Is it a social norm for people to buy their lunch these days?

[theasxgorilla]

I'd say that in Sweden it is. And not just to take back to the office but to actually sit down with colleagues or customers and have a proper lunch.

Depending on where I'm dining I will pay up to 10 EUR for a good lunch (almost always including a fresh salad buffet, fresh baked bread, a bottle of mineral water and a coffee together with something sweet). That's the high end and I'd expect some pretty gourmet dishes for that kind of price.

Average prices for "homestyle" dishes would be 6.50 EUR to 8.00 EUR.

It might seems lavish or an indulgence to eat a warm lunch everyday at these kinds of prices but to me it's healthy and sensible. I eat a big bowl of fresh salad every lunch time and I don't go home at night and try to prepare and down a home cooked meal at 9pm. Instead for an evening meal I might have something light like soup and bread.

 

[agro]

I'd say that in Sweden it is. And not just to take back to the office but to actually sit down with colleagues or customers and have a proper lunch.

Depending on where I'm dining I will pay up to 10 EUR for a good lunch (almost always including a fresh salad buffet, fresh baked bread, a bottle of mineral water and a coffee together with something sweet). That's the high end and I'd expect some pretty gourmet dishes for that kind of price.

Average prices for "homestyle" dishes would be 6.50 EUR to 8.00 EUR.

It might seems lavish or an indulgence to eat a warm lunch everyday at these kinds of prices but to me it's healthy and sensible. I eat a big bowl of fresh salad every lunch time and I don't go home at night and try to prepare and down a home cooked meal at 9pm. Instead for an evening meal I might have something light like soup and bread.

are you on holiday? or work? considering u r in sweden :S

 

[2020hindsight]

These days I take a dozen cans of tuna and a few bread rolls to work on Monday - and use any left over bread rolls for backyard cricket on the weekends

 

[Wysiwyg]

These days I take a dozen cans of tuna and a few bread rolls to work on Monday - and use any left over bread rolls for backyard cricket on the weekends

Lol : These days I take a dozen cans of beer and a few packets of durries to work on Monday - and use any left over beer for backyard bbq`s on the weekends Lol

 

[sinner]

Not worried about mercury levels and plastic particles in the tuna? I eat it occasionally but have heard bad things both about what long-life deep-sea fish accumulate over their lifespan as well as some people who have had issues from eating lots of tuna over time...some stuff on google about it.

 

[theasxgorilla]

are you on holiday? or work? considering u r in sweden :S

No, I'm just here for the lunches!

 

[theasxgorilla]

These days I take a dozen cans of tuna and a few bread rolls to work on Monday - and use any left over bread rolls for backyard cricket on the weekends

What ever happened to variety is the spice of life? Do you have tuna in different flavours?

 

[agro]

Not worried about mercury levels and plastic particles in the tuna? I eat it occasionally but have heard bad things both about what long-life deep-sea fish accumulate over their lifespan as well as some people who have had issues from eating lots of tuna over time...some stuff on google about it.

i think there is much more to worry about in life than the mercury content in tuna

 

[Smurf1976]

i think there is much more to worry about in life than the mercury content in tuna

Cadmium? Lead? Arsenic? :

Friend of mine says don't buy canned tuna because it contains dolphin as well as tuna. Not sure if that's true or not. Only trouble I have with it is making sure that Polar Bear (my cat) doesn't steal it as she's always lurking nearby whenever there's fish around.

As for the time taken to make lunch, I make my own bread (wholemeal) and turn the whole lot into sandwiches all at once, put them in bags and then freeze. It still ends up being fresher than anything you can buy since it's typically one hour from the bread finshing baking to it going in the freezer. Only trouble is it doesn't work to include anything, for example lettuce, that doesn't like being frozen. Works fine with meat, fish, cheese and any kind of spread though.

 

[2020hindsight]

Not worried about mercury levels and plastic particles in the tuna? I eat it occasionally but have heard bad things both about what long-life deep-sea fish accumulate over their lifespan as well as some people who have had issues from eating lots of tuna over time...some stuff on google about it.

true story ok?
But I lived on a yacht in (American) Samoa for a year or so ... they had a fire in the tuna cannery in Pago Pago... dumped hundreds of tonnesXXX tons of tinned tuna at the dump, which was fenced off from the road, but accessible by sea.

Samoa (to be fair) is in the middle of the Pacific, and I doubt that mercury would be a problem there

Anyways, we used to row over in a dighy (pronounced dingy by the Yanks, btw, rhymes with thingy) and loaded up bigtime lol - and take the cans back to the boat. There was a health risk, in that heat could make the canned fish poisonous. But you could tell by the cardboard layers between the cans which had been exposed to the fire and which had not.

