Eat-In Until Vacation countdown -- 52 days to go

I hate this challenge. We've done horribly. Thanks a heap, spring break.

We have eaten out 6 times already this month!
We have spent around $82 on eating out in April.
Shameful.

Yesterday and today were good days, maybe because we are back to school.

We ate at home all day yesterday and today. (Well, we will have done so after dinner.) For all that we have eaten at home over the past 2 days, we have spent less than $15.

We'll hang on to our challenge and keep trying.
Only 52 days until we leave for Disney!

Eat-In Until Vacation Countdown -- 57 days to go.

57 days until our family vacation at Disney World.

That's 171 eat-in-or-eat-out decisions to make. We made one already today. The kids and I ate OUT for breakfast in between stores as we were bargain shopping this morning.

Our goal is to eat out 20 or fewer times in the next 57 days. That averages out to 2 times per week until vacation. That's eating out roughly 12% of the time and eating in about 88%.

Meals remaining till vacation: 170
Meals in so far: 0
Meals out so far: 1
Percent of eat-out allowance used: .5%
Spent on eating out: $8.60

Eat-In Until Vacation Countdown

I know, vacation countdowns and eating in have very little to do with one another. But the Tupua family is putting those things together. Beginning the 1st of April, we will do a daily countdown to vacation and see how low we can keep the number of eat-out meals. We will probably continue to do our traditional Saturday breakfast out. And my husband and I have enjoyed the financial freedom to do a couple of date nights this month. That time together is hard to resist.
We will come up with some reward system between now and the beginning of April. We'll reward ourselves based on how our results relate to a predetermined number of eat-outs. For example, I think we can eat out fewer than 12 times between April 1 and May 29th. That gives us just Saturday breakfasts and a couple other meals thrown in. That really is a low number for how we've been living our lives. (Well, not this month, but many months.) If we stick to it, we'll give ourselves . . . I don't know, maybe breakfast at Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom or at Kona Cafe at the Polynesian Resort? Something cool and special. The Tupua family will come up with a cool plan. Join us?