Packed Lunches

I've been working at Blue Rocket on and off since 2007.  I'd say that for 95% of my work lunches in this time, I have had a toasted cheese and vegemite sandwich.  In fact, when I ride to and from work I normally have two cheese toasties.   The only thing that  really changes is the quality of the cheese, and the stale-ness of the bread ( I do occasionally treat myself to yummy turkish pide bread but I normally just have pretty plain white bread).  Yep I know that I am a creature of habit.

 

So.. for the month of March I've decided to not eat a single toasted cheese sandwich, or untoasted cheese sandwich,  or even straight toast for that matter, at work.  Which means I'll have to find something else for lunch.   I'm looking forward to the challenge, and I'm sure it will be good for me to consume less white bread and have a bit more variety, but I'm a bit nervous about the cost of this venture.  Toasted cheese sandwhiches (when you make them yourself) are cheap.   I recon in a week I would spend $5 on bread, $4.59 on 10 pack of delicious (Woolworths Select) Havarti cheese slices, and 20c worth of vegemite.  So in an average week, I'd spend about $12 on lunch, total.

On my very first day,  I spent $6.70 - I bought a medium salad from Salamanca Fresh for $5.95 plus my cup-a-soup which was 75c from the supermarket.  

So I'm going to have to find some sort of middle ground - I really don't want to be spending any more than  $20 per week on lunch-that-isn't-a-toasted-sandwich, but that will be hard.  Today, day 2, I bought (from the supermarket) a packet of ryvitas, some dip, a packet of Havarti cheese slices and a 6 pack of yoghurt, and consequently I've blown my weekly budget and I can't spend any money until about Tuesday of next week.  Hopefully those Ryvitas go a long way!  It's a good thing that biscuits are provided free of charge at work, and also leftovers brought from home are free!