jmcquown > wrote:

>"Nancy Young" > wrote in message

>> Forget when we were working, every lunch was a meal out.

>I nearly always took my lunch to work. I'd prepar it at home so it
>certainly didn't add to up 200 meals out a year. I did the same thing with
>every job. I'd have to say I eat out except maybe 6-8 times a year for
>dinner. Rarely for lunch.

If I don't plan ahead and brown-bag it, I will usually end up eating
two meals out (lunch and dinner) each day I work at a customer's site
(which could be as many as three times a week). This adds up to
a pretty unacceptable level of expense, even if I mostly enjoy
the places I end up dining; so I try to limit it (with only
partial success).

Steve