re: How often did your family go "out to eat" at a restaurant when you were a kid?

Rarely did growing up, and rarely do now.

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Every single Friday night. That was the thing.

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Ours was going and picking up a Mr. Gattis back when you could only eat a slice or two. Other than that "eating out", anything else usually was a matter of necessity due to schedule.

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Once every couple of months and most of the time it was some local place that was incredibly average

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People used to have a lot of fresh produce and game at home, this isn't the case anymore. I think half of the Southern population had access to a farm to pick produce back in the day.

The microwave was the debil. It changed eating habits and made Americans incredibly lazy and prone to processed foods.

Cooking seems to be a rare skill today.

not often and if we did it was cheap. I was a senior in HS when I had my first steak.

shite baw... I grew up in the country... it was a big deal just to "go into town" on some weekends. And that was just to go into LC

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I don't eat out anymore to answer OP.

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TWSS

You've left several openings for the rest of us to exploit by this policy move.

I can count them on one hand, grew up in the 70's w two Deep South blue collar parents. We weren't poor - lived in a four bedroom brick house, two car garage, nice ski boat. But they weren't foolish with their money, unlike people of today.

Instead, they'd bring home a bushel of peas. Us kids would groan cuz we knew we'd have to shell all the peas on Fri night / Sat so they could can them on Sunday.

I follow my parents lead. We rarely eat out, aren't foodies. Our kids don't seem to care either. I know people that will tell you in the same breath that they are struggling financially but can't break the twice a week restaurant habit. I just don't get it.

I can recall going out to a sit down dinner 2 times in my childhood (after a car accident and when my sister graduated hs). Now, my kids eat a meal out every meal, everyday (panera, starbucks, mcd, pizza, chick fil-A, texas roadhouse, ect)

I guess pretty often compaed to these responses. My parents enjoyed good restaurants, so we frequented Tony Angelo's, Arnauds, Galatoires, TuJacques, Commanders, Pascal's etc. Not every night, but a few times a week.

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Instead, they'd bring home a bushel of peas. Us kids would groan cuz we knew we'd have to shell all the peas on Fri night / Sat so they could can them on Sunday.

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Yep, Saturday nights at Grandma's shelling peas, having to watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk.

Probably half of our food came from the Grandmas farm. She even had a Sorghum Mill and churned her own butter as well. .