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Pad Patter 1/5: Eating Out

lmccandless

lmccandless

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How often do you eat out? Do you eat out as a family, for date night or just because you are running around?

We always eat out on Saturday nights, either as a family or for a date night. DH and I also try to meet for lunch while the kids are at school which usually happens a few times a month. During the week, if I am running errands with the kids, we do grab lunch out...probably more often than I would like to admit. Then, of course, there's Starbucks...

What about you?
 
We cook on average 4 nights a week and that usually means we have dinner and then lunch to take to work the next day. The rest of the time we eat out. If I eat non-brought lunch, that usually means just grabbing a quick bite from my work cafeteria. When we cook at home it's pretty healthy so I don't feel bad about eating out.
 
Uh. Pretty much every day. For sure every day for lunch. And most dinners are carryout. I suck.
 
I am trying to get back on eating healthy again and tracking what I eat - and it is easier if I don't eat out. that being said, we eat out at least 2 meals on the weekends.
 
this is something we are REALLY trying to change. We're trying to cut WAY down. Like to once or twice a month. Eeeep! This will take some major discipline on my part. I am 99% of the time the eat-out instigator. I can do this, right?
 
We eat out way too much. Sushi is my guilty pleasure! Since I went back to work this fall, our eating out has increased significantly. We eat out at least once a week, sometimes more. I take a lunch to work, so that doesn't count.
 
We eat out a couple lunches each week and almost always get either pizza or eat out somewhere else equally unhealthy. Between a hard look at our finances this week and the scale recently, my hubby and i have resolved to quit eating out except for Subway and Jimmy Johns, but maybe once a month we can go out as a family. It's going to be a hard habit for us all to break.
 
We don't eat out much. DH has a food allergy that makes it almost impossible for him to eat fast food, and it's not usually in our budget to eat somewhere more upscale then fast food. I enjoy cooking --- just not the cleaning up!
 
We eat out too much. DH and DD are so picky that deciding what to cook, having them agree on it and then making it is difficult sometimes and we get lazy. So we may cook 2 to 3 weeknights. We usually go out on weekends anyway. My friends are bad and sometimes randomly call us at night and ask us to go out to eat. lol

That is one thing I want to do better on this year.
 
We were eating out way. too. much.! We have made a huge effort this week to cook dinner at home. So far, so good. Last night we visited with some friends and on the way home DH asked where I wanted to stop for dinner. I told him that I had leftover gumbo and that's what we were eating. It's not going to be easy but if we just plan ahead a little, we'll save close to $300 a month by eating at home.
 
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More then I care to admit.....

I have cut back on starbucks since I got the keurig but I still go there at least 3-4 times a week, lunches we have been better about...I may take J to chic fil a as a "date" when Emma is at school once a week, friday night is pizza night (I cook Sun-Thursday for the most part) and we usually have 1 family lunch out on the weekend. We could be better about this, much better....
 
We very rarely eat out. Maybe 2-3 times a month (counting lunch & dinner) - that's not including grabbing coffee, which is maybe once a week.
 
Here in Malaysia we eat out o lot!! Its kind of a pain shopping round here for different things at different stores. Now that we have pretty much settled in we are planning on eating out 3 or 4 nights a week and eating more veg and salads on the days we eat at home. Eating out here is really inexpensive, so we will be trying to find a good balance.
 
DH hates to eat out, so we only do it once a week... Friday nights... because I am so tired of cooking every other night. Yay for Friday nights!
 
I would say 2 or 3 times a month. One of those is a date night. Wednesday's are always really late nights for us (we get home after 8:00) because of church, so I usually do something really quick and easy like scrambled eggs, toast and fresh fruit, but it's always really tempting to run into town and grab Sonic!
 
We eat out a lot. Three nights a week it's just me and the kiddos and I'm always running them all over the place, so we tend to stop somewhere and eat. Our family faves are Nordstrom Cafe and Chipotle. We usually go out once a week with DH, too, usually on Sunday after church. My New Year's resolution was to cook more and so far I haven't been doing so great.
 
Once a week we eat dinner out, often at a Thai place we both love. We try to eat pretty healthy so cooking meals at home for us is the simplest way to know exactly what we're eating. That being said hubs still grabs Starbucks on his way to work in the mornings and has lunch out once or twice a week.
 
Every tuesday is pizza night. Rick and I (when he's been home) eat out maybe once a week. It really depends on what's going on that week. Sometimes it's just stopping at Subway, and then other times we go out for a nice Italian dinner, or a fabulous lunch in downtown. If we didn't have the kids living back at home, we'd eat out more often. I try to cook or have something planned to be cooked most nights...or at least something for them to throw in the oven if we go out.
 
I love to eat out, but we try to keep it to twice a month, and I have a coffee run probably once a week. Pizza carry out doesn't happen every month, but maybe every other month. We don't live close to any restaurants or we would have a much harder time keeping to this schedule.
 
I don't really have a set number of how many times we eat out. At least once a week maybe? Depends if we have food in the kitchen and if I or my hubby feel like cooking? :giggle
 
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