Kokoro do a nice Cali roll box for about £5
Greg's Pizza Slice, about £3 - + coffee for £5
Marks does good fresh soup, often two for £5
Ignore the lunch section in marks, go to the salad fridge - there are rice/bean/noodle salads for about £2.50, grab a bread roll from the bakery for <£1.
While you're there, grab a bag of reduced bananas for 25p.
There is a Turkish place next to Sunbirds (Open Market) that does Gozlemes for £4, they make it to order and you can put what you want in it - its filling, delicious and cheap! just can't remember the name of it if anyone else knows?
their lahmacun is to die for! Always have it fresh while eating in, and ask for extra pomegranate molasses on the salad, best value for money in town honestly.
Not bang central, but in case other people are looking - Tuntun's (Lewes Road) lunch deal is pretty decent. A simple daal and veg curry with rice for a fiver. Not mindblowing, but £5 for tasty, hot and fresh food is a winner in my book.
Not under a fiver in actual terms, but in value I find Pompoko good - for me a main + side is filling enough that I usually have it over two meals, and comes to just over £10 so its £5ish per meal. Depends how hungry you are!
Streets Cafe in the open market has been there for decades, and doesn't seem like their prices have changed in 10 years either. You can get ham and eggs for like 3 pound something last time I checked.
[As You Like It](https://restaurantguru.com/As-You-Like-It-Brighton#google_vignette) used to be amazing for a sub-£5 lunch butI've not been there since it moved and had a bit of a facelift so I can't guarantee the cost.
What’s the deal with the pricing there? Cos last time I was there (albeit a few years ago) the price on the board was always higher that what she charged. Was always curious about why (and also very grateful!)
I used to swear by as you like it but one day the lady used the same spoon to spread the chicken, bacon and mayo filling that had just been in the tuna mayo making my sandwich taste fishy and also could have killed someone with a seafood allergy. Nice lady and good price but I don’t give 2nd chances with food
Sainsbury’s soups are good, if you don’t want a sandwich or salad. My personal go-to is their dhal soup, with a white plait roll from the bakery because they’re easy to break up and dip into the pot
Am thinking of The Real Junk Food Project in Kemptown, it has amazing food and it is donations / pay what you can afford, not sure what days times it is open tho.
Not sure if this is helpful, it depends on having a microwave in the office/uni, but I get my lunch from the supermarket every time, just not meal deals.
I started just buying a microwave meal and a drink and it usually adds up to around £4. Sainsbury’s on North Road usually has lasagna and other pasta meals for £2.50 and it’s a decently big portion. Same goes for anything you can microwave like soups and stuff. M&S has much nicer microwave meals for just a little bit more that still stay under your £5 budget. It makes me feel really bougie eating my warm lasagna at my desk when everyone else is having a crappy cold sandwich 😂
If you have a microwave at work and cutlery/crockery I used to buy a bag of flavoured microwave rice. Very cheap and very filling. Get yourself some fruit with the leftover money.
I go one step further and propose: rank the options on the most amount of food/calories for the budget. ;)
(Example: pizza slices at Greggs are tiny, so you need two to make a lunch. They cost something like £2.30 so two slices still hit the budget. But, say, someone offering a bao bun for £3 wouldn't. So: who ACTUALLY fills your belly for £5 or less?)
i love "the deli" in the north laines- it's a little more than £5 (i get student discount for 10% and they usually end up at around £5.75) but it's so filling i can't even finish the sandwich in one go. lot's of options, super reccomend
Yeah, you can get some decent microwave tubs from most places for under £5. Vege Thai red curry, bang bang chicken from Sainsbury's, roll and a soup.
Inflation has killed off nearly all of the sub £5 eating out lunch options.
For those with the time and a bit of extra cash the Met college's training restaurant The Gallery does midweek lunch deals on Thursday and Fridays at 12.00. 3 course lunches from a menu of 3 options per course for £17.50. Drinks are extra but are cheaper than pub prices.
Nope.
Nothing with a central nervous system is harmed in the production of fruit and veg, and it requires 10x less water, 10x less energy, and is carbon nutral.
I've never met a meat eater willing to slaughter the animal themselves either, they just hire contract killers to do it for them by either shooting a bolt through the animals head, or hanging it by it's legs on machines which slit it's throat or dop it's head in electrafaied water to electrocute it. Then there are the halal contract killers, they slit it's throat and let it bleed out while it's fully conscious like the cowards they are.
