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The Friday Five for 11 May 2018
1. Do you mostly prepare your meals at home or do you eat out more?
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?
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2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?
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A little of both. I do try to prepare, cook and eat at home as often as possible especially with having a very tight budget just now.
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
Not really, I tend to only eat when I remember so that usually means a bowl of cereal or a packet of crisps. I do have to be reminded and sometimes prompted to eat.
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?
Weekly is around £5 for essentials - milk, bread and snacks as I tend to do a big (over £100 delivery shop) to keep the freezer and cupboards stocked up every few months. Eating out is a treat but were it a weekly thing it would be usually around £20 and that includes the drinks.
4. What is your favourite meal to prepare at home?
Just now it's Quorn (one of mince/chicken style pieces/BBQ or steak style strips) with veg and rice because I can cook all of them in the pan for around 5 to 10 minutes. Think of it as an impromptu stirfry that uses up whatever veg is left over and close to it's use by/best before and Sainsbury's microwave rice pouches cook a lot better in a pan.
5. What is your favourite meal to order in a restaurant?
It depends on where I am and what I feel like eating when I'm out but usually it'll be pretendy fish and chips (battered halloumi, chips and garden peas) then again I sometimes have macaroni cheese (Siberia has the best in Aberdeen) or a veggie haggis pie.
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Almost exclusively at home.
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
When I grocery shop, I do like to splurge and buy some already prepared meals because they're a time saver.
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?
Ugh, too much for two people. But, we shop at Whole Foods, so what do we expect? At least our restaurant bill is $10 or less/week.
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?
Omelets.
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?
Breakfast. :)
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We mostly eat at home because eating out is expensive, not healthy and you can't be sure of what number of carbs you're consuming for mum and I to take the right insulin. Many places that say they give their stats end up being way off or the fats involved impact absorption ect. I chef the majority of the time, or I did until I got this job. Mum and I are now a more even split. To be fair to dad he gets in last and is also not a great cook so it is best to not let him in the kitchen. He has a solid history of forgetting he has something on and murdering a saucepan.
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
Lunch time. If mum and I are out shopping we will probably treat ourselves to lunch, even if it is just getting a roll out a bakery or something
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?
I have no idea as I do not do the food shop. I think it is around the 150 mark, including alcohol. Mum goes several times a week and it varies from week to week anyway depending on what spices, pastas, meats we need ect. As we have a chest freezer as well as our combo we are lucky to be able to afford and store bulk purchases to save money that way. Last year we spent a fiver on rice in an offer once but it was 5 kilos and therefore the only time we bought rice.
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?
Stirfry. It is quick, easy, healthy and very simple to substitute ingredients mid prep when I realise I am missing something.
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?
Something that takes ages to prepare. I do not mind lots of little steps or prepping lots of ingredients but I hate spending ages cooking. I also hate prepping red meat so I am more likely to get some sort of meaty stew when out than cook it myself. I try avoid anything I make at home with any sort of regularity unless I don't like anything else/don't think I'd get the insulin right.
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1. Do you mostly prepare your meals at home or do you eat out more? Home, definitely. Sis cooks, I do the scullery maid bit.
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared? I work in the same building - across the corridor - from the student cafe so yes, sometimes I am uninspired to make lunch and go and buy it.
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week? Anywhere from $60-90 depending on what we're buying? - for two people, including household stuff. For takeaway/eat out, average out over the month it wouldn't be more than $10 a week, I'd say.
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home? Me? Vegemite on toast :) Sis has a range of favourites (I take far longer to tire of a recipe than most folk, so as long as she likes making and eating one….)
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant? I love chicken, but only breast meat, so tend to go for something else unless I'm sure. Other than that, I like to try something different when paying (and knowing if I don't like it I paid for it so can just leave it) But I do find myself going for pasta more often than not...
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1. Prepare 98% of meals at home, since I can't eat sugar and wheat + I'm poor anyway so I can't afford to eat pre-made stuff every day.
2. If I'm hungry when I go to the store it's super likely I'll buy pre-made food (usually sushi, rice balls or baked sweet potato), or if I didn't pack enough food for lunch.
3. Grocery store food for two people is around $91 USD a week but I could cut it down a little if I needed to. I tend to buy luxuries like cheese (400 yen for 100g or something), don't buy "only" stuff that's on sale, and we drink $2-3 a day in carbonated water, all of which raises the price. But our grocery bills tend to be half that or less than of other people's just because we eat almost no pre-made food (which costs 2-5x as much as making it yourself).