Anyway the Samoan police call out to us ... " Hey YOU !! you CAn't take THat tuna, it's poisonous!" We reply, incidentally loaded to within 2 inches of freeboard, cans up around our necks etc .. "THEy'Re for THe Cat!!"
"Oh - OK theN"

(PS lol - maybe we should have said "for the tiger" - would have had more cred)

I know one bloke who lived on nothing but canned tuna for almost 12 months
And in that time he built himself a yacht.

The only time he was sick in that twelve months was when he took that boat for a sail, - violent little cork that it was lol.

What ever happened to variety is the spice of life? Do you have tuna in different flavours?

lol - yep - quite right - sometimes with chile, sometimes with onions etc.

A can of baked beans occasionally - but you have to be careful there lol.

PS Four of 5 months ago I was spending $4 or $5 on lunch at the local sandwich bar daily. I sincerely hope they (like other small businesses) make it through these tough times...

 

[MRC & Co]

No, I'm just here for the lunches!

LOL

 

[2020hindsight]

Not worried about mercury levels ...

speaking of bludy mercury .. I'm still waiting for Malcolm Turnbull (who first proposed them) or someone else to come clean and admit that compact fluorescents contain mercury and require special disposal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp

Like all fluorescent lamps, CFLs contain mercury; this complicates the disposal of fluorescent lamps

.

 

[Ageo]

I was given a packed lunch every single day all throughout school.

I now buy it everyday.

Why? Lazy. Don't want to waste time doing something boring like making lunch, when I can spend it on ASF talking about why people these days don't make their own lunch instead.

Not to mention, going out and getting lunch everyday is a social activity for me. Catch up with mates etc.

Hehe dont get me wrong MRC i love dining out also (im part of a food and wine club where once a month we take a day off work to enjoy quality foods and wines) but im talking about the people that cant be bothered making their lunch so they buy it instead.

Plus all the ASF members here that buy there lunch everyday are millionaires anyway so it wont effect them

 

[Smurf1976]

speaking of bludy mercury .. I'm still waiting for Malcolm Turnbull (who first proposed them) or someone else to come clean and admit that compact fluorescents contain mercury and require special disposal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp
.

Disposal is one problem but what concerns me more is the reality that virtually all of these lamps will, in practice, either be smashed in the kitchen bin (ie inside the house) or smashed in the garbage truck out in the street. Either way, the mercury is being released into homes and in the suburbs rather than buried in landfill (even there it's not totally safe but at least it's somewhat contained).

Personally, I've done the sums and I'll be using these only in long running applications such as the lounge, hallway etc and not in short running uses (eg toilet) where the energy savings and lamp life are greatly reduced.

That said, there's already an awful lot of mercury out there in the environment. How the trees in SW Tas ended up being contaminated I really don't know (it's clearly not as a result of local industry etc since there isn't any so it's presumably natural), but they are and you'd be wise not to eat too many fish from Lake Gordon as a result. Other lakes in Tas, both natural and man-made, are fine however and that includes Pedder (which is right next to Gordon) and Burbury where a lot of work was done during construction to make sure it didn't end up contaminated.

 

[2020hindsight]

... but they are and you'd be wise not to eat too many fish from Lake Gordon as a result. Other lakes in Tas, both natural and man-made, are fine however ...

thanks Smurf - I've always figured that James Boag and Cascade are "about as good as it gets"

These days I take a dozen cans of beer and a few packets of durries to work on Monday - and use any left over beer for backyard bbq`s on the weekends Lol

lol - take care Wys - stick to Tassie beer - and check the mercury in those cigarettes lol.

 

[2020hindsight]

Before I started eating tuna every day , I was having corned silverside every day ... but the chemist at work told me that it was full of nitrates - hence the chance of policy

 

[prawn_86]

Before I started eating tuna every day , I was having corned silverside every day ... but the chemist at work told me that it was full of nitrates - hence the chance of policy

Everyhting is full of something.

If you spent your life worrying about what bad stuff is in different food you wouldnt eat anything. Fried tomatoes can increase cancer risk.... who cares

 

[white_goodman]

yes but i dont count shakes as meals

ahh tooche, then in that case im just 7 meals.... but my portion sizes are still ridiculous...

Bavarian Bier Cafe, York St Sydney... Tuesdays $15 schnitzel challenge... id reccommend....free schanpps once completed.

Schnitzel is as big as a plate

 

[ian1328]

Of course is it but what do you expect kids learn from a young age when going to school (parents are too lazy to make them lunch) so they have food from the canteen at least 2-3 times a week.

Couldn't agree more Ageo. I volunteer work in a primary school canteen and am amazed at how many little kids get lunch orders and money to spend. At an average cost of $7 per kid it adds up when there are 3 in the family and what I can't work out is that the parents of half of these kids are on welfare!

 

[Naked shorts]

I normally eat out for lunch, its not just that im lazy, its just that i need to get out of the office to stay sane. It depends on where you work to determine if its socially acceptable.