I can see that there's a lot of nuance to this question, as well as a wide variety of opinions.
I think you ate in both times. You must be thin as a rail to only eat half a sandwich. LOL
That was my first thought.
Huh!?
Can I get that translated into layman’s terms?
I'm trying to figure out if buying a prepared sub sandwich from a normal grocery store, then taking it back to work and eating it is eating out or not.
Wednesday you purchased prepared food specifically for the next meal, which you consumed; therefore, you ate out. Today you ate the remainder (you had leftovers); therefore, you did *not* eat out.
Just my $0.02.
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Kind of the King David approach, very nuanced.
If the intent of the purchase was to consume across two separate meals, you ate out for both.
If you want to eat out again, do it. Life’s to valuable to worry about stuff like this.
I try to limit my eating out of lunches to twice a week, both to save money and my stomach. Those of you who are road warriors and eat out all the time have my sympathies.
On many occasions when on long airline travel I will do the half and half Subway so I have something before the flight and something while in the air.
In the OP's case, because he bought the sandwich at a grocery store he ate in both times. If he had gotten it at a fast food place like Subway he would have eaten out both times.
I was figuring if I'd bought the ingredients for said sandwich, then taken them back to the office and used them to make a sandwich, that clearly would have been eating in. The only difference is that the grocery store staff assembled the sandwich for me. That, and it would have cost more and taken longer to buy the ingredients separately.
Regardless of what sandwich and how much you ate of it, how did this whole thing get started? My guess is that your wife accused you of eating out all the time.
She doesn't generally care whether I eat in or out, although she's a little jealous. She's an RN and can't leave the facility during the work day.
I guess the real question is: where did he eat it? If he bought it at a grocery store, took it home and ate it, then he ate in. Both times. If he ate it at the grocery store, or outside the store,or even in his car in the parking lot, then he ate that portion OUT.
I took it back to the office and ate it there. I was at the grocery store both to get something for lunch and to get things for dinner that night. If I'd gone exclusively for the sandwich, would that change things?
You have too much time on your hands. Really, I can't believe I am reading this, I must have too much time on my hands.
I don't think it's so much having too much time as it is choosing to use what time i do have poorly.
I can see why you would ask that question, but no, this was the middle of the work day.
This whole thing started because on Monday I had to go to downtown Atlanta to appeal my property tax assessment. This meant i had to stay late at work, and couldn't go to the grocery store on the way home. Tuesday is one of my nights to cook, and I try to get the ingredients either over the weekend or on Monday so I can start on dinner the moment I walk in the door. Because I had to stop to get the stuff for Tuesday's dinner on the way home, I couldn't shop for anything for lunch the next day. Neither Monday's or Tuesday's dinner made any leftovers, necessitating the sandwich run on Wednesday.
I guess it comes down to the essence of eating in versus eating out. If you ordered a restaurant meal and had it delivered to your office, did you eat in? From a financial, gastronomical, and nutritional standpoint, I'd say no, you spent just as much money and ate the same kind of food as if you'd gone to the restaurant. But then, I could leave the office for lunch five days a week. My wife, who can't leave the clinic until it's time to go home, would probably consider that her equivalent to going out to lunch. I just got a sandwich, which is something I could have made at home. Granted, it was a better sandwich than I would have made, but it's still a sandwich.
On the other hand, next Tuesday I'm going to make Chicken Parmesan, and it's absolutely a restaurant grade dish. I'll pound the chicken, get it breaded, saute it, then get fresh and dried mozzarella and fresh herbs to season it, and bake it, then serve it over spaghetti. If there's any left over, I could possibly take a piece for lunch the following day. Maybe not either, there are a lot of claims made on leftover Chicken Parm. But since i made it, it still qualifies as eating in. If I'd ordered it from a restaurant just for the purpose of the next day's lunch, I'd say that still counts as eating out. Restaurant leftovers, on the other hand, I think qualify as eating in.
As far as tomorrow goes, there's nothing in the house to take for lunch, so I'm going out.
