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[quote=Anonymous]No, but we do takeout a LOT IMO.

Both DH and I enjoy cooking, but we also enjoy eating the things that take too long or are too complicated for us to eat on a weeknight. We also just have one (ES) kid, so I feel like it's not AS spendy for us relative to home cooking.

We used to eat out frequently, but haven't since COVID. We've just replaced a lot of that with takeout (only 1x/week in 2020).

We always get takeout on Friday nights, and somehow usually end up getting some sort of food on Saturdays as well-- prepared food from the farmer's market, or we're just out all day and tired and grab food on the way home. So there's tons of leftovers available Sunday.

When we're pretty busy, we'll get it midweek, too, and that will often also be enough for leftovers the next night.

So that could mean only actually cooking 2 nights a week! Or even one night, and eating those leftovers the next.

It's wild to think about, but I don't think it's putting us in the poorhouse. On a week where we do takeout Fri/Sat and Weds and have leftovers Sun/Thurs, we are spending about $90-110 on takeout + $10-15 on cooking ingredients, and getting 7 dinners for 3 people + probably a lunch and snack here and there.

Except for the sodium, I'm sure, I don't think our takeout is much less healthy than what we cook. 3x takeout is probably sushi + Vietnamese food + pizza. [/quote]

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