Deal of the Day: Thursday

Ever since I can remember, I have been a girl who LOVES a good bargain. I like to chalk my budget savvy up to having a mother who could finance a trip better than any travel agent and a father who did diy projects all over our house looonngg before it was considered "cool." In essence, I never had a chance.

However, in a struggling economy, a truly good bargain can be incredibly hard to come by. Far too often, prefaces of a coupon make it hardly worth using (i.e. buy three of this name-brand product, get the fourth one free.) As a result, it can be pretty disheartening to sift through the mound of proclaimed "deals" out there as a consumer these days.

I kept thinking to myself there have to be SOME deals worth finding out there! Where are they? This thought brought me to my ultimate quest to find those delightful deals and share them with you, my readers. Which brings me to the:

DEAL OF THE DAY

Last night, the hubs and I decided to go out for dinner. Typically, we save our "date night" for Saturday. However, this Saturday, hubby already HAS an ocean-view date with the hard-to-get type---he is going fishing with his buddies from work.


So there we were, Thursday, at 9:00 P.M. looking for a place to dine (hey....I work ten hour days). We headed over to the local Chilli's---knowing that they would be open late. After a long, hard day's work...I had ALMOST forgotten that Chilli's offered this awesome deal to it's patrons.

It's the opportunity to get an appetizers and two FULL SIZED meals for TWENTY DOLLARS!!!!! Holy guacamole!!! And, my co-worker even furthered this amazement when she let me in on another little secret. "Did you know," she asked "that if you sit at the bar you get free chips and salsa on TOP of the 2/20 appetizer?"

MY REACTION: MIND = BLOWN!!!!

So, as a re-cap, you get chips and salsa (FREE IF YOU SIT AT THE BAR), a smaller portion of an appetizers, and TWO meals for twenty dollars. That is truly an amazing deal! Not to mention, if you prefer to add on an "adult beverage" as Jon and I did last night, the draft beers are two for one.



In the years past, I have to admit, I was a huge Chilli's skeptic. At the time, I didn't enjoy the experience I would have whenever I dined there, nor did I like the food. However, in the past year, Chilli's has really stepped up there dining game. There are several choices on the menu that are really, REALLY tasty (my personal favorite is the margarita chicken).

The two for twenty deal provides very fair portion sizes as well. For the appetizer portion of the menu, we ordered the texas cheese fries and were provided a petite, but very full skillet of well-seasoned fries. The entrees, on the other hand, were an exceptional deal for the twenty dollar deal. My husband's two-for-twenty fajitas took up an entire skillet and were decorated beyond BELIEF with lettuce, onion straws, cheese, and so forth. On my side of the table, my santa cruz 6oz steak was served atop a mounding bed of corn and tomatos...and even came with a large side of jalapeno mashed potatoes (which were delicious). As a whole, you won't believe how much they give you for such a small amount of money.

Also, upon at least our last three visits, the service has been EXCELLENT. Our servers really took the time to make sure we were taken care of and to be upbeat and friendly--even though it was 9:30 by the time we got there. I would go so far to say that Chilli's has probably become my favorite chain restaurant in town. It is also, in my opinion, one of the best dining deals in town.

OVERALL RESEARCH: Even if you didn't like Chilli's before, my advice would be to give it another shot. For twenty dollars, you wouldn't be out much money and I think you will be in for a nice surprise. A Chilli's visit is well-worth the twenty dollar deal!

I RATE THIS VISIT: A DEAL!!!!