<prompt> Human: Ive realized that my family has gotten into a bad habit of eating at restaurants 3-4 times a week. Our primary cook my SO just got a new job and doesnt have as much time to cook meals from scratch. Ive got physical limitations and cant cook very much.We used to eat out once a week, period. Now its way, way more often than that. Most of the time the restaurants are fairly modest spending maybe 20-40 for a family of 3, depending on the place. Were saving adequately, and can technically we afford this, but Id like to save some of that money instead. Im also worried about the health consequences of eating restaurant food so much.I guess I just need a kick in the pants. Anybody else ratchet back an expensive, lazy food habit? Anybody have ideas about how to eat less expensively at home when nobody in the household has the bandwidth to cook?Edited to add: Its not that I dont know how to cook! I do know how to cook, and my SO and I split our household cooking responsibilities 50-50 for many years. But now Ive got a health condition that makes me too fatigued to work all day, parent, AND cook.Edit again to say: Thanks for all the great ideas, everybody. Ive arranged to borrow a crockpot from a friend to try it out, and Im going to make a list of the suggested meal ideas here and talk to the family to see which ones will make people more excited to eat at home.  <response>: Budget.Give yourself 50 a week to eat out or whatever. Once you run out of that money, too bad, no going out. 