Tips on not eating out?

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My husband and I spend $600 on eating out 😅. I’m trying to cut this number down by a lot. Are there any tips on how to stop? Obviously cooking at home would be a good one but is there any other tips where we won’t want to eat out as much?

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For my hubby and I we did a cash system for that very reason when we were saving for a house. We had X amount of cash for the week going out. Once it’s gone it’s gone.

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In terms of when you cook at home, we try and plan what meals we are going to have for dinner that week. That way it helps us cut spending on food shopping as we are only buying the ingredients we need for those recipes, rather than randomly picking things we fancy. It also helps us avoid getting takeaway or going out to eat so often, as we know we’ve got certain ingredients to use or it’ll go to waste. 
We also make a few meals like where we basically try  to replicate our favourite takeaway/restaurant dishes, (like making our own pizza...) so we get what we crave, but cheaper and healthier...

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Maybe one of the food delivery services would be useful for u, like HelloFresh. Comes with exact ingredients u need and step by step directions to make it. It would be much cheaper than what ur spending. U can customize it, u can get a specific number of meals per week then also eat out sometimes too.

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I found making a date day out of meal prepping at home helped.
Sit down together, pick recipes and then do all the cooking together. Listen to music! Have fun and enjoy the time together.
We just made sure to do like 90% of cooking at home and wow it’s a budget saver!
Good luck!

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I say try HelloFresh. Its restaurant quality ingredients, but you dont have to tip.

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Put that money to the side and it’ll motivate you to not move out. Use part of it at the end of the month or year to go away or something. I know tiktok is kind of childish but there’s a few people who cook home versions of restaurant food. Maybe make it a challenge to see who can make it most similar to the restaurant

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Set a budget and don’t spend any more than that

Tips on not eating out?

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