I usually bring my lunch and eat at my desk (while reading the SDMB). Not only is it cheaper, it’s easier to eat healthy. I stock up on Amy’s Organic Vegetarian frozen meals at the grocery every weekend, and sometimes bring in leftovers.
This week I have eaten out a record 4 days in a row. I have a position open in my office and I'm interviewing people for it, and lunch is the only time that's been convenient this week. I feel bloated and icky, and I was very happy to get back to my Amy's today. On the bright side, Athens does have a lot of great places that cater to vegetarians (I try to to eat veg during the week, seafood on weekends).
I also bring my lunch every day. Usually leftovers from the night before. Maybe once every couple of weeks I will go get a couple of tacos from a place right around the corner. Funny thing though, whenever I go out I always go to the same place and always get the same thing. I never figured myself for an OCD guy, but then who knew ;)!
Right now I eat at the company cafeteria, or go out. The cafeteria’s a bit on the pricey side, and I live ten minutes away, so I’m gonna start going home for lunch.
It varies from one semester to the next with my wacky p/t teaching schedule. This fall, I have classes from 8 to 11 and then from 1 to 4 on one campus, so I will be staying there to eat, probably from a sack lunch since we have a kitchenette.
The other campus’ classes don’t meet till 7pm, so dinner will be at home.
I started eating out for lunch right when I started my job, intending to start into a routine of making lunch in the morning or packing leftovers. Just until I settled into my new place.
I have good intentions, but don’t get up early enough in the morning to follow up on them, and food that’s been in the fridge all night strikes me as icky. Particularly tomatoes.
** Ol’Gaffer**- I do the same thing. There are two places that I usually go when I do go out- one of them has killer blak bean burritos and the other has great vegetarian sushi. I never get anything else at either place, and rarely go anywhere else.
I go out every day. I’m a cheap bastard so I try to hit the cheapy deals. I usually end up spending about $5-8 a day. I used to go to Micky-D’s for cheap .39 burgers, but they are really disgusting. A resturant ran a special with half-price lunch after 2pm and I ate there for 2 months straight. I still go there for salad bar now that the special is over. The best deal is this little Mexican joint down the road where you can get a killer burrito and a coke for $4! Fills you up and it is very good.
Too lazy to pack my own, plus I would end up eating it by 10 am, and its 25 miles to home. Screw it, I can afford it! My wife comes into town about once a week and we go have sushi, all you can eat for about $40 for both of us with a good tip, and we both enjoy that very much. I used to get to eat with her everyday for lunch, but she stays home now with Miller, the Super-baby!
I’m rambling…
She said she loved me like a brother. She’s from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
I have the great fortune of living close enough to work so that I can go home on my lunch break. I’m home right now! I’m having soup and reading the Dope! It’s a lovely lifestyle if you can swing it.
I rarely go out for lunch. Part of that is that I don’t really eat a real meal at lunch. I have a dorm-size fridge in my office, where I keep cottage cheese, fruit, lo-fat salad dressing, and stuff, and I bring in bagels each day. I generally eat a bagel (with nothing on it) as a midmorning snack, I have some cottage cheese and fruit at lunch, or maybe some salad from the downstairs cafeteria’s salad bar. Then maybe another bagel in mid to late afternoon, so I’m not starving when I get home.
If we’ve got leftovers, sometimes I lunch on them.
I go out to eat with colleagues sometimes, which I enjoy, but the food part itself is a nuisance. If I don’t buy anymore than I normally eat, then I’ve finished in a few minutes, while they’re barely starting. But if I get a ‘regular meal’, I’m stuffed and worthless all afternoon.
I spent 2 and a half years working overnights, and I still work very early in the morning-- such that I eat lunch at 8:30 am. Have you ever tried to get lunch at 8:30? Or at 3 am? It’s just impossible in this city… and I am a way better cook than anything I could afford to buy on a regular basis.
Today’s lunch? Pad Thai.
At my last job I brought my lunch almost every day (for 10 years). Imagine my excitement at my new job–a cafeteria right here where I can get a homecooked meal for about $2-3 a day. This is great for a single person. I have my big meal at noon, then a sammich when I come home at night. I really dislike leftovers and a sammich wouldn’t be enough for me at lunch.
I eat the 88-cent and 75-cent frozen lunches you can get at WalMart, ‘cause I’m po’ and I usually don’t have time to make a sandwich or anything in the morning. I just grab one on the way out the door. I also like being able to look at the back and know exactly what’s in it. We have a tiny breakroom at work, and no sink, just a small fridge and a very tiny microwave.
I make my lunch and bring it to work every day. There are a couple on-site places to eat, but the food doesn’t meat my low-sodium requirements (and after a while, the cost would just add up).
At my old job, I was making a ton of money (well, compared to now), was located in the middle of Fast Food Road, and had no time constraints, so I ate out all the time. Now, I’m making less, am much farther from any restaraunts, and am far busier. I bring meals now.
Bean has a cafeteria in the building where I work, but I usually make a couple of sandwiches the night before, except last night, so today I ended up getting some chicken strips and personal size pizza.
My wife comes into town about once a week and we go have sushi, all you can eat for about $40 for both of us with a good tip, and we both enjoy that very much. I used to get to eat with her everyday for lunch, but she stays home now with Miller, the Super-baby!