How much do you spend in restaurants monthly?

[RiskyStuff]

Me $100 about... which gives me about 10 orders. I do it as a practitioner of frugal lifestyle which is a hidden expert-level IM method.

What cheap restaurants am I eating at spending $10 per order?

Poland McDonald's, pizza and Vietnamese.
Maybe McPoland's?

Why do I call it restaurants? It's all fast food and I prefer it to restaurants, so for me it's like restaurants for other people.

Let's not waste our time on judging other's preferences.

 

[LegacyBuilder248]

prepare funds for future health conditions....you will need it

there are not many restaurants left which won't use industrial made food and mcd is the worst of the worse.

 

[RiskyStuff]

prepare funds for future health conditions....you will need it

there are not many restaurants left which won't use industrial made food and mcd is the worst of the worse.

Plenty of alcohol enthusiasts on this forum.
So many coffee addicts.
Also many people who use adult services... won't name them.

This is not forum of health obsessed people I think.

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Let's not waste our time on judging other's preferences.

This method is good too. Once you save 3 hours a day on not giving a fck about other people, you can add some bricks to your empire.

 

[t2van]

We go out as a family every other Sunday, so twice a month meal normally comes to with drinks etc £180 for the 4 of us or $243 so £360 or $500 for the two Sundays.

Then date night with the wife once a month, that's normally around £300 depending on where go and the wine ordered $405 dollar

Per month

£660 / $905 give or take per month.

We don't do fast food places or takeaways that often, maybe once or twice a year that's it.


@RiskyStuff, nothing wrong with the places you mentioned, there is a reason for them and that's fine. I used to be a bit of a snob about them but then I watched the film Burnt and what he says makes sense:

But generally, they are not for me.

 

[LegacyBuilder248]

this kind of food decreases also productivity in the long run even if you don't think about the health conditions it will cause.There is a catgory for it called Eugenic.
Eating this kind of food is like eating a filling mass with no nutrition.So even your stomach is not hungry anymore your body is lacking nutrition and minerals and because of that diffrent kind of deseases will accure over time.


My mentor when i was 18 was an alcohol addict (wine) however it made him more productive as he worked thanks to it the whole night.He was a big guy in the adult industry in the 90's.
But still it destroyed his health in the long run and when you get older the main thing what matters is your health.You invest a lot to keep it decent.
So better being more aware about in your youth time than regetting in your older times because time passes quicker than young people think

But generally, they are not for me.

Fast Food per se is not bad.
But you can't compare McD from the 90's and todays fast food.
Todays ingridiants are artificial.Transfads which causes fad liver -> diabetes .McD meat which officaly can't be called meat etc .
Coca Cola with corn sirup etc which also creates fad liver.There are only a few countries which Cola uses its old recipe and somewhat the people there are slim and not fad.
The quality of food makes the diffrence.Eating burgers is nothing wrong.I love to eat burgers myself from time to time but i buy only in places where there is only real food and not artificialy made including chemicals like McD fries which are the worst of all.
Doesn't cost much more but your body gets real nutrition and no chemicals causing diffrent kinds of deseases and destroying each time your guts balance.

 

[Dopious]

Most office workers here spend about $3-400 on lunches here per month, I used to do that too then like $200 on weekends.

 

[SilverClouds]

Just ate some rice & eggs & cuttlefish & pork & veggies, there's a dish like this with everything lol. Tbh the size was so big for me that I put half back in the fridge for tomorrow. I order from nearby restaurants and put that in the fridge and eat for couple days then repeat. I get normal meals mostly, not McDonalds. Sometimes I get groceries with veggies, fruit, cheese, etc. I do like sweet lattes, ice cream floats, etc though.

 

[ggmopa]

We go out as a family every other Sunday, so twice a month meal normally comes to with drinks etc £180 for the 4 of us or $243 so £360 or $500 for the two Sundays.

Then date night with the wife once a month, that's normally around £300 depending on where go and the wine ordered $405 dollar

Per month

£660 / $905 give or take per month.

We don't do fast food places or takeaways that often, maybe once or twice a year that's it.


@RiskyStuff, nothing wrong with the places you mentioned, there is a reason for them and that's fine. I used to be a bit of a snob about them but then I watched the film Burnt and what he says makes sense:

But generally, they are not for me.

