My wife and I went out to eat lunch on Sat and Sun. But most of our dinners are free.
What we feel currently is... that our diet has actually improved a lot. (Depending on how you look at it.)
We're eating more vegetables. A lot less meat. I don't get a lot of meat. So it's pretty much 5% meat IF I manage to get any, and the rest is rice/pasta and vegetables.
And for us, we feel healthier cos of that.
The thing is, we can afford to buy meat. It's not that expensive. €2.99 for 1kg of chicken thigh and drumstick at a supermarket. It's not expensive at all. They aren't really fans of thigh and drumstick here so it's good for us if we want to buy.
BUT, I... (yea, it's just me) choose not to. My wife doesn't complain about it. She says that she likes getting a lighter dinner cos she eats other food at her company cafeteria so she likes a simpler dinner when she gets home.
Cos fruits and vegetables come for free, I tend to try to just make my meals based around what I am able to obtain. It's really quite hard to finish what I have gotten for free, so the idea of buying anymore food is quite out of the question.
So it's really interesting for decision making here. Cos... last time when I was using money to buy stuff, I'd think... Ok I have $5... would I want to buy some chicken or vegetables and how much of each to buy.
But now, when a lot of vegetables are free, I ask myself, why would I spend anymore money buying chicken when I have more than enough to eat?
So anyway... my diet has become more plant based, which is supposedly better for health. We still intend to go out and eat SOMETIMES... but quite rarely.
We went out for a lunch on Saturday, it cost us €21 (burger), and Sunday's lunch cost us €53 (steak).
And after we ate it, I was thinking that using the money, I could have bought a lot of good meat and cooked the meat for over the whole week. So it's highly unlikely that we would be eating out often again. It just doesn't make sense.
The burger was pretty nice probably one of the best burgers I've ever eaten. Whereas the steak was "meh", totally not worth it.
I do wonder how long I will last though, cos I do have cravings for more meat and since it's not too pricey, there's some chance that I would eventually buy meat. But I'm trying my best to keep a more plant based diet and resisting the temptation to BUY more food (meat).
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