thread: How much do you spend on school lunches each week?

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  1. #1
    Senior Moderator

    Nov 2004
    Chickens.
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    How much do you spend on school lunches each week?

    DS1- gluten/nut free - has popcorn, yogurt, rice crackers, 2 apples, a pear and a muesli bar. About $2.50. Sometimes home made biscuits too. Or dried fruit.

    DS2- sandwich, 2 pieces of fruit, yogurt, home made cake or biscuits, dried fruit, sometimes popcorn. Cost similar to DS 1.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    8,986

    Too much. I'm trying to get the cost down.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Apr 2008
    Melbourne
    6,745

    I make them at home and a lunch order once a fortnight ($5)
    I guess lunches each day from home probably work out to be a couple of dollars per day when you add up all the ingredients

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Victoria
    7,260

    About $20 a week, depending on what fruit I buy I suppose.

  5. #5
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    Oct 2006
    Adelaide, SA
    3,962

    We don't have a school canteen but the committee does lunches once a week, so DS1 has a lunch order each Tuesday that normally costs around $5.

    I'd estimate I'd spend $15 per week for the other 4 days.

    I only have one at school at the moment though.