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7 In Eating

OMG I’m a Foodie!

I love to eat.

Well, obviously we all have to eat, it’s a human necessity. I know some people that only eat out of necessity. #IKnowRight
That’s not me. I love to eat. I would eat all the time if that didn’t mean becoming unnecessarily and unhealthily fat. #NoteToSelf

When I first started dating my (now) husband, I also began to develop a whole new relationship to eating at restaurants, picking up takeaways and ordering home delivery.

 

Two different points of view

I’m Portuguese and as with a lot of the Portuguese mums, my mum is a great cook. So much so, that my father has always said “I don’t like going to restaurants. Food tastes better at home”.
I totally agree that mum and both my grandmothers’ cooking is amazing. But I’m also aware that my father’s taste buds are quite particular and well… he likes to save money.

Nothing against saving money! I too understand how expensive eating out is like. When I was single, I couldn’t afford it. I even had a great friend once offering to pay for my meal as a convincing argument to join a group dinner.
When you have three kids or a house to pay for or investments to make, it’s probably one of the things you cut out first.

But my husband’s reality has always been a bit different.

His mum’s job was not a stay-at-home-mum like my mum’s job was. Cooking was, understandably, seen as a chore after a day’s work for both of his parents. And despite making some great specialties (that I’ve already tasted) his parents like to go out to eat.

It is also not that expensive to eat out in Portugal: a lunch for two with mains, drink and coffee can cost between 13.00-20.00€. And I don’t mean a McDonald’s or a Nando’s. I mean traditional, yummy stuff.

 

Eating out

When you’re a couple and both of you work it’s easier to eat out more frequently. And honestly, it can be quite convenient. If both of you are tired when you get home, you might want to spend some quality time either together. Or get on with other things that you need to do around the house.

Once João and I started dating, I became more interested in going out to eat. Firstly, it’s a lovely date night. And secondly, this is London! A place where anyone can choose to eat literally anything, from anywhere in the world, at any time of the day.

We’ve been together for 5 years and last year I noticed that, due to routine and work schedules, we wouldn’t go out on date nights as often anymore. Just-eat, Deliveroo and Uber-eats made it far more convenient to ‘eat out’ without leaving the house. We became kind of lazy. I had also noticed that if we did leave the house for dinner, we would go to the same places over and over again.

 

Thursdays Date Nights

So I suggested Thursdays Date Nights: every Thursday we would go out and try a restaurant we had never tried before.

The night I first thought of starting this, was the night João surprised me with a fancy dinner to celebrate our 1st month anniversary. You see, we got married last year. And I’ve noticed how, despite not being all that fussed about getting married, he became sweeter and slightly more romantic after marrying me. #NotTryingToBrag #ButItsTrue #AndItsSweet #AndILikeIt #ButDontTellHim

So, since he’s the one that got me into restaurants and appreciating different kinds of food, why not ask him to write the first post about the restaurants we’ve been trying or like to go to?

Hope you enjoy.

Hug,
Millia

UPDATE: My husband wrote the first review of an excellent restaurant we loved – Bob Bob Ricard for our very special date

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7 Comments

  • Reply
    Alex_m
    16th January 2017 at 9:26 pm

    Can’t wait for his post! 😉

  • Reply
    João
    17th January 2017 at 1:56 am

    He sounds like an amazing man. You lucky girl! 😀

    • Reply
      Millia
      17th January 2017 at 2:34 am

      Let’s not do this ‘Oh look at them so romantic and such.’ Eew! 😛

  • Reply
    rada
    16th April 2017 at 5:48 am

    C’mon Millia…..if you’re living in London then say “Mum”, why use the American “Mom”? 🙂

    The less Americanisation of our cultures the better.

    • Reply
      Millia
      16th April 2017 at 2:48 pm

      Hey Rada! Sorry, I try most of the times to keep it British English, but as I’ve lived in America in the past and have read a few American authors, it gets a bit mixed up every now and then. Ah ah ah. My English is a total melting pot. Thank you for pointing that out, I’d like to be a bit more consistent. Will change it now! 🙂

      • Reply
        Rada
        17th April 2017 at 3:17 am

        Hi Millia,
        haha I was kind of saying that tongue-in-cheek but still thanks for changing it 🙂

        Happy Easter and best wishes!

        • Reply
          Millia
          30th April 2017 at 8:31 pm

          Big hug Rada!

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