A Month of Reducing - Reduce restaurant eating

Reduce your restaurant purchases. I'm a big proponent of cooking from scratch and eating at home, but sometimes even I get tired and don't want to cook. (surprising, I know!) It has taken me a long time to get past this, but now I buy convenience foods set aside for those nights. If we don't have any convenience food in the house, we go to the grocery store and buy a frozen pizza instead of ordering in. It is so much cheaper this way. Our eating out expenses went down by over $100 a month when I started doing this. If you usually go out to restaurants with friends, try only going out for dessert and coffee. Or you could stay in and play games. Even going to McD's is more expensive than making a burger and fries at home.