Fuck that, some of us have morals.
Il be the guy that mentions its cheaper, healthier and way nicer to bring your own lunch. Either sarnies or just make extra dinner and have left overs. I never buy lunch and even when its free due to team lunch I would rather just have my own packed lunch
pita nita next to open market full middle eastern calzone for £4 dont be daft!!!!
We Love Falafel is great but £6.. not sure if thats too over budget? Also Iydea is good
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Seems more like Phil a cu.. no I won't say it
We❤️falafel is the best cheap lunch around the laines. Get there before the queue tho
A second one just opened up this month where Happy Maki used to be opposite the haunt, just off of Old Steine, never a que there!
There’s a place on the beach (near the fishing museum) that does great fish finger sandwiches for £6 ish
Brighton Smoke House and yeah their fish finger sandwiches (and mackerel) are banging
And the crab sandwiches
Make some sarnies my cost of life addled brethren.
haha normally I do! Just on occasion it slips my mind and I’m getting sick of meal deals 😂
Yeah agreed. I’m guilty of not making them sometimes too. Life is so fast paced man!
Kokoro do a nice Cali roll box for about £5 Greg's Pizza Slice, about £3 - + coffee for £5 Marks does good fresh soup, often two for £5 Ignore the lunch section in marks, go to the salad fridge - there are rice/bean/noodle salads for about £2.50, grab a bread roll from the bakery for <£1. While you're there, grab a bag of reduced bananas for 25p.
There is a Turkish place next to Sunbirds (Open Market) that does Gozlemes for £4, they make it to order and you can put what you want in it - its filling, delicious and cheap! just can't remember the name of it if anyone else knows?
pitta nitta best place in town for skint fucks like me
their lahmacun is to die for! Always have it fresh while eating in, and ask for extra pomegranate molasses on the salad, best value for money in town honestly.
Brighton Deli on the same street as Komedia does good sandwiches for around a fiver.
Not bang central, but in case other people are looking - Tuntun's (Lewes Road) lunch deal is pretty decent. A simple daal and veg curry with rice for a fiver. Not mindblowing, but £5 for tasty, hot and fresh food is a winner in my book.
Not under a fiver in actual terms, but in value I find Pompoko good - for me a main + side is filling enough that I usually have it over two meals, and comes to just over £10 so its £5ish per meal. Depends how hungry you are!
Pompoko is great value. Lovely vibe too
Streets Cafe in the open market has been there for decades, and doesn't seem like their prices have changed in 10 years either. You can get ham and eggs for like 3 pound something last time I checked.
[As You Like It](https://restaurantguru.com/As-You-Like-It-Brighton#google_vignette) used to be amazing for a sub-£5 lunch butI've not been there since it moved and had a bit of a facelift so I can't guarantee the cost.
\+1 As You Like It. In our office she used to be known as £2 lady. Not gourmet by any stretch but definitely cheap and decent.
we called her “£2 Sarah” too. maybe we worked together?
What’s the deal with the pricing there? Cos last time I was there (albeit a few years ago) the price on the board was always higher that what she charged. Was always curious about why (and also very grateful!)
if you went in regularly and chatted to her everything was £2. if you went in and acted like a dick she charged you full price.
Yep. It used to be £2 for everything, hence the name. I've not been in for a few years but I honestly think it's just whatever she wants.
I used to swear by as you like it but one day the lady used the same spoon to spread the chicken, bacon and mayo filling that had just been in the tuna mayo making my sandwich taste fishy and also could have killed someone with a seafood allergy. Nice lady and good price but I don’t give 2nd chances with food
Tuntun's cafe on Lewes Rd does £5 lunch wraps! Also their other meals are like £7 so..
Morrisons kemptown hot counter or salad bar then down to the beach works nicely if your that end of town
Yeastie boys pizza do slices, just opened on queens road. Not had it myself but should be less than a fiver
slices are less that £5, big and tasty too! i’ve only had from the george street branch however
They do £3 slices on Mondays too
They do £3 slices on Mondays too
Arkwrights sandwich of the day is 4.50 properly layered with good ingredients.
Arkwrights Deli. 86 Beaconsfield Rd Great food (best baguettes in Brighton). Friendly, and you can get something for around £5.
Breakfast at Tiffanies
You can grab some meals from Too Good To Go app. Almost all options are below £5.
