anybody else pack their lunch?

We have a lot of food resources at the university, but they are rather pricey for daily lunch. I usually take mine 3-4 days a week. Sandwich, some chips, and apple or a pear....Does it for me.
 
Yup. There is a cafeteria where I'm now working, but I bring my lunch. I save at least $500 per year and can eat whenever I want, rather than on the cafeteria's schedule. Also, I have a pet peeve about standing in line waiting for food, then standing in line to pay, then standing in line for condiments. For some irrational reason, it annoys the heck out of me. I do save time this way also.

One thing I miss is having access to a swimming pool. I used to really like bringing my lunch, eating half in the morning while I work, swimming during my lunch hour, then eating the rest in the afternoon.
 
As often as possible. When I work in Downtown SF it is a choice between fast food and dropping $10 on a meal, though I will treat myself to Henry's Hunan every once in a while. If I am working a more remote location (a pier or warehouse) a packed lunch is a must, I'll break out the big cooler so I can have plenty of cold drinks and fruit.
 
It's better if your mom makes it because she includes little notes [I love you , be a good by etc !!] even if you're an adult !!
 
Yep. Breakfast, lunch, and supper. And if I forget my cooler at home, it's a 30-mile drive from work to the nearest restraunt.

Chips and salsa for breakfast. Sandwiches for lunch. Something microwavable for supper.

-Bob
 
I pack breakfast and lunch every day.

Usually a cup of soup, or cottage cheese for breakfast, and a sandwich, pretzels or chips, and ice water. I'll also take leftovers from the night before if available. We also have water coolers and an ice machine on site, so I keep a 52 ounce 7-11 mug at work just for that.

I very rarely eat out for lunch; too damn far to go, and we only have 30 minutes.
 
Occasionally I'll brown bag it. Mostly there's a crumby caf in the building or I go out.
 
The problem with restaurant lunches is that they are so BIG! And I feel compelled to eat it all. It's my mother; she did this to me. "You have to clean your plate or you're not a good boy." I never understood how my cleaning my plate would help starving children in Africa. I guess I'm supposed to be eating for them or something. It doesn't matter; it's the way I am.

When I was in Russia a couple of years ago for the Moscow Knife Show, I ate at several what would be described as cafeteria-style restaurants. Everything is weighed and sold to you by the gram. Softdrink glasses have a line etched on them and the clerk carefully fills the glass exactly to that line and not a drop extra. Why? Because you are actually paying for the food, that's why. In America, the food is a minor component of the cost of a restaurant meal; what you're really paying for is labor. But, many people still judge the merit of a restaurant by the portion size, "Oh, you get your money's worth that that place." So, the restaurants pile on the food because, compared to the labor, the food doesn't cost them very much.

In America, if you go for fast-food, they throw the cup at you and tell you to go and fill it yourself. Why? Because if you put your head under that machine and pushed the lever in and just let the Pepsi flow into your mouth and drank it as it came down, you would die of water poisoning before you'd consume enough Pepsi to cost them as much as the labor to fill one or two cups costs. They are dollars ahead to give you free refills -- all you can drink -- if only you'll do the labor of filling the cup yourself.

And so say, "Yes, I would like fries with that," and enough fries arrive to feed a small third-world nation for a week. And I feel obligated to eat them all.

As a result, I make my own lunch whenever I can.
 
Yep. Since major stomach surgery in the fall of 2004 I've packed my own lunch. Protein bars, yogurt, and lots of bottled water. Have lost 142 pounds and now blood tests show perfect levels of cholesterol, etc.

AJ
 
I always bring a frozen lunch entree - Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice, Weight Watchers, etc. They run 240 to 300 calories, come in a wide variety, and are just enough to take the edge off any hunger in the middle of the day - they're pretty good quality too. Restaurant lunches where I work usually run at least $12 or more. The frozen entrees run $2 -3, and they are currently on sale 4 for $5.
 
When I was working, I brought lunch 3 outa 5 days a week, usually leftovers from the night before.

Mondays I was too tired to make a lunch and Fridays I always ate out.
 
I generally do if I have the time in the morning. I prefer to make my own sandwich and take a hard-boiled egg or two.
 
Never. I'm a fireman, if you don't cook and eat with the rest of the crew you're out ! Once you're out you're out FOREVER.

If you bring your own food in you'd be called a one way MF'er.

On the other hand a normal lunch would be 2 cheeseburgers on hard rolls with mac salad, beans and chips yum yum. Maybe 4 bucks.
 
Gollnick, I think part of my problem is the "clean your plate" drilled into me when I was a kid. I've been eating salads and maybe a sandwich from the grocery store in the past 6 months, but it costs money to eat out all of the time. I was getting breakfast on the road, I've stopped that. This week I started carrying my lunch to work, two sandwiches (I'm a big boy). Today I forgot it. I was paying 50 bucks a week at least for breakfast and lunch. Eating at home and brownbagging it really saves. When I was brownbagging it every day, I usually took a salad from home, or leftovers from the night before, or 2 sandwiches and a piece of fruit, usually an orange or a banana. I've got a case of water at all times in my cube, and usually have either diet decaf iced tea or flavored water, on the rare occassion a diet soda.
 
For me - very rarely. My work schedule is just erratic enough (I test software - hence schedules/deadlines) and mentally intensive enough, that getting out of the office for a break is almost essential. Nice thing about this - we work on flex time and have quite a liberal policy concerning time usage, so in many cases, taking lunch when everyone else isn't is a bonus:) When it's quiet - I do go out with co-workers. As mentioned, going out for lunch is typically a $10 hit or more, and depending on where you go, it can turn out to be a lot of food.

- gord
 
There was a study done a few years back to test the theory that we are brainwashed to "clean your plate" and they were trying to prove it was a cause of obesity. The study consisted of test subjects who were required to eat a bowl of soup. The tests were conducted with regular bowls and one special bowl that was rigged to refill itself slowly. The majority of subjects who finished the normal bowls of soup felt satisfied. The rigged bowl subjects varied anywhere from 2-5 full bowl refills before they were "full".
 
Lone Hunter said:
Never. I'm a fireman, if you don't cook and eat with the rest of the crew you're out ! Once you're out you're out FOREVER.

If you bring your own food in you'd be called a one way MF'er.

On the other hand a normal lunch would be 2 cheeseburgers on hard rolls with mac salad, beans and chips yum yum. Maybe 4 bucks.
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When I was a cop in San Diego the fire stations had their own kitchen and they cooked for the whole station crew. That is just like being home for lunch and much better then having to hit a restaurant for it.
 
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