[Myrddin]

One of my favorite meals at Texas Roadhouse is the 5 oz grilled salmon, green bean, applesauce. It's served with tartar sauce. My wife has a similar order, but chooses a salad sans croutons, cheese or egg with thousand island dressing. Unsweetened ice tea to drink. After tax and tip, often $36 out the door. My entree is 570 calories.

Costco has frozen salmon fillets. Fred Meyer has canned green beans and jarred applesauce. The salmon fillets take 15 minutes in the air fryer for a perfectly cooked result. 3 lbs of fillets are $28. Our diet hasn't changed. It's just less expensive and lacks the escape from the house full of pups for an hour. Our food budget is running 25% compared to eating out.

[Black Agnes]

There will be fewer sit down restaurants.

Not just because of ‘shutdown’, but because a lot of people will have figured out they’re spending their future retirement nest egg just eating out 3 or 4 times a week. There are a gazillion utube vids on cooking for quarantine now and we subscribed to ‘America’s Test Kitchen’ for 3 months for $1. I guess they’re betting people will re-up and/or buy their books and stuff.

Fast food will probably be OK, eventually. Some of that is tricky to recreate and it’s not the noticeable dent in the wallet.

[grey_whiskers]

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