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$16.00 is a special occasion tab? What's on the menu?
We aren't into fancy restaurants, but we do like to eat out, usually once a week. We have some reasonable restaurants around here. A couple fancier ones. We tend to go to the reasonable ones. Generally, the menu might include nice salads, burgers, fish & chips (big around here) other seafood and the usual chicken, pasta, steak. Italian is always a favorite too. Right about now, burgers might be in the $12.00 range, fries included the meals may start around $15.00-$18.00 for some seafood, higher for other dishes and steaks. Obviously, the prices are higher in tourist areas. And drinks and tax and tip add to what is being spent. I don't mind paying more for certain seafood meals, or something we don't cook at home, but I do not dish out $$$ for a meal of chicken. We eat enough chicken at home.
We rarely ate out when I was a kid. It just didn't happen except for once or twice a year until fast food came around. It wasn't in the budget.
As an adult, eating out is a social thing, enjoying a meal with friends is most pleasant. If it's just the two of us, I find we talk more when eating out than when we are at home. Back in the day when we were working, sometimes we just didn't feel like cooking.
Everyone spends their $ on things that they enjoy and everyone has limits as to what they may spend on specific things. I'd buy camera equipment before a fancy purse, clothes, shoes, or jewelry any day of the week, but that's just me.
I'm going to miss that about Rhode Island there are so many good cheap restaraunts there. My Dad and I went out to eat and I had a veal dish and he had fish and both meals come with soup or salad and bread and my Dad's came with 2 sides it was 42 bucks with a 20% tip and it was good and they gave us very generous portions.
I've never been a fan of Subway sandwiches. Maybe if they toasted the buns twice or if they tasted as good as they looked they would better IMHO. I would say are average lunch out is $15 ea plus a tip. Of course that includes an adult beverage.
Hard to say, I still have relatives there so maybe I will but with my Dad and sister moving to Florida and once the house sells I won't be spending time there like I always did.
I've never been a fan of Subway sandwiches. Maybe if they toasted the buns twice or if they tasted as good as they looked they would better IMHO. I would say are average lunch out is $15 ea plus a tip. Of course that includes an adult beverage.
I'm not a huge fan of subway but we have one semi-locally and I can usually get a deal there. Best place I've found to get a toasted sandwich is in a real good authentic pizza place were they throw it right in the pizza oven. I always like to get a toasted Italian sub. that way.
Saturday will be spent under the house for the second weekend, putting down some more polythene ground cover. There's plenty of space under there compared to other houses we've had, if I sit upright my head is touching the underside of the floorboards. Unfortunately the ground is hard clay that has been ripped up when the house was moved on-site in the early 1990s, so it's like crawling over jagged rocks.
Sunday will be much more fun. The local Targa event is on, and the finish line is just down the road so all the cars will be going right past our front gate. My wife has not ruled out the possibility of us entering in future years. If only we had a small red sports car...
Make sure you don't have any company under the house before you venture in Matt.
Haha yeah I've been on the lookout for rats. Every time I heard a sound I'd shout out to the kids "Was that up there or should I be killing something down here?" We have white tail spiders that every now and then can cause necrotising fasciitis but other than that there's not much to worry about here.
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