"Eating out" (usually meaning, grabbing something pre-made at a store when we're hungry downtown) for two people is an average of $13.50 a week apparently. Lower than I thought.
4. To prepare, pressure-cooked sweet potatoes... To eat, it's a tie between fried dried sweet potato, or spring rolls (meat, vegetables, miso, natto, egg, dried garlic flakes), or pulled chicken/pork (I usually mix pork and chicken since chicken is cheaper but pork is more fatty).
5. I can't order anything at most restaurants (especially not on my budget) but out of what I can and have tried, I'd say salt-flavored shish kabab.
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I would say that I prepare 90% of what we eat; unless we are on vacation. I love to cook, bake, and experiment, plus we live in a small town where eating out can be challenging.
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
If we are going to eat out (unless away on vacation,) it tends to be Friday lunch. We go to a bigger city in a neighboring state for hair cuts and the chiropractor and so indulge while there. There is also a very good sandwich place and a couple of decent food trucks in our town.
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week?
I shop mostly organic, in season and local, so our grocery bill tends to be pretty high. For two people including coffee, alcohol, cleaning, and paper products; $200$250/week. Our eating out bill on average is about $30/week. It goes up when we are away, since I like trying new restaurants.
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?
Outside of holidays, I would say Sunday dinner, since that is when we really relax and make more of an affair of it. No particularly food, just whatever looked good/was in season.
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?
I would have to say dinner, since you can usually experiment more. I like to order things that I find to tedious/difficult to cook at home; sweet breads, rabbit, etc.
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Embarrassingly, the better half does almost all the cooking for both of us. (In my defense, she really enjoys it, and I don't. But we don't divide the work very fairly on this front.) I've learned to do stirfrys* for both of us when she's busy and scrambled eggs for myself, but that's about it. The two of us eat out about once a week and sometimes a second time with friends. (Ideally, we socialize by inviting people to our place and cooking for them, but sometimes circumstances dictate that we meet up elsewhere.)
* Check out the stirfry sauce recipes linked here! The recipes are from the March 2010 issue of Food Network Magazine, which doesn't sound very promising, I know, but they are excellent and tolerably authentic, I hear from the better half and other Chinese friends. I can't recommend them highly enough.
2. Is there a time of day when you are more likely to buy food already prepared?
"Prepared" as in cafe or restaurant food? Definitely days I have all-day meetings with my students--I park myself in the cafe at school and order whatever I darn well want, all day long, to keep my spirits up. During finals week, too. We also buy prepared food from the grocery store on Fridays sometimes--rotisserie chicken, self-rising frozen pizza, frozen meals for when the better half isn't home and I get tired of eating cereal.
3. What is your average weekly grocery bill (for how many people)? What is your total restaurant/fast food bill for an average week? We don't shop weekly or at one location, so this is hard to calculate off the top of my head. Going out, we try to spend no more than $25 to $30 on a meal for two at our local eateries, which is entirely possible (we live in a neighborhood with lots of reasonable restaurants even although eating out in this city is generally very expensive). That's...about 20 pounds, maybe 24 euros. We have one very lovely friend who always wants to get a glass of wine with her dinner--which is fair enough but usually results on patronizing places slightly more expensive than our local restaurants. I also set aside $10 or $12 a week (8 pounds, 9 euros) for getting coffee and sitting at a cafe to do work. Usually that's three lattes plus tip. I can and do make my own coffee at home, but there are types of work that are just easier to do elsewhere. I figure it's a cost of doing business.
4. What is your favorite meal to prepare at home?
Well, having admitted that I don't prepare many meals, I'll say that I always enjoy the better half's original creation, cilantro fish, which won a contest at our local grocery store a few years back (!) and is now featured on their website.
5. What is your favorite meal to order in a restaurant?
Something I can't get at home! Pho is a favorite, as are Ethiopian lentils. I also enjoy trying chili because it's done differently everywhere. I love vegan and vegetarian restaurants because they always spark ideas for better meat-free food to cook at home. I debate about breakfast. I *adore* breakfast food and often want it when it's on the menu, but it's the easiest thing to cook for yourself at home--even I can do it. So I do order breakfast at diners and cafes, but usually feel a bit guilty about it.