breaking up with eating-out
As of today, I am not eating out anywhere until I go to Minnesota for the 3MH weekend (hello Chino Latino!). No fast-food, no sit-down restaurants, not even my highly subsidized company cafeteria until June 8th. Though I did decide I would allow myself the occasional cookie or pudding cup at lunch, so long as I spend less than $1 per occasion. But I’m going to to my best to avoid spending any money other than at a grocery store for the next forty nine days.
Looking at the receipts piling up around my desk, I realize just how much I have been eating out lately. Going out of town for many, many concerts didn’t help, and those meals were kind of necessary. However, my co-workers have been wanting to go out to eat for lunch lately, something we’ve never done in the past, and I am weak when someone wants to go to Atlas. Also, in between weeks of traveling, I’ve gotten lazy and being single, sometimes its just easier to grab something on the way home rather than go to the grocery store and then cooking just for me. I feel I’ve spent way too much money on food (I hate spending money on food) and I’ve not been eating very well.
So if you ask me to meet you for dinner and I say no, don’t be offended, its nothing personal.
But if you want me to come over and eat your food, I fully embrace that.
You’re gonna get yourself a loaf of bread and some lunchmeat! Woo hoo!
I would recommend Williams-Sonoma’s “Food Made Fast: Weeknight” if you’re looking for some ideas for quick, inexpensive and very tasty meals. Most of them feed Kate, Roo and I pretty well, but I can see them being easily scaled down to serve dinner for one (or dinner and leftovers for lunch).