A poll: How often does your family eat out?

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  • shaynak112
    shaynak112 Posts: 751 Member
    Oh wow! I didn't know people dined out so much! I suppose that's because many people can't cook, or don't want to cook, which is understandable.
    I live with my boyfriend, and we go to the Mandarin (that is our "cheat" day I suppose) three times a year (his bday, my bday, and our yearly anniversary). We usually order pizza once a month.
  • Noki1024
    Noki1024 Posts: 302
    My family and I eat out maybe once a month ~ I enjoy cooking
  • jenaissance
    jenaissance Posts: 302 Member
    2 or 3 times a month, taking a family of 5 out to eat is too expensive!
  • ShanR77
    ShanR77 Posts: 287 Member
    Way more than we should have. Now we rarely eat out....unless things are so busy and we get home too late for me to make dinner.
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    I used to eat out daily when I was fat.
    Today?
    Maybe once a month. I just can't do that. I eat everything in sight.
  • lovelysummerbabe2012
    lovelysummerbabe2012 Posts: 84
    Never.
    Seriously, Maybe twice a year. That's it.
  • izzydino
    izzydino Posts: 254 Member
    About 4-5 times a week. Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, and Greek all once a week each. We split all entrees and eat the less to moderate calorie dishes.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
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    that's about what we do :)
  • Stefanie7125
    Stefanie7125 Posts: 462 Member
    before I started trying to get healthier, I'd say we ate out 4-5 times a week. Sometimes a couple times a day. I really don't like to cook. However, now it is down to maybe once or twice a month.
  • karweb
    karweb Posts: 11
    eat breakfast at home, carry my lunch 3-4 days, but we eat out 2-3 times per week as a family.
  • CountryMom03
    CountryMom03 Posts: 258 Member
    LOL Eating out? Whats that?:) No seriously, we may eat out MAYBE once a month, but thats about it. Its too expensive for one reason, especially when you have 5 in your family and also because its hard to get "real" food at restraunts and fast food places. Most are loaded with toxins. Just easier, cheaper and healthier to make meals at home!:) :flowerforyou:
  • blessed205
    blessed205 Posts: 1
    I'm a family of two and we eat out about 3-4 times a week one meal or another!
  • caraiselite
    caraiselite Posts: 2,631 Member
    fast food maybe once or twice a week.

    a real sit down restaurant, maybe once or twice a year.
  • TinkrBelz
    TinkrBelz Posts: 866 Member
    We eat out (actually we just bring something home) every Friday.
  • SmallMimi
    SmallMimi Posts: 541 Member
    Once a month, me and hubby have date night, otherwise never. Have always eaten breakfast at home and prepared lunch to take to work. Can you count buying the occassional forbidden snack from a machine as eating out?
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    It probably averages out about once a week for DH and I- we often have dinner at the pub on a Friday night, or we might have breakfast or lunch at a cafe on a weekend. We eat out at nice (ie. expensive!) restaurants for birthdays, anniversary and a few other occasions during the year.

    I travel quite often for my work so that means eating out every meal for 3 or 4 days every one or two months. I don't pay for that though.
  • ByeByeBigGurl
    ByeByeBigGurl Posts: 35
    We may order a pizza once or twice a month, but beside that, never.
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    As a family we usually order in about once a month.....

    Then on my own I might eat out about once a week......
  • AgapeLove7
    AgapeLove7 Posts: 29 Member
    we used to eat out almost every day! shocking i know! now we probably eat out 1 or 2 times a week.. but we try to give the kids healthy alternatives.
  • DisneyAddictRW
    DisneyAddictRW Posts: 800 Member
    Too often! Once a week as a family or at least my hubby & I do. We use to eat out 3-4 times a week including pizza 1-2 times a week. We've changed that! Pizza is something we usually order once a month as a special treat. However the kids would rather make their own at home.
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    Well........... Budgeted for 3-4 times a month. Ends up being more. Family takes us out or we get bored or extra cash.

    I really want to go down to 2 times a month. I LOVE cooking from home.
  • riotsgram
    riotsgram Posts: 24 Member
    I can't remember the last time we ate out. It's been quite awhile. We will occasionally order pizza for football or hockey game but the majority of the time I cook.
  • skb12573
    skb12573 Posts: 182 Member
    About once a week we stop after church on Sundays to grab something to take home. Really try not to eat out as much as possible. Last week we ate out twice because we were on the road a lot. We used to eat out about 5-8 times per week and sometimes more!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine the calories and fat?? I could kick myself for doing that.
  • Kalee34
    Kalee34 Posts: 674 Member
    We go out usually once a week(Sunday's after church for lunch).
  • debussyschild
    debussyschild Posts: 804 Member
    We go to a restaurant to eat every once in a while, say 2-3 times a month. Maybe more if were getting lazy about grocery shopping, lol. For us, there isn't much around where we live that's really worth paying for to eat. I love cooking good food, so I'd much rather spend half the money and way better food at home. Not to mention, cooking for several nights in advance saves A LOT of time.
  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
    Once a month, twice if there's a special occasion.Our schedules are worked out so a parent is always home, so no need to have someone else cook for us.
  • chrissy28
    chrissy28 Posts: 45 Member
    I guess when on vacation we'll dine out at times, but usually we get a place that has a kitchen so we can do our own cooking. During a regular month, no vacations, I would hesitate to say once a month. Definitely more than a couple times per year though.

    Now, I will eat out at times if I forget my lunch, but that will vary on the week and how organized I am. Currenlty, it's the time of year

    This is as a family though. Sometimes I do forget to pack my lunch at work and run out to grab something. I tend to keep it simple, but then you also have the birthday lunch celebrations at work, or a friend's birthday, etc. So for my as an individual, I would say at least once or twice a month I'm eating out for something. As a family, we tend to eat home cooked meals. We also never do fast food, like mcdonalds or something like that. We'll do subway though.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    It's a rare occurrence. Once a month, maybe. Unless we are on vacation or out of town, I would prefer to cook.

    As far as fast food restaurants, I have been to oneso far this year. Carls.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Not much. 1-3 times a week. Mostly because of finances. I work full time but my bf works part time and is still in school. Plus I have a hungry 4 year old who eats non-stop!

    We are going on a family vacation with my sister and parents next week. Since we have a fully functional condo for the week, we will probably stock up with groceries when we get down there. Breakfast-lunch in the condo and dinner out at night! :tongue:
  • kenlad64
    kenlad64 Posts: 377 Member
    Once a week dinner, and once a week lunch is probably the max we do this.
  • myfitnessnmhoy
    myfitnessnmhoy Posts: 2,105 Member
    Once or twice a week.

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