Do you eat the same lunch every day?
One in eight Brits eat the exact same lunch every day, according to the latest set of shocking statistics.
It's 'easier' that way
And of those unadventurous eaters, 70% have been packing the same lunch since the dawn of time – at least that’s what Wonderful Pistachios found when they polled 2,000 workers this month.
The reason why they won’t branch out? The majority of respondents said it was ‘easier’ that way, whilst others cited ‘cheapness’ and ‘routine’ as the motivation.
The most popular reoccurring lunch proved to be the humble ham sandwich, followed by the equally uninspiring cheese sandwich.
Apparently 71% of us pack a lunch to take to work, whilst one fifth buy something out and the remaining tenth eat in the staff canteen. Sadly, 50% of all the people polled said that their packed lunches were ‘dull’ and a quarter admitted to following a weekly food routine, where a particular day of the week means a certain type of lunch.
The death of lunch breaks?
The results also revealed that four in ten people think the traditional lunch break is a thing of the past, with heavy workloads and time constraints meaning the average worker has to ‘squeeze in’ the time to eat.
43% of people say their lunch ‘hours’ have got noticeably shorter (by an average of 20 minutes) than when they first started working, and a new ‘snacking schedule’ is taking over as the time to eat – 40% of workers say the afternoon snack is a staple part of their diet.
We love our packed lunches here at lovefood, but how about you? Are you a cheese-sarnie-every-day kind of person, or do you make the effort to shake things up? Vote in our poll then add any comments in the box below…
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