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Now I know why I eat out at night

May 29th, 2007 at 07:52 pm

For two nights in a row, we stayed home for dinner. The first night, we would up eating about 10 pm.
Last night, my dh was cooking ribs. First he boiled them, with the lid ON.
Of course, they boiled over and really made a mess. Then he smoked them on the grill and that took forever.
By the time the food was ready, we didn't even want to eat.
Then we had all the clean up to do.

I bet we spent just about as much as going out to eat. The food (ribs, hamburger, potatoes, lima beans) came to about $10. A half bag of charcoal is about $2.50.
Plus the dishwasher was full so I had to run that after one meal. (I usually only have to run it once every two or three days)
Our normal meal out runs about $16 and sure is a lot more fun than cooking and cleaning up.

Yeah, dinner out tonight.
However, I will add the $20 saved to my challenge, plus the braves won for another $1.
Prev. total $11,560.00
today 21.00
new total $11,581.00

2 Responses to “Now I know why I eat out at night”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Hehe. I eat out way too much for someone who can't or shouldn't afford such a thing. Maybe some day, I'll be much better off, and then I won't have to worry about it like you guys. Smile

  2. disneysteve Says:
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    I've said elsewhere on the boards that while we enjoy dining out, we couldn't possibly do it every day even if money was no object. We both enjoy cooking. My wife is allergic to fish which limits our dining out choices. My daughter is vegetarian which further limits our choices. And we just don't like the whole hassle of it. Even on vacation, we will often make meals in our room a couple of times because by the 3rd or 4th day, we're sick of restaurants.

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