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If I'm hungry and want to be cheap and eat out, I hit the $1 menu @ fast food places and get water. I don't drink soda anyways. Or I go to ethnic places like a Vietnamese sandwich shop for their sandwich which cost $2.50-3.00. Hit a Mexican food roach coach and grab a burrito or taco.
yeah this is kinda my go to just to be cehap but lets be honest its crap food and you get sick of it quick thats my problem with fast food
yeah magianos is kinda on the expensive side but has been running this special forever buy one pasta dish get a second free and 2 pasta dishes from there is like 4 meals
My brother and I love to walk to the Chinese place just down the road for lunch.
He is a big eater and can put away a plate of food, plus a bowl or rice and half my bowl of rice. That's after he eats his bowl of soup and the rest of mine.
I eat half my soup and a couple fried wontons and don't really want much of the huge platter of food they bring. I order something different than my brother, and I eat a little bit of it and take the rest home.
That night, I make a big pot of rice and we eat the leftovers.
I put aside a little for me for another meal for lunch the next day.
Including tip, we pay about $25. for 5 meals. I consider that cheap for Chinese food and I get to eat it for three days in row! Then I don't want anymore for another month.
lol i was just gonna say after 5 chinese meals im good on chinese for like a month as well lol
Like another poster said - Entertainment Book, coupons.
Take-away vs. dine in. Even if we're away from home, we gt takeout and eat at a park most times. (I've got a toddler and sometimes just dont want to deal with eating in too). We keep "real" silverware in the glovebook since plastic flatware is miserable.
I generally drink water at home with meals - so I do the same when we're out. Here in SoCal a iced tea came run $3 -4 bucks.
yeah this is kinda my go to just to be cehap but lets be honest its crap food and you get sick of it quick thats my problem with fast food
True, the dollar menu gets old very, very quick. But I can never get enough of those Vietnamese sandwiches (especially BBQ Pork/Grilled Pork) and those beef burritos from roach coach.
I'm out in the country and by the time we drive into town, it is a lot faster and easier to just cook at home.
I dislike paying money for food that isn't as good as what I cook, so restaurant meals tend to be expensive in my family.
My quick, too-tired-to-cook meal is to get out a cookie sheet, place a silicone liner on it, pour on a layer of Juanitas tortilla chips, Dab on spoonfuls of canned chili, topped with grated cheddar cheese and put it in the oven until the cheese is toasted.
Set it out on the counter with the sour cream and hot sauce and nobody ever complains.
If I know that the day will be long and hard, I put a pot roast into the crock pot before leaving home.
I also have an assortment of main dishes packaged in the freezer to be zapped in the microwave. Whenever I cook any sort of casserole, I make much more than needed and freeze the excess as microwave meals.
I'm out in the country and by the time we drive into town, it is a lot faster and easier to just cook at home.
I dislike paying money for food that isn't as good as what I cook, so restaurant meals tend to be expensive in my family.
My quick, too-tired-to-cook meal is to get out a cookie sheet, place a silicone liner on it, pour on a layer of Juanitas tortilla chips, Dab on spoonfuls of canned chili, topped with grated cheddar cheese and put it in the oven until the cheese is toasted.
Set it out on the counter with the sour cream and hot sauce and nobody ever complains.
If I know that the day will be long and hard, I put a pot roast into the crock pot before leaving home.
I also have an assortment of main dishes packaged in the freezer to be zapped in the microwave. Whenever I cook any sort of casserole, I make much more than needed and freeze the excess as microwave meals.
Mmmmmmmm, nachos!! Sounds good!!
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Sounds good!!
