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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Vicky Frost

A working lunch


Vicky's tuna and cannellini bean extravaganza. Deli-icious, apparently. Photograph: Graham Turner

Hello and welcome, fellow workers, to our quest to find the perfect working lunch (I like to the think of it as Lunchbox Live - like Moneybox Live on Radio 4 only without the experts giving scary financial warnings). Share your tales of lunchtime joy and woe as we hunt for the best butty, perfect salad, and most awe-inspiring packed lunch.

Of course, this being Britain, we'll also be delighting in your stories of soggy fillings, stale crusts and fruit salad so refrigerated you need a saw to break into the apple segments. We need to know the baddies of lunch retailing as well as the champions.

I thought we'd have a gentle start: today's theme is tuna (next week will be a bit more veggie friendly I promise). Here in the office we're geared up and ready: I have my tuna and cannellini beans with rocket salad from the local deli (see how much effort I have made for you all?), Jim has his home-made tuna-mayo salad butties, and Pamela has a Pret tuna salad. Our teeth are, erm, poised.

But how will our lunches measure up? And how will your equivalents cope with the competition? Let the chomping begin ...

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