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Bag that lunch!

McClatchy Tribune illustration (McClatchy Tribune illustration / The Spokesman-Review)
Today’s Everyday Economy page brings you a showdown: School lunch vs. brown-bagging. In our basic comparison — a PB&J — school lunch stacked up pretty well, running $2.60 (in Spokane) compared to $2.64 for the bagged lunch. But if you’re frugal, you can beat that price. Today’s Everyday Economy page brings you a showdown: School lunch vs. brown-bagging. In our basic comparison — a PB&J — school lunch stacked up pretty well, running $2.60 (in Spokane) compared to $2.64 for the bagged lunch. But if you’re frugal, you can beat that price. Today’s Everyday Economy page brings you a showdown: School lunch vs. brown-bagging. In our basic comparison — a PB&J — school lunch stacked up pretty well, running $2.60 (in Spokane) compared to $2.64 for the bagged lunch. But if you’re frugal, you can beat that price. Today’s Everyday Economy page brings you a showdown: School lunch vs. brown-bagging. In our basic comparison — a PB&J — school lunch stacked up pretty well, running $2.60 (in Spokane) compared to $2.64 for the bagged lunch. But if you’re frugal, you can beat that price.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Everyday Economy." Read all stories from this blog