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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 454985" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Eating at home... we pay for "some" more-expensive stuff, to have instead of a restaurant meal. Chicken nuggets and fries, top quality sausage for pizza, the odd carton of premium ice cream when its REALLY on sale... </p><p>The logic goes like this... To buy a premium ice cream cone at the "shoppe" is $2 for the first scoop and $1/scoop after that. 2 scoops x 3 people = $9. For $9, I can buy TWO of the 2-litre (half-gallon) containers of preimium ice cream on sale... and we get WAY more than three cones out of it. So, we still get the treat - but more of it than we could ever afford if we were going down to the "shoppe".</p><p></p><p>The kids had a hard time with not going down to the "shoppe" like <em>all the other kids</em> (you've heard that line, right?). Not because it was critical to get a cone, but because they got a rough time from the other kids for never going... we showed them the logic, and they throw THAT in the faces of the kids who used to give them a rough time for not going.</p><p></p><p>By having a "treat meal" at least once every 3-4 weeks, the kids don't feel so deprived - and we don't either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 454985, member: 11791"] Eating at home... we pay for "some" more-expensive stuff, to have instead of a restaurant meal. Chicken nuggets and fries, top quality sausage for pizza, the odd carton of premium ice cream when its REALLY on sale... The logic goes like this... To buy a premium ice cream cone at the "shoppe" is $2 for the first scoop and $1/scoop after that. 2 scoops x 3 people = $9. For $9, I can buy TWO of the 2-litre (half-gallon) containers of preimium ice cream on sale... and we get WAY more than three cones out of it. So, we still get the treat - but more of it than we could ever afford if we were going down to the "shoppe". The kids had a hard time with not going down to the "shoppe" like [I]all the other kids[/I] (you've heard that line, right?). Not because it was critical to get a cone, but because they got a rough time from the other kids for never going... we showed them the logic, and they throw THAT in the faces of the kids who used to give them a rough time for not going. By having a "treat meal" at least once every 3-4 weeks, the kids don't feel so deprived - and we don't either. [/QUOTE]
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