"All You Can Eat" is such a waste now!

Ooh...touched a nerve, huh? I'm going to submit this post to the passive-aggressive hall of fame!

The thing is, you missed the whole point of my post. It was tongue in cheek about how little we can eat now, not about money, and everyone else got that except you.  You had to "correct" me. And you've done it to me before.

So do me a favor and put me on "block" because I'd rather you not answer any of my posts. You rub me the wrong way. There's something to be said for thinking you know everything. It makes you a know-it-all.

If you continue to answer my posts, I will continue to knock you off your high horse each time.

I'm with you Kelly.. I'm actually fine paying full price for a buffet if that's what everyone else wants. I've been to Fogo de Chao with my husband and friends post-RNY and $40 for dinner was a bit of an ouch, but frankly, I love the atmosphere and hanging out with my friends and family. The food is incredible and even though my 3 ounces of meat paled in comparison to their plates, it was fabulous. You're paying for the whole experience. Feeling like I needed to "eat my money's worth" is part of what got me to where I was at my heaviest. I just have to remind myself that it's worth it, the food is great and stopping when I know I should is great too.

I think you said what I was trying to say, only better.  It's the whole experience we pay for, at least for most of us.  If it it wasn't a cool place to hang out and/or we weren't going with people we like to hang out with, we wouldn't go.  I sure wouldn't go to a buffet all by myself if I needed to get something to eat.

Before RNY - all you can eat $22.00 for both of us at the chinese takeout - sometimes you just gotta have it.

1st trip with "by the pound" (no sense spending the $22) - $3.00 - they just looked at us like we were crazy because they were so used to us coming in and sitting down and loading up.

Now - 2 yrs out . . about $8.00 and we usually have leftovers.

Get it to go and by the pound if that is an option . . much safer, plus you might make better choices if you aren't sitting there with the bad stuff.

My hubsand likes to eat at Ryans buffet about every two weeks. Sometimes they will let me use the $2.99 kids price but most of the time they stick to the rules and I would have to pay $5.00 for the adult price (1PM-4PM). Now I know that is not  a lot of money but I refuse to pay $5 for two chicken legs and 4 carrots. I sit beside him and drink my water. I like to people watch. It doesn't brother me that he eats such a large amount. It doesn't brother that he keeps junk food in the house. I chose to have WLS. I want to be healthy. One day I can go back to eating normal but in small amounts. right now I want to get the most I can out of my TOOL.  Joy

I completely echo the words in your post!  It does not bother me to watch others pig out. Most of the time I just sit there and think to myself, "My goodness. I used to eat like that too!" LOL.

 Sometimes I hate all you can eat places now because I feel like I don't get my money's worth. Other times it is really nice. It give me the option of having a bite of a whole bunch of things that if I ordered a meal at a restraunt, I wouldn't have. When I got out wiht family or friends and they get appatizers and stuff, I feel left out cause I can't really eat them. lol. So at an all you can eat place, I don't feel so left out. 

The other day, I really felt like I wasn't my dad's money. He took me, my mom, and my niece and nephew out to Golden Corral. I could usually eat a few things, but this day I happened to be having a really ahrd day and was feeling very dperessed. I ate three bites the entire time we were there. I felt so bad about wasting his money, but he didn't say anything. 

I do like when I go to a restraunt and I can get a meal and eat the leftovers for a few days. 

 I used to eat their rolls and honey butter like it was my last day on earth!

We used to eat at  buffets, because we choose quantity over quality.
Now that my husband and I have both had RNY, we definitely choose quality over quantity!  We always split an entree.  Some servers look at us oddly.
Some even try to charge us extra.   Our favorite entrees are fillet mignon at Texas Roadhouse and broiled scallops and lump crab meat at Feby's Fishery (Wilmington, DE).
 No more buffets for us!
 

I have only done a local chinese buffet. I enjoyed it because I chose a bite
of this and a bit of that. Considering that I only had about a cup of food on
my plate, I had a nice variety. I even had room at the end for 1 bite of  dh's
pudding. Considering that I enjoyed it so much and that we don't often
eat out, the $9.99 for a cup of food was worth it. (For now amount of
money however, was I going to eat a baby octopus!)  Eeewwww.