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  • I am really boring.
    4 slices of white bread, butter and cheese.
    A yogurt, packet of crisps, an apple and a banana.
    My wife often asks if I get bored with the same thing, I don't.
    Not very healthy I know but it keeps me going.
    The most important thing for me though is a flask of strong coffee.

    Never stop off to buy something warm I'm too stingy.
  • Complete skinflint here. Can't bare bying things like sandwiches or drinks on the road. Bottle of squash, bananas and crisps are usually enough for any journey i do.

    Work lunch is the same everyday lol

    seedy brown bread, chive philadelphia, ham, cucumber, pepper.
    2 yoghurts and 2 homemade muffins (when i make them)
    2 bananas
    Used to be 2 packs McCoys cheddar & onion, but seem to have stopped buying them. Nuts instead now.
    2 lts of special mix robinsons fruit and barley Orange + Pink grapefruit + some tropicana ruby breakfast.

    OK, i'm boring myself now.

    We get the odd tea/coffee from clients. Avoid too much coffee as it dehydrates.

    Winter is more exciting with homemade potato and leak soup in a flask to go with Sarnies.
  • sorry guys subway or big mac , i never take food with me it just not right food sitting in the van in the heat and all the spiders around . do try to keep away from the grease spoon vans
  • I am the opposite to most it seems... I eat a lot when I work or else I get very tired.

    I cook at home most nights and make enough for the next day's lunch. I sit in the van quite happily and munch some cold stew, potatoes, lasagne, paella, curry and roast meat. Even rice is ok cold if it's steamed and mixed with a sauce. Do a lot of quiche too as we have chickens which can be divine cold for lunch.

    Between jobs I tend to have a yoghurt or two, come homemade cookies or other chocolate, a couple of bananas and a few apples too, plus water and a flask of coffee (not enough time to make a proper brew in the van as I hate drinking instant!).

    If I don't eat this all I can think of is food when I'm working and it's very distracting!
  • My food is prepared each morning consisting of sandwiches, rolls or baguette (ideally with bacon and egg in)

    Salads, pasta
    Fruit

    I don't eat cake, crisp, sweets or drink fizzy pop

    We've a kettle in a watertight brew box, fresh milk brought in each morning / afternoon

    All cold drinks through out the summer are kept in the water butts
  • PRO
    Since my business partners scare I've taken to eating from those salad bars in Sainsbury/Tesco/Other. Not particularly healthy, but better than the local snack van (bacon, eggs, sausage etc).

    I can never be ar$ed to make sandwiches and find them dull normally anyway - not a massive sliced bread fan. I'm just trying to think of the best possible easy to take foods - something I can start if I want to and return to (like the salad bars)...

    The only thing I HAVE to have is a packet of nuts in the glove box - something to munch on the keep the wolf from the door.
  • I have oatcakes instead of sandwiches. They come in handy packs of 2-6 (depending on the flavours) - if i'm doing a short day, - I just grab a pack of those and a piece of fruit. If it's a long day, i'll take some cheese spread or pate, plus a salad and dried fruit. - I can't eat chocolate and too much sugar gives me migraines, so I've found these can be kept under control, and keep my hunger under control with slow release energy from the oatcakes.
    Great thing with these packs is that if they don't get eaten, they are still wrapped up and can be used the next day, unlike a sandwich which goes soggy and yuck.
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    If you start bonking! ?

    And there was I think it was just landscape gardening :)

    Jez @ Hedges and Lawns said:
    Most of the time don't eat lunch but do sometimes stop at a local shop for pie and bar of chocolate if I start bonking.
  • From the world of sports, esp. cycling, as opposed to the thing we most think of with our 13-year old heads on!

    Daniel Gillings said:
    If you start bonking! ?

    And there was I think it was just landscape gardening :)

    Jez @ Hedges and Lawns said:
    Most of the time don't eat lunch but do sometimes stop at a local shop for pie and bar of chocolate if I start bonking.
  • We make a nice vegetable soup quite often - and part whiz it up and have that in a flask with some bread bought that morning - but I find the bread does weigh on me a bit and find that just fruit is possibly best.
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