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I bring my sandwich, soda, small snack and small bag of chips.

Since I'm attending the "HS" tech center I usually go to the neighboring high school's cafeteria. Sometimes I come back and buy a snack instead.

leftovers again.

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Mr jwhite,

We all like a joke, but.......

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I do a lot of work in New York City, which makes for a very expensive lunch. Typically the van is parked five or six blocks away, and it gets too hot in the summer to really bring anything with me, and too cold in the winter to want to have cold soup or a frozen sandwich, really makes it hard to want to bring lunch. If I can get lunch for under $10/day I am happy, if I am feeling adventuress I will go to one of the street carts for some "chicken" & rice, usually about $6 with a soda. If my PM comes out then lunch is never under $15, and I see him at least once a week. If I brought lunch I can't even imagine how much I would save.

depends on what I can find in the customers kitchen

The help can eat whatever they want as long as they are back working in thirty minutes.
One stand fast rule we have – no trips to the port-a-john after 12:00 noon or your pay is docked thirty minutes.

Most don’t eat anything nor drink water on those hot summer days, they say they can’t afford to.

This is an attempt to inject a little humor in this thread.

Briselec,
I've heard about you Aussie sparkies and this aspect of the job, I thought it was all myth and legend until I saw a programme on TV one night.
That blew that theory out of the water.

Breakfast and lunch, I eat out almost every day. Costs a fortune. So it's definitely on my list of things to do: I need to start packing lunches into work. Get a wide-mouth vacuum-insulated thermos and start making up chilli or pasta and such.

Apparently a good thermos can really do the trick. Just the other day one of the guys I work with forgot about his coffee all day and it spent eight hours sitting in eighteen degree wind-chill. Opened it up at the end of the day, and the coffee was still steaming hot. Made me a believer.

-John

I always keep slim jims in my bag, and usually granola bars too. Slim jims are just perfect as a backup snack- they last forever, are indestructable, and the grease and protein is filling enough to tide me over a good while until the next meal

As far as actual lunch goes, I've found bagel sandwiches hard to beat; they're filling, don't get crushed like bread and last OK without refrigeration.

When I'm in the office, I usually just nuke leftovers. If I'm out of leftovers, I'll often mix a can of soup with a can of vegetables.

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