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How often do you get takeaway?

326 replies

00100001 · 05/10/2020 17:17

And in order of 3 most favourite, what do you get?

We get about every 3 months

  1. Greek: souvlaki kebab platter.
  2. Fish and chips
  3. Thai.
OP posts:
MrsJBaptiste · 07/10/2020 22:10

I'm not sure some people understand exactly what a takeaway is... you order food in when you can't be bothered to cook! So it doesn't matter if homemade chips are nicer or healthier, you get the takeaway chips to avoid cooking!

Dee1975 · 07/10/2020 22:15

Not great choice around where I live. And never seem to have found a good Chinese! I prefer to cook my own curry. The main one we have is Mac Donald’s. Have been probably 5 times this year. If we want Chinese we buy the Chinese box from the supermarket and cook it in the oven. Prob again 5 times a year. Might have fish and chips once or twice a year.
So I suppose once a month on average!
I’d like to do takeaway more (to have a break from cooking!) - but just need somewhere decent to open up!

WeAllHaveWings · 07/10/2020 22:19

Chinese probably 3 weekends a month as it is ds's favourite food.

Very occasionally switch to Indian or Chippie instead.

Ding123 · 07/10/2020 23:23

Takeaway once a week, on a Saturday. We like spicy food including DS (10) so it's usually Pakistani. Occasionally pizza or posh fish & chips. The rest of the week I cook from scratch and we have healthy, flavoursome food nothing beige or bland or it won't get eaten. No obesity or health issues here, I'm a size 8 (heavily pregnant at the moment so obviously bigger than usual but I bounce back into shape quickly post-birth), DC are both skinny and active.

We are lucky we have a good selection of affordable clean takeaways locally, and the food rarely disappoints. If someone is concerned about hygiene they can check the food rating. It's unfair and judgemental to write off all takeaway food based on personal dislike of the way staff looks Confused

lynsey91 · 08/10/2020 09:27

@BarbaraofSeville

Home made pizza is much nicer than most takeaway ones

But home made pizza is quite a lot of effort and time, hardly what you'd do if you couldn't be arsed cooking.

If we want pizza we either go out to one of at least half a dozen wood fired places, get a takeaway from a place that's converted their festival and wedding pizza van to takeaway from an industrial estate or cook one of the crosta and mollicas we keep in the freezer. I don't think I'll ever bother making pizza at home again.

See I don't really think making pizza is a lot of effort. I don't always make the base as you can buy good bases so then it really does not take long at all.

Also I often make a couple and eat one and freeze the other. Just about every take away pizza I have ever had has been horrible. I think Domino pizza is vile and is always a strange colour and the topping just looks like mush.

Our neighbours rave over a pizza place in our local town. We got take away from them once and it really was not great. I can make much better pizza

lynsey91 · 08/10/2020 09:31

@MrsJBaptiste

I'm not sure some people understand exactly what a takeaway is... you order food in when you can't be bothered to cook! So it doesn't matter if homemade chips are nicer or healthier, you get the takeaway chips to avoid cooking!
I would never want to avoid cooking to the extent of wanting to eat chip shop chips.

If both me and DH really can't be bothered to cook, which is a very rare event, we would get indian food as that is almost always nice.

No way are we going to order something we can make better at home plus ours is not full of salt/sugar/additives.

If people batch cooked and froze meals there would be something in the freezer if you could not bother to cook. Even a supermarket pizza out of the freezer is usually nicer than takeaway pizza.

SallySeven · 08/10/2020 09:31

We have a local takeaway chain whose pizza is even worse than dominos.

Hardbackwriter · 08/10/2020 09:35

Even a supermarket pizza out of the freezer is usually nicer than takeaway pizza.

It depends on the takeaway, surely? Maybe nicer than Dominos/Pizza Hut but no way nicer than the takeaway pizzas from our local pizza restaurant (and nor is anything we can make at home because we don't have a wood-fired oven)

Kaylia76 · 08/10/2020 09:37

We eat out at a restaurant once a week and we order take away 2-3 meals a week. I'm WFH so I order alone. DH and I often order separate foods.
Last night we had deliveroo from a steak restaurant (weds)
for lunch yesterday I had sushi (weds)
Night before kfc (tues)
Cooked night before that (Mon)
Night before that we went to a restaurant for a roast(sun)
Night before we had turkish deliveroo (sat)
Night before that we ate out at an Italian restaurant (Fri)
and then the night before that I ordered Chinese (thurs)

Omg I hate myself. I'm cooking tonight and the food shop comes friday!

burglarbettybaby · 08/10/2020 09:44

Haven't had one in the past 12 months. No delivery here.

Kandinsko · 08/10/2020 10:39

@Hardbackwriter

Even a supermarket pizza out of the freezer is usually nicer than takeaway pizza.

It depends on the takeaway, surely? Maybe nicer than Dominos/Pizza Hut but no way nicer than the takeaway pizzas from our local pizza restaurant (and nor is anything we can make at home because we don't have a wood-fired oven)

Exactly. We have amazing restaurants near us offering excellent takeaway pizza (and other dishes).

It’s an alternative to eating out at a restaurant.

There’s also Deliveroo – actual restaurant meals delivered to your home.

doadeer · 08/10/2020 11:02

No way do supermarket pizzas taste better than the ones near me - they are proper wood fire ovens with delicious toppings. Not the big stodgy American ones. Thin, amazing Italian ones

Ninkanink · 08/10/2020 11:08

I think some people must live near really shitty takeaways.

SallySeven · 08/10/2020 11:09

Yes.

lynsey91 · 08/10/2020 11:53

I have lived in quite a few different counties in the UK and, honestly, the only decent takeaways I have ever had have been indian or thai.

I think it also depends how close you live to a takeaway. Unless you live pretty close then even a really good pizza is not going to be that great because it won't be piping hot.

I make my pizzas with very thin bases. They are gorgeous

MrsJBaptiste · 08/10/2020 11:56

If people batch cooked and froze meals there would be something in the freezer if you could not bother to cook.

No! We always have some leftovers in the freezer but sometimes you just want something different and I'm sorry but fish & chips from the freezer will NEVER be as good as fish & chips from the chippy!

And as for Even a supermarket pizza out of the freezer is usually nicer than takeaway pizza.
Oh, they really aren't!

PurpleDaisies · 08/10/2020 11:59

I think it depends what the take away is for. A treat or because you’ve got nothing in.

For me, the cost and the unhealthiness makes it a rare treat to be really enjoyed.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 08/10/2020 12:05

A frozen pizza is no comparison to a takeaway pizza. At all.

Ninkanink · 08/10/2020 12:12

We always have something in, and I usually have at least one batch cooked/leftover meal in the freezer. But sometimes we really don’t want to cook or clean up afterwards, or we’d like something a little different.

We generally make quite an effort with our meals, cooking from scratch every evening, and food/drink is our biggest household expense. So a takeaway does have to be pretty good. We wouldn’t get them just for the sake of it if they weren’t any good because that’s definitely not worth it to us. We especially won’t pay for fish & chips unless it’s really good. But once we’ve found an excellent Indian/Chinese/Turkish/Italian/etc we will quite happily spend a fair bit every once in a while for a truly well made dinner that we’ve not had to put any thought or effort into.

It does help that we live 5 min away from the high street so the food is always absolutely fresh and very hot.

Right now, whilst going out to eat is so ridiculously regimented and ruined by the constant freaking out and paranoia, a good takeaway dinner is definitely preferable to a restaurant meal.

imfatletsparty · 08/10/2020 12:19

These threads never disappoint. Always full of wannabe masterchefs and those who swear blind a £2 pizza out of Asda is better than one from ANY takeaway 😂

BiddyPop · 08/10/2020 12:30

Yup, and sometimes you have nice meals batch cooked and frozen, but you want to
a) have something different that you HAVEN'T had to cook
b) support the local economy
c) eat something that you are not a good cook of (I can do great lasagna - but I am very bad at cooking proper seafood pasta and 2 local Italian-family-run Italian restaurants are VERY good at it, and I am also rubbish at Thai/Vietnamese style food but love to eat those too on occasion)

or even
d) you have had a bad run of life, and used up all your lovingly created batch meals, and life is still shit for whatever reason and your family needs to eat today not just next week when you have a chance to restock by shopping and batch cooking etc again

Yes, I can make pizza - but it takes hours that I don't usually have
Yes I can buy pizza bases and sauce to make my own - which is ok sometimes
Yes I can buy frozen pizza - but that REALLY is not the same
And yes there is a range of pizza places I can order from locally - and sometimes do - from the bog standard dominos, to the really good (different) Italian family run woodfired place with artisan ingredients (you cannot get fennel sausage and feta cheese on a Goodfellas or Chicago Town frozen pizza....)

positivelynegative · 08/10/2020 12:37

Even a supermarket pizza out of the freezer is usually nicer than takeaway pizza

We live opposite a place that sells wood fired thin, fresh, gorgeous pizza. You are eating the wrong stuff if you think that.

SallySeven · 08/10/2020 12:45

It's a pity I don't live near a wood fired pizza oven!
I'll stick to my beans on toast with cheese on top. Top cuisine!

Ninkanink · 08/10/2020 12:52

We’ve just found a local place that does apparently does excellent outdoor wood fired pizzas - such a shame it’s too cold now to eat al fresco but I know where we’ll be eating every week or so over summer next year (if they are any good).

I really fancy a pizza now!

Downwithcovid · 08/10/2020 12:54

@lynsey91

I have lived in quite a few different counties in the UK and, honestly, the only decent takeaways I have ever had have been indian or thai.

I think it also depends how close you live to a takeaway. Unless you live pretty close then even a really good pizza is not going to be that great because it won't be piping hot.

I make my pizzas with very thin bases. They are gorgeous

Bloke here has a pizza oven in the back of his van and cooks them fresh outside your house (havent seen him about for w while though.

No way you can cook better at home without your own pizza oven.

All takeaways aren’t equal, and it sounds like a lot of you have only been to poor and unhealthy ones