I'm thinking that the wife and I should be setting a lunch budget once the two households finish amalgamating mid-to-late October. You see, we work together...well, not side by side but in the same office building (which is only partly responsible for how we met, the local comics shoppe being the other factor) and we tend to eat lunch together practically every day. We don't keep track of how much we spend either, but it likely works out to $10 a day per person, which isn't bad, and in fact, I want to keep that figure in place. That's $100 a week for lunches for us together, which is kind of insane to think we spend about $5000 a year on our lunch, but there you go.
We really need to hardline that budget though, and make sure we're not spending over that. I'm not quite certain how we do that yet. I mean, if we had better security around the office I'd suggest we keep cash in our desk drawers, $50 per person every week and all the change just goes back in... that way if we have a little extra left over sometimes we can do the beer lunch with the boys. If we run out then we have to brown bag it.
I suspect Aden didn't eat out every day until she met me and I was eating in the in-building cafe (around $6 per day) regularly before I met her, so we could actually probably do with cutting back the budget by 20% (or $40/week) or even more... 50% even (that would actually give us a challenge).
It's funny, because as adults I feel like we should be able to do what we want, eat where we want, whatever we want, when we want to, but the harsh reality is money is finite and if we don't watch ourselves we'll spend everything, save nothing, and never be able to afford the things we really want, whether it's a house or a dog or what have you.
This "growing-up" thing is a bitch.