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Bringing your own food to work - whether it is a sandwich or something more exotic - is a surefire way to trim the fat from your expenditure as these financially challenging times begin to bite

THE LUNCHBOX IS back and packing a punch. Bringing Your Own Lunch (BYOL), or brown-bagging as they say in America, is the latest way to beat the credit crunch and save on daily expenditure.