<prompt> Human: This is obviously not a huge deal for many people in this sub. I used to be much better about budgeting...life happened and I fell off the rails. Ive realized I have spent roughly 250-300 month just on personal eating eating out as I made it a habit to grab some food after hitting the gym during my lunch hour. Unless work provided food, I was never bringing food to the office. With trying to be better about saving in general, and realizing I havent contributing anything to my 401k or Roth in 18 months...a change needs to happen. I know I wont go 5 days week of never eating out..but I needed to make a change and it doesnt benefit me healthfitness wise particularly but I will figure out a better routine. I went to the store and bought some healthy PB, organic jelly, and some healthy bread and decided to just make a sandwich at my desk every day for lunch. My work has various snacks so I will pick at those. I bought a handful of the 90 second uncle ben rice packets as well. I can take 2 scoops of protein powder with me each day as well. Im not good at prepping my food late at night or in the morning..part of that is bad time management, laziness, and forgetfulness. So making the sandwich with the ingredients in my drawer is sometimes easiest. But I know I can certainly have a good use for 200 month besides putting it in my stomach.EDIT - holy shit. Thanks for all the comments everyone, and the recommendations. I used to prep in the past just fell out of it. I cant believe something this simple blew up though.  <response>: This was my new years resolution - to go from eating out all the time to eating out twice a week and no extra coffees or desserts or anything. Saved close to 500 USD in January alone. 