Brown Bagging it

[frugalmomof1]

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I take my dinner to work 4-5 times per week. Mostly leftovers, but I have some emergency frozen Lean Cuisine dinners and cans of soup for days without leftovers.

I used to try to get together with my sister for dinner once a week, but we are down to about 2x's a month.

My coworkers have pizza parties on birthdays.....about 7 or 8 times/year, and we have potlucks every 3 months or so.

[project15]

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I would say 4.5 on average. I normally take it unless I'm running late in the mornings.

[crow67]

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I say 90% of the time I take lunch...but just on occasion, you have to get away and get something new to eat

[ThisTime]

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I would say that I try to take a lunch about 4 days a week. There always seems to be that one day when I just don't want to bring something. But going out the most I spend is $3.73 so it's not a huge deal.

[Elgin526]

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Up until recently, I'd bring a frozen diet entre (ie Lean Cusine) from home and then get a cup of soup or a small salad from the building's cafe to round out the meal. But lately I've just been having the soup, I haven't been that hungry at lunch time. It's just a $1 a day, and it comes out of my weekly allowance so it's no big deal. On Fridays, I do go to the local grocery store, they have a sushi chef there durring the week and I'll pick up a sushi combo for lunch. It's my Friday treat, and again comes out of my allowance money. Plus it's healthy!

Occasionaly I'll go out and grab fast food for lunch, maybe once every two months or so. Sometimes you just want some french fries!

[Ima saver]

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I use to buy the frozen dinner, but dh doesn't really like them. He makes a sandwich or has soup almost every day. If he gets a big dinner out, he saves half for his lunch. When we cook out on the grill, we cook extra for his lunch.

[pretty cheap jewelry]

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Almost every day. Fast food lunch is a treat! My favorite is Taco Bell (cheapest too), but my DH encourages going out more :[

Add a poll when you write the post, notice near the bottom is a thingy to 'Add a poll', it will step you through 'how many choices' for your responses (you might have 3 or 4 here), and word the responses (ie 'Always', 'Once/week', 'More than once/week', 'Never'). I don't think you can add a poll once you have started the thread.

[rob62521]

So, of all of you who brown bag or take your lunch, anyone know of a good site or sites that gives ideas for menus for lunches? I often take leftovers, but would like to have some ideas for those times I don't have leftovers.

[Ima saver]

We also brown bag our own liquor and set ups when we eat out at dinner time. That saves us a fortune not buying mixed drinks. (We live in a dry county)

[mwgr5]

I take a lunch to work every day. It is a great way to save money and time!

[LivingAlmostLarge]

My DH started eating out once a week. He really wanted to go out so I gave in.