When we plan for vacations I have to plan on spending a decent amount of cash on food. I say “plan” very loosely. I don’t budget. When I use the word plan here, I just mean get my mental state in the right place to accept the fact that my wallet is going to leak for a week. Warm up that MasterCard, Kris. It’s getting abused for food.

When we went to Hawaii earlier this year, I mentally prepped myself for the fact that our typical vacation food expenses would probably be double. Thank goodness for those COVID relief checks…

Frugal person that I am, I thought it might be helpful to give a quick review of the food places we ate at while in Oahu, Hawaii. In case you have plans to travel there….or just want to read about our experiences. Because I won’t sugar-coat it and I won’t blab on for ages giving you a review that takes longer to read than your food does to digest. We all have better things to do. and I’m not a food critic.

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