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Poll: Eating out
I was just lurking over on the H&F board and someone posted a poll about how many times a week you eat out. I was very suprised to find that most people responded with 2 - 3 times a month! We eat out all the time on the weekends b/c once Friday hits I'm soo not wanting to cook dinner. This got me thinking maybe we should try to cut back to save money.
How many times a week do you eat out?
What meal?
Re: Poll: Eating out
How many times a week do you eat out? 2-3/week
What meal? Usually dinner on Friday and Saturday. Also, every other week or so me and my friend meet for lunch on Thursdays.
We really only eat out on the weekends, and it's usually if we go out with one of our families. When we have dinners with friends it's usually at someone's house, not to a restaurant. A lot of our friends just had kids & I think it's easier for them to be at home, and we don't mind because it's generally cheaper. We typically only eat out for dinner.
You know what I have found to be true for us, is that lunch is the hardest meal for us to eat in on the weekends. I don't know why, other than the fact neither of us are ever home for lunch during the week, so eating lunch at home on the weekends seems really weird + we never have food in the house for that.
How many times a week do you eat out? 2
What meal? Dinner
How many times a week do you eat out? Usually once a week
What meal? One meal on the weekend, which varies but tends to be lunch.
How many times a week do you eat out? 1-2 a month
What meal? We typically will do a nice dinner. It sucks being on a budget.
How many times a week do you eat out? Me, not very often....I've made DH limit dinner to 1x/wk w/ me. But DH eats out lunch every.single.day & if I don't want to do dinner on the weekend, he tries to make plans w/ a friend....he'll also typically do lunch out on the weekends. So, on avg for DH, I'd say easily 6-8x/wk he eats out.
What meal? See above.
if people are visiting or we're traveling - a lot.
Otherwise - once a week and that's often just somewhere like chick-fil-A or for pizza.
But, we do travel plenty, especially me, and so I go through periods where I get sick of eating out.
How many times a week do you eat out? We usually have one dinner out on the weekend - usually Friday night, and usually go out for lunch on both Saturday/Sunday.
I would say this is us on a typical weekend. Usually, we eat dinner at home during the week. DH eats lunch out every day. Some weeks I'm really good about packing and some weeks I'm not.
I would DIE if I only got a break from cooking 1 or 2 times a month.
How many times a week do you eat out? Maybe 2-3x per month.
What meal? Usually dinner.
How many times a week do you eat out? me 1-2 DH, more like 3-4
What meal? We'll go out to dinner maybe once a week if we don't feel like cooking, although lately we've been on a strict budget so we haven't been out much. DH goes out to lunch a lot during the wee b/c he has a hard time planning a lunch in the morning (
) I'll go out to lunch maybe once a week if at all
I feel totally immature saying this, but am I the only one who giggled at the title of this post? Maybe it's b/c I was reading texts from last night so my mind is in the gutter anyways
How many times a week do you eat out? We eat out VERY infrequently...I'd say once every 3 or 4 months.
FI is way too cheap to pay for restaurant food, plus we live in a small town so there aren't many restaurant options.
What meal? Always dinner.
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Usually Fridays and Saturdays we eat out. As well as lunchtimes when I can't seem to remember my lunch. That should happen less often than it does since there's a note on the door for me to remember. Still I honestly forget about 2 times a month.
Natalie, I'm with ya on this one! This poll makes me feel like DH and I are eating out machines as well!
How many times a week do you eat out? Probably 2-4 times a week. DH used to eat out waaaaay more than this, but I'm working on getting us to cut back.
What meal? Mostly dinner on the weekends, and sometimes lunch. One of our weekend activities that is kind of becoming a ritual is to run errands on Sunday and eat lunch at Panera. DH used to go out for lunch every day until I told him that not only is bringing your lunch more cost effective, it's also healthier. Luckily, we both like trying out new recipes, so staying in isn't as hard as it used to be.
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Sadly, we eat out about 1-2 times a month and this usually just means take out. I cook every night, but sometimes on Saturdays, we'll order Chinese food or stromboli. If there is a special occasion that we have to go out for, we do, but that's not too often anymore.
How many times a week do you eat out? Now, probably 2. We used to eat out all the time, I would go out with my coworker almost everyday for lunch and we would eat out for dinner at least 2-3 times a week. That got EXPENSIVE and I gained quite a few pounds that way!
What meal? One dinner and one lunch.
Does this hold true for you too? One of things DH and I really love doing together is going out to eat and trying different restaurants in our area. There are soo many places to go. Maybe we're foodies
Yeah, we do kind of consider ourselves foodies too.
I mean, one of our favorite foods is sushi... we could make it at home, but it's way more fun to find the next greatest sushi place! I think when it comes time to buy a house we'll cut back out of necessity, but now I think 2x a week would be good for us.
We eat out as a family 1x a month, get take out maybe 2 or 3 times a month and eat out as a couple 1x a month on average.
This does not include bagel runs for the kids when we've been running around all day, nor does it include our daily Starbuck's run- sometimes 2x a day!!!
So, I'm probably not the best person to ask. We also 'go big' on date nights which means great wine and a multi course dinner somewhere that piques our interest and, we have our favourite 'grown up' haunts for brunch.
However, pre kids we did this multiple times a week so we've cut back in theory!
We are guilty of eating out way too much! We eat out on Friday and Saturday nights and often end up eating out Sunday lunch or dinner (we often have pizza delivered one of the meals). Some weeks we may go out more...some weeks less.
The money that goes towards eating out is our play money and doesn't hurt our budget, bills or savings. And the rest of the week, DH and I typically eat very healthy and clean and go to the gym so when we take a rest from our diets on the weekends we can still fit in our clothes
When we buy our house and I have a bigger kitchen with room for kitchen gadgets and a pantry (our current kitchen is very small!), I want to meal plan, cook and eat at home more. One thing I don't like about eating out is not knowing exactly what is going into our food and that most restaurants don't have many healthy options.