Wow, we had sticker shock today! We had to take some belongings to the new house, then get to our appointment with our lawyer by noon. So, no time for breakfast or brunch. Well, we got to the lawyers office half an hour early and decided to grab a quick bite and then get something good after the appointment.
There was a Carl's Jr a couple blocks away, so we ducked in there. WOW! $3 for a "value" burger! $3.50 for chili fries?! $2 for a drink! $1.50 for a single chicken strip in a mini tortilla. $7 for nuggets & a drink. Yikes!!! We go to nice restaurants with excellent service for what it would have cost us each to get a burger & fries! We decided to just split a chili cheese fries. The drink machine was broken, so we had to go to Terribles for a fountain drink... only to find they're ice machine was broken! AHHHHH!
So after the appointment we went to Tropical Smoothie. For $21 we each got a huge sandwich on 9 grain wheat with fresh vegetables (so big we only had half for lunch, the other half is in the fridge for later), each a bag of baked chips, and each a 24 oz fresh fruit smoothie.
Yesterday we went to Steiners and had a huge pub style burger with fresh cheddar, beer battered fries and bottomless Pepsi / Tea, waited on by excellent servers... for a total of $17. It was Wimpy Wednesday - $6 burger & fries. The value burger, fries and drink at fast food today would have been over $15!
And on Tuesday, we had a delicious Italian lunch at Bucca de Beppo. Mommy had chicken parmesan, and I had the chicken alfredo. With bread and fresh drinks, it came to $15; and it was HUGE. We brought half of it home.
Let that be a lesson to you... unless you're getting a $1 burger and $1 drink at the fast food places, you can probably do better!
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