[ankle_brains]

many people do not like to cook so they eat out for dinner. how many times/week do you eat out for dinner normally? why?

i only eat out once every few weeks as i can't afford much more then that.

what about you?

[gorickey]

[Pathetic, but true]

Depends on how often my wife has to work late...

[/Pathetic, but true]

[Lateralus]

Never. Less than 5 times per year. It is too expensive, even McDonalds. I am currently spending around $1-2 per meal, and if I have to cook it to keep it that cheap, then so be it.

[mitchell_pgh]

1-2... it depends what you consider "out".

Sit down dinner or a sub or something...

[Zoom_zoom]

I love your questions A_Brains...

Um i go out about once a fortnight

[TheIceMan]

I treat myself on the weekends so about 3 times a week.

My friends eat out EVERY single day, for both lunch and dinner!!! If I were to do a very conservative estimate, say $15 total for both of them for dinner. In just one month, they spend $450 just on dinner alone! Now let's say that they spend a total of $25 total for lunch and dinner. In one year (365 days), they will spend $9125.00!!! That is shocking!

And what's even more amazing is that they have been doing this for almost 2 years now!! Even more amazing is that the guy doesn't even work!

[Zimphire]

Usually twice. Not at any fast food restaurants.

And why? Because I was hungry?

[fireside]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Never. Less than 5 times per year. It is too expensive, even McDonalds. I am currently spending around $1-2 per meal, and if I have to cook it to keep it that cheap, then so be it.

living on ramen?

[Lateralus]

Originally posted by fireside:
living on ramen?

Ramen, bologna and cheese sandwiches on cheap ass bread, eggs, pastas, cheap ass cheap cereal... etc.

[fireside]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Ramen, bologna and cheese sandwiches on cheap ass bread, eggs, pastas, cheap ass cheap cereal... etc.

my hero.

[dlefebvre]

About 5 times a week. I'm too lazy, ironically it's because I work 60+ hours/week.

[starman]

Once a week. Pizza and beer and good friends.

Mike

[C.J. Moof]

Dinner- 2-3x/month. Lunch- every Tuesday, some Thursdays.

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Originally posted by starman:
Pizza and beer and good friends.

Add some hockey to the mix, and that's been me for the last 5 years

[Sherwin]

Never. There are no proper veggie restaurants around here. The only supposed veggie restaurant cooks and serves fish - and the smell of cooking fish makes me instantly hurl.

[RiSE]

Everyday, sometimes twice a day.

[ghost_flash]

I'm sorry, but I like uncle_brains questions far too much more than yours.

[mitchell_pgh]

I would love to see a documentary of someone that completely lives on next to nothing while working a regular job.

[mdc]

maybe once a month or so. i order delivery a about twice or three times a month. pizza and some friends over yesterday, some xbox (nfl street) and gamecube. nice.

[Tokencon]

I do most of the cooking (hell, I do ALL of the cooking... I don't consider toast "cooking") and I have to admit that while I like the idea of not cooking any given night, I am sick and tired of eating out.

We go out for dinner 2-3 times a week and it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to stomach it. Don't get me wrong, we don't eat at Micky D's and Burger King...we almost NEVER eat there, despite the presence of short people well under the age of majority around here. I find that as I age, my typically male taste buds (weaker by nature than the weaker sexe's) cant tell the diff much any more unless my food is heavily seasoned and no, I do not smoke and never have nor did I lose this sense after shoving a firecracker up my nose a la Bart Simpson's aunt. It is just nature.

AT any rate, it is nearly ALWAYS my wife's suggestion that we go out for dinner which she seems to enjoy much more than I. But 2-3 times a week is waaaay too much in my humble and cheap opinion. I figure at minimum we spend 25-30 bucks each time usually this includes an adult beverage or two). Now, the IRS says I am rich, but I have been poor enough (it's true, rich IS better, by-the-by) so that spending a C-note a week on food that I can throw together at home (to my own liking, too) for less than a quarter of that price makes my eye twitch. Sometimes it locks-up my jaw, too. Which makes it hard to eat.

Tokenconservative

[Oisín]

Originally posted by RiSE:
Everyday, sometimes twice a day.

Same here, almost.

I cook at home maybe once every other week, the rest of the time I usually eat out twice a day.

If we narrow it down to fastfood (McD, Burger King, etc.), maybe once a month or so, the rest is in restaurants.

On average, I'd say I spend somewhere about $1 per dinner and maybe 50 cents on lunch.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Ois�n:
Same here, almost.

I cook at home maybe once every other week, the rest of the time I usually eat out twice a day.

If we narrow it down to fastfood (McD, Burger King, etc.), maybe once a month or so, the rest is in restaurants.

