Frankly, I don&#x27;t even look at them at all. Snacks are a nice-to-have and shouldn&#x27;t be a selling perk and a 1x week team lunch can be a good way to build morale and camaraderie in the company, but again, not mandatory. What matters is work expectations, compensation, team, culture fit, other compensation, salary, etc. Not the freebies that might get pushed to distract you from other things you need to consider.<p>I get worried when people really push the free perks like breakfast&#x2F;lunch&#x2F;dinner every day. That, to me, says the corporate culture will expect you to work longer hours (for probably less take home pay) in exchange for feeding you. The food may not even be that good or healthy for you. Frankly, while I like my coworkers, I value having a life outside the office with friends and family and would be extremely leery about any job that asked me to spend the significant majority of my waking time working outside the usual 40hrs&#x2F;week.<p>Value wise, ask them for their per-diem rate or what they budget for lunches&#x2F;dinners to evaluate.<p>Lunch, depending on your organization&#x2F;per-diem rates in the area, usually fluctuates between $10-20 and dinners between $20-50 depending on organization, expectations, restaurants in the area, etc.<p>Then figure out what the difference in salary is, knowing you could make lunches and dinners on your own for between $5-10 ea that are guaranteed to be fresh and nutritious. Odds are, you&#x27;re going to be losing more money getting the &quot;free&quot; lunches&#x2F;dinners than you get back in their dollar value<i>.<p></i> Yes, you can argue there&#x27;s a time tradeoff for buying and cooking, but if you do it smart, you can get this down to once a week in a batch trip at a prescheduled time.