If you grew up not having takeaways/meals out

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Do your parents still see them as a luxury and not buy?
I'm 42 have dh and ds 9 and we generally get a meal delivery every week.
Money isn't an issue for my dp as they are comfortably retired.They will go and pick up fish and chips from time to time but no eating out in restaurants as a couple or chinese/indian/pizza etc.

Mil is the same

A generation thing or just different strokes for different folks?

DM in her 80s is fascinated by the concept of ready meals, but has never eaten one.
I grew up without meals out or takeaways; I eat out out at least a couple of times a month but takeaways are for emergencies - house moves, return from hospital; every 5 to 20 years. Ready meals occasionally when the cba to cook or eat gets too bad to do better.
DCs grew up eating out and also use takeaways from time to time.

I wonder what life will be like when DGC becomes self-supporting!

We are out more when I was a kid than we do now with my kids. However, it's more expensive now and we live in a more expensive part of the country. When we were eating out as kids it was always to one of two places in our wee town.

We had something from the chip shop/chinese now and again when I was little after my parents split up (DF would not allow takeout) eating out was for very special occasions like big birthdays. DH never had takeaway / chip shop until he was a teen and could get it himself when he was out with friends(don't think his parents ever got takeaway). DD and her boyfriend may as well have shares in deliveroo they order so often. DH doesn't like takeaway anymore so he never gets one, I sometimes get one for me and DD when DH is at his hobby and I can't be bothered cooking (maybe every other month). We rarely eat out, sometimes for birthdays but mostly when DM and her partner visit (we live 4 hours away so it's a mini holiday for them).

My DM and her partner frequently get from their local chip shop/chinese, probably at least once a week, DF and his partner never get takeaway or eat out. DD showed DM deliveroo last time we visited, she was shocked by the amount of choice but she's not great with technology. Using an app to order is so far out of her comfort zone she relies on phoning up/collecting her takeaway so that limits her to whatever is within walking distance. DM was blown away when DD ordered Macdonalds for everyone and 20 minutes later there was a guy at the door with the food.

The only time we had a ' takeaway ' was on a Saturday lunchtime when we had fish and chips.
My parents are very much meat and two veg people.
To say they've travelled extensively all over the world, they refuse to eat ' foreign junk ' such as Indian, Italian or Chinese food, and stuff like McDonald's, KFC etc would induce vapours.
Strange they are.

I think there are a lot more restaurants and pubs that do reasonably priced grub now. When my mum was younger, she said there were restaurants but they were posh-eg a posh one nearby with an old man playing a piano or a French restaurant. She’s in her 80s though and was one of 7 so her parents would never have had enough money to take them all out. When we were little, we never really ate out-again too many of us to make it financially viable. We did it more as we got into teen years.

She loves eating out now but they still don’t do it loads-only in company really.

As a child growing up I the 60s/70s most working class people couldnt afford takeaways/meals out. There wasn't street after street of kebab/chinese/indian/pizza takeaways. No McDonalds KFC, greggs etc and more to the point obesity was as rare as hens teeth.
So I think that speaks volumes

We never ate out or had takeaways as a child. Just couldn't afford it. DH family had the occasional fish and chips. My parents are now dead. PIL are very very comfortable but will only eat out if they have a voucher. To somewhere cheap. A recent pub family meal for MIL birthday involved yes, a voucher, one drink each and one main course each. And FIL took along a basic Morrisons cake to slice up for dessert and asked for the knife and side plates to do so.

I’m a child of the eighties.. we ate out as a family on occasion, things like Beefeater, and my parents went out together if they could get a sitter. They had Chinese takeaway sometimes, although I didn’t like it until I was a bit older, and we had fish and chips. Now they’re in their seventies they frequently eat out, chain places like Nando’s or Prezzo, or nice local pubs. I’d say they get a takeaway once or twice a month.. I love their local Indian and they still get Chinese / fish and chips as well, only thing they wouldn’t order is pizza.
So not necessarily generational, but maybe my parents aren’t typical?

We occasionally had fish and chips, perhaps 2-3 time a year. I suspect my parents haven't changed in that.

