How much do you spend on lunch and coffees etc on work days?

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Forgot my soup yesterday and wound up spending a stupid amount of money on my chicken salad and coffee. Twenty four bloody quid. Prices have risen so steeply in the last while.

What is a normal spend for you in a local lunch place?

Salad was really generous size, with a whole avocado, but still!

Nothing, always make my own, always have!

£24?!?! You have to be in central London, surely? Although, in the City I’ve ‘only’ ever paid around £12-14 for a decent takeaway salad, so it seems expensive regardless!

Why didn’t you just get a meal deal from one of the supermarkets, for less than a fiver?

No more than a tenner and I go in once a month.

£24!!!

Do you have a picture of this salad?? That's insane!

I spend £6 max ... pastry for breakfast and meal deal from Coop.

Where are you shopping?!

Nothing. There isn’t anywhere to buy anything. So, forgotten to take lunch means no lunch.

Typical day at work £0.
I bring in a flask and a sandwich from home.
HOWEVER, £24??!!! Where on earth did you go?

I get (hot) lunch from the work canteen a couple of days a week - costs me between £3.50 and £5.50 depending on what I get.

Coffee is £2-£2.80 with 30p off if you bring your own cup. I usually just bring my own teabag and get free hot water and free cold milk (though a full glass of milk is 50p)
Friend brings his own cafetière with ground coffee from home and pays 20p for a little jug of steamed milk!

Where the hell did you buy that from?!? I often get a chicken salad in central London and don’t pay anything like that much!

We went out to dinner for a birthday last year and it cost less than that!

That’s incredibly expensive. I take my own lunch now, but if occasionally forget, it’s a meal deal from a supermarket, or if I push the boat out, something from Pret. Tops about 4.50.

Costa coffee £2.75

Boots meal deal £4 odd

I only go in 2ce a week so this is affordable

Work canteen, v nice, we are lucky. And the free coffee machines make pretty good coffee with fresh milk. So probably about £3.50-£7 depending on if I get a cheaper or more expensive lunch, and buy a coffee or not.
£24 is pretty mindboggling though! Struggling to work out how that would work even in an expensive place!

£24! wtf?

I have pledged to bring in lunch since the start of the year, and in fact have had maybe three takeaway coffees or coffees in a pub with colleagues in that time which is a WIN.

But normally I would have a meal deal from Tesco once a week or so - £3.40. or mayyybeee a Costa lunch which is about £8-£8.50 but that's a real extra treat.

Where are you spending £24? even if I eat when we go to the pub it's only about £10 for a sandwich and a soda.

That’s crazy. I’m sure there were other cheaper options.
I work 13 hour shifts and take a variety of meals and snacks. Don’t ever buy anything

So I'm another that brings their own from home.

But equally I can't believe you spent £24 on a salad and a drink. Did you eat out at a restaurant?

£0 always always take my lunch with me. Free tea, coffee, water, squash at work.

Usually between £3 and £4. Central London. I can't imagine spending over £10 on lunch for a work day.

I bring mine in from home most days. Today I bought something. A sandwich from the corner shop at £1.49. I can’t think of anywhere near my work where I could spend £24 on one lunch

It's about £8 for a hot lunch near my work. I probably buy that 1-2x a week, other days I bring my own. I always just get (free) coffee from the machine at work.

Work canteen I get vouchers for so costs me about £2 a day for a sandwich and a cup of tea. Sometimes I add a muffin for another 50p.

Take fruit in from home and have a bottle that I fill with water or squash throughout the day.

Nothing, I take my lunch into work every day, and coffee, tea etc free in the office.

I'm not London no but another expensive city. Definitely not a fancy place but not a greasy spoon either

It wasn't a takeaway salad, so in fairness not the same as a supermarket or Boots meal deal.

Was there for nearly an hour, and I know that cafes need to cover their expensive energy bills but just think prices have shot up. I won't be doing that again!

Twenty four quid?! I was feeling bad cos yesterday I ditched my uninspiring packed lunch in favour of a visit to our work canteen and spent £2.80. 😄