On average, I'd say I spend somewhere about $1 per dinner and maybe 50 cents on lunch.

In DC, 50� wouldn't even get you a candy bar!

[Oisín]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
In DC, 50� wouldn't even get you a candy bar!

In Denmark it would be the same (maybe something like $1.25 for a Mars bar or so), but that's one advantage of living in China: here you can get four "sandwiches" (xianrbing, kind of small round warm bread with stuffing inside them) for 25�, and that's more than enough to make you full for lunch. If you want luxury, you can have a bowl of noodle soup with vegetables for just under 50�, etc.

In Denmark, I eat fastfood maybe once or twice a week (usually pizza or some kind of sandwich), and actual restaurant visits are limited to once a year or so (since you can easily end up paying like $50 per person in many restaurants)...

[soul searching]

Originally posted by TheIceMan:
....
My friends eat out EVERY single day, for both lunch and dinner!!! If I were to do a very conservative estimate, say $15 total for both of them for dinner. In just one month, they spend $450 just on dinner alone! Now let's say that they spend a total of $25 total for lunch and dinner. In one year (365 days), they will spend $9125.00!!! That is shocking!

And what's even more amazing is that they have been doing this for almost 2 years now!! Even more amazing is that the guy doesn't even work!

That's me! And for the past two years as well (since I started working full time). I buy bagels, croissants and/or fruit in bulk from Costco for breakfast (though often I end up buying coffee from, say, Starbucks). For lunch and dinner I eat out every day. About once a month, one of my roommates will get the urge to cook for everyone and I don�t have to eat out.

[Chemmy]

I eat out every meal, or I used to. Now that classes are done and I'm down to an easy 50 hours a week at my job I have time to cook lovely meals for myself.

[benb]

I eat out at least 2 times a week. This week I am on schedule for 8 times. It gets expensive. Especially when you pay for both meals.

[ghost_flash]

I am the cook in my family. The meals just happen to look strangly like McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and Take Out Ribs.

[DeathToWindows]

during school - 1-2x per week, usually lunch on weekend
summer (when working a 40hr workweek) - lunch daily (from a food truck, $3/day)

[BasketofPuppies]

Whenever I'm about to go insane from eating nothing but Healthy Choice.

Once or twice every two weeks.

Which is unfair considering that some of the best restaurants in the city - the second fattest city in the United States, which means that they have really good food - are just a few blocks away from where I live.

[itai195]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Ramen, bologna and cheese sandwiches on cheap ass bread, eggs, pastas, cheap ass cheap cereal... etc.

LOL. Reminds me of college. I try to force myself to eat better than that now, even though it costs more. I usually eat dinner out 1-2 times a week with my girlfriend and make my own lunch about half the time, the other half I spend $4-6 per day on lunch at work. I'm too lazy to cook dinner... so, yeah, I still eat a lot of pasta and spinach salads. Whenever my girlfriend cooks something, it seems like she spends more on groceries than eating out would have cost. I think we'd cook more if we worked more similar schedules, but she usually works a later schedule than me.

I'd sure love to cut down on our food budget though... I can imagine how expensive it'd be to feed a family.

[cla214]

twice a day, 4-5 days a week.

business travel/expense account driven

[wdlove]

Just eat out after Church. My wife works one weekend a month.

[TheIceMan]

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
I am the cook in my family. The meals just happen to look strangly like McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and Take Out Ribs.

LOL!!

[Kenneth]

Everyday.

coz I'm living in a dorm w/o kitchen.

[The Placid Casual]

Once or twice.

Tradition that when we all get home from work on a Friday the whole family meets a local Italian restaurant.

On a Wednesday (or if not, Saturday) I go to a really nice French restaurant locally. Very, very good food, very reasonable prices.

Since I split with my fiance I am eating out a little bit more...

[powerbook867]

too often, mainly because we're tired and hungry. Work kills both me and my wife. Usually two to three times a week, including picking up a pizza or something cheap/easy...


Regarding saving money on meals, I've discovered Aldi's is kick @ss for saving money at the grocery store....

Example would be cereal. 1.69 for the sugared stuff and 1.29 for the unsweetened
and it most actually taste just as good as Kellogg's......

[Oisín]

Originally posted by powerbook867:
Regarding saving money on meals, I've discovered Aldi's is kick @ss for saving money at the grocery store....

You have Aldi's in the US???

I thought that was only in Germany and Denmark basically...

[The Placid Casual]

Originally posted by Ois�n:


You have Aldi's in the US???

I thought that was only in Germany and Denmark basically...

They have invaded every spare piece of green land in the UK too...

[Angus_D]

Very rarely, because I get free food at home

[Oisín]

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
They have invaded every spare piece of green land in the UK too...

Greenland's not in the UK, silly...