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?

Bloody Nora. I’m in London and a main in a very nice pub with a glass of wine would cost about that.

Our restaurant is subsidised so we pay about £2 for a decent size meal. £24 would feed my whole department.

If you did that every day it would be £480 a month.

FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY POUNDS ON LUNCH.

If i went to a nice local cafe and picked up a posh sandwich and a coffee it would be about £9-£10. I take a pack lunch though.

Zero. Make/take my own as there's nowhere to buy lunch.

I bring my lunch and treat myself to one nice coffee from an independent once a week. That is now £3.10 even with the staff discount. We get free normal tea, coffee and milk.

About £2 for sausage and chips & a cupcake, wolfed down before lunch duty. I do usually bring my own but I was in a hurry today.

I wouldn't either. I'd just eat when I got home. Or I'd buy a pack of rolls and a jar of peanut butter at the supermarket and take the rest home.

though I was looking at our work restaurant, lasagne and garlic bread was £5.95, and they do a super saver for £2, last week it was a pasty, chips and mixed veg. I was in for a catered meeting and we had sandwiches, I nearly defected for a pasty 😂

I'll buy the odd coffee from a vending machine for £1.50 (2 or 3 times a month). A few times a year I treat myself to lunch but I'm too cheap to do it regularly.

I've just recently joined finances with my DH and he was amazed at how little money I spend in general. He regularly spends £10-£20 on lunch. I think I've spent too many years trying to pay for life on a below average income so it's turned me into a saver. I happily blow it all on an epic holiday every few years so it's worth the deprivation for me.

If I do buy something (not often) it's likely a Tesco Meal Deal plus maybe an extra snack. Under £5

That is ridiculous. Why on earth dId you spend that much.

Zero usually. If I forget my lunch it's the dining hall (teacher).

I try to avoid forgetting lunch.

£24 is a lot 😳

I teach so always take my lunch with me (appreciate you said you forgot though!). There's not really anywhere to buy lunch - it's 5 mins to walk across to town and there are the usual boots/greggs/subway there but I often have lunch duty so wouldn't be able to go.

We can buy meals from the school kitchen but we pay more than the kids and it isn't cheap.

Generally around 10/15, baguette and bag of popcorn from pret and some kind of chocolatey thing, maybe a wagamamas, kokoro or something.
Sometimes though I go to the M&S next to our office and spend £25 on something for my lunch and then cakes/biscuits for the office.
Tea and coffee is provided and there’s petty cash for the milk but I don’t drink either, just water.

Probably about £10 if I go into the office although that includes a filter coffee in the morning (we are surrounded by Prets).

£0
I work in a cafe,we get free tea/coffee/hot chocolate and we don't have to pay for our food as long as we don't abuse the privilege

Coffees nothing.

Lunches- well usually leftovers now but when I was working in the office full time I would treat myself to a chicnese lunch on Fridays- about £12.00 and delicious.

In my younger, richer days when I did not have children or a mortgage probably circa £7 a day.

I get a lunch allowance which I expense to the company (not as fancy as it sounds, I’m on the road all day so nowhere to keep food cold). Until a few months ago it was £5 per day, which when I joined the company a few years ago was more than enough to get a decent lunch.

It’s recently been raised to £6.50, which unless it’s a supermarket meal deal is still difficult to buy something ‘nice’ with - I used to love supermarket sandwiches but after eating them most days for years they’ve all taken on the same weird taste to me. If I want something like a nice panini/salad plus a drink from a cafe £6.50 often doesn’t cover it these days.

£3.40 for a tesco meal deal

Depends on the day tbh OP.

I usually take a bottle of fizzy water with me. I usually make a coffee to take with me.

I rarely take lunch but might take yoghurt and granola/fruit.

Sometimes I stop in sainsburys and get a croissant.

Sometimes I buy a couple of coffees from the canteen (£2.50 for lattes).

We used to have a lovely canteen and a decent hot meal for a fiver. Since covid the offerings are - sandwiches/salads/toasties/sausage rolls and it's pretty shit. Prices are around £2.50 to £4.50. My team used to eat lunch at 12 every day altogether. Now we're still WFH most days although we can go on, desk space has gone to make room for shitty hot desking so we can't sit together. They really did do us over with covid.

Nothing. I do intermittent fasting and dont eat til I get home in the evenings. I do drink tea at work but that's free.

I work in a hospital, food onsite is expensive and no decent shops are in walking distance. I try to bring my own lunch but I do have a weakness for takeaway coffees and food from the M and S and Subway.
Today I bought a big breakfast and coffee from the work canteen for £4.80.
I work 4 days and week and probably spend £20 per week at the very most. We don't get free coffee or tea though.
£24 is so expensive!! I bet you won't do that again in a hurry!
The lunches I bring are nothing fancy, leftovers of last night's tea , soup or pasta pots.

Don't drink coffee so nothing on that.

Last time I was in the office (city centre) back in summer I'd buy a chicken salad roll (from small local cafe). Take my own snacks and juice. Was £2.30, I was surprised prices hadn't gone up, I'm sure they will have by now!

I do end up going out for lunch quite a bit though when I'm in the office so often end up spending £20ish but that's going to a restaurant.

Zero. I take lunch in from home, so technically there is a cost as I have to buy the ingredients. Prob a quid or 2 per day.