Note: If you go to the same meeting each month, you can do detail tracking for a month, and can use same detail to estimate expense for rest of the year.( If nothing changed)2) Meals when traveling away from home - 50% is deductible unless the meal is provided to the general public (like Open houses) than it is 100% deductible.

I eat my meals 1 bite at a time.

Get caught and you may get a free place to live , meals included , they even give you great looking clothes 

In fact, you are the greatest Chef to have ever cooked a meal in the history of the world.

Acknowledge that he may have been trying to prevent his belongings from burning up with the house but he did save you from more extensive damage by putting out the fire and for that you would like to cover his copay for the medical attention and the cost of bandages...and then when you mail him a check, add a gift card for a meal out or whatever.

This is their job and they need to put meals on their table, too. 2) Be fair with them.

Is it possible to use IRS per diem amounts for both meals and lodging when visiting OOS rentals for allowable business related activities? 

@Lucas Carl I have been pulled back and forth on this until I read an article by an attorney.If you are providing a bead and breakfast with daily maid service meals etc then yes this is schedule C.

When the family and I go out to BBQ we spend more than $50 on the meal. 

I am specifically focusing on individuals that require assistant living services: Someone to cook meals and possibly assist with coordinating the day-to-day for the individuals in the assistant living homes.