Here is a challenge for October!!

I misread your post when I first read it. I thought you said you were going one month without eating. Now I see you actually said "eating out". That's very different. Too funny! The idea of not eating out is actually a very good idea. Our family lives on a tight budget. We can generally make it to the end of the month without running out of money if we cook and eat most of our food at home. The biggest money drain, I find, is fast food. McDonalds, Starbucks (or Tim Hortons--very popular here in Canada)or the food court at the mall...all very tempting and all too easy to end up dropping $20-$30 when all we want to do is "grab a quick bite". I may try your idea myself for one month in the future. Not this month, though, as I have some social obligations coming up this month that will likely require food on the road. Avoiding eating out is not as easy as it sounds. As for the not eating...I wouldn't recommend it.

I can do that one easy, I don't have the money to eat out even if it's from a buffet. Though if someone else is buying I"m game !!! ;)

I eat out maybe once or twice a year, if that much. A better challenge for me would be to only cook from scratch and give up frozen pizzas, boxed dinners and luncheon meat!

We don't eat out that often at all, most of time it is like once or twice a year. So we cannot save any money doing that. However I do try and save when doing the ordinairy grocery shopping. I always buy the cheap products and spice them up myself. Same with clothes I only buy those when it is really needed. Everything else we don't need I do not buy. Try a month without luxury (not sure I wrote that right) products, and see how much you can save.

I think I would get depressed if I didnt eat out at all. I enjoy it and I would really feel something was missing if I didnt do it at all one month. Less would probably be helpful though.It couldnt hurt.

It is not hard for me to meet your challenge. I am broke, and struggling to pay for neccessities. Not eating out would not be a challenge for me for that reason. I didn't eat out much before my crisis, so eating out now is not something that would be on my agenda.

I think that is a great plan. It is my Hubbys birthday month so I figure we will go out at least once but I would like to join your challenge. I will stick to two meals out and both for the hubbys birthday. Giving challenges is a great idea. I think we should have a new challenge each month if not more then a few. Great idea!

Well thats not much of a challenge for me since I rarely eat out anyway, besides its much healthier to eat more home cooked meals because you never know what some of those restaurants are putting in there food, lol.