Kids eat free

Being home all the time and not having a taste for food makes dinner a challenge at times. Making others happy about dinner is my primary concern. If I make something that no one wants, then food goes to waste as well as the effort I used to prepare the meal.
I really don't care for chicken, but ground beef isn't good on a daily basis. I need to open up the menu a bit. Lately, we have a marinade chicken on the grill one night, pizza another night, and hamburgers on the grill, spaghetti or beef tacos the other night we eat as a family with me responsible for dinner.
When all is said and done, Saturday we usually end up at Steak'n Shake. Sweetened Iced Tea is only a buck, and most sandwich and fry meals are $3.99. On weekends, kids eat free. Plus, there's always coupons in the paper or weekly mail that knocks off the price of an adult soda, side or a desert. So a family of four can eat for $11.95, if one were bold enough to stiff his waitress. I wouldn't think of it since we eat there so regularly enough that we have gotten good at their claw machine. There's no such thing as a free lunch, but it's affordable and freshly prepared.
Being cheap all the time is hard. It wears on you after a while. It's not hard to eat cheap, if you like things like canned coffee, oatmeal, Wonder Bread, and rice. They make vitamins to help you supplement your lackluster diet. You get what you pay for.
I have a cousin that Tweets about donuts, cupcakes and chocolate daily, and she finds time to drink vitamin fortified water.
I like Totino's pizza 'cause they're cheap. I would rather have Little Caesar's, but I don't splurge on myself the $11.99 for 2 large pizzas and order of crazy bread unless the family is involved.