However we almost never ate out. Eating out was the very occasional Little Chef (not more than once a year) or when really late stopping at a service station on the motorway. Eating out in that case was one Danish pastry shared between us 5, and a small coke between the children and my parents shared a cup of tea. That might happen twice a year if we'd had a lot of travelling.
Now my parents eat out much more.

It's not a generation thing. My parents get take aways and eat out much more now.
They are better off now, retired, than they ever were when we were little and they were working.

My mum especially considers it a huge luxury, just one that they can now afford. She loves being able to order a takeaway when she's tired and doesn't want to cook.

It’s not a generational thing. I’m 48 and we ate out very often. Every Sunday lunch and often another meal in the weekend too. My parents still eats out but less now. It’s probably just habit. I eat out now less than when I grew up. I just can’t afford it.

Eating out for my parents is strictly a family thing for special occasions like birthdays etc. They might get something like a bacon bap from a burger van at a car boot sale 😅 and very very rarely they might get fish and chips or something from a takeaway but that's it. Can't imagine them eating out just the two of them!

Child of the 80s. Didn't have a lot of money growing up so takeaways etc were a special birthday treat. The first time I went for a meal in a restaurant I was 13 and it was just a country pub - gammon and chips type of thing. Eat out a lot more these days...

American child of the 70s/80s and a product of ‘immigrants’. Going out to eat was a rare event but we did eat out a lot more in the 90s when dad was retired and my childhood ‘home’ became a place I visited. Takeaway wasn’t that popular in California. Eating out was/is more common. Takeaway was always much more a New York thing.
Mom grew up on a farm which influenced how I ate growing up. Still does!

I’m 42. We always had chinese takaway for christmas dinner. That was the only special occasion throughout the year for takeaway food😂

Once when in was 12 we ate in a Chinese restaurant, it was the first and only time to eat out with my parents. My mum wanted to celebrate i’d gotten my periods😎

During my (1960s) childhood I don't think my parents ever had a takeaway, let alone a meal out. But we weren't well-off, so that's probably not really surprising.

We were a large family so fish and chips sometimes and Chinese on b days.
Tbh we can afford it now but dh and I never get take away not even MacDonald.
My dcs are adults and eat out all the time.
I prefer to spend money on my home or garden.

I grew up in the late 60s/ 70s and we had takeaway at least once a week and often went in a Wimpy or similar whilst shopping . My parents are both deceased but ate out regularly even after we had grown and flown . That said I think my parents were very much not the norm for 60s/70s parents from reading threads on here in the past .

I grew up in the 80s and I think we must have eaten out about 4 nights out of 7. It must have been extortionate! My mum didn’t cook though so literally we at at a restaurant nearly every night. So much so that the staff at certain places became nearly like family. It’s weird. I don’t understand why other than maybe she was just quite overwhelmed.

That said, my mum and partner still eat out a lot (she still can’t cook) and if she goes away she orders food from their favourite restaurants and makes little meal parcels for him that he just has to re-heat. 🙄 Who does this?!

In our family, we rarely eat out or get a takeaway. Proper home cooked food is really important to me.

Just back from visiting them and asked the reason why.My mums reply "coz your dads tight"

Travelling into town for a meal with my DH of 40 years - just can’t be bothered - rather eat in comfort at home. No delivery round here unfortunately.

My parents loved going out for meals but generally only ate really traditional food they wouldn't go to an Indian or Thai place and if they got a Chinese it was always a chicken curry. Neither liked getting take away or carvery food either.

Growing up we couldn't afford takeaways apart from the occasional fish and chips. I remember in primary school a friend told me her parents had gone out for a meal with their friends and I was puzzled as to why as eating out just wasn't a thing we did. We go out and eat quite a bit now though.

I grew up in the ‘70s/‘80s. We never had takeaways as a child, and nor did we eat out in cafes and restaurants. We weren’t particularly badly off. It’s just not anything we did. I still don’t have takeaways now -they are incredibly expensive. Eating out is once or twice a year. Though when I was a young thing in London - ‘90s - eating out was more normal. Not takeaways, though.