How often do you eat out or pick up dinner to go a week?
Well im glad to see im not alone. Yes I feel we eat out too often, but try to make it semi healthy most times (Subway). We usually eat out as a family once a weekend, take out 1 MAYBE 2 times a week. I buy my lunches during the week about 3 days (usually salads or soup) and pack my childrens lunches daily.
I do not consider picking up a roasted chicken from the store as eating out and we do that maybe once a month or every other month. We have the chicken one night and then I freeze the rest to make stir fry later.
Not weekly......
About twice a month, unless we have family outings or other requirements.
I cook almost every single meal at home.
Oh goodness far to much! I get cravings and poor hubby brings various stuff home...we try to cut back but end up getting way more then we should lol
Several times a week . I dont like to cook and my husband usually works late so at least 3 times a week he brings something home. I know we shouldnt eat out but we do, its just what works for us
Technically pretty often. 2-3 times a week.
I get 6 of the 99c two piece chicken meal at Popeyes. Thats $6 for 12 pieces of really good fried chicken! I couldn't make it that cheap. Then I go home and make a salad and green vegetables to go with it. Same with rotisserie chicken. I can't make a whole chicken for $5, with cost of chicken, electricity, seasonings, and heating my house up so the a/c has to work extra hard. Is that eating out?
Occasionally I'll pick up some hotwings to watch the game. Or we'll get a couple of $5 hot n ready pizzas from Little Ceasars. If we're out and need to hold the kids over till mealtime, we pick up 99c chicken nuggets. I try no to go to restraunts to eat, because the cost of drinks, alcohol, and tipping makes our bill higher than necessary.
Not nearly enough, and the way I cook, it'd probably be cheaper to eat out!
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Try not during the week but, weekends my kitchen is closed (Ha!) for dinner so, unless hubby cooks we will ea out.... I also need a break.. :)
Usually once a week. Our favorite pizza place started selling take and bake pizzas for wayyyy cheap! Its hard to pass up! Yum!
But honestly, I hate having my kids eat fast food and restaurants are too expensive to do it regularly. So I have to cook a lot more than I would like to. :)
RARELY... and I mean maaaaybe once every other month. Two reasons... one, I love cooking, and two, we can't afford it ;)
We are bad, usually two or three times a week. In our defense I work 12 hours on the days I don't have my kids so I can be home and make dinner on the days I have them. Troy works 10 to 12 hour days all week. So Wednesday and Thursday neither of us want to cook, usually Friday gets drug along for the ride.
Oh this isn't fast food, I do love my body and the bodies of those I love.
Our ex's have our kids every other weekend so on our "no kid weekends" hubby and I go out for dinner Friday and Saturday nights and lunch on Sundays.
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Our ex's have our kids every other weekend so on our "no kid weekends" hubby and I go out for dinner Friday and Saturday nights and lunch on Sundays.
Almost never during the week. But unless we have guests over and I cook, we almost always eat out or pick-up on Sat/Sun nights.
Ugh. Too much. It's one of our biggest money drains. We are working on it.
There's 21 meals in a week, we have probably 8 out and pick up 2. Sad huh? We spend a lot of money on eating outside the house! Probably $150 a week.
A lot. We eat lunch out almost daily. We work from home and we need to step away from the office.
Right now with cheer practice, football games, cheer training, we do a lot of eating out. We don't do the fast foods.... usually salads, soups, Italian
Maybe once a week, usually a pizza- we will grab a burger or something if we are running around on weekends.
not alot. its to expensive, plus I am bulimic and pregnant. I know that if I eat out I will throw up the food, but won't if I make a healthy meal at home. Its something we are struggling with. My husband is picking up food tonight because I have been so tired all day (getting over a bad cold).
I'd say approximately once per week. Some weeks we don't eat out at all and then other weeks we go visit my in laws and they love to go out, so we might eat out twice in one weekend.
Usually once or twice a week. We try to eat at home on school nights, but eat out more often on weekends. Except for last weekend when we were repairing the kitchen. We ate out at least 6 times in 3 days. My husband is looking forward to eating at home again because eating out was making him feel sick.
