Poll
Question:
What do you usually do for lunch?
Option 1: I don't usually eat lunch
votes: 3
Option 2: I usually eat lunch at home
votes: 8
Option 3: I usually bring lunch to work
votes: 12
Option 4: I usually get take out
votes: 2
Option 5: I usually purchase lunch at work
votes: 5
Option 6: I usually get fast food
votes: 1
Option 7: I usually eat at a sit down restaurant
votes: 4
Option 8: Other
votes: 1
I saw this article in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain) and wondered how many people here followed the grab-a-sandwich-and-be-on-you-way lifestyle described in the article.
(The article is a little long, but I thought it was worthwhile. It has it all from Brexit to immigrants to the Earl of Sandwich.)
Lunch at home, but I work from home most of the week. When I'm not I usually eat at my employer's buffet, or a restaurant.
But I don't do quick lunches. I like having a pause in the middle of the day.
Work at home, eat at home.
I go out for lunch. Usually to sit down
I either make my own lunch each day or buy low-salt cans of premade soup and eat mixed nuts alongside it. My major concern is keeping the cost of lunch low each day.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 28, 2019, 05:12:53 PM
Work at home, eat at home.
Ditto. Though occasionally I'll get stir-crazy and go grab a bite somewhere just to get out of the house.
Bring lunch from home. Usually leftovers from last night's supper. If no leftovers, then sandwiches.
Often an antelope, if I'm really hungry I'll go for a Wildebeest. :bowler:
Quote from: mongers on January 28, 2019, 05:54:47 PM
Often an antelope, if I'm really hungry I'll go for a Wildebeest. :bowler:
Quit lyin'.
I should prepare something at home and take it to work. It makes sense.
But its just so much effort. And removes the freedom to eat what I want when lunch time comes around.
I usually go for a walk and get whatever I fancy. Sometimes it is a sandwich, other times jacket potato, maybe once every week or two fast food, sometimes a pie or pasty, etc...
Today I had a 10-egg omelette. I usually only eat lunch and dinner so both have to count.
I live close enough to work that, when in Melbourne, I almost always come home for lunch. In the field I'm at the mercy of the project. (Fortunately rail doesn't attract small people, and most rail workers don't miss many meals. Unfortunately a lot of US rail workers love junk food.)
I like to eat at restaurants, but want to save money. Lunch is usually much cheaper than dinner, so I have lunch at restaurants, and make dinner at home.
That's the weekends and holidays. For working days, the logic goes like this. I want to grab something quick and light, then work on household chores, like grocery shopping, going to the post office, banking, etc. Wife wants to relax, sit down and eat at a restaurant. Wife wants to have lunch with me 95% of the time. Wife wins. At work, when I go to restaurants, about 75% of the customers are females. Males tend to use the fast food route.
I eat most of my meals at home, only occasionally going out. I'm mostly retired but work a few mornings a week, going in usually at 6:30am and I'm home for the day by lunch time. When I was working full time before I retired, I was so close to home that I went there for lunch. It was a nice break in the work day.
A little from all choices. Business lunches in restaurants, buying lunches from a dangerously addictive Lebanese food truck outside our building and making my own lunch, and every once in a while just being too busy to eat lunch.
Quote from: Barrister on January 28, 2019, 05:31:55 PM
Bring lunch from home. Usually leftovers from last night's supper. If no leftovers, then sandwiches.
This, exactly this. :bowler:
Sometimes, I go to a restaurant but I am not a fan, takes too much time.
Tend toward bringing lunch from home (usually leftovers) or eating during the discount hour our cafeteria at work offers after 2pm. Occasionally go out to eat with colleagues after presentations and such.
Sometimes I will pay full price at a food truck or one of the myriad fast casual places around us. There's a hot dog food truck that is to die for :mmm:
Depends. Usually we go for burrito once a week, other days I may bring lunch to microwave, or we order in, or I step out to buy a sandwich from along my commute or bring it from along my commute.
I usually go for a walk during lunch break but i'll eat at my desk, typically home made but occasionally bought while walking.
From observation it would seem bringing your own lunch is unknown to young people. Not sure why they have that kind of money and I don't :hmm:
Me and the rest of the IT crew almost always go out to a sit down place.
Quote from: Caliga on January 29, 2019, 10:21:43 AM
Me and the rest of the IT crew almost always go out to a sit down place.
Thornton or Speedway? :P
The building I work in has a canteen with food subsidized by my employer. I eat there almost every workday. I had kale with potatoes and a sausage today.
Grünkohl? :mmm:
Routine and me don't mix well, so I rarely do only one thing any given week. I'd say it's home lunches a couple of days per week, I bring lunch to work maybe once or twice per week (either leftovers or some rice and tuna salad), and either eat out or purchase food to eat at work the remaining days.
Quote from: derspiess on January 29, 2019, 10:48:38 AM
Quote from: Caliga on January 29, 2019, 10:21:43 AM
Me and the rest of the IT crew almost always go out to a sit down place.
Thornton or Speedway? :P
YOU CAN EAT AT THOSE!? :w00t:
In all seriousness, I drove by a Speedway near Columbus that had kiosks where you could order freshly made food. I think they copied the Sheetz MTO model.
Quote from: Savonarola on January 28, 2019, 04:57:41 PM
I saw this article in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain) and wondered how many people here followed the grab-a-sandwich-and-be-on-you-way lifestyle described in the article.
(The article is a little long, but I thought it was worthwhile. It has it all from Brexit to immigrants to the Earl of Sandwich.)
I will say this about the UK...my sense being here so far is that they have us beat when it comes to ready-made grab-and-go sandwich availability/variety available in convenience stores. We need some scribes.
