Sleeve Food $ per Meal......

 Interesting! Now I know to keep some extra freezer space once I am able to start eating real food again :)

Me and a couple of my co-workers walk to this little mexican restaurant every Thursday for lunch. I always order 1 chicken soft taco (I dont eat the tortilla) for $1.50. It's a full service restaurant where they bring chips and salsa and even another little plate of free nachos with beans, jack cheese and green sauce (of course for my friends to enjoy). I end up tipping the server more money than the cost of my food for all the trouble she goes through to serve the other 2 gals at my table.
But it's great to get several meals out of one regular meal for sure when I dine elsewhere.
Jim and Jen got it good to be able to share meals all the time when they hang out. Wish I was able to do that with someone too!

 
The worst nightmare for a food server......are WLS patients (except DSers)

Appropriate tipping is good etiquette....

Eating with other sleevers is pretty funny..... 

I share meals with normies all the time.....it all works out.

Jim and Jen are fun to eat with.....you never know what food is coming out! We ate fried pickles one time.

frisco

Funny you mention all this. My husband travels a lot for work so when he leaves I go to my favorite resturant, order a full meal and bring it home to eat all week long.

No cooking for me.

You know? After 8 months I do have a new normal. I ordered a soup and salad special at a business lunch last week and when the waitress brought out a big bowl of soup, I asked her to take it back and bring me a cup. She says "it comes with a bowl".
She was taken aback because I insisted on a cup.

that bowl was freaking HUGE! Just looking at it after eating half a small salad was throwing me off my feed. I needed the meat in the soup for the protein so I had to have some.
I couldn't take it home, back to back appointments.

Cant wait for your book and blog.
donna

 Frisco, can't wait to see the blog and subscribe.  Been waiting on something like that from you, and the book --- congrats!

Jake, you have awesome friends!  What a fantastic thing for them to do to help you succeed :)

I love this, and this right here should be thought-provoking enough to dissuade ANYONE from ever wanting to wag a little "I'm a previous fatty with altered guts, give me a kid's corn dog meal" card ! ! ! 

I can't wait for the blog ! ! !

Howdy Frisco!

Don't you just love being a "Cheap Date"!! I sure do!! I LOVE how I eat now....quality not quantity....and always knowing that there is great leftovers in the fridge.
Excellent post!

and another good thing about going out to eat and just ordering an appetizer or splitting a meal is you can use the savings to buy a glass of really good wine. my favorite dinner out is a local very good restaurant where I get a glass of good wine and crab cakes appetizer and usually bring one cake home. They are good fresh made cakes ;  not frozen boxed ones with filler.   Diane

I saved money on hotel travel. I let someone stay in my room to lower her costs. In return, she bought her meals, and I just ate a few bites.