Every Sunday for lunch
every other Sat nite
Occassionally on a Weds if I am too busy to cook a good meal
Maybe once a month.
Maybe once a week, sometimes not at all. We eat most meals at home, we're not big on fast food and eat out at a restaurant maybe once every 2 weeks. I know that is not the norm however, as many moms I talk to say it's at least 2-3 times/wk.
My husband and I buy sushi once a week. Thats it.
Once a month. That's all we can afford.
During the week days it's not very often, definitely not weekly, probably not even every two weeks...but on the weekends, we are really bad about it! We are currently trying to be better about eating in on weekends! My husband goes to rugby practice on Thursday evenings though I do hate to cook when it's just me and the kids so sometimes I will go out to eat with them on Thursdays, but usually I just make mac and cheese!
About 6 times per month. (1-2 times per week, but not 2x every week--know what I mean?)
maybe once a week, usually less.
We are also bad about eating out on the weekends. We get so busy , it's just easier to pick something up. We always make Sunday dinner, though.
2-3 times a week. We're trying to cut back but with my older kids able to babysit, it's so hard not to go out on dates. =)
Honestly during school yr. A lot.. My husband works late.. And with homework tutoring and kids swim team.. We eat subway 2 a week.. And Thai once a week. I pack the kids lunch daily and snacks.. We eat breakfast at home.. How often do u eat out?
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Usually; twice a month
We are on a diet and Saturdays are out cheat days, so that is the only time we eat anything out. :)
My hubby or I will grab lunch out daily...we normally alternate. Dinner we LIKE to have at home, but if we aren't prepared ahead of time sometimes it can be difficult with the kids activities. Tomorrow I will need to drive 45 minutes one way to the dance shoe store for my daughter. Ugh...but I'll take something out tonight to plan for that tomorrow. But way too much. We are trying to eat in a lot more to save money and be healthy!
I'd say twice a week. Wednesdays we usually order a pizza or get carry out from a restaurant. Then on the weekend we usually end up going out to breakfast or lunch or picking up something while we are out.
Not weekly. Maybe once a month. The food I can prepare at home is so much healthier and better tasting so we don't bother to do carry out. Plus, we don't do fast food, so it's usually just as easy to cook at home than to go out.
And for the record, DH and I both work full time jobs. It's not easy to find the time to cook, but we do. I prepare a lot of food on the weekends and then freeze or refrigerate until needed.
When my husband in in town, 4 times a week or more. Its a family time thing. When my husband is out of town working maybe 1 time a week or less
Once a month or once every two months. Once upon a time it was probably 2-3 times a week!
used to be 3x a week but I prefer home cooked better than eat out so now maybe 1x per week and thats on the weekend, usually Saturday for lunch.
When my husband is out of town for a weekend, I usually eat out the whole weekend.
Sunday supper-Thursday I cook. With the exception of breakfast, im off friday and Saturday!
Once a week as either a family date or a Hubby and I date. If you add church dinner on Wed. night then we co out twice. Ocassionaly we will be invited out on Sunday after church or out with friends but we usually try to do those pitch in style at some ones house.
Almost never. Maybe once a month, at most.
At least 2 times sometimes 3.
It used to be 2 to 3 times a week but I had to stop myself. When I realized how much I was spending eating out I decided to cook more so now I am down to once a week unless its girls night out and then it's twice a week.
Rarely. My son is on a special diet so eating out is obsolete. Besides, I've realized I love feeding my kids nutritious meals and have taken a certain pride in that. Truthfully speaking, my kids literally don't even know what McDonalds is and I'm ok with that.
Rarely. Always have frozen pizzas or chicken nuggets in freezer. We love California Kitchen pizza and trader joe's has lots of options. I read labels for ingredients and my husband and I are picky where we eat. We do not like processed foods and try to stay away from them when we can.
During the school year we get pizza for dinner once a week. During the summer we don't do it too often, but we go out to eat more often, again maybe once a week. I love not having to cook once in a while.
