Pocket Book Savings Tip of the Week for Feb. 2

Feb 2, 2009 by kim

Pack your lunch at home and take it to work, do not buy lunch out.

This is perhaps the easiest tip anyone can follow and it is a much healthier option than any fast food lunch you would pick up in a rush. Leftovers are the perfect lunch choice for people who work outside the home. All you have to do is prepare a little extra when you are making dinner and then after dinner simply put the extra into a small container to take with you to work the next day. The average cost of a “value meal” from any fast food place is about $4.50 for one meal. Let’s look at the savings over time if you stopped driving through the drive through window for your lunch:

1 day: $4.50
1 week: $22.50
1 month: $90.00
1 year: $1080.00

It’s unbelieveable that by simply packing some leftovers from your dinner the night before for your lunch can save you over $1000 a year! That amount is for one single person. Think about if you were a married couple with both people working full time. That would be a savings of over $2000 a year!

I know that there may be times that you don’t have leftovers, those are the days that you remember that you can never be to old for a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich.