Whenever this topic comes up, nothing that anyone posts sounds remotely appetizing to me. Lol.
I will eat out for life. It's ok because I probably won't live that long.
Food snob.
I think the difference may be that you don't actually want to cut back on eating out. I'd eat out all time if I had the money and waistline to do it. Instead I make do with my plate of of substandard crap.
i eat out almost as often as @misoangry does. i actually do want to cut back on eating out. both mh and i are decent cooks/can cook things we really enjoy eating at home. i also do enjoy cooking when i have the time. it's just that at a certain point, time is more valuable than the money saved. plus there's all the time spent meal planning & grocery shopping. when you've got lots of cheap, relatively healthy take-out options so handy, it makes it even harder to put in the effort to cook. and yes, we do have the money to do it for now as we're DINKs, and i know not many people can do that.
Whenever this topic comes up, nothing that anyone posts sounds remotely appetizing to me. Lol.
I will eat out for life. It's ok because I probably won't live that long.
Food snob.
I think the difference may be that you don't actually want to cut back on eating out. I'd eat out all time if I had the money and waistline to do it. Instead I make do with my plate of of substandard crap.
Meal plan. Then chop and prepare as much as you can on the weekends so that during the week you just have to cook it. When I do this, I really have no excuse.