I am not going to take the food from the office's cafeteria anymore. I will bring my

[tufguy]

Is it correct to say "I am not going to take the food from the office's cafeteria anymore. I will bring my own food beginning next week"?

Please check my sentences.

 

[GoesStation]

It's grammatically okay, but weird. Have you been stealing from the cafeteria?

It's more natural to say the office cafeteria.

 

[Skrej]

I think a more natural version would be something like "I'm not going to eat at the office cafeteria anymore."

If context makes it clear (for example in a conversation with co-workers), you could simply omit 'office', unless it's unclear which cafeteria you're referring to.

 

[emsr2d2]

And if the context is already clear, you can dispense with the first sentence completely. Saying "I'm going to bring my own food/lunch/dinner in from next week" will do.

 

[tufguy]

It's grammatically okay, but weird. Have you been stealing from the cafeteria?

It's more natural to say the office cafeteria.

No, I was availing the food service but now I don't want to.

 

[GoesStation]

No, I was [STRIKE]availing[/STRIKE] using the food service but now I don't want to.

You can avail yourself of something (in rather formal language), but you can't just avail it.

Use one of the suggestions in the posts above.

 

[tufguy]

You can avail yourself of something (in rather formal language), but you can't just avail it.

Use one of the suggestions in the posts above.

1) I was availing myself of the office food service but I will stop.

2) I no longer want to avail myself of the office food service.

Are these correct?

 

[GoesStation]

Saying "I'm going to bring my own food/lunch/dinner in from next week" will do.

1) I was availing myself of the office food service but I will stop.

2) I no longer want to avail myself of the office food service.

Are these correct?

They're grammatically correct but not sentences anyone would use. Ems's suggestions are much better.

 

[Tdol]

You can avail yourself of something (in rather formal language), but you can't just avail it.

Use one of the suggestions in the posts above.

When I went to the Philippines, I came across this usage of avail. It sounded weird to me too, but it exists in some variants.