch before noon.

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BigTeuchLittleTeuch · 15/12/2010 11:40

this is why I hated taking packed lunch to work...all gone by now! Sometimes had to eat it pretty much on arrival Hmm

You need to find a nice, cheap sandwich shop nearby, or someone to hide your packed lunch until lunchtime.

BottleOfRum · 15/12/2010 11:40

I do this alllllllll the time. I eat all the good stuff out of my lunch (chocolate, cripss, youhurt, fruit etc), so that by the time lunchtime comes around all I have to eat is a very lonely and soggy looking sandwich, which is no fun at all really.

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OTheHugeManatee · 15/12/2010 11:40

Keep going! If MN can distract me until noon, I will feel as though I've achieved something today. Xmas Grin

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Laquitar · 15/12/2010 11:41

I don't like your lunch. Sorry.

YABU then Grin.

Lucifera · 15/12/2010 11:43

YANBU but are there others in the office who will jeer? I try not to touch mine before 12 out of shame (and have become expert at opening biscuit tin very very quietly).

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OTheHugeManatee · 15/12/2010 11:43

laquitar Fortunately it's me that'll be eating it, not you.

Quinoa is my favourite thing. Perhaps IABU about that too? Xmas Grin

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AbsofCroissant · 15/12/2010 11:44

You only have 17 minutes to go!

I know what it's like. I suck at holding off until lunch when I organise myself enough to bring one in. Today I'm going to get the best falafel in London for lunch, and have been staaaaaaaarving since 9. I did this on Monday, and it was such a struggle to hold out until lunchtime.

AbsofCroissant · 15/12/2010 11:44

15 minutes!

Laquitar · 15/12/2010 11:45

I 've tried quinoa once because i was told it is healthy but unfortunetely i didn't like it.

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OTheHugeManatee · 15/12/2010 11:46

I'd stand up and go fetch a biscuit, but I'm too weak now from lack of food. Xmas Sad

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FindingAManger · 15/12/2010 11:52

that's the problem with packed lunches though isn't it - they rarely make it to lunch time ;)

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OTheHugeManatee · 15/12/2010 12:09

Made it! Just.

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