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amandajane

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How often do you eat out and where are your favorite places?

We eat out usually once a week, sometimes twice. We are lucky to have some great places within 5 minutes walk of our house and mostly go to a local Thai or Japanese place.
 
We eat out way too much. Since I coach running in the evenings, plus workout myself 2 nights a week, and my husband doesn't get home until 6-7, there's just no time. We do a lot of carryout/pizza. We don't often take the kids with us to sit-down restaurants because we'd go broke. lol

When it's just us, we love mexican and sushi, so those are our 2 favorites.
 
We eat out 2-3 times a week. I am an awful cook, plus cooking American food is as expensive as eating out...so doesn't it seem like a better option to pay the same amount of money and let someone else clean up afterwards? I agree. : )

Our favorite place is an Italian restaurant called Little Italy, but it's REALLY pricey, and we don't go there much anymore. We mostly eat at a local food court with a playground and get Indian food.
 
we usually eat out twice - i have a date night w/ DH on friday nights that is usually dinner and a move, and on monday night i have a weekly pizza/pasta dinner w/ the kids and friends at a local family friendly restaurant :)
 
we have been REALLLLY trying to cut back on eating out. we eat out WAY too much. but we are TRYING to get it down to one big eat-out a month and then maybe one or two small ones (like running through wendys or taco bell).

so far this has proved to be quite a tough transition for me more than anyone because it requires that i am ALWAYS prepared with groceries for meal making. *sigh* it's a work in progress. we'll get there.
 
We used to eat out 2-3 times a week, but it's really cut down. Not sure why - it wasn't a conscious decision - but we probably go out 2-3 times a month now.
 
I hear you Rebecca, we've been eating out WAY too much too!! Last week I laid the law down..lol!... and said we need to knock it off. We went all week without going out:)

I get tired of cooking.. we have no family here and dh hates to cook.. and won't..ugh!! Guess that should have been a 'marriage requirement' for me, eh.. lol!!
 
We are really bad with eating out too, we tend to go out to supper every time we go out for groceries so about 1-2 times a week.
 
We hardly eat out anymore. Honestly, we just don't have the money for it. When we have extra cash though we go to the Japanese place and have sushi. I should say when we have a good amount of cash. Otherwise, we do pizza carryout. Papa John's mostly because when you get 25 papa pts. you get a free large pizza.
 
We always eat out on Saturday nights, usually our favorite sushi place or, sometimes, steak. I cook dinner during the week, though it occasionally happens that he picks up take out on his way home if I've been too busy to worry about dinner. That's almost always from the corner Mexican restaurant. DH and I will also meet for lunch (without the kids!) once a week or so.
 
We eat out on most Fridays nights and some Saturdays... It's Friday Nite Fish Fry here in Wisconsin, so that's our night out for dinner. Otherwise, we typically don't eat out on a regular basis, just when we get the hankering.
 
I LOVE eating out...
actually I just LOVE food in general.

But, we are trying to cut down a bit.
We used to eat out about 3 times/week, but $$ got away from us.
Now we just do our family night out on Friday nights,
and MAYBE a weekend subway run when we are in a rush.
 
Laurie, what town are you from in Wisc?
My hubbie is from Wisc, and I went to good ole' STOUT for collage.
 
We go out to eat about once a week due to dance classes. We don't have very many places to go but we do have Subway and an awesome pizza place!
 
We rarely go out. DH has a gluten allergy + DD still does not eat enough to warrant the expense of buying her a separate meal, so I make dinner every night. We consider it 'eating out' when we go to my ILs on Sunday afternoons and MIL makes us lunch! :giggle It's super difficult to find anything that DH can safely eat at fast food restaurants (who fills up on a piece of meat with no bun and no fries, anyways?!), so those are usually out for us.

When we go visit my parents, we end up eating out a lot. We prefer steakhouses (because of DH's allergy) like Texas Roadhouse or Longhorn's. When I go visit with just DD and me, I insist on going out for pizza and sandwiches! :giggle
 
We eat out 1-2 times a week. Friday nights we've been eating out with another family who has kids the same ages as ours and they go to our school too, so the kids sit at one end and the adults at the other and they pretty much entertain themselves so we can have adult time to chat without getting a sitter. We've really been enjoying that! :). Otherwise we might hit Subway or jimmy Johns if we are running place to place and I don't have time (read don't feel like) to cook. ;)
 
We used to eat out quite a lot, more than we should really. But now, we live on the moon so far away from anything, that even if we succumbed to the "want to eat out" bug it would be more trouble than it is worth...so we rarely eat out now. And when we do we pair it with an already planned trip to town. We don't have too much in the way of good places to eat around here so I think the favorite of the family is probably In N Out burger.
 
LeeAndra said:
We rarely go out. DH has a gluten allergy + DD still does not eat enough to warrant the expense of buying her a separate meal, so I make dinner every night. We consider it 'eating out' when we go to my ILs on Sunday afternoons and MIL makes us lunch! :giggle It's super difficult to find anything that DH can safely eat at fast food restaurants (who fills up on a piece of meat with no bun and no fries, anyways?!), so those are usually out for us.

When we go visit my parents, we end up eating out a lot. We prefer steakhouses (because of DH's allergy) like Texas Roadhouse or Longhorn's. When I go visit with just DD and me, I insist on going out for pizza and sandwiches! :giggle
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We have similar issues due to my sons allergies. He always orders a burger with no bun and the waiter gives him a weird look lol
 
Typically we eat out at some form of Fast food once a week. We really try not to but considering I haven't felt well lately, we can only handle so many nights in a row of grilled cheese sandwiches or left overs. Hubby and I try and go on a date once a month, and we usually end up at a restaurant since there isn't much to do in our little podunk town. We are lucky to have an AMAZING Mexican restaurant in town though. I craved their enchiladas the whole way through my last pregnancy. I wanted to go every day there, but hubby put his foot down. Last month we also found a cute little home cooking restaurant. It had yummy sweet potato fries and burgers. Hubby went crazy and ordered the donut burger. Wow, that was interesting tasting!
 
We eat out once every other week. We usually eat at California Pizza Kitchen or at an indian restaurant.
 
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