A takeaway once a week?

[MsMiaWallace]

Does anyone else have on average one takeaway a week?

We have fallen into the routine of this, Sat night (if I'm not at work) Indian takeaway & wine.
For me & DH Food lasts us 2 days £27.

We can easily spend over £100 on a takeaway here!

No, my cooking is always better
I'm guilty of the odd breakfast on the go. Greggs Maccy Ds.

We do one every 2-4 weeks depending what we have on.

If we get Chinese, Indian, pizza or Turkish, we’ll get enough to reheat the next day.

We have takeaway most Fridays

About once or twice a month. Prices gone up and portion sizes down so its not really good value for money anymore

@bloodywhitecat
what about getting one delivered?

@smilingthroughgrittedteeth

I get the 'fed up of planning/cooking/cleaning up by Friday night!

could you look at a Friday Night Dinner
if you want to stop spending money on takeaway? So every Friday night (or alternate Friday nights) are always the same (No thinking) & easy (not much planning or cleaning up). Supermarket Pizza/ nachos/beans on toast/toasted sandwiches. Ok not the most nutritious, but neither is takeaway & once a week won't hurt anyone.

I literally can’t remember the last time we had a takeaway. Definitely would have been more than about 8 months ago as we moved house and haven’t had one since we moved.

But we live rurally and it’s a 30 minute round trip drive to collect one and honestly I’m a bit of an Asian food snob 😂 so I like my own cooking better even if it means I have to cook it. It’s probably less effort than driving to collect it, finding parking, etc.

@AgentProvocateur

why open a thread you're not interested in?

no point in that.

Yes all the halo polishing was getting a bit much wasnt it? Smug home cooked Mumsnet!

I agree, sometimes you just can't be ARSED!

Not every week but less often now that invested in deep fat fryer. 1 or 2 take aways paid for it!

If you live somewhere with decent takeaways great. Even better if they deliver. Or, of course, if you are not a good cook.

We live 6 miles from the nearest town. Only 3 places will deliver - 2 indian restaurants and 1 chinese. The chinese is crap as is 1 of the indians. The other is not much better.

I very rarely feel that I can't be arsed to cook but the thought of paying good money for food that me and/or DH can cook so much better soon changes my mind.

We make sure we have decent home cooked meals in our freezer

A lot less then I used to. Im usually disappointed so it's pointless really.

We used to do about once a fortnight until we moved to a village where nowhere delivers too! Gutting. But it has actually done me good. We do end up going out for quite a few garden centre cooked breakfasts most weeks now, or lunch out at the weekends.

We probably average 3 takeaways a month. This does not take into account my Gail’s deliveroo orders when I am working from home, it’s technically a takeaway but not really a meal for the whole family!
dh does the majority of our cooking, I will do it if he’s not here. Sometimes he cba and we order a takeaway.
usually a curry and a McDonald’s for ds.
last time we got a curry in for the 5 of us it was nearly £120 - I was shocked! It was 5 mains and then a mixture of sides, breads and rice and there was enough for a few to have leftovers the next day though.
My favourite is Thai takeaway but not everyone else enjoys that so I occasionally get it for myself if other people are out. Also love a Chinese although maybe only order that once a year, it tends to disagree with me, can’t believe a pp saying a Chinese for 2 costs around £11 😱

I very rarely feel that I can't be arsed to cook but the thought of paying good money for food that me and/or DH can cook so much better soon changes my mind.

Exactly. You don't even need to 'cook' when you buy deli food or sushi or ready type meals from the supermarket! And it's much cheaper (and probably healthier).

I guess it depends on where you live. I can get amazing sushi delivered, so much better than a supermarket. my husband and I work 50hrs a week each, we mostly cook from scratch, but on a Friday, it’s a treat to relax, let someone else take up the slack and get something tasty delivered that would take us ages to cook from scratch. Especially when you’ve picked them up from nursery, do the whole bath, story routine. It’s the night we crack out the nice wine, put our feet up and have a date night. Sometimes we’ll cook and have a romantic meal, sometimes it’s delivered [lucky to get proper 3-course restaurant delivery where you have to do the bare minimum], or just get an amazing wood fired sourdough pizza in 10mins of ordering and watch a good film. Absolutely worth its weight in gold!!

We always used to but now we eat out once a month ISH and don't bother with a takeaway, we had five guys last week and I'm out for a Chinese this week (our in London so we just make the most of it)

How on earth does this sort of inconsequential thread get bumped ? What is the route to finding it and posting on it? Absolutely intriguing!

@Becgoz7 care to enlighten us? Honestly intriguing 😂

‘Fakeaways’ are never the same in my view & we’re pretty decent cooks. We either eat out or get a takeaway once a week. It’s a nice treat.

The same way you did I suppose 🤷

It came up underneath one I was reading

Friday night Chinese, a tradition since we got married.
We are also guilty of the occasional Tuesday night ‘fancy the chippy’ as well 😳

Oooft zombie got me.

still, I absolutely fancy the chippy tomorrow night now so there’s that 😂

Does a Chippy count? The prices from restaurant takeaways are not a lot less than going to the restaurant and the food never is as hot as I want it, even if I collect.

I also love to sit down and be served, when the difference is less than 10% I better go out and have a sit down meal than a rushed one with plastic containers and food which may need re-heating and doesn't look appetising anymore.