How often do you dine out or get takeout?

[Hope54321]

I often find I struggle to find the time to cook as my LO keeps me busy. I end up getting takeout between 2-4 times a week.

Eat out a few times a year. Takeaway something similar. It always seems a massive waste of money to me, the money we save pays for several short breaks a year.

@RosiePosieDozy

Every other week we will have a takeaway or eat out.

It's very easy to get in a rut like you have done, especially when you're the one responsible for cooking. Have you tried batch cooking like a pp suggested? Or easy meals like jacket potatoes, rice and chicken etc?

I do batch cook and tend to have unexpected guests and a very hungry husband. Sometimes they eat what we have or sometimes they order food for everyone so it feels a bit strange to decline.

Takeaways almost never, just don't usually rate the food. The exception is fish and chips, very occasionally. We rarely eat out in the evening, but often have coffee and a pastry or light meal out during the day. If we're on holiday we do dine out sometimes and enjoy it. But takeaways and restaurant meals do seem very unhealthy compared to what we eat at home; I like lots of vegetables with main meals.

Fancy dinner out 2 times a week, 1 lunch at least at weekend out and maybe 1-2 takeaways a week.

Take out once a week, sometimes twice. Macdonalds once a fortnight approximately and elsewhere about once a month. This is why I'm fat!! But I hate cooking it's so boring!

Take out is once a week for us. It's gotten a lot cheaper since DS went back to uni.

DH does most of the cooking and makes pizza twice a week, which feels like take out, just cheaper and better.

Takeaway, twice a month - Chinese or Indian. Have stopped eating out as toddler
very impatient except when DH takes the kids out they night get a burger as my DH loves fast food.

If you mean for an evening meal, maybe once or twice a month. For us it has reduced since pre-Covid times.

I buy lunch out more often - a couple of times a week I will grab a sandwich/ salad from somewhere like Pret and eat in the cafe.

Takeaway around once a week. Evenings meals out are rare but we often get lunch out at the weekend.

I'd say around once a month on average.

We've had takeaway four times in the last 7.5 years; twice during moving house and twice this summer during the holidays when I told DH he had to sort the food! We eat out (lunch) on average 12 times a year. I can't remember the last time we had a meal out in the evening.