Pretty much the opposite. Aboslutely despise fine dining. Went to a restaurant just the other day with three friends. Ran up a a bill of £220. We got two appetisers, four starters and three non-alcoholic cocktails which alone was about £120. We only shared two mains, one portion od naan and one portion or chappati between us. The portions sizes were appalingly small. Forgot to take pics of mains for future reference, but these are the portion sizes i'm dealing with. Shocking lol. Give me a Deep Pan Pizza for £7.99 from Pizza hut anyday over this.

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Oh, and to answer the question. Averaging about £200 month on takeaways. Way too much still.

 

[t2van]

Pretty much the opposite. Aboslutely despise fine dining. Went to a restaurant just the other day with three friends. Ran up a a bill of £220. We got two appetisers, four starters and three non-alcoholic cocktails which alone was about £120. We only shared two mains, one portion od naan and one portion or chappati between us. The portions sizes were appalingly small. Forgot to take pics of mains for future reference, but these are the portion sizes i'm dealing with. Shocking lol. Give me a Deep Pan Pizza for £7.99 from Pizza hut anyday over this.

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Oh, and to answer the question. Averaging about £200 month on takeaways. Way too much still.

Some portions are supposed to be "small" due to how rich the food often is. That looks ok as a starter but maybe the resturant was just crap to start with lol

I'm fussy as hell when I go out and where I like to eat.

The 4 of us out on a Sunday isn't anything fancy. Normally, starters, sunday dinner or something on the menu and dessert with drinks *4 isnt that much I dont think

 

[RiskyStuff]

Most office workers here spend about $3-400 on lunches here per month, I used to do that too then like $200 on weekends.

You shocked me. I thought your expenses are close to zero in every area of life. But no!

 

[Dopious]

You shocked me. I thought your expenses are close to zero in every area of life. But no!

Missed this huh.

used to do that too

 

[ggmopa]

Some portions are supposed to be "small" due to how rich the food often is. That looks ok as a starter but maybe the resturant was just crap to start with lol

I'm fussy as hell when I go out and where I like to eat.

The 4 of us out on a Sunday isn't anything fancy. Normally, starters, sunday dinner or something on the menu and dessert with drinks *4 isnt that much I dont think

Yeah not much my style, but ambience was good to be fair if that's what you're ultimately paying for.

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You shocked me. I thought your expenses are close to zero in every area of life. But no!

Did you think he lives like Sisu over there?

 

[RiskyStuff]

Missed this huh.

Yes, sorry, I woke up 7 hours ago and was eating pizza while reading this thread. Plus sometimes you write in style different than I like. Only $15 for this one, but it's 2 meals.

My highest month in restaurants was maybe $800. I was eating 3 meals off restaurants a day. I had promo codes via UberEATS.

 

[TheVigilante]

Upto 50 bucks but now i have reduced eating outside only at Bday party

Dont feel like eating out I feel I have finished my quota of enjoying eating out really haha

Time to take good care of the gifted body

 

[ggmopa]

Yes, sorry, I woke up 7 hours ago and was eating pizza while reading this thread.

Pics or no Pizza

 

[RiskyStuff]

Pics or no Pizza

Take it on faith like.
I take on faith people make $1 billion dollars.

 

[Nargil]

We are in a money saving mode now, but we still do some fine dining here and there. We did plenty of it in the past few years. Now we have it "out of the system" and we can focus on being tight with the money.

Though I still rather focus on fine wine. I've finished WSET 3, with distinction of course, (wine and spirit education trust) last year and we actually do wine trips all over Europe.

This year we've been to Champagne and we are going to Rhone Valley in June.

Pretty much the opposite. Aboslutely despise fine dining. Went to a restaurant just the other day with three friends. Ran up a a bill of £220. We got two appetisers, four starters and three non-alcoholic cocktails which alone was about £120. We only shared two mains, one portion od naan and one portion or chappati between us. The portions sizes were appalingly small. Forgot to take pics of mains for future reference, but these are the portion sizes i'm dealing with. Shocking lol. Give me a Deep Pan Pizza for £7.99 from Pizza hut anyday over this.

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Oh, and to answer the question. Averaging about £200 month on takeaways. Way too much still.

That doesn't really look like fine dining to me. I would be surprised if that was a Michelin Guide. Problem is that fine dining mostly does not start until it reaches at least 2 Michelin stars. And from my experience, 220 for 3 doesn't get you anywhere near that in the UK.

Not to sound like a cunt of course.

I've been to some lovely 1 stars, but after you've been to 2 - 3 of them, you've been to all of them.

Michelin guide restaurants tend to be awesome value for money sometimes, especially in small villages in the middle of nowhere. Yes, I mean you, Tuscany.

Some portions are supposed to be "small" due to how rich the food often is.

Exactly this. Been to some restaurants which really overdid it with portions and that simply isn't good. Sizing the portions properly is one of the skills these restaurants should have. Some do lack it though.

 

[ggmopa]

That doesn't really look like fine dining to me. I would be surprised if that was a Michelin Guide. Problem is that fine dining mostly does not start until it reaches at least 2 Michelin stars.

I mean, it is according to all the guides we read it in while looking for something a little fancier:

'TYGA, a fine-dining Indian restaurant, is set to open its doors this Friday (5th December) on Peter Street. Taking over the former restaurant space within Hotel Forty Seven, a location long associated with exceptional dining, TYGA aims to usher in a new chapter of refined Indian cuisine in the city centre.'



Then again i'm not a fan and not a pro about how all this classification stuff works.

And from my experience, 220 for 3 doesn't get you anywhere near that in the UK.

Lol is it really that simplistic in reality, anywhere? Fine dining is relative to where you are exactly, surely. Prices in Mayfair are going to be different to prices in Bradford high street, for example, even if food is good at both. The food I got above I could have gotten equally good at out local for about £75.

Now that you mention it though, I have been to one of these so-called Michelin Two stars restaurants in London. This one. I remember cause everyone kept going on and on about it. The bill was ridiculous and the food was shit.

So not sure why I should trust this Michelin BS to tell me what's 'fine' here and what isn't.

Or is it like fashion, with some self-appointed experts declaring what is 'quality' and what isn't when a £120 pair of shoes can do things just as well as a £1200 pair? It's just an empty display of 'social status' in that case.

 

[t2van]

We are in a money saving mode now, but we still do some fine dining here and there. We did plenty of it in the past few years. Now we have it "out of the system" and we can focus on being tight with the money.

Though I still rather focus on fine wine. I've finished WSET 3, with distinction of course, (wine and spirit education trust) last year and we actually do wine trips all over Europe.

This year we've been to Champagne and we are going to Rhone Valley in June.

Oh nice! My wife got me into wine thinking it would stem the vodka but now I spend more on wine than I do vodka because buying in cases in much easier with various memberships.

I can taste the flavours etc, I'm no where near at that level to do what you do mind nor the tasting side of it.

That doesn't really look like fine dining to me. I would be surprised if that was a Michelin Guide. Problem is that fine dining mostly does not start until it reaches at least 2 Michelin stars. And from my experience, 220 for 3 doesn't get you anywhere near that in the UK.

Agree

Not to sound like a cunt of course.

No you don't.

I've been to some lovely 1 stars, but after you've been to 2 - 3 of them, you've been to all of them.

I agree with this, there's not much between them and I think meals or menus tend to float around them everything is semi similar and that level of dining I don't actually enjoy to be honest..

Michelin guide restaurants tend to be awesome value for money sometimes, especially in small villages in the middle of nowhere. Yes, I mean you, Tuscany.

I like the ones that can strive to be that level but don't. They just enjoy to cook and not worried about the faff that comes with it.

The wife and I for our date nights often revolve around the same restaurants. There was one in Cardiff back in the day we used to go and the owner knew our name they bring the fish & meat out, what you picked is what you got. That kind of level of food I don't mind paying for.

We like the smaller places that are off track, appreciate you for being there, your happy to pay a good and fair price because of what your getting and it's just enjoyable or a pleasure for all involved.

I consider myself to be a snob but I don't like try hard things either - I really enjoy a quality pub meal thats an authentic home cooked, honest food. I don't like places that claim to sell the best burger ever and you go there and it's just processed shite. Stay in your lane and I think more restaurants would do OK, it's pretending to be something they are not often result in closures I think.

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Or is it like fashion, with some self-appointed experts declaring what is quality and what isn't when a £120 pair of shoes can do things just as well as a £1200 pair?

Oof, I dunno on shoes depends whats so special about the 1200 pair. I think once you go up and past the 300-400 mark for shoes you can get repaired and hand made there's probably not much in it. But I think £120 to £1200 is a bit of a difference

 

[ggmopa]

whats so special about the 1200 pair

They were signed by Kanye West

Ok better example - Range Rover Sport vs VW Tiguan. With the amount it can cost to repair your turbo and whatever fuck up will evnetually happen to your RR sport you could by a second Tiguan lmao. Again. Brand image. Not necessarily quality. Even more true and subjective with food... up to a point I mean LOL