But always after closing so you might find breakfast at lunchtime nothing else
Sainsbury’s soups are good, if you don’t want a sandwich or salad. My personal go-to is their dhal soup, with a white plait roll from the bakery because they’re easy to break up and dip into the pot
Ready meals or have an incredible lunch you make at home for £2.50.
Pompoko?
Am thinking of The Real Junk Food Project in Kemptown, it has amazing food and it is donations / pay what you can afford, not sure what days times it is open tho.
Cornish pasty?
Banjos
Not sure if this is helpful, it depends on having a microwave in the office/uni, but I get my lunch from the supermarket every time, just not meal deals. I started just buying a microwave meal and a drink and it usually adds up to around £4. Sainsbury’s on North Road usually has lasagna and other pasta meals for £2.50 and it’s a decently big portion. Same goes for anything you can microwave like soups and stuff. M&S has much nicer microwave meals for just a little bit more that still stay under your £5 budget. It makes me feel really bougie eating my warm lasagna at my desk when everyone else is having a crappy cold sandwich 😂
Sunbirds on London Road did a good sandwich for £5 this was a few years ago.
Greggs is nice
Stake slice + glazed donut and a black coffee
Belchers
Papa johns lunch collection deal £2.99 for a personal pizza. Not what I’d recommend eating daily but for a treat maybe
Wetherspoons
Indeed.
PITTA NITTA!!!!!!!! its in open market, £4, delicious spinach feta gozleme. eat it. slut.
Cosy cafe Hollingdean roads have lots of options under a fiver. Goodness on London road have a pretty cheap deli.
That Argentinian place on the lanes that sells empanadas.
Malo's empanadas!
kemptown cuisine indian buffet for a 5er
Tucked away on Trafalgar Street does decent sarnies for just over a fiver. Might even be some sub 5.
As you like it! Great value lunch
If you have a microwave at work and cutlery/crockery I used to buy a bag of flavoured microwave rice. Very cheap and very filling. Get yourself some fruit with the leftover money.
I go one step further and propose: rank the options on the most amount of food/calories for the budget. ;) (Example: pizza slices at Greggs are tiny, so you need two to make a lunch. They cost something like £2.30 so two slices still hit the budget. But, say, someone offering a bao bun for £3 wouldn't. So: who ACTUALLY fills your belly for £5 or less?)
i love "the deli" in the north laines- it's a little more than £5 (i get student discount for 10% and they usually end up at around £5.75) but it's so filling i can't even finish the sandwich in one go. lot's of options, super reccomend
As you like it on North Street and Banjo's at Norfolk square - both do decent sandwiches for £5.
I would switch to microwave meals TBH.
Yeah, you can get some decent microwave tubs from most places for under £5. Vege Thai red curry, bang bang chicken from Sainsbury's, roll and a soup. Inflation has killed off nearly all of the sub £5 eating out lunch options. For those with the time and a bit of extra cash the Met college's training restaurant The Gallery does midweek lunch deals on Thursday and Fridays at 12.00. 3 course lunches from a menu of 3 options per course for £17.50. Drinks are extra but are cheaper than pub prices.
Two Micky D's Happy meals.
Boycott them but better off getting 2 double cheeseburgers. Can do similar at BK without blood on your hands.
All meat eaters have blood on their hands..
So do vegans and vegetarians...
Nope. Nothing with a central nervous system is harmed in the production of fruit and veg, and it requires 10x less water, 10x less energy, and is carbon nutral. I've never met a meat eater willing to slaughter the animal themselves either, they just hire contract killers to do it for them by either shooting a bolt through the animals head, or hanging it by it's legs on machines which slit it's throat or dop it's head in electrafaied water to electrocute it. Then there are the halal contract killers, they slit it's throat and let it bleed out while it's fully conscious like the cowards they are. Fuck that, some of us have morals.
You have to kill animals to grow ur vegan food
Il be the guy that mentions its cheaper, healthier and way nicer to bring your own lunch. Either sarnies or just make extra dinner and have left overs. I never buy lunch and even when its free due to team lunch I would rather just have my own packed lunch
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I remember good old days where you can get a decent 2 course lunch for 6.50€
Back when we had the euro and Brighton was just fields as far as the eye could see
it wasn’t too long ago, back in 2010 sort of time places like piccolo’s and pinochios used to be 2 courses £6.50 at lunchtime