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POLL: How often do you dine out?

I don't mean buying lunch or dinner if you are at work. I mean you and your DH or friends or whomever. Ever since I started working I feel like the Mr, the Mini and I go out to eat a lot. I'm too lazy to cook nowadays I guess. LOL

Re: POLL: How often do you dine out?

  • Oh, and to answer my own question, I'd say on average about 3 times per week.

  • We tend to eat out at a restaurant maybe once per week (b/c DH would rather be at home than out, if given the choice).  We usually get take-out or fast-food 2-3 times a week. 

    I would like to cook more, but it's such a PITA.  Maybe when I eventually get a dishwasher, I'll do it more, but I hate having to wash all of the pots and pans and measuring cups, etc., that are generated from cooking.


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  • Maybe 2x a month.  We are really about saving money for our house.
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  • NEVER! We maybe go out once a month. I do a lot of cooking when I get home from work, and it makes me crazy, but it's kinda part of my routine now.
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  • I will grab fast food when I am out shopping just because it is easier to eat something quickly before the baby wakes up (she always fall asleep in the car on the way back from shopping).

    We haven't eaten out since the day before C was born.  We order takeout maybe 2x a month.  

  • What the hell. I really just love going out to eat. Fuuck. I'm not normal. LOL.
  • Maybe 2x's per month since A was born. It's really hard with an Infant to eat out and we are also trying to save money. Now that I'm not working I cook all the time.

    Before I had A, when I was working FT, I only cooked about 2-3 times per week. I was always too tired and lazy to cook a meal after working all day.

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  • not enough!!!

    probably once a week, and usually take out, for all of us. or we'll stop by a wendy's on the weekend since Ava and dh like it. It's too late for us to eat out during the week by the time we get home and sit down somewhere. it's easier for me to plan ahead and make dinner at home.

    we've done two date nights in recent memory - my birthday in JULY and a few weeks ago with friends. every 6 months or so is a sad record!

  • Lately way too much. We are eating out sat and Sunday for lunch and then sat dinner almost every week. And the take out I would not be surprised if we had it almost 4 nights a week. Maybe I will start to cook again once food stops making me ill. :-) So Margie don't worry I am sure I have you beat.
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    What the hell. I really just love going out to eat. Fuuck. I'm not normal. LOL.

    I'd be eating out more if DH was into it.  Unfortunately, take-out tends to be our default because he is a homebody. 


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  • Id say a few times a month including take out or going out for lunch or dinner.  We really dont have a lot of extra money after the bills are paid so we try to be good the best we can.

    Hence why i dont make it to alot of the nestie get togethers... Embarrassed so dont think i dont like you ladies, i do i loves ya!

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  • Margie, don't feel bad at all!  I'd say we go out 2x a week and bring in 1x.  However some weeks we could eat out 5x and it doesn't bother me in the slightest :)  I find absolutely no pleasure in cooking.  If we didn't live near my parents and go there for dinner I'd say we'd prob eat out even more...
  • Depends. Sometimes it's once a week others it can be 2 times a month. Last month/wedding month was A LOT.
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  • at least 2x a week usually, we try to only do one dinner and one lunch out and then maybe take out 1 night. Now with the baby that will probably change but my mom lives right near us so we could always leave her with my mom and go out. Even the first week Teaghan was home H took me out to eat just so I could get out for a little while.

    prior to baby we ate out a lot, almost every weekend so Fri, Sat and Sunday.

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  • 1 a month if we are lucky!! LOL

    However we might order food once a week.  


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  • Don't worry Margie, we are right there with you.  We dine out maybe 1-3 times per week.  This includes going out for lunch on the weekend.  
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  • Margie, I'm with you!  Usually at least 3 times a week.  It's what we do on the weekends, so definitely on most Saturday nights we eat out, sometimes Friday nights too.  Then one night during the work week as well. 
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    I am just starting now to cook but we have the worst schedules for having dinner together and me cooking.  It requires planning on my part which i never do with food.  We don't have enough time during the week to go out so i would say maybe 2x a week
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    Margie, I'm with you!  Usually at least 3 times a week.  It's what we do on the weekends, so definitely on most Saturday nights we eat out, sometimes Friday nights too.  Then one night during the work week as well. 

    very similar.  and as I've said before B or I didn't even know I could cook until we got married sooooo...  I definitely never cooked when we lived in the city I hated the tiny kitchen and when we first moved to the house I was commuting and was too tired to do it when I got home.  Now that I don't work still not as much as I should.  This week I actually made dinner 4x and that has NEVER happened tops is usually 2-3.

    We usually eat out to dinner 2-3 times.. usually 2x at a restaurant and 1x take-out.  We go to bfast at a diner most Weds before he goes to work and on weekends we go to the diner or get bagels...  

    Also I'm a bad culprit of saying I'm going to cook then getting lazy and not doing it so I tell B I have bad cramps and he'll be like don't worrrrry we'll go out or get take-out... so some months I get my period at least 3 weeks outta 4 Stick out tongue

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  • Oh I forgot breakfast/lunch on weekends so increase my number...
  • I'd say we dine out 1-2 times a month. We will order in more. Its easier to have friends come over and order food. I can put A to bed and we all hang out, drink, play cards, etc. I also try to cook a lot and eat all our leftovers. I hate wasting food.
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    Margie, I'm with you!  Usually at least 3 times a week.  It's what we do on the weekends, so definitely on most Saturday nights we eat out, sometimes Friday nights too.  Then one night during the work week as well. 

    very similar.  and as I've said before B or I didn't even know I could cook until we got married sooooo...  I definitely never cooked when we lived in the city I hated the tiny kitchen and when we first moved to the house I was commuting and was too tired to do it when I got home.  Now that I don't work still not as much as I should.  This week I actually made dinner 4x and that has NEVER happened tops is usually 2-3.

    We usually eat out to dinner 2-3 times.. usually 2x at a restaurant and 1x take-out.  We go to bfast at a diner most Weds before he goes to work and on weekends we go to the diner or get bagels...  

    Also I'm a bad culprit of saying I'm going to cook then getting lazy and not doing it so I tell B I have bad cramps and he'll be like don't worrrrry we'll go out or get take-out... so some months I get my period at least 3 weeks outta 4 Stick out tongue

     

    charlotte im the exact same way! 

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  • We eat out 2-3x and at least 1 night at each parents.  

    So easier answer is I eat 1-2 x AT HOME

    BREAKFAST AND LUNCH are bought M-F also 

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  • Too much.  I hate going out so much.  But working and stuff makes me tired and I don't like to come home to cook.  Especially after my commute from Westchester to Rockland.
  • Once a month lately.  We're putting every extra penny in the house fund so, eating out was the first thing that went.
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  • Typically once every two weeks, unless we have coupons or gift cards.  We would love to go out more often, but financially that is a little hard right now. 
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  • When I'm not on bedrest, once a week.
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  • definitely not enough.  it's one thing i hate about the suburbs.  when we lived in the city we ate out pretty much 5-7x a week.  and when we didnt eat out we mostly got takeout.  now i cook all the time.  sure, a lot of it has to do with DD.  but im sooo sick of cooking.  DH and i made a commitment to try and go out to eat as a family at least 1x a week and as a couple 1x a month (that's much harder.)  right now, i'd say we eat out as a family 1-3x a month, 0-1x a month as a couple.  maybe we get takeout 1x a week now.  the rest of the time, im cooking. 
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  • we eat out probably 2 times a week and get take out probably another 1-2. I can cook if I follow a recipe, but most times I'm just too lazy to pull out all the stops
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