Just to be a bit different I’ll eat…
What do you fancy for lunch today?
Do you want your usual lunch or would you like something a bit different?
A survey by New Covent Garden Soup found that office workers tended to show a complete lack of imagination when it came to lunch with most of those surveyed choosing the same lunch as they had yesterday.
More than 75% of workers who were surveyed had eaten the same meal for lunch for the past 9 months.
The most common lunches were sandwiches with the top 3 being ham in first place followed by cheese and then chicken. In 4th place was salad.
Yep, three quarters of people had eaten the same sandwich for 9 months.
In what was without a doubt, not a surprise, over 80% of respondents to the survey said they were “bored” with lunch.
Becky Spelman, a psychologist said that “eating the same thing every day means we risk not getting a wide enough array of nutrients, as well as simply being very monotonous. Making small changes, such as trying something new for our lunchtime meal, can – in a small way – help to open our minds to new experiences in other areas of life too.”
In summary, if you’re heading out to buy your lunch now and you’ve been eating the same ham sandwich for the last 9 months then maybe you could go for something dramatically different like a tuna sandwich instead…
