coffee shops
Patrons working on laptops are a fixture of
coffee shops, and with electric outlets and free wi-fi, shops aren't exactly discouraging students and, uh, professional bloggers from hanging out there. Until now.
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tender
29 Readington Middle School students earned two days
detention after paying for their lunch
with pennies. School administrators took the penny treatment a sign of disrespect towards cafeteria workers, who eventually collected 5,800 pennies.
"At first it started out as a joke, then everyone else started saying we're protesting against like how short our lunch is," student Alyssa Concannon said.
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frugal
Lifehacker points us to Clever Dude, where example menus have been given (by a registered dietitian) and numbers have been crunched. The result? Pack your
lunch, save $988 a year. The bad news? Includes peanut butter sandwiches twice a week, and we personally hate peanut butter with a passion. In fact, we don't really care for cold sandwiches at all. That being said, if you do like sandwiches, this can be an excellent way for you to save a little money and avoid the dreaded pit of fast food...or the Whole Foods hot bar. It calls to you...resist.
—MEGHANN MARCO
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fast food
Real Simple has an article showing how small ordering choices can make fast food healthier. Not healthy. Just a little less like eating nuclear weapons for
lunch. The highlight:
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buy
Have you ever taken your bannana to work, only to open your
lunch sack and find the fruit bruised and squidgy?
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