Feeding My Curiosity
July 18, 2011
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THE Tally….
After an entire week of counting my expenditures dining out, I ended with a respectable figure. While you might not see $213.50 as respectable, there have certainly been a few weeks in my life where I spent $50 per night every night of the week. That – outside of any other meals – would show up at $350, so this week was a win.
What do you spend dining and drinking out in a given week? How does that compare to what you spend on food at home? Or when you’re on vacation?
See below for the breakdown of each meal – in reverse order – this past week.
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Saturday – July 23, 2011
Breakfast
Mum made breakfast. Eggs, bacon, biscuits, hot tea. My cost – $0
Lunch
Skipped it because I had to get to WordCamp.
Snack
Starbucks Shaken Iced Tea Lemonade. Gift card. My cost – $0
2nd Lunch
Chipotle. Chicken Burrito and an Izzy drink. My cost – $10
Dinner
NERD Center. Variety of great food and drinks. My cost – $0
Saturday dining out total – $10
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Friday – July 22, 2011
Breakfast
Paramount Deli on Charles Street. Juevo Rancheros and iced coffee. My cost – $12
Snack
Starbucks. Trenta Shaken Iced Tea Lemonade. Gift card. My cost – $0
Snack 2
Wired Puppy on Newbury Street. Two Shaken Iced Tea Lemonades – Wolfhound Size. Gift card. My cost – $0
Lunch
Skipped – yes, the horrors!!
Dinner
Snug Restaurant, Hingham, MA. Teryaki wings, steak tips, beer and beer. My cost – $37
Friday dining out total – $49
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Thursday – July 21, 2011
Breakfast – three soft-boiled eggs. My cost – $0
Lunch
Random foodstuffs around the house. My cost – $0
Dinner
Not Your Average Joe’s in Norwell. Pizza, Qua Hogs and Iced Tea. My cost – $20
Thursday dining out total – $20
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Wednesday – July 20, 2011
Breakfast – skipped a meal – horrors! My cost – $0
Lunch
TV dinner, Chicken Tikka Masala. My cost – $0
Dinner
Something cooked at home, but I can’t remember what. My cost – $0
Wednesday dining out total – $0
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Tuesday – July 19, 2011
You might think by now, this Cutler kid, he is saving money hand OVER fist. And I had….to this point.
Breakfast – again, three soft-boiled eggs at home. My cost – $0
Lunch
Wings from Fat Cat Quincy heated up on the grill. My cost – $0
Snack
Au Bon Pain frozen lemonade in Boston. My cost – $3
Pre-Dinner Drinks and snack at Renaissance Waterfront Hotel. Deviled eggs, Michelada, beer. My cost – $30
Dinner
Off-the-chart food at 606 Congress. Too many dishes and tastes to share. My cost – $80.
Tuesday dining out total – $113
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Monday – July 18, 2011
The days run together and maybe I shouldn’t have let this lapse as long as I did. But I can recreate it, I’m sure.
Breakfast – three eggs, soft-boiled, at the house. My cost – $0
Lunch
Crab and fish chowder at Summer Shack in Derby Shoppes. Had this as part of the soup and salad. Had a Caesar salad, too. My cost – $12
Dinner
Gretchen brought another salad home and some wings from Fat Cat Quincy. My cost – $0.
Monday dining out total – $12.
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Sunday – July 17, 2011
Breakfast – handfuls of candy at the house, then eggs benedict and iced tea at Easters Country Kitchen in Weymouth, MA
Candy was on hand – My cost – $0
Easters was a $27 bill – split with Gretchen – and $9 of my half was a gift card. My cost – $4.50
X-Large Dunkin Iced Caramel – $4? – but was provided graciously by Gretchen. My cost – $0
Lunch
Calzone at Twin Rivers Casino – $10? – split with Gretchen, and we got free drinks from casino hostesses. My cost – $5
Dinner
Grilled sausages, boiled perogis and corn at home. My cost – $0.
Sunday dining out total – $9.50
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A friend asked recently (and this has been asked before by other friends and some strangers), “how much do you spend in a week on going out to eat?”
That’s the question that spurred my co-hosting and founding of NomX3.
It’s the question that made me pay a little more attention to my other spending habits and therefore focus on $8 pants in the theory that you should never buy clothes that cost more than a burrito.
And it’s the question that has prompted me to keep track.
SO, this week I’ll be updating this blog post with info each day on what I spend on food and beverage. This will let us all know how sick I really am and whether I should just not eat for a week and then retire to the south of France.
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Thanks for reading!
