How often do you eat out?

There's a really good deli in town that serves homestyle dinners, so depending what's on the menu.. sometimes I treat myself to that on the way home from work.
I haven't really been dining out lately, now that I think of it.. of course, I've got dating on hold so maybe that's the reason LOL

 

We just had some crispy chili rellenos that we took out from a good Mexican food restaurant by us, they also have super tasty and tender pork carnitas on the weekends, and excellent salsa. Don't take out from there too often, but regularly get pints of their salsa to eat with the organic tortilla chips we buy from Costco. :saturn:
 
I eat at a Mexican place the other night, a new one in an area I do not travel much anymore. It was great and they even had a three piece Mariachi Band playing. I got great service, the place was clean and you could see that the manager was watching everything.

I told my wife about it and she said she wants to go sometime soon.
 

Love Mexican food it is the best. Our favorite makes the best vegetarian burritos for me and have Margaritas in HUGE glasses. The have roaming singers who play guitar, it's very nice.
 
I used to support the entire restaurant industry of New York City all by myself in my younger days. I didn't even boil water on my own, for fear of burning it - that's how often I ate out. I had reserved tables at a dozen restaurants in my neighborhood and all the waiters and waitresses knew me by name and knew what I wanted.

But that was when I was young, dumb and full of crumbs.

Now, because of geographic, financial and health reasons I rarely if ever eat out. Geographically I live in the black hole section of town - nothing exists here, least of all restaurants. Financially I've learned that it's far more economical to make my own egg/sausage/cheese biscuit at home (about $0.75 worth of ingredients) than it is to drop $2.99 on the convenience store version that's been sitting slowing thawing out in their crappy little refrigerator and which, when unwrapped and nuked, looks like Fat Fanny and her Famous Fido Foo-Foo were sitting on it.

Tastes about like that as well.

Health reasons ... I have to go against Fishwisher here. I've done too much research, in books and in person, to think that all prepared food is the same. I've seen the chicken farms that some of the fast-food companies employ, where the chickens are barely able to go by that name - when you don't have a beak or feathers I don't know what you are, but I DO know you aren't a chicken.

I've had hairs in my burgers and Band-Aids in my chili. I've had frozen pasteurized processed cheese food-stuff passed off as REAL cheese. Meat that has given me gall bladder attacks from all the grease they cooked it in. Veggies with sand and small pebbles in them. Food that was overcooked, undercooked, or stale.

I don't really eat much anymore ... if I'm hungry I'll munch on pretzels or popcorn (plain). Maybe two or three times a week I'll have what would be considered a regular meal; other than that I just pick. But I seem to be healthy enough, my stomach doesn't do an Exorcist imitation like it does when I used to eat fast-food, and I save enough money to buy the occasional pepperoni pizza from the little old Italian couple I know downtown. :)
 
pchinvegas said:
SifuPhil you make being financially burdened, in the poor side of town, being old and not having much appetite sound great !
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I'm rich in many ways ... just not those that society finds admirable. I'm healthy, I enjoy life, I work at what I love, I appreciate nature and I have a warped sense of humor - what more could I ask for?

I don't see myself as being financially burdened, though - more like "free of financial obligations". The "poor side of town" is where you often find the most giving, down-to-earth people. Old? Nah - it's just a state of mind. As for not having much of an appetite, I rejoice in the fact that I'll never look like the Goodyear blimp.

It's all in one's perspective.
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That's true. Sometimes wealthier poeple are in very poor health from eating too much, eating unhealthy, and having others do their manual labor. Look around the World, many of the longest living populations are concidered "poor" by our standards. They eat fresh food they grow themselves and walk around and work every day. What a concept!
 
R. Zimm said:
That's true. Sometimes wealthier poeple are in very poor health from eating too much, eating unhealthy, and having others do their manual labor. Look around the World, many of the longest living populations are concidered "poor" by our standards. They eat fresh food they grow themselves and walk around and work every day. What a concept!
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A lot of people from other countries who were eating whole foods and staying active, come to America and start doing like Homer Simpson, ordering a bucket of chicken with extra skin. Before long they are obese, and suffering from related diseases like diabetes. We send them some unhealthy junk...http://www.alternet.org/story/15446..._the_whole_world_fat_and_unhealthy?paging=off
 
R. Zimm said:
That's true. Sometimes wealthier poeple are in very poor health from eating too much, eating unhealthy, and having others do their manual labor. Look around the World, many of the longest living populations are concidered "poor" by our standards. They eat fresh food they grow themselves and walk around and work every day. What a concept!
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True. I was raised "Old MacDonald's dairy farm" dirt poor. We had our own smoke house, raised all our vegetables and desert was whatever fruit-bearing tree or bush was in season.

Mom churned our butter, made sour cream and buttermilk. I drank fresh milk --- as in straight from the cow, no pastuerizing <GASP!!!!>

I lived that life until I was almost 11, when dad just could not make a living off our 38 acres anymore; five of that was in woods. 38 acres was paltry even in the Old Days.

Setting aside a pretty decent gene pool full of non-smokers on both sides, I attribute my resilience to living that life style the first 11 years of my life. Also the fact that mom never did make things out of a box. Everything she made, until the end, never came from a box:love_heart: I learned to cook that way from her and maintained "no box cooking and baking" until Erik graduated from high school. It's a lot of why I am so sick to death of cooking - lol lol lol
 
Whether starving of obese, one is under nourished. Starvation from lake of food intake but obese from intake of calories but no nutrition. Either way you are starving but if you are obese it takes longer.
 
R. Zimm said:
Whether starving of obese, one is under nourished. Starvation from lake of food intake but obese from intake of calories but no nutrition. Either way you are starving but if you are obese it takes longer.
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Which I would think would be the preferred way to go. So air-dropping those Big Macs is actually a GOOD thing. Of course they could always send fresh vegetables and prime cuts of meat, but somehow I don't think our humanitarian budget would support such largesse. It's far cheaper to send horse-meat and stale lettuce.
 
I like the way you think SifuPhil, I too am very fortunate and enjoy life. Being financially burdened does not mean I let it bother me much. I do what I can and the bills will be there next payday. Life is way to short to allow anything to get me down.
 
pchinvegas said:
I like the way you think SifuPhil ...
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I believe the psychiatrists call it "Dissociative Fugue / Depersonalization Disorder with attendant Bipolar Disorder with underlying symptoms of Kleptomania, Trichotillomania and Intermittent Explosive Disorder".

In other words, a wackadoo.


I too am very fortunate and enjoy life. Being financially burdened does not mean I let it bother me much. I do what I can and the bills will be there next payday. Life is way to short to allow anything to get me down.
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That's it.

It helps that I've never been a financial wiz - when I have it I spend it, and as long as I have some sort of roof over my head, be it slate, rubber or cardboard, I'll use my money in whatever fashion pleases me and damn tomorrow.
 
Well, one thing about eating out is that if you have the extra income to do this once and a while you are helping other people who need jobs. So, support those less fortunate that yourself and eat out!

Oh, and don't forget the tip!
 
Our choice of eating out often is based on time and energy. If we have both had a hard day at work and neither of us feels like cooking then we might head out somewhere. Then the problem is where! I don't much care but my wife is much more picky but if I try to get her to chose she complains about that as well.
 
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