by Patrick Okoro

Created on: February 28, 2009   Last Updated: March 06, 2009

Lunch time blues?

Tips and tricks on cutting the weekly lunchtime bill, a recession busting guide to lowering your weekly food bills at work.

The cost of living is rising at an alarming rate and our overheads are skyrocketing, but alas the pay packet seems to be shrinking, or not going as far as it should do and Definitely not as far as we would like it to go in terms of meeting our needs.

The daily skinny latte on your way into work, the endless trips to the vending machine at work and the sandwich and soda at break and lunch time is also taking its toll on your finances, in general the lunch time bill is not your favourite subject right now.

So its time for a serious look on what sensible changes can be made to your routine and lifestyle to help lower the lunch time bill.

The average the lunch time bill is in the region of $10.00 a day, for most people, this translates to a whooping $2600.00 a year, this does now start to look a lot, for a sandwich at work, so what can you do?

It is essential to eat regularly with a healthy and properly balanced diet. However it is not essential to break the bank in the process, so what can we do to help ourselves? And reduce that ever rising lunch time bill.

The best solution to tackling the lunch time bill problem, by a long shot, is to

Take in your own food; this is what I do, to take the sting out of the cost of lunch at work, and to reduce the weekly lunch time bills.

It is not mean or miserly it is just good economic sense.

You can easily tie this cost into your weekly shopping allowance, it has the added advantage of having your sandwich made exactly how you like it and with the right mix of what you want, you probably already have the bread at home so you just need to get in some meat slices or use some left over dinner meat, like from a chicken or joint of meat cooked previously for dinner.,

Throw in a can of soda or two purchased in a multipack (it's cheaper to get multipacks from the supermarket) you can also purchase bottled water in this manner and it will work out cheaper as well. This is also a major expense, with drinks costing up to $2.50; it will reduce your lunch time bill by a considerable amount

Note, buying multipacks of any sort will always be a cheaper alternative to buying separate, this includes chips, chocolates, granola and cereal bars, that is the power of bulk buying.

Utilize the leftover dinner, or purposely cook a bit more dinner than you need to, so you can take some into work in a container the following

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