jfn111
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1-2 times per week. Chinese takeout with the wife and grabbing a burger with the son is the usual routine.
I do not enjoy restaurant food. It's way too salty, too greasy, and too expensive. I prefer healthy, low-carb meals prepared at home with fresh ingredients.
...Really good food (better than I can make), such as we had on a luxury cruise a couple of years ago, is hard to find, and too expensive for all but special occasions.
When we are not traveling:
Breakfast - 1-2 times per week
Lunch - 1 time per week - often skip lunch
Dinner - 3-4 times per week in summer, 2 times per week in winter.
I agree. We have a local sushi place that we go to most years on our anniversary. You have to make reservations about 6 months ahead. The only employees are the sushi chef/owner and an assistant/waitress. She's also a translator, as the chef speaks no English. The L-shaped bar seats 10 people and they have two seatings at 5:30 and 7:00, but only 4 nights per week. The food is out-of-this-world delicious and WAY beyond my capabilities. For the two of us, it's usually $200-250, but worth every penny.
That’s definitely an issue for us too - the distance to decent eateries.The time and money it takes doesn't seem to be worth the end result. of course in our case it's 15 miles OW to even a "decent" fast casual dining spot. We never eat out when at home unless we are meeting friends to be social. There's no variety to be had eating out at the closest town.
4-5 meals weekly, including McDonalds breakfast. Our McDonalds has been a crap shoot lately, it's kinda like the lottery. You're going to be surprised either way.
Our neighbor and his family go out to eat in restaurants three meals a day for the last 20 years. I estimated my neighbor has spent over $240K in just eating out.
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We both observed that the meals are often not as good as our home cooked meals.
JP
Definitely wine is so much more expensive at restaurants!And if you want one glass of wine, which is all we consume at a meal, it will cost 4x what you'd pay for your own bottle at home.
That has always been true...the thing is, I just don't recall restaurant food being so expensive 20+ years ago, even accounting for inflation. Memory can be deceptive, so I could be wrong about this. Note, I am talking about sit-down restaurants with tablecloths.