For a start, if you buy a ready-made lunch every day, you are throwing away money – £1,288 a year, according to the penny-pinching site Vouchercloud. With a packed lunch, you are in control of all the ingredients. Perversely, packed lunches are unpopular because they are cheap and sensible. Perversely, packed lunches are unpopular because they are cheap and sensible ... frugality isn’t glamorous. What should go without saying, but almost certainly doesn’t, is that a packed lunch does not have to be eaten cold, even if your boss is too tight to invest in a microwave.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2017 12:00 UTC