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I was having a read on the Guardian website earlier and I came accross a great blog post on their site, by Hilary Osborne, so thought I would post it here.
A Credit Crunch Lunch
Lunch. One of the highlights of the working day for many of us, but the cost of popping out for a sandwich can be extraordinarily high. Take a trip to high-street staple Pret a Manger, for example, and you can quickly blow a fiver on a sandwich and a tub of fruit. Go to Eat, and a salad and a drink can wipe out the best part of £7. At a time when the credit crunch is putting a squeeze on spending it just doesn’t seem sustainable. So what’s the discerning diner to do at lunchtime?
The answer, of course, is to make your own. Although sandwich chains have economies of scale by taking the labour costs out of the equation you will save a pretty penny. Your lunch should also be more eco too – assuming you don’t wrap everything in yards of cling film.
The secret to making this sustainable over a period of time is to try to make something nice. A few years ago when I was down on my uppers I attempted to create a whole week’s worth of lunches for just £2 – my plan was to cook a jacket potato in the work microwave each day and top it with one fifth of a tub on economy coleslaw. Clearly it was a bad plan. I managed to eke out the coleslaw for four days, but my enthusiasm for pallid potatoes and cheap mayonnaise was waning after just two. The next week it was back to buying out.
Make the effort to make a lunch you can actually look forward to, though, and it could be a different story.
So what are your tips for a cut-price credit crunch lunch? How can we tighten our belts on a full stomach?
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