£100 for a casual lunch out for 4 is too much

Yes, those rocket leaves are soo filling!!!

I can easily eat a whole pizza when I go out for a meal and am hungry (and my bmi is about 19)

Yes that middle bit of salad stuff is massive!

No wonder there’s an obesity crisis in this county, the pizza with the whole in the middle filled with rocket is plenty for a family of four. Plus the leftovers are enough for lunch the next day.

Well I don’t know what to tell you, that’s what we get and we leave full 😂

I disagree, especially if it’s a romana pizza.

It shouldn’t but the point is eating out is still a luxury. It’s not a necessity is it?

Went last year to PE and it was poor. It was so cold in there and when I asked if air con could go off the waitress said I could keep my coat on if I liked….

Pizza Exoress has been expensive and mediocre for years! We used Tesco vouchers when we went as a family.

Not saying it would just how things have changed and how eating out has become regular and not a treat anymore.

Why should our child hood have any bearing on how we choose to live our adult lives

I have endo so I permanently look like a balloon anyway! No issues with food though
I just have meat, veg and all the Yorkshires and no potatoes

Yeah see my parents wouldn’t have liked a pizza restaurant. Had an occasional cake in BHS if out shopping with DM

That would bloat me like a balloon!

I used to eat out maybe 2 or 3 times a year as a kid. Grandparents would take us to Pizza Hut in the school holidays and family meals might be at a beefeater/harvester type place.
But it was very much a special occasion for us.
Now I go out to eat once or twice a week, either with friends, dh, the DC. My dc eat out easily once a week.
£100 is not an insignificant amount of money to spend but near me we have some fantastic independents - costs more than £100 for a nice meal and there are 5 of us (4 adults and one teen boy with the appetite of an additional 2 adults!) - would rather spend more for better quality and more variety etc but I still consider it a treat. No clearing up!

I like Yorkshire puddings and only have them at a carvery. To be honest I would rather just have veg and Yorkshires than any meat! I never have roast potatoes either

I’m mid 50’s and used to have Wimpys once a month, a restaurant called Garfunkel’s a few times a year, a place called Pizza Land sometimes too. Every Saturday lunch time when out with shopping with my mum we’d get a soup and roll deal at the bakery for lunch and I chose a cake (always bread pudding) to have at home). We also had a Chinese takeaway occasionally.
My DH never ate out, he had Little Chef a few times in his childhood and that’s it. He had a more traditional MC childhood, his DM mostly SAHM/worked part time, his DF solid MC job and they owned their own property. I had a WC background, council house, DM always worked full time (which was unusual in my friendship group) and DF did a manual job.

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I pile my plate with veg as I live alone and it’s nice to have the variety and often go back just for more veg
AND I had 5 Yorkshire puddings and ate all of them
dunno why people judge if it’s not wasted

We went to Wimpy too!

DH and I were talking about this . We are in early 50s and we could remember meals out as a child because they were for VERY special occasions. Pubs didn’t really do food until the 80s and it would’ve been chicken and chips in a basket etc Restaurant chains didn’t really exist apart from Wimpy and then McDonalds so it was proper restaurant and they weren’t always child friendly. I didn’t go out for dinner until my teens and it was for something like my Nan’s 60th birthday . I remember it clearly as it was the first time I’d eaten in a Chinese restaurant and loved it! We did have fish and chips from the chip shop at home on a Friday night sometimes.

We just can’t afford to eat out anymore unless it’s a special occasion, we’ve cut our takeaways way down too since those are now £30 for the three of us.

As long as you can easily afford to and still save enough for your pension etc, then you’re very lucky

Eating out is definitely a luxury! You’re paying for the privilege of not having to shop & cook yourself. I would much rather save the money (have only a small pension) and cook myself for family & friends.

Once it twice a year for a special occasion, if the food is exceptional, maybe!

It was for me too and I'm mid 30s, but things have changed a lot. My parents and PIL still eat out pretty rarely in comparison to me and DH.

Eating out/takeaways have certainly become more commonplace and expected as a standard part of life I'd say.

It's a fair amount of calories for one meal for sure, but not out of step with any other meal out people might have really?

I'd actually say tbh that 1000 calories is on the lower end of the values I see listed on menus for mains (not in pizza places specifically, but burger and chips etc). It's a rare dish that's under 1000 calories in a restaurant now unless you're replacing fries with a salad/having one of the purposely 'lighter' options.