I was listing to the local radio station, and Dylan form Utah’s hit music station 107.9 the mix, had a contest to see if people could guess how many times the average American eats out per weak. What do you think,… 1? 2? 3? 4? The answer was 4 times in one weak. Let’s do a breakdown to see if eating out is really cost effective. 

To be conservative in our numbers we will say the average cost of eating out is $6. That means that the average person is spending $24 per week just for themselves to eat out. This is a total cost of $96 per month. Is that a lot? Let’s find out. According to WikiAnswers the average cost of groceries per person is $150 per month. That is an average of $1.79 per meal. That is a difference of $4.21 every time you eat out. 

This is not to say that you shouldn’t ever eat out, it is just a warning that we should be looking at where we are spending our money.  Maybe we should take a second look at how much we are spending in areas that we really don’t give a lot of thought.