ok, so i am sick of spending about $15 on lunch a day every day for the last 5 years and i will not brownbag it. i am looking to budget and try to get my lunch expenditures down to about $5-$7. McDonald's and Crack in da box is out of the question for a regular place. i find taco bell to be ok depending on what you order.

lets see, 15 a day for 5 days a week is $75 x 4 a month is $300. OUCH.

ok dudes, help me save money and not go hungry yet not get any kidney problems. lets see what you guys can suggest.

 

if u consider quiznos and subway fast food then i say that the healthiest

 

I was sort of in the same boat as you. I got pissesd when I realized that spending $10 a day on lunch turned out to be $2,400 A YEAR!!!

Now I bring a Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine meal and heat it up in the microwave at work. They're usually around $3.25 or so and the stores often have them on sale at half price. Like you, I don't want to do the fast food thing either, that's a heart attack waiting just to happen.

The only other suggestion I could make is maybe the salads at Wendy's. Their spinich salad is pretty good and at a reasonable price.

Warren

 

My work has a cafeteria. I usually hit up the salad and sandwitch bars and do bring my own lunch 1/2 the time. Sometimes the asian cuisine isn't too unhealthy and I'll have that about once a week.

Probably subway is the best bet but that can get old. You really do need to cook your own food to expand your options for healthy food. When I cook, I cook enough for 3 or 4 meals.

When you are eating lunch tomorrow, imagine what it would be like to be having salmon instead...and at a price of $5.

 

Subway.

 

almost any fast food place can be "healthy" depending on what you order. even at McD's you can order a premium grilled classic chicken sandwich without mayo or a premium grilled chicken ranch blt sandwich with an iced tea and maybe a salad, and that will be far from being unhealthy and cost you around $5-7. another stragtegy is to look for smaller, hole-in-the-wall, type restuarants where you can generally find decent food for no more than $7.

 

Chinese is usually cheap here in NYC, Pizza is pretty safe, and Subway is good also.

 

Too early for trick questions...

 

What is your aversion to brown baggin it? If lunch is a social thing I understand but you would save tons of money and make it as healthy as you like if you chose your own food and bought it yourself.

If not, Wendy's , McD, BK all have a wider selection of salads and healthier food now.

get grilled chicken or fish item whenever possible.

Good luck

 

Subway, Quizos or Wendy's.