Anyone else still get a takeaway most Friday evenings

I am the only one that is feeling a bit porked out still since Christmas.

I am not a teeny tiny how can you eat more that a lettuce leaf a week person but I am still feeling a bit in the Christmas over indulgence zone at the moment.

Maybe that is why everyone was calling my Christmas food budget spending "obsene". Because they spend 1/10th the amount but load up with takeaways all the way through Jan.

No. But we do have Toby carvery when they do their half price week email

Probably once a month we get a large portion of chips at after school club pick up (5.30-6), and then have eggs and peas with it at home. Never have oven chips though so this is it, chip wise!

takeaways 1-2 a year, but the choice here isn’t great and the effects of a takeaway Indian aren’t great for me (home made daal etc is fine though). If I had sushi, Thai or Vietnamese capable of being delivered, I’d campaign for more…

No. Takeaways are a special occasion thing in our house. Although we have just come back from lunch out because dc1 is going back to uni tomorrow.

Hardly ever now. If we do, I really look forward to it as a treat, then it's just a disappointment. And costs an absolute fortune.

We got Chinese as our Christmas Eve tradition. Portion sizes were tiny, the meat was significantly padded out with carrots and onions, it was tasteless, it went cold within seconds.

We do every single Saturday, we lucky our takeaways still reasonable priced and as well we are small eaters, one bag od chips between us is enough, same for Chinese, only order one main between us and get a starter for sharing keeps cost down, Only two of us in the house though. I look forward to it, its our treat, we don't get anything else really, i cook every other night of the week, so love the fact i don't have to cook or even think about what to cook. We live rurally so no delivery so do have to drive 10 mins to collect it. 3 chippers, 1 Chinese and 1 pizza place in our small town, have been there for years, they are all busy any time i go into either of them, so not the only ones getting takeaways

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No. Too expensive. Might have a few during the course of the year but no way weekly.

No because local take away options are very limited, poor quality compared to what I can cook with a few simple ingredients. I’m not a martyr, we eat out most weeks on Saturdays but I can’t be dealing with spending £40 on a takeaway Chinese. We are having Indian food tonight but I’m cooking it - so easy to cook authentic style food from scratch (chicken makiani with cumin and garlic green beans, lemon rice and paratha, i didn’t make the bread, its cook from frozen) I marinate the meat from the day before, rice is leftover from last week, frozen quickly and thawing currently, every else takes about 25 minutes which is less time than calling a takeaway. One day I’ll make a book of my recipes, all from friends who are of Indian heritage then corrupted by me to suit my tastes

We did for over a year. But I put a fair bit of weight on in that time period so more like monthly now. We do tend to have an easy dinner on a Friday tho, fresh ravioli and pesto tonight, one of my faves and takes 5 mins

I have Pepto Bismol waiting just in case my lucky day does arrive 😃

Sadly the only thing Im likely to get lightly slapped with is the takeaway bill 😔

Used to get Chinese every Friday when I was a child. Good times. (And it was the 80s so no one cared it was unhealthy 😂)

We will have one most weeks either Indian or Chinese. Maybe from the chip shop a couple of times a year. Never McDonald’s, KFC or pizza as I just don’t enjoy them, I rarely eat burgers or pizza anywhere.

Takeaways every week are not “unhealthy”, it depends on what you get and portion size - a full portion of deep fried chicken balls/fried rice/chips/sweet sauce is a million miles from a large freshly grilled chicken kebab/extra salad/one pitta and a tomato based chilli sauce or a grilled beef Chinese dish with 1/2 portion of rice.

No more take out for us….tasteless, expensive and unhealthy …

No because I haven’t found a decent Chinese si have given up. Our local Indian takeaway seems to involve pre cooked chicken breast in a sauce and with bhajis at 2.50 each I give it a miss. I find either Cook, M&S or Waitrose fakeaway much better value, nicer and healthier.

At least once a week, but not always a Friday.

No because it's become rather expensive for a family of 5 and I'm trying to get us all to eat a bit better.

I do love a takeaway though and living in a large city we have our pick of options which is so tempting when youre tired!

I do still go for easier options on a Friday from the supermarket because by Fri eve I'm exhausted from working all week, juggling the kids and cooking all week! 🤣

No, we never had takeaway regularly but stopped altogether when DH started cooking ‘fakeaway’ meals that tasted better than actual takeaway at a fraction of the cost with no drive to go and get it.

”Quick children, eat up your noodles and custard swimming starts in ten minutes”
not what you mean at all but this is what your post made me think of!

We get Indian once in a blue moon for a treat, but it’s ££££ for anywhere decent. Local chippy is average, that tends to be ‘emergency tea’ (nothing in, household emergency, that kind of thing), and I’m just not a fan of pizza or Chinese and there’s not much else that will deliver. The rest of the family will have a Chinese for an occasional treat if I’m away, but by and large we’d rather have say, one meal out rather than thee takeaways at home.

We used to but then the prices went up and the quality went down! Also we have small kids who we have to cook for regardless so that diminishes the appeal as we’re clearing up anyway.

We have one really good takeaway nearby but it’s expensive; we indulge every few months. Even dominoes wants almost a fiver for delivery now when their pizzas are already about the cost of a mortgage. I do miss the excitement of planning a Friday night takeaway though! Leftovers are our favourite meal.

I'd love to have an Indian takeaway every Friday. If it wasn't so expensive, plus and hour's round trip to pick it up, I would. As it is, we have one on Boxing Day and birthdays and draw straws as to who will do the drive.

We get takeaways every now and then. Not on a regular basis as it’s just not something I think about that often. It’s nice to get one once in a while if we fancy them but don’t feel the need to make it a weekly occurrence.

it’s not really about the money, it’s sort of about health, but really, it’s just not something I factor into my weekly schedule like some do.

Not weekly or fortnightly... maybe once or twice a month though. Sometimes less. I'm still finding my "flow" with cooking after moving house at the end of last year!

Cant do takeaways any more. 72 and 68. IBS her and CKD me. ----