What's lunch break for?

[DarrenX]

For my day job I'm a purchasing coordinator, a desk job. I've been at this company 8 years. Over the past 8 years I've had several friends come and go. I'd go out to lunch with one or more of these friends pretty much on a daily basis. My last good friend just left for another job last Friday.

I am in purchasing, so I do get offers from vendors for lunch meetings, which I do go on once or twice a week; however, the majority of the time I will be sans friends. I'm looking at this as an opportunity to improve myself in some way.

My question to you, OOT, is how do you spend your lunch hour? Suggestions?