How often do you eat out?

[Anonymous]

I only cooked once this month....................
The only time I cooked this month was once when I too lazy to go out and buy something to eat. how often do you eat out? I'm single and I think I spend about over $300 dollars this month on food and eating out, I had to throw away so much food cause I brought it and I just don't eat it. I also spend about $50-70 dollars a month at Giant for food I don't even eat, its a shame we can't donate reg food.

[Anonymous]

OP I don't understand why your title is about eating out, but your entire post is about wasting food. Did you waste that much food growing up? Do your parents waste that much food?

[Anonymous]

A lot. Few times a week carry out.

[Anonymous]

It’s getting bad over here Not only do we eat out a few times a week, we door dash from the place a mile away

[Anonymous]

This week was twice. Yesterday I bought a $16 salad for lunch and today I bought a $10 soup for lunch. Both were me just running out to grab something during work.

I was going to order chinese food tonight but decided to make garlic shrimp sautéed in butter with spinach fettucine. Then I also had an apple.

Also single here, and happen to hate cooking. I try REALLY hard to not throw out too much food. Mostly just lettuce and other salad stuff gets tossed.

[Anonymous]

Rarely. But we get takeout once a week.

[Anonymous]

3 times a week family of 4

[Anonymous]

3x a week for dinner: a restaurant, pizza take out & fast casual …plus daily Starbucks

[Anonymous]

Maybe 2x a month.

[Anonymous]

Retired, just my DH and me. We ate out 1X in November and haven’t eaten out yet in December.

[Anonymous]

Where do you order food from? I cook because honestly going to get food seems more of a hassle than it’s worth and there are very few places I would want to eat at frequently. I might feel differently if I lived in a city with a lot of options nearby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you order food from? I cook because honestly going to get food seems more of a hassle than it’s worth and there are very few places I would want to eat at frequently. I might feel differently if I lived in a city with a lot of options nearby.

I live in a city with tons of options. I use Door Dash and Uber Rats to get food delivered at night and on weekends. Don’t eat in restaurants.

[Anonymous]

We eat out on Fridays. About ever other week we do a takeaway during the week. It helps that we have older children. Each cooks one meal a week.

[Anonymous]

Usually twice a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only cooked once this month....................
The only time I cooked this month was once when I too lazy to go out and buy something to eat. how often do you eat out? I'm single and I think I spend about over $300 dollars this month on food and eating out, I had to throw away so much food cause I brought it and I just don't eat it. I also spend about $50-70 dollars a month at Giant for food I don't even eat, its a shame we can't donate reg food.

These days we rarely eat out. But OP, you can donate food if you have it. Look to see if there’s a community fridge near you. There are a couple near us that we volunteer with. We buy extra food for the fridge, or buy in bulk and donate part of it (like chicken that is individually wrapped). The refrigerated stuff is harder to come by for people than, say, canned goods. So if you have unopened milk, butter, etc. you can drop that off. The ones near us have a good Instagram account that gets updated frequently so I can see that fridges will be full and a couple of hours later totally empty. So it really does go fast and is a big help to hungry neighbors.