There's no such thing as a free lunch?

So what is free-lunching?

It’s really very simple. Instead of rushing out to the shops in your lunch break for a sandwich, you take your lunch with you and get to sit down and enjoy it.

So it’s not entirely free as you did pay for it. But with free-lunching you actually use the food you’ve already bought and got at home, rather than letting it go to waste and buying lunch from the shop each day. So it’s kind of free, freer than £3.33, which is the average amount workers spend each day on buying shop bought lunches!

Ummm... that’s just a packed lunch, isn’t it?

Not quite. What makes free-lunching different is that you make your lunch out of perfectly good food you might have otherwise thrown away. Use the night before’s leftovers. Each year we throw away £1 billion of home cooked meals, but why when leftovers are perfect for free-lunching.

Whether your purse feels the pinch or not, this is a great idea and a fantastic way to save some money in time for Christmas.