I feel we've had this conversation before but its on my mind again...
I hate eating at home. I actually don't mind cooking, but no matter what I make or how good it tastes, I just don't enjoy it like I would had I eaten a similar meal out.
As such, we eat a lot of takeout (3 or 4 nights a week) and go to sit-down-restaurants about once a week. Now that we're trying to reign in our expenses, we realize that we *should* be able to reasonably cut our food budget in nearly half if we just ate every meal at home but I'm finding it very difficult for a couple reasons.
1) like I said, everything cooked at home sucks. Even the weekly somewhat-fancy Sunday dinner we eat at my parents house, prepared by my step-mother who is an excellent cook, doesn't excite me like just ordering a good pizza would. What kinds of foods do you guys have for dinner every night? What does a typical dinner consist of?
2) researching online how much other families of our size spend on groceries, it seems we should be able to cut our food expenses by several hundred dollars... but every time we cook a meal at home I feel like it cost just as much as it would have to order chinese food or a couple grinders. What do you guys spend on food on a weekly or monthly basis and what is your family size?