You can scarcely get out of a restaurant these days for less than 25 bucks per person, beverage, tax and tip. And that is minimal. By the time you are spending 60 bucks four times a month for a Sunday breakfast, it gets to be an expensive item.
My gas station bagel and coffee is 4.98. That’s a hundred bucks a month. I’m thinking I have to get up earlier and eat at home.
Sunday I went to my favorite diner after church, it’s been a while. Hash browns, bacon, two eggs and OJ was over $18.
I went there in part because it used to be relatively inexpensive.
Whole Foods hot bar is a lot less expensive than that.
I CAN MAKE YOU FRENCH TOAST WITH FRESH EGGS EVERY SUNDAY & IT WON’T COST YOU $60 A SUNDAY.
COFFEE/ SCRAMBLED EGGS, ALSO.
AND I HAVE REAL WISCONSIN MAPLE SYRUP....
I enjoy telling Grok what I ate for breakfast, portions, and my location I weigh everything anyway as part of calorie counting.
Grok looks up standard prices at markets in my area and calculates what my breakfast cost. Yesterday was 3 large eggs scrambled French style, a big slice of sourdough, butter, a glass of milk and two cups of excellent coffee from whole beans. Cost $4.05. Of course, I do the shopping, prep, cooking, cleanup and provide the real estate for my kitchen. I’ve got it all dialed in and can make that good breakfast in less than 15 minutes.
Compare that to $25 at my favorite local coffee shop. The days of grabbing breakfast at the coffee shop two or three times a week are long gone.
“You can scarcely get out of a restaurant these days for less than 25 bucks per person, beverage, tax and tip.”
While running errands last week we went into Outback to grab lunch. Yup. $50 for the two of us. I don’t even enjoy eating out with current prices. We can afford it, but knowing the cost puts a pall over the meal.
We’ve never eaten out more than once a week, but a lot of people do.