![]() ![]() I think the best thing to do is have a "routine" for grocery shopping and dining out. For dinner we usually grill meats, bake some meats and have fresh veggies with it. Basically we rare eat frozen food, eat fresh produce from farmers markets, fresh meat, and will often eat fresh salads from places like trader joe's or fresh and easy lunch bowls for lunches. Most are cheaper ethnic meals, and then a couple meals around 40pp+ per month. We generally eat out probably 5 meals a week on average. Our total food bill, including drinks/buying alcohol and eating out, is probably around $27-28 a day for two people, if you net out alcohol probably around $25 a day. This might be fun for a change every once in awhile. You can probably do it for about 1/2 the cost of eating out. ![]() If you are looking to cut down your eating out bill, you can perhaps try a cooking date where you buy the ingredients and follow a recipe for something you'd like to try or do a copy cat recipe for food that you like at a certain recipe. You can adjust it on how much you actually spend. This would mean you are eating out once per week. ![]() Maybe you should set down a monetary goal along with a consumption goal - something like - one fancy meal per month for $60 and 3 regular meals per month for $25 each with no fast food meals. I think it sounds like you are doing well - you are spending money on things that you find worth it to you. I'm just wondering how much other young couples here with no kids budget for eating out. I'm thinking around $100-$150 per month for eating out/going out. So I'm putting more in the grocery budget. I'd like to eliminate the fast food due to lack of nutritional value, the food usually sucks, and it's a drain on the wallet. About twice a week we grab fast food when either of us works late. I would like to set our budget to limit 1-2 fancy meals per month and leaving a little bit for cheap eats.Ī "fancy meal" for the two of us is normally around $50-$70. We like to experience new foods and restaurants. Some months a big money drain for me and my SO is eating out. I also dont cook and i eat out all of the time. ![]() I'm a single male and my expenses are about the same ($1400-2000 a month). I stick to midpriced places for this reason! If it were a "fancy" restaurant, I'd be paying for two people instead of just myself and the tab would probably be at least $100 not including drinks or tip. My average tab for lunch is $15 plus tip and supper is $20-$25 plus tip. I rarely go to "fancy" places unless I'm with a girl-friend or a group of people. There's a wonderful variety of restaurants in the Scottsdale area that I frequent and it's nice to have Mexican one night, steak the next, maybe some pasta another, etc. It's not that I CAN'T cook, it's just the idea of food preparation, cooking the food, cleanup afterwards, dishes, etc.I just don't see much point in doing all of this for one person. I'm single and I simply don't cook so basically I eat out for all three meals. I calculated my dining out expenses for a few months and it ranged anywhere from $1400 to $2000/ month. ![]()
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