Taking Lunch (or other meal) To Work/School

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For those of you with a job, do you bring food from home, or do you order food, or work in a store and buy it there?

Personally, I cant stand bringing food to work, ive always been like that. if i make a sandwich it gets soggy and the texture is just foul to me. Infact, when i was in 7th grade, my father (who is a nonbeliever in aspergers) forced me to bring lunch to school. Ham, cheese, mustard, mayo and lettuce on 7 grain bread. I cant stand non-white bread, or soggy bread. I got to the point where i would throw the sandwich away before school, this worked until the teacher noticed i was not eating lunch. Of course for breakfast, oatmeal or cheerios were my only options, both of which i hated. So for two years i was getting by on one full meal a day. At that time i was living with my father, my mother and other family being 250 miles away. I loved the days usually every two weeks when my grandmother would send a letter with two dollars in it. It meant a palatble lunch for once.

My habit has stuck. I work 7-3 shifts in a convenience store, and i do not bring lunch to work. Most days i order from a local pizza place that has burgers and whatnot. If im low on cash, my lunch is a bag of chips. I cant even get subway because by the time i want lunch, the bread has gone soggy.

What say you? Food from home, ordered, cafeteria, or neither?

You know you can freeze bread in slices and when you make your lunch you use it straight from the freezer. That way it defrosts right before you eat it and it feels fresh... might help...

I voted other.
I do not usually eat breakfast or lunch, I just eat an evening meal.
The exception is Sundays, I eat lunch on Sundays but then I do not eat an evening meal.
Sometimes I eat supper (some toast or cereal).

If you have access to a microwave, you can take something microwaveable.

In any case, sandwiches aren't the only thing you could have for lunch, and if you did want to have a sandwich, you could always separate the ingredients so the bread doesn't get soggy.

I hate bringing lunches too. I don't even know why, I just do.

The exceptions might be things like banana bread, that comes wrapped up when I get it. I could take that for lunch, if it was tasty. Otherwise, I tend to need something warm and/or containing fluid and/or tasty (ie not bread, which I always find dry and yukky). It's almost as if I need a really good lunch experience to compensate for the being-out-of-home overload.
I used to put pressure on myself to do it differently, but I don't anymore. I just accept that's the way I am. At my uni they have a few good BBQs and on Thursday there is a great vegetarian all-you-can-eat thing. It's cheap, too. One of those Hare Krishne type ones, that has hot vegetables with maybe rice and a dessert.
Other times it's a ham and cheese croissant or something. It used to be crepes (warm, delicious, cheap) but I stopped those since it seemed they were making me .. plump.

when I was in school I sometimes brought a snack (not sandwiches) but usually waited until I got home. My school didn't have a cafeteria (strange, I know).

I normally bring lunch from home to school, although sometimes I'll get cafeteria food, but only if it's something I like, or restaurant food, but only on senior lunch days. It's a little weird, but I make it work.

Other. I don't usually eat lunch at work.

Good suggestion! This is what I've done at my last workplace, as well as my current one. Also, ask if you can quickly pick up some hot food from somewhere if there's a restaurant or take out place nearby (provided that you have time to do so, of course.)

I remember being frustrated in public school as there was no cafeteria or hot food service (although pizza from the local store was sold every friday) and I had to eat cold sandwiches...it always grossed me out. That, and the smells of everyone's cold lunches combined together was just disgusting!

Later on, I discovered that I could bring pre-heated canned pasta, soup, or spaghetti in a thermos: another suggestion you could try.

I hate bringing food to school, but I know it's neccessary. So I take f.e. bread, apples, yoghurt, etc. and it's ok. I hate people's meals, because they make mixed food, f.e. sandwiches, something with meat or salads with sauce, and this food is stinky as hell!

I don't like food from cafeterias or restaurants, because they make food very salty/sweet and fat and it's unhealthy and stinky and I can't eat it.

Good suggestions everyone. I do have a microwave at work, but being a convenience store, where i work alone 99% of the time, i do not get any breaks. I may have a slow period but if i had food cooking in the microwave and a customer wanted to use it, i would be obligated to take my food out so he can use it. slow periods are never predictable so that really isnt feasible for me. I eat something that is not messy and can fit in the small space at the register, i eat standing at the register. Ive even had people come in and tell me that im being rude and unprofessional by eating in their presence.

I bring my lunch, and the bread never gets soggy. It doesn't change from when I make the sandwich. I'm thinking it's a matter of what you put on the sandwich.

I'm surprised they are allowed to schedule you for an 8 hour shift with no lunch break.

Last semester I had horrible lessons and I was at school f.e. 8 - 21. So I cooked vegetables at evening, put them into box and I cooked rice at morning and I added it to vegetables and it all became warm.

Under maine law, you must be given a 30 minute unpaid meal period after working 6 hours, the exception is when fewer than three people are on duty. We never have three on duty at once, except for four hours on monday when the shipment comes in. We only have one register and one cashier on duty, so law says no break is required.

The only time that bothers me is when im alone in the store and need to use the restroom, i CANNOT leave the register with people in the store or at the gas pumps, so if its busy, im holding it. This has taught me to be mindful of my drink intake and food intake the day before, no more KFC for me.