How much do you spend eating out vs HHI?

[Anonymous]

About 15 years ago, maybe more, my son got a part time job working at a high class/read expensive gourmet burger place. The owner was a family friend. This place was packed during the day and at night. Always had people in lines waiting to get in.

My son told us to never eat there. Though they passed health inspections he said all of the workers had filthy habits, came to work sick and some had bloody, pus filled open sores on their hands working on prep with and without gloves. A few years later I heard the place was shut down because a worker had HepC and exposed anyone that ate or worked there to it. Free testing. How sweet.

The day my son told us that was the day I never ate out again.

When I feel like I think I want something out, I eat cereal.

Just read today

Poll: Sick Employees Insist on Serving Up Food

http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/news/poll-sick-employees-insist-on-serving-up-food/

[Anonymous]

we used to spend about 200/week eating out. weekends were take in one night, eat out one night and a couple lunches on the go. since one has been unemployed, it has been a huge budget saver to stop eating out.

now we spend maybe 50/week, max. cheap take in, like pizza or middle eastern one night and maybe 2 on the go getting subs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About 15 years ago, maybe more, my son got a part time job working at a high class/read expensive gourmet burger place. The owner was a family friend. This place was packed during the day and at night. Always had people in lines waiting to get in.

My son told us to never eat there. Though they passed health inspections he said all of the workers had filthy habits, came to work sick and some had bloody, pus filled open sores on their hands working on prep with and without gloves. A few years later I heard the place was shut down because a worker had HepC and exposed anyone that ate or worked there to it. Free testing. How sweet.

The day my son told us that was the day I never ate out again.

When I feel like I think I want something out, I eat cereal.

Just read today

Poll: Sick Employees Insist on Serving Up Food

http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/news/poll-sick-employees-insist-on-serving-up-food/

Ah, you have a phobia?

[Anonymous]

2 adults and 2 young kids. HHI 350k and we spend about $350-400 a month on outside food. We eat out/take out about 2 times a week and occasional happy hour, and it's usually sushi/Thai food/Spanish food. We can definitely cut back in this area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$100 per week of eating out. Hhi is $120k. My 3 & 6 yrs old ask to eat out all the time.

How is this possible? 4 people eating out on $100?

What are you talking about?

+1
Enlighten us, please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We spend about $500-600 a month on eating out.
We are a family of 4 (two small kids). We eat out a LOT and spend $40-80 per meal.

I've tried cutting down on our eating out budget and it just means that the expenses are transferred to the grocery budget. Whether we cook or eat out our expenditure is the same.

I forgot to add our HHI is about $95k

I am not judging you for eating out a lot, but you know that a $40 trip to Nando's doesn't translate to $40 worth of rotisserie chicken, sides, bread, and soda, right? No way. If it's an even exchange, then you must be grocery shopping at the Whole Foods salad bar, which I consider to be eating out.

We neither eat at Nando's (or any chains) nor buy our groceries from the Wholefoods salad bar. Nor do we eat rotisserie chicken. We are vegetarian and cook from scratch (nothing processed). I also am not hung up on buying organic. I track all our expenditure carefully and shop well but I still don't find a negligible difference when we eat out less in our overall budget for food.

Also, btw, it sounds like you are judging. Just saying.

Totally judging. And missing the point -- her assessment that rotisserie chicken and soda somehow makes a superior meal is laughable.

[Anonymous]

$100 per month on average, more during our birthday months. Family of two adults, HHI $180k.
We enjoy cooking most of our meals. Every other week we go either to our favorite hole-in-the-wall Chinese place or pick up something from the mall food court.

[Anonymous]

Family of three. All non-grocery food including coffee comes to 1k/month. It's nuts but we enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We spend about $500-600 a month on eating out.
We are a family of 4 (two small kids). We eat out a LOT and spend $40-80 per meal.

I've tried cutting down on our eating out budget and it just means that the expenses are transferred to the grocery budget. Whether we cook or eat out our expenditure is the same.

I forgot to add our HHI is about $95k

I am not judging you for eating out a lot, but you know that a $40 trip to Nando's doesn't translate to $40 worth of rotisserie chicken, sides, bread, and soda, right? No way. If it's an even exchange, then you must be grocery shopping at the Whole Foods salad bar, which I consider to be eating out.

We neither eat at Nando's (or any chains) nor buy our groceries from the Wholefoods salad bar. Nor do we eat rotisserie chicken. We are vegetarian and cook from scratch (nothing processed). I also am not hung up on buying organic. I track all our expenditure carefully and shop well but I still don't find a negligible difference when we eat out less in our overall budget for food.

Also, btw, it sounds like you are judging. Just saying.

Totally judging. And missing the point -- her assessment that rotisserie chicken and soda somehow makes a superior meal is laughable.

I think the point is that a burrito at home vs a burrito out does not cost the same. No way no how. Superiority has nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$100 per week of eating out. Hhi is $120k. My 3 & 6 yrs old ask to eat out all the time.

How is this possible? 4 people eating out on $100?

What are you talking about?

dinner at wegmans,,each person gets own plate/ sushi/ hot meal. works out to less than $15 each even if you have a glass of wine so $55-$60,, did it at Whole Foods too, saves a tip food is usually pretty good

[Anonymous]

250k, probably $100 a month.

Heavy use of groupons and Costco giftcards.

[Anonymous]

HHI of 215k, family of 4

DH spends ~$40/m on lunch at work
I spend ~ $20/m on coffee or lunch with friends

We spend ~ $100/m as a family

And once per month date night ~ $50-60

So, all together is about $210/m

Groceries and household goods are about $850/m

[Anonymous]

Two adults, no kids. $100k HHI and about $200/mo eating out. Groceries are about $400/mo.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. We spend a lot I guess. We go out with other couples every Friday night and including booze it's always about $200. Plus babysitting so closer to 300. We usually do takeout on sat for family night on saturday, for a family of 5. Sometimes eat at the club on Sunday after golf, which can get expensive too. Sometimes we do weeknight dinners out (we just signed up for a "wine dinner" at the club, it's $99/person for 5 courses and 5 wines....plus babysitting, on a Wednesday night). I very occasionally have lunch with friends after paddle tennis or golf. If I was really to add it up it would be quite a lot. We also entertain on Saturday nights about once a month, having 3-4 couples over, sometimes with kids sometimes without, but those are expensive nights too. Our HHI is is 400k, no debt other than 320k left on mortgage- kids cornea are paid for in trust funds.

I cook m-t and pack the kids lunches every day.

[Anonymous]

Not corneas- I made those for free thankfully- I meant their colleges, spellcheck.