I posted my goals for 2011 yesterday (see tab above). Yes, I know…normally people make goals at the beginning of a year and I waited until April 22. But there’s no time like the present for making change and I didn’t want to wait for another entire year.
This year I’ve made my goals simple. They’re designed to improve my health, my spirit, my community and my finances.
One of those goals involves reducing the amount of money I spend on the convenience of eating out. It’s a convenience that’s really not necessary since I only work part-time and have plenty of hours in the day to cook a healthy dinner.
However,while I’m now committed to eating/cooking more at home, I still believe eating out (not at a fast food diner, but at a restaurant) is a nice luxury I can allow myself occasionally.
Moderation is the key to making changes last. So, I’m not cutting it out all together, just reducing it to once a month. That way, a nice dinner out will be a special treat as it should be…as it used to be.
Having written all that, today will count as my one trip eating out this month and it’s well worth it.
A good friend who I haven’t seen in over three years is in town (she lives six states away) and she’s asked Wombat and I to go out for lunch to catch up. I had thought of cooking something for her instead. But without a dinning room table to sit at and with two golden retrievers who have perfected the art of the “sad starving puppy look”, it makes balancing a plate on your lap a bit difficult.
While I’m use to it, I don’t think she is. 