Quote from: Tonitrus on January 29, 2019, 06:26:54 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on January 28, 2019, 04:57:41 PM
I saw this article in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/24/how-the-sandwich-consumed-britain) and wondered how many people here followed the grab-a-sandwich-and-be-on-you-way lifestyle described in the article.
(The article is a little long, but I thought it was worthwhile. It has it all from Brexit to immigrants to the Earl of Sandwich.)
I will say this about the UK...my sense being here so far is that they have us beat when it comes to ready-made grab-and-go sandwich availability/variety available in convenience stores. We need some scribes.
That was my impression too when I was there (about a decade ago.) The article makes it sound like it's not just a sandwich, it's a lifestyle. :bowler:
All the people
So many people
They all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their sandwichlife
Quote from: derspiess on January 29, 2019, 05:16:34 PM
In all seriousness, I drove by a Speedway near Columbus that had kiosks where you could order freshly made food. I think they copied the Sheetz MTO model.
The only place one should eat at in Columbus is Schmidt's Sausage Haus.
I either skip it or order delivery. Unfortunately, the best/only food delivery app in this country has stopped working, so it's become hard to have things delivered to my office.
Quote from: Tyr on January 28, 2019, 06:30:28 PM
I should prepare something at home and take it to work. It makes sense.
But its just so much effort. And removes the freedom to eat what I want when lunch time comes around.
I usually go for a walk and get whatever I fancy. Sometimes it is a sandwich, other times jacket potato, maybe once every week or two fast food, sometimes a pie or pasty, etc...
This is easily 60-80 quid a month, though.
I have gotten much better at gathering the willpower necessary to spend 30 seconds in the morning assembling a sandwitch. Also at times I'd have leftover from dinner. The difference in cost is staggering.
I fix/pack lunch for 2 other person. In comparison, fixing your sandwich is mundane.
Quote from: Tamas on January 30, 2019, 10:26:27 AM
This is easily 60-80 quid a month, though.
I have gotten much better at gathering the willpower necessary to spend 30 seconds in the morning assembling a sandwitch. Also at times I'd have leftover from dinner. The difference in cost is staggering.
:yes:
Packing my lunch most days means I retire 1-2 years earlier. Engaging in a bit of meal-prep on Sundays or in the morning is a small price to pay.
My issue isn't entirely on avoiding prep but on prep of sandwich in morning leads me feeling negative about lunch (one of the few bright moments during the day) and then also, I used to try to just make extra food that could be then brought in. Just led to me having two meals at night. -_-
Quote from: Caliga on January 30, 2019, 09:57:23 AM
Quote from: derspiess on January 29, 2019, 05:16:34 PM
In all seriousness, I drove by a Speedway near Columbus that had kiosks where you could order freshly made food. I think they copied the Sheetz MTO model.
The only place one should eat at in Columbus is Schmidt's Sausage Haus.
Schmidt's is fun. Valters has better food. And of course Columbus now has its own Hofbräuhaus.
Btw this is that Cincinnati place I mentioned a couple months ago. It's been open since 1865. Food and beer selection are great and it has a nice biergarten: https://www.mecklenburgs.com
Quote from: garbon on January 30, 2019, 10:58:26 AM
My issue isn't entirely on avoiding prep but on prep of sandwich in morning leads me feeling negative about lunch (one of the few bright moments during the day) and then also, I used to try to just make extra food that could be then brought in. Just led to me having two meals at night. -_-
I don't see anything wrong at all with treating lunch as a sort of mental-health thing. For me, the economic value of saving on my meals at work is greater than the enjoyment I would get by going out.
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 30, 2019, 10:29:13 AM
I fix/pack lunch for 2 other person. In comparison, fixing your sandwich is mundane.
Well that's it also. I think many of us who pack a lunch are part of larger families, so it's more efficient to make lunches for several people than it is to have everyone buy (plus the cost savings are even more staggering).
It's not like I never go out for lunch. I went out on Monday to an asian hot pot restaurant with a colleague - I'd never been to such a place before. It was fun. In fact that's the one good thing about having my office on the very edge of the nice part of downtown - Chinatown is right next door, with lots of good restaurants.
The other thing I thought was interesting in the article was how New Year's Resolutions end at about the third week (which is when demand for bacon picks up again in the sandwich industry.) This week it seemed like attendance at my gym dropped to about half of what it was the first week of the year.
Pack lunch, usually leftovers or sandwiches or a wrap. Me and a close group of coworkers have a standing lunch day every 2 weeks, we usually use that day to try new restaurants or retread well liked old ones. I also have occasional eat out lunches with others in addition to that. But it's probably 80% packed lunches.
I never pack lunch from home, partly because my commute is too long for it to be edible on arrival, but mostly because it is one less cause for stress that I can avoid in the morning. I used to go out and sit down in a restaurant every meal to get away from work and unwind but since starting in a new place I bring lunch to work and socialize, for however long that will last.
This is part of a deliberate effort to avoid stressful situations and focus on more important things, mainly the kids, the missus and wargaming.
Quote from: Delirium on February 05, 2019, 05:07:02 PM
I never pack lunch from home, partly because my commute is too long for it to be edible on arrival, but mostly because it is one less cause for stress that I can avoid in the morning. I used to go out and sit down in a restaurant every meal to get away from work and unwind but since starting in a new place I bring lunch to work and socialize, for however long that will last.
This is part of a deliberate effort to avoid stressful situations and focus on more important things, mainly the kids, the missus and wargaming.
Fine set of priorities you have.
Though the order is a bit suspect. :P
I should have said, "in no particular order". :)
Do you have several days to commute? I mean, food normally last a quite a few hours before it goes bad.