to think all the 'cancel the take-away, make your own' 'Fakeaway' articles/recipes

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completely miss the point?

We don't often get takeaway but when we do it's after a stupidly busy week (like this week) that involves DH not seeing the DC at all and me doing everything child/house oriented.

TA means that a)I don't have to cook and b)washing up = 2plates, 2 knives, 2 forks and two wine glasses rather than cooking and washing up as usual.
Or does everyone else get takeaway for the Gourmet Experience?

YABU... Takeaway may be an 'occasional treat for busy people' but is too often 'bad habit for lazy people'.

Yabu

YANBU I totally agree. We had fish and chips last night because I was too tired to even think what to cook, let alone cook! (i usually cook from scratch and probably have a takeaway once a month)

I LURVE an Indian Takeaway, but my GOD has it got expensive. My own curries are brilliant (naturally) but they're just not the same.

Uh. I think YABU and YANBU.

I only order takeaways when I can;t be arsed. I have given up on ordering Chinese takeaway food as it is invariably VILE and the same old gloopy crap wherever you go, and my curries are far better than any I can get from an Indian takeaway, so resent spending the best part of £40 on tasteless slop.

So when I do get a takeaway it is invariably fish and chip or a pizza when the thought of opening the fridge would send me in a decline.

I know what you mean, but I guess there must be lots of people who think they can't make curries/chinese whatever, when they actually can!

Also in the 'current climate' (god I hate that phrase) it's nice to have an alternative if you can't afford your usual takeaway.

I've gorn right orf Chinese food lately.

okay can see where you lot who think IABU are coming from BUT anyone can make a curry (really, anyone can - if all else fails follow a sodding recipe) and I just think the articles miss the point.
I suppose I'm coming form the POV of I can cook it if I want to but it takes time and affort and I'm tired and don't want to be faced with saucepans to wash up later in the evening/the next morning having cooked. DH normally does the washing up but this week he's been out of the house13-14 hours a day and is also tired and fed up when he gets home.

I don't understand take away really, it's expensive and the choice in the UK is very limited ime. I probably have it once every six months when I get together with a group of friends but am usually disappointed tbh,

Apart from fish and chips - they are YUMMY!

I think it's about fat content too. Cook Yourself Thin does bloody amazing KFC style chicken pieces coated in cornflakes instead of breadcrumbs... They really are similar to KFC.

OP YANBU.

My DH makes a wicked curry that is identical to the one we get from the takeaway but it takes him a couple of hours with all the prep let alone the clear up after.

Chinese is much quicker but again heavy on the prep/clean up side.

So if we have a day where we simply cannot face all the prep/mess we get a takeaway. Simples.

But the articles aren't aimed at people who just CBA to cook one night, are they? They're aimed (I think) at those who want the taste of a takeaway, but can't afford it.

val - we're quite lucky to have 2 very good indian TAs near us (they are attached to restaurants, don't know if this makes a difference) and a half decent chinese which are all fairly inexpensive. usually comes in at £10-12 (I know know, making it is cheaper but I don't think I've mