How often do you eat out, and how much do you spend on average?

Ames

Maybe just less than once a month, to Toby Carvery or Wetherspoons, so a tenner or less.

I eat out quite a lot when I go to Hay Literature Festival, especially if the weather's bad and I can't cook at my tent. About £10-15 each time in one of the restaurants or £5-10 at the pop up places. At Ilkley Literature Festival if I'm going to several events I sometimes have to eat out because it's not possible to get home, that's again about £15.

GlasweJen

I have a taste card and we use groupon/itison/5pm a lot.

We eat out roughly once a fortnight and tend to spend £30 - £50 for 2. I can't drink and OH is partial to half pints of craft ale so he can try more than 1. I like dessert so always have pudding and coffee too, OH might have cheese but doesn't have a sweet tooth so no cake for him. He likes starters, I don't usually - I have chicken chaat if we are at the local Indian though as it's delicious.

seven-day-weekend

Five or six times a month, normally pub grub, sometimes breakfast and sometimes lunch, either with my husband or a friend or occasionally on my own.

Hemera

On average once a month, or slightly less. Normally it's a pub, so maybe 16-17£ in total, which includes the food and a couple of pints.

If I go to a restaurant the bill tends to be between 25 and 35 generally - I tend to have a main (or a starter and a main) and a glass of wine (or half a bottle if someone wants to share one)

calicocat

Usually twice a week depending on how my shifts fall, anything from 30 - 150 for two.

Often for breakfast if i'm off at the weekend. Then maybe fish and chips at the beach...around 20 for two.

Then meeting up with friends, which cam be anything from once month or two - every week some months, that could be anything from 20 - 100 when cocktails are also included...


More than I thought really now writing it down. I love eating out though, it's why I go to work... .

missbiggles1

calicocat wrote: »

Usually twice a week depending on how my shifts fall, anything from 30 - 150 for two.

Often for breakfast if i'm off at the weekend. Then maybe fish and chips at the beach...around 20 for two.

Then meeting up with friends, which cam be anything from once month or two - every week some months, that could be anything from 20 - 100 when cocktails are also included...


More than I thought really now writing it down. I love eating out though, it's why I go to work... .

A woman after my own heart!

Spendless

Before my Grandmother became ill with dementia and had to move into a home, I ate out once a week. I'd take her grocery shopping with me and as a thank you she'd pay for our pub lunch.

I would say it averages out around once a month now. I ate out last night and last month had a meal out 3 times. This was due to both our childrens birthdays falling in March and being (what they considered) milestone birthdays of 13 and 16 and also an unplanned meal out at the end of a long day when DD was competing in a drama festival.

I don't have any more plans to eat out until May time.

mumps

Lunch once or twice a week, usually £15 to £20 each. Less often in the evening.

holidaysforme

Interesting range of replies. It seems there are a lot of us who like to go out to eat fairly often, even better if it's a deal of some kind.:D

I'm going out tonight on a groupon deal. It's the second time we've been to this particular restaurant. The last time we went it was on a travel zoo voucher.

I've often wondered why they don't just reduce their prices, rather than setting up various deals with the different voucher companies. Probably the subject of a whole other thread..

pigpen

Very rarely and usually with my friend or my mother and I never spend more than £20.. 2 courses and drinks.

There are of course very few places I can go eat because I have issues lol