Takeaways - cost

£40 if the kids are small , our budget as two adults is usually around £25

My local Indian feeds us well (2a, 3c) for about £26!!! Maybe they are even better than I thought

Huh? It’s one extra main with some sides of prawn toast and crackers, it’s a meal for 4 or 5.

I ordered from a new fancy Indian near us the other day. Really fab quality … it was £64 for four adults which I thought was a lot but it was worth it. We had loads and there was enough for a large lunch for me the next day.

Compared to a cheaper Indian recently, which cost us £40 and wasn’t great. Would rather pay a bit more.

An Indian for us is probably our most expensive takeaway, for 4 adults it’s about £35, we share 2 rice, 1 veggie side, 1 veggie main, 1 or 2 meat mains, poppadoms are free and normally get 3 or 4 naan breads,

I live in a small town with only one good take away which does really amazing pizza, 2 pizzas and a side is usually about £20, get it 4/5 times a year? the rest are bad Chinese/greasy kebab type places. No idea how much they cost as I don’t eat stuff like that

In the south east here, for Chinese/indian, it’s about 17 pound for a main ie meal and rice. Then depends if you want things like naans, poppadoms, sides etc, but for 4 it would be min of 80 quid.

I've been mostly disappointed with takeaways for the price recently - the only reliable one locally is our kebab place.

But we had the most amazing Thai last night - £42.74 for 2 adults and one child who eats like an adult. That was with some Deliveroo deal and DH removed the spring rolls before he ordered as they were £8 on their own and £50 was mentally too much for him.

Oooof, just ordered a KFC for here. £30 for a bargain bucket, some fries, and gravy, plus delivery.😳

Won't be doing it regularly, although it was very nice. 😗

£25/£30 per head would probably be the most we would pay

We had fish n chips last month and it was over 30.00 for two of us. Fnc twice mushy peas curry sauce. Thought it was expensive. Chinese or Indian probably £40 quid burgers and chips £30. Oh had KFC last night 22.00 just for him

Last on we got came to £33 for 3 adults.

That was for a mixed meat satay, chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce, a chicken chow mein, fried rice, chips and spare ribs.

Chinese is definitely the cheapest option.

Depends on what takeaway surely? In my area, Indian is by far the most expensive followed by chinese, then kebab shop then chippy tea. For two adults and two children I’d say an average of £40 but probably not more than £60. At that price you could just go out to eat, albeit somewhere cheaper.

We normally get the 3 pizza deal which comes with two large fries and drinks for £21 plus two large burger meals. Total comes to £33.
Our 'normally' is around once a month, sometimes once in around 6 weeks.
If it's fish and chips then 2 large fish n chips, 2 kebab rolls and 4 cans of drink plus two kiddies drinks total £23.
There's 7 of us, 3 adults, two teens and two under 8.

@Orangeji - yes same, ours are good. Yesterday was a case of unexpected long day out, late arrival home, grab food fast. It’s a local family pizzeria rather than chain so it’s pretty good and I think fairly good value for occasionally

3 Adults

Chinese £33.60
Pizza/Burger £38.90
Chippy £28.75

Not many different types in our area and only one of each. I much prefer cooking but can't stand very long at the moment so it's mainly beige and takeaway once a week.

Increasingly I am quite picky about takeaways.

I don't like Chinese food.

I can cook better Indian food than the greasy over sweet places that seem to be everywhere (and are almost always actually Bangladeshi).

I can cook middle Eastern food well but I like having the variety you can get from a good takeaway - usually about £50 for two and then have some leftovers

Or sushi - which usually works out to about £30-40 for two

30

£80 for the 4 of us, poppadums, main, etc.

Yes we have a pizza oven so normally make pizzas from scratch. They’re nicer too imo

Totally depends on what it is and where it’s from.
Pizza from the Italian - around £85 for us 5 with a couple of garlic breads thrown in.
Wouldn’t spent that on pizza hut.
Chinese for the 5 of us, maybe around £100 but there’s leftovers for breakfast/lunch for a few people, we just order mains for everyone and then a load of the sides/appetiser things, it changes every time depending on what we went.
Indian is about £90ish for 4 of us, ds would choose something different. Again though this does leave plenty of leftovers.
We get a takeaway once a week or sometimes once a fortnight. I don’t begrudge the money, it’s worth it to not have to clean up, I do begrudge paying money for shit quality food though so even though there will be cheaper places available it’s a false economy if we don’t actually like it!

Fish and chips at my nearest (and only) fish and chip ship is £13pp

multiply x 4 and it’s just far too expensive to jusfify

We rarely get takeaways as just too expensive and my DC never finish them so seems a waste. We choose recipes from cookbooks and make them from scratch... Hairy bikers have great fakeaway recipes which are easy to make .... Or for the days we really can't be arsed we buy the sauces and bits and bobs from shops. I would never ever by takeaway pizza though as I feel they are such a waste of money, supermarkets do fantastic ready made pizzas for half the price and I think they taste nicer

I expect to pay about £20 for me and DH so under £50

We just had pizza yesterday. It’s €14.50 per pizza. We had two pizzas between 2 adults and 1 child. = €29
Usually we make pizza at home from scratch 99% of the time though