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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

I forgot to add our HHI is about $95k[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

While that's true, it's not how it works out for us in practice. I have done this for years and every dollar less I spend on eating out gets spent on groceries. [/quote]

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