Do you brownbag it?

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AgentDrazenPetrovic

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For lunch that is. Lunches have been getting more and more expensive....

if you bring your own lunch, what do you do during your lunch hour?
 
Work through it with a cup of noodles at the desk. 38 cents of Costco goodness.
 
what do you do during your lunch hour then? you actually work? I gotta get the fuck outta the office and drive, listen to music, chill...read....easier to do at a restaurant.
 
The wife insists on making my lunch. However, I'll have a breakfast meeting most mornings and a couple of times a week, I'll have a lunch meeting.

I prefer to eat at my desk than to go out.
 
Yeah, I usually just work through. I'm not eligible for overtime, and yet I tend to bite off more projects than I can fit into a 40hr week b/c I feel a need to do important things.

Boss-man likes it, though the shareholders are hurting right now (not necessarily my fault)
 
Yeah, I do. :(

But honestly, I came from working on a boat as a supervisor who was there from before the crew showed up in the morning to after the captain went home. One of every three days in refit I was awake as the HMFIC on a 24-hour watch. At sea, 6 of every 18 hours I was on watch, and many times went a couple of days without sleep. During most of the year in WA, I didn't see the sun.

Working 45-50 hours a week in a cubicle next to a window and only getting paid for 40 seems like a flippin' vacation, especially since I get to sleep with my wife 90% of the time now, rather than going half the year without being able to do so.
 
I usually have a somewhat late breakfast and no lunch, followed by a late dinner.
 
I used to enjoy eating at the cafeteria at Nike every day. Before that we had a full-time chef at the fraternity making us lunch. Right now I eat whenever I wake up.

Depending on the job and situation I'd probably go grab lunch from somewhere and eat while I work...so that I could possibly leave a little early (or get in a little late).
 
According to MaxieP I'm on wellfare so I should be brown-bagging it :cheers: :cheers:

nah, just playin' with ya....


I just limit the lunch spending to around 5-6 bucks a day. Food is getting cheaper everyday it seems to me over in the Lloyd district-area.
 
I typically eat a protein bar (Powerbar seems to be the most consistent choice), a banana or an apple, and at least 24 oz. of water.

Lunch costs me ~ $2.25/day.
 
Genentech has a pretty decent cafeteria and it's partially subsidized. But I still brown bag most days. Usually the night before I make a salad, and on weekends I make pots of soup, freeze in individual cartons, and bring one to work. I always seem to have 4 or so different soups going (today, Irish farm broth). Then put some fruit in season into the bag, often from my trees. Presto, lunch.
 
I work 6AM to 2PM and just eat at my desk. Some frozen thing or noodles in the microwave. Eat breakfast at work too. Add some hot water to oatmeal and I am set.
 
crandc said:
Genentech has a pretty decent cafeteria and it's partially subsidized. But I still brown bag most days. Usually the night before I make a salad, and on weekends I make pots of soup, freeze in individual cartons, and bring one to work. I always seem to have 4 or so different soups going (today, Irish farm broth). Then put some fruit in season into the bag, often from my trees. Presto, lunch.
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That is so freaking smart. Before we moved recently, my wife and I were in that same groove. You make four or five different things over the weekend, freeze them and then eat them all week long. That way, when you're too tired at the end of the day to make anything decent, there's something waiting for you.

Now, I have no idea what Irish farm broth is, but it reminded me of Irish soda bread, which I'm now making tonight to go along with dinner. Woo hoo!
 
Luckily I get all of my meals provided at work for "free". It is really nice never having to think about what to make for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

I guess the trade-off is that I spend a lot of time at work. :)
 
I gotta get out too. I have a cheap lunch - $10 or less, and read the NY Times or USA TODAY.
 
maxiep said:
Now, I have no idea what Irish farm broth is, but it reminded me of Irish soda bread, which I'm now making tonight to go along with dinner. Woo hoo!
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It's a thick soup made with brisket simmered in broth with barley, cabbage and a few other things. Sounds dull, but the beef is grass fed hormone/antibiotic free, the cabbage is organic and locally grown, the broth is homemade and the herbs picked minutes before use. It's actually quite tasty, and would be good with Irish soda bread, for that matter. I have a winter garden salad, homemade dressing, and a local organic apple (not one of mine, I ate/baked all the apples from my trees).

Now I'm getting hungry.
 
Papa- don't you get sick of power-bars everyday man?

I can only do those things when I'm riding up on Mt. Hood.
 
it's_GO_time said:
Beaverton Sub Shop

Tell Chuck that GO_time sent you . . . he will take care of you.
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Does that mean you'll get extra meat on your sub or does it mean you'll get the "special sauce"? "He will take care of you" could be taken two different ways.
 
crandc said:
Genentech has a pretty decent cafeteria and it's partially subsidized. But I still brown bag most days. Usually the night before I make a salad, and on weekends I make pots of soup, freeze in individual cartons, and bring one to work. I always seem to have 4 or so different soups going (today, Irish farm broth). Then put some fruit in season into the bag, often from my trees. Presto, lunch.
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thats sort of what I do. On weekends I'll make up a couple large meals and then tuperwear it. I'll do stir fry's with some sort of protein and maybe a grain blend, casseroles/pastas, soups... stuff that can be thrown in a microwave for 2 minutes and be ready. I don't eat much for breakfast so I like a decent portion and max time to digest it before I start up again. I bring seasonal fruit too but I usually snack with that.

I'd much rather do this then going to some restaurant as I like quality food and knowing how it was prepared. That my lunch break is an hour at max makes convenience important as well. That it's cheaper is just a bonus.

STOMP
 
Two yogurt cups and an apple, plus a vitamin water (which I know isn't healthy). Lunch is like $7 at the caf next door, nuts to that. I sit at my desk and watch The Daily Show + The Colbert Report.
 
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