Eat out? Not including grabbing lunch in the middle of the day or anything like that. I just want to know how much you go out as a family. H loves to go out, but now that he is GF our options are limited, and I am kind of meh at the options. I like going out, but I would rather spend the money somewhere else, KWIM? The food isn't that great and I just like cooking myself, especially since I just got a new crock pot.
H likes to order out more than actually going to a sit down place. We probably physically go out to dinner once every other month. We order pizza or other take out probably once a week.
With two kids under 5, we don't eat out as a family often at all. Maybe once a month? It's rare because it's so much easier to just eat at home. The only times we all eat out together are usually when we've been running errands, and we stop somewhere quick on the way home.
Now, my husband and I go out to eat a few times a month alone (babysitter for date night). And, I eat out lunch 4-5 times a week. So, we definitely spend money on food/restaurants.
We're trying to cut back, too. Usually we eat two meals out on the weekend, which I think is doable if we stick to that. My weakness is takeout pizza but we have been trying not to do tat much either.
Post by melodramatic26 on Jan 1, 2013 13:10:55 GMT -5
Every Friday we either eat out or order in. Sometimes we will go out to eat on Saturday too. I think dh would prefer we cut it down a little, but he's unwilling to cook instead so he goes along with it.
H and I usually get take out once a week together, when I'm too tired/lazy to cook. He eats out a few days a week, either lunch or dinner, since he works afternoons/evenings and doesn't really cook. I cook for myself pretty much every day, but try to do dinner out with a girlfriend every few weeks.
With a 2 yo ds, we almost never eat as a family anywhere. H gets stressed out the moment ds stats wiggling in his seat so it's a lot less stressful to eat at home. I take ds to a mcdonalds near us that has a nice playground a couple times a month without h.
We eat out once a week. I need one day off from cooking dinner. We usually just hit our local Mexican restaurant or something relatively cheap and loud. We have a 9 mo old, that's why lol.
Maybe once or twice a month. We live in a really small town and there aren't a lot of options for eating out. When we do, it's really expensive (crappy exchange rate -- we took my parents out to lunch at a hamburger place yesterday and the total came to $117 for four burgers with fries or onion rings, four cokes, and a small bowl of tortilla chips with salsa).
We get takeout about once a week. Dining out is expensive and exhausting with our kids. I keep telling DH we need to take them out more so they learn how to behave, but instead we avoid going out.
4x a month with a 5th 'floating' in case we already used our 4 and both had a bad day or whatever. H eats out a few times a month for work lunches. I never do because I rarely get more than 20-25 months to eat.