In case anyone else still wondering
" Literally translated, the word Abendbrot means “evening bread ,” yet the term implies more than eating bread in the evening – it’s a simple evening meal in which family comes together and shares the day’s news around the table."
Tends to be open-faced sandwiches, at least in my family. 3 or 4 types of cheese, 3 or 4 types of meat, a few salads.
Years ago, someone started a thread on CH asking what your monthly food budget was. Top poster who shall remain nameless spent almost 5K(mainly eating out) while someone else made due with$127 on a limited income. I’ve never forgotten that. Not everyone here
has the discretionary income to go on vacation for two weeks and eat every meal out. Let’s not forget that.
It also depends on where you vacation.
A week in Mexico, Albania or Romania costs a lot less than a week of staycation in North America.
I decided to look up the cost of a 3 star hotel in the village where my ancestors lived in the Ukraine. Currently, $19/ night.
Mexico, Albania and Romania are the last places on earth I would go even if I did have the money. My point was that there are different budgets on this board and I try to respect that.
I guess my point is that some people are able to travel for less than it costs to live at home. Even if they’re eating out every single meal.
Sorry you’re not interested in Mexico, Albania or Romania. My Romanian friend has been posting photos from the Black Sea coast in Romania, where she is visiting her family after not seeing them for 4 years, and it looks like a place I’d visit, if it wasn’t a little too close to the war for my liking.
My last trip that I booked had been for a family wedding that would have taken place in Playa Del Carmen in April 2020, with 20 members of my family. I haven’t been able to travel outside of short road trips since 2020. I doubt that wedding will take place in Mexico, and even if it does, I probably won’t be able to attend.
I don’t see anyone on this thread disrespecting that.
I said board not thread.
Same issues currently at work, couldn’t figure out why I was running out of filters so quickly.
Walked in on a couple of folks using the set up. We are friends enough that I mentioned they could buy the next box and they did. But we all keep our coffee separate.
Sounds pretty heavenly
My travel coffee game has (de)evolved in the last couple of years. We started out with an OXO dripper and coffee ground before at home, milk in a cooler. Great results, but messy and too much cleanup. Then coffee sachets (like teabags) in boiled water - weak (even doubled up) and mediocre/stale. Next it was instant coffee with boiled water, followed by purchased coffee out. The former was strictly a caffeine delivery device that my husband wouldn’t even touch. Then I started buying bottled cold brew, which is acceptable enough but still messy with open cups and a clumsy 6-yo (and his clumsy mom 
). I finally landed on the ultimate lazy yet tasty-enough solution: Starbucks canned espresso and cream. They are 4/$8 and consistent, with no washing up. I would actually prefer the canned lower-cal Nitro cold brew but haven’t researched a source yet.
In any case, we always go buy a good, freshly brewed cup out when we’re camping/traveling if available.
Yeah, disrespect can be an issue. And it can come from both sides. I think I remember that CH thread you referred to. There was a photo of a pile of receipts in it. My personal sense is that people who have the discretionary income to travel and eat at higher end places are more likely to get flak than at the other end though.
The m’élira plastic cône is cheap. In a pinch you can use a paper towel as a filter. Coffee is the expensive part. At least you caught them in the act. I just noticed the quickly diminishing supplies (I wasn’t in the office 5 days a week so mischief was made on the days I was out). I found out who the chief perp was, however, when he complained I was out of coffee …
Some people have a very active something-for-nothing habit.
This sounds a lot like your lifestyle in Toronto, @PedroPero . 
I eat out way less at home than when I’m on vacation, but you’re not wrong.
Coming up on the week mark on vacation and have been eating basically all meals out. Key is to be judicious about ordering. If we have an app, we split one between the two of us. A main sometimes is enough. Only an occasional dessert. Eating out has not been an issue for us. Another week to go.
I’ve noticed, in the few times we’ve dined out since the ‘easing’ of the pandemic, that split plate charges are strongly assessed.
I haven’t been eating out with table service as frequently lately. I’ve been lucky not to have been charged for any split mains or appetizers at the restaurants I visit. I usually share mains, or do a switch halfway through with my dining companion.
I think it might be partly regional? I’ve occasionally seen a $5 fee to split mains at a few midrange or upscale restaurants in Toronto but I haven’t noticed it elsewhere. I might have seen it on menus in NYC or DC. It’s now been 3 2/3 years since my last visit to DC, and it’ll be 4 years since my last visit to NYC in Aug. A lot has changed since then.
I’ve never been charged when I have split mains.
That may be a regional thing. We recently saw a $8 USD charge for split plate here in the RMW. I wonder what others say…
Thank you and everyone else for teaching us this new word. It’s one of our favorite meals but we just always called it bread and cheese. We probably do this every 2 weeks or so. Put some fresh bread, 2-3 meats, 3-4 cheeses, all the pickled things and random spreads out, and just go to town. Not only does everyone make their own sandwich, but everyone makes their own mini sandwiches and they are all different - inter and intra person! It’s when my older kid started to do 2 cheese toasts like blue and gruyere together. We always thought THAT was a little weird!
