Save Money and Your Taste Buds - Bring Your Own Lunch
September 4, 2007
The best meals are the ones you make yourself. Blogger and dietician Clever Dudette extols the virtues of bringing your own meals to work in her post, Frugal Lunch. It’s healthy, and you can save big bucks. Her calculated savings of $988 per year are probably a bit inflated, since she bases it on spending $6 per lunch five days a week (though if you are spending $6 on fast food every noon, you should definitely start bring your own lunch and invest the savings in a treadmill).
The post also lists several inexpensive meal ideas that sound a lot tastier than the ham and cheese on white I made today. The comments section has great ideas, too, like making larger dinner portions and brining the leftovers the next day. There’s nothing groundbreaking here–most of the suggestions are rooted in common sense. That said, if you work at a school, you probably know sense isn’t all that common.
The unspoken benefit in all this is, of course, eating something a little tastier and healthier than the fare at the school cafeteria. Now, I don’t want to disparage your school’s hard-working food service staff. They’ve got the impossible task of trying to make food for hundreds of different appetites, many of whom spend their time in the lunch line complaining. So think of this as doing them a favor by lightening their workload.–BILL FERRIS
