On Oct 20, 4:02 pm, Mitch@... wrote:
> >Your costs seem neither particularly high nor low. Do your brother's
> >costs include eating out? -aem
>
> He's a gourmet, so he buys expensive meat, seafood, and other
> ingredients.

Well, we think we're gourmets, too, in that we appreciate high quality
ingredients prepared with care and imagination. But we'd have to step
up our searching for rare and exotic things to approach that budget
for a week. Figure as much as a pound of beef or veal or wild caught
fish @ $20/lb times two people times 7 days = $280/week for the dinner
entrees. That still leaves a lot of $ for side dishes and fancy
lunches. With desserts and reasonable wine I guess we could reach
your brother's budget but we'd sure have to work at it. But we'd be
fat. Are your brother and SIL big people?

The other problem is that a number or our favorite meals are really
inexpensive. I guess we'd have to give them up, huh? :-) -
aem