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

dirty_magic

Wow you all eat out a lot! We hardly ever eat out. I'm always too tired after work to bother getting ready to go out again. We had to eat out every night when we did our kitchen and tbh it started to get on my nerves! We have lunch out quite often at weekends but only a sandwich in a cafe usually.

If we do go out we usually go with friends. We do sometimes go for a curry because it's the one thing that never tastes the same if you cook it at home. I love curries! We don't often go for pub meals because we usually have burgers or steak and its easy to just cook them yourself at home.

We hardly ever have takeaways either, but we did have chips last week for the first time in ages. They're quite expensive now, especially if you have cod!

Linda32

Lunch out most Saturdays and Sunday, I certainly do on Saturdays, probably spend about £6.00 if its both of us around £13.00

Tea and Coffee and perhaps cake on Friday afternoon after work, £3-£4 Then the same on Sunday afternoon normally.

We have never once ordered a takeaway. We do have chippy dinner on Fridays, about £5 I would guess. OH goes so I don't know how much it is.

Mayflower10cat

That's an interesting question - I meet up with (elderly) parents once a week on average and every other week we go out for lunch to save my Mum cooking. So that's two lunches at a decent bistro a month.


Husband and I will have a lunch time meal out, maybe once a week? It would be a proper dinner.


Aside from that, we'd have a Big Meal Out with friends maybe once a month? Does that sound normal??!!

tberry6686

If we include takeaways then probably 3 times per week with the spend varying from £25 up to £200 for the 2 of us.

JIL

Not as much as we used to. I got fed up of going out and paying over the odds for something I could make better myself.
Now we tend to use the club card vouchers to go for a pizza and the special offers at beefeater and harvestor.
If we go on holiday to Spain, we eat out every night. Usually spend on average 50 Euros daily that includes drinks.

holidaysforme

catkins wrote: »

We used to eat out a lot more than we do now. We were just finding it more and more expensive and, to be honest, a lot of the time the food wasn't that good. It annoys me to pay for a meal that I know we could cook as well, if not better, at home.


We are both vegetarian so if we do eat out it is usually indian as they cater well for veggies and their food is more exciting than some of the offerings by pubs.


There is a completely vegetarian indian restaurant in London we go to almost every time we visit London (about once a month).


We are more likely now to have breakfast out at the weekend or lunch.

Indian food is my favourite. I love the South Indian veggie food you get in London.

cadon

dirty_magic wrote: »

Wow you all eat out a lot! We hardly ever eat out. I'm always too tired after work to bother getting ready to go out again.

I generally go out straight after work, so no getting ready twice.

It's interesting to link the frequency of often people eat out to their opinions on the splitting the bill thread.

dirty_magic wrote: »

If we do go out we usually go with friends. We do sometimes go for a curry because it's the one thing that never tastes the same if you cook it at home. I love curries! We don't often go for pub meals because we usually have burgers or steak and its easy to just cook them yourself at home.

I agree, I do prefer to order the type of food I know I can't recreate at home, rather than just the stuff I can't be bothered to recreate. Indian food is at the top of that list - I am terrible with spices!

TBagpuss

It varies. I don't go out to eat regularly but then I may go several times in one weekend if I go to London. Other than that it will mostly be if I have friends visiting.
I'd guess it averages about 12-14 times a year.

Spend varies a lot on who I'm with and where we go. I have one friend who is a real foodie and very knowledgeable - I've had a few spectacular meals with her, including one where the bill was about £150 each, but that is unusual.

Normally it would be between £25 - £50.