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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sat down last night and went through what we spent over the past month. Most things look pretty typical/normal expense-wise, but I saw that we spent $1600 on eating out! WTF!

I cook on weeknights, get a pizza delivered on Friday night and then we often eat out dinners on the weekends. A new wrinkle is that we also have been getting a meal delivery service.

This has shocked me into submission. As much as I like eating out/meal delivery, we are trying to save toward a big home improvement project and even saving half of this per month would be a big deal toward what we need to do the project.

I need to figure out how to get DH on board with eating at home much more often.

What do you think is a reasonable monthly dining out budget? Is that the best way to approach this - set an amount per month and that's it - once you reach the ceiling, you're done eating out that month?

How do most people manage these costs?

I'm also working on trying to get DH to buy less food at work and bring more from home. He spent about $200 this past month at the cafeteria at work.

Thoughts? What are other things that are easy to cut back on?[/quote]

The only way to figure this is out is to figure out how you'd replace the eating out and meal delivery service.  Are you going to start cooking at home more?  Will you be able to grocery shop more?  Where will the time come to make those things happen?  What changes to your schedule and the ways you approach meal planning will you have to make in order to meet this goal?[/quote]

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