I prepare every meal I eat at home with the exception of maybe two a week - a lunch during the week with people from work and a meal out on the weekends with family and friends. Sometimes I eat out more than once on the weekend, but I try to limit it. Anyway, where I work, there’s very little nearby other than fast food restaurants. Plus, I’m cheap and like to eat healthfully.
My husband, on the other hand, eats out much more frequently since he’ll go out for lunch most days.
I cook quite frequently, as can be seen from several Cafe Society threads.
Since I’m alone, I tend to have leftovers. So sometimes I’ll eat leftovers all week. (I still have two large servings of dirty rice from last Saturday, though I finished the fried chicken off last night.)
I’m thinking that tomorrow I’ll run down to Trader Joe’s and try their pizza dough. I have a hankering for an olive pizza with lots of cheese. And it’s getting close to fish’n’chips time again, so I’ll get some of their frozen cod. I’ll also pick up a corned beef somewhere, which I’ll probably cook on Monday.
I’d say we cook about the same as you. We also make large batches of stuff like chili, that we can eat all week or freeze for later. I’m really lazy in the mornings though, so sometimes (like this week with daylight savings making me extra sleepy) I don’t make my lunch and have to buy a snack.
Almost all meals are prepared at home. One dinner a week at most isn’t.
Breakfasts are kind of prepared, just for speed, for me, but my wife likes to eat things like soup and beans for breakfast. Since she works from home, she doesn’t need to get out the door.
I always make a sandwich for lunch, she usually has leftovers.
Since she works from home, and likes to cook, she cooks almost every night. We prepare the menu and buy ingredients for the week Saturday morning, so we no longer have the can’t figure out what to have problem. We might have a leftover meal if the accumulate.
We are actually speculating about eating out more, since there are probably 30 restaurants of various types in walking distance from us, many of them interesting, and it seems wrong to eat at home in the midst of this bounty.
The last time we went out to dinner was the night before my son left for boot camp. Back in August of '08.
Rarely will I stop and have breakfast on the way to work - maybe once every two weeks? MAYBE? (It depends on the money situation, natch.) I usually bring lunch, although how much “making” is involved is subject to interpretation - I mean I prepare the sandwich/throw the frozen dinner in the microwave/put chips in a baggie, etc. - husband makes his own lunch at home daily. Dinner, he usually makes his own, I more often than not skip dinner.
I make breakfast almost every morning. Ok, mostly it’s cereal and toast during the week. On the weekend I’m inclined to do a cooked breakfast like bacon, eggs, grits and biscuits, or waffles/pancakes and bacon or sausage. Lunch is always a sammich. It’s just easy to make one and take it to work. Dinner I pretty much always cook. I will make enough to have for another day at times. I do a lot on the grill and in the slow cooker. We go out for breakfast once a week cause we enjoy it. Occasionally we’ll go out to dinner. Every once in a while when work is real busy a couple of night’s dinners will end up being pizza. So, breakfast and dinner a good 90% of the time.
Lunch is eaten at work but it is a sammich brought from home so it’s almost like I cooked. 
I’m never drinkin’ *that stuff *again! :smack:
Almost never. Too easy and cheap to pick up a meal in the market for consumption at home. We have a restaurant with a good delivery service in our compound, too. Once every couple of months, I may make pancakes on a lazy morning, but that’s it. Ironic with all the interest in Thai cooking, but we simply don’t cook.
Pretty much every meal. I stay at home with our boys, so I cook breakfast M-F. Saturday I get to sleep, but my husband cooks breakfast. I take over again on Sunday. During the week, my husband usually eats cold cereal. Sometimes he’ll take oatmeal to microwave at the office.
Lunch at home is usually leftovers or a cold plate for the kids (lunchmeat, cheese, crackers, fruit), and salad, leftovers, or a sandwich for me. Same on the weekends. Sometimes I’ll make myself a grilled cheese … today it’s going to be grilled cheese with roast beef and some sauteed asparagus on the side. My husband eats frozen box meals for lunch at work. We do occasionally eat a fast-food lunch on the weekend, if we’re running around with the kids.
We aim for cooking dinner six nights a week, and we have a schedule of who cooks which night. Friday nights we go to my in-laws’ for dinner. Some weeks we do really well. Others, we might eat take-out 2-3 times for dinner.
Almost never. My husband cooks dinner for me every night. And yes, he takes requests. Occasionally on the weekends if he’s not awake yet, I’ll have to prepare breakfast for myself. It really is unfair that I should have to do this. :o
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Neither my SO nor I really cook, so we eat dinner out almost all of the time. Every now and then (once a month or so) I’ll make something, but so far it’s been either pasta or Hamburger Helper. I just made Hamburger Helper last night, actually. I recently told my SO that I’d like to start eating at home more often because it’s cheaper, and I plan to widen my kitchen repertoire to include chicken. But we’ll still eat out most of the time.
Neither of us eats breakfast. My SO tends to skip lunch, too (when he doesn’t it’s McDonald’s or Subway), but I either eat at the deli in my building or bring in a frozen Lean Cuisine or somesuch. I used to have a minifridge in my personal office, and every Monday I’d go to the grocery store at lunchtime and buy wheat bread, lunchmeat, fruit/veggies, etc. for the week. Healthiest I ever ate during the day was when I had that fridge. I miss it.