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[quote=Anonymous]I think meal delivery is contributing to your budgeting issues, but I'm not sure it's the main problem.  We spend $100/week for pretty much all of our weekday meals (I WAH and DD eats all her meals at home) except DH's lunch.  You're spending that much on groceries + meal delivery...seems like it should be lower if you are only cooking 3 dinners at home.

As you've already identified, it's the costs of your meals out that seems to be the bigger issue.  We eat out easily 3x on weekends, but most of the meals are pretty low cost ethnic food places (~$50 or less for the family).  Seems like you could achieve a lot of savings just by switching venues.

I also agree with keeping pantry and freezer stocked with low-cost 'meal-in-a-box' type options for when you just don't want to cook.  I'm betting that not all of the eating out you're doing is for the food/atmosphere, so you could at least replace those meals with something less expensive at home.

Your DH's lunch is small potatoes compared to the above, but one way to reduce costs without too much hassle is to do things like bring your own soda and bagged chips to work (or even keep them in his office).  He can still buy the 'main course' (e.g. sandwich or whatever he's eating), but the little extras add up.  It's easy to store those things, and they don't take any prep work.  I'd estimate doing that would shave close to $50/month off his lunch costs.[/quote]

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