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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

If you're using a meal service, that means you are NOT cooking on weeknights. Cut that shizz out like yesterday.  I'm not sure why you don't know how to get your dh on board.  Show him the numbers and shock him too![/quote]

OP here....

Not true. I was doing 2 dinners and 2 lunch salads per week via Bluebird Dinners. It ran about $100/week.

Then I'd cook from scratch the other three nights. Typical meals include steak/brussel sprouts/couscous or pesto pasta with roasted broccoli or haddock,roasted carrots and sweet potatoes. (Lol...we love roasted veggies)[/quote]

[b]Of 7 nights, you cook 4.  That's hardly "I cook on weeknights".  You're lazy.  Own it[/b][/quote]

Wow, you're a bitch. OP has 2 little kids, works full time AND has just finished cancer treatment. Give her a break[/quote]

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