So, today's blog will be a short one. I did the math on what I was paying to eat crappy food court food each day at work. Roughly $5 a meal, 7 meals a week is $35 a week. Over the course of a year (figure a week for vacation) is almost $1,800. That's A LOT of money on burgers and tacos! So I started taking my lunches with me. I buy soup, EZ Mac, steamed rice, ramen, etc., and take them to work with me. I will give myself 1-2 meals a week at the food court (as a treat), but already I can see a huge cutback in my spending. It also means that by bringing my own food, I don't spend up to 1/3 of my lunch running to get the food or waiting for it to be prepared, and it's better for me!
Since I am not eating 100000000 calorie meals, I am also losing more weight - added bonus!
So, there we go! Bring your own meals to work and watch your savings go up and up, and your waistline go down and down!
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Awesome!! Since I now have a harder time trying to find fast food that is vegetarian, I also am saving a TON of money! Isn't that exciting? I obviously am not working right now, but I it used to be so easy to run to McD's or Taco Bell when I was home, and now I just cook for myself and we eat dinner at home more often now.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see things are going so well so far! Keep up the good work :)