With a new job starting for me this week, I'm left being rather undecided on what to do for lunches. Before now I've always either worked short shifts, remote contracts, or heavy labour jobs. Food was fairly easy for those, a stack of sandwiches for the labour jobs, and simply not eating at work with the others.

I have short lunch breaks, don't want to be buying something everyday, and don't want the same old sandwich day after day.

So, what do other people here enjoy doing for their lunches?

With a new job starting for me this week, I'm left being rather undecided on what to do for lunches. Before now I've always either worked short shifts, remote contracts, or heavy labour jobs. Food was fairly easy for those, a stack of sandwiches for the labour jobs, and simply not eating at work with the others.

I have short lunch breaks, don't want to be buying something everyday, and don't want the same old sandwich day after day.

So, what do other people here enjoy doing for their lunches?

I cook large batches of food one night a week (chili, hamburger helper, stews, soups, sandwiches sometimes too) and bring them in. Go out for food maybe once a week. Doing it all at once saves a lot of money and will save you a lot of time vs doing it every day. You could also cook a double portion of your previous night's dinner and eat it for lunch on one of the next couple days.

I've also done cereal (not just crap cereal. something actually nutritious). I've been considering doing something like yogurt and granola, which would probably be good also.

I would recommend not buying stuff every day as you mentioned. I know I probably spend $20 less per week only buying lunch once a week vs some coworkers who eat out every day. You also have longer lunch time because you don't have to walk to the restaurant/store and back.

edit: one thing worth trying is making something that works as a really good base for other foods. I made a kind of braised spicy chicken that I used as taco filling, to make paella by adding rice and water, and to make kind of juevos rancheros type scramble thing.

I've found that I need to eat a lot less now that I've got a low activity desk job. So a lot of the time for lunches, I'll have an apple and banana, maybe a roll too. I also like making a big batch of curried rice with diced potatoes and other vegetables in it, and then filling a pita with it and microwaving it at work.

I also like making a big batch of curried rice with diced potatoes and other vegetables in it, and then filling a pita with it and microwaving it at work.

I like that idea... Imma steal it

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/addictive-sweet-potato-burritos/Detail.aspx
Use black beans.
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lots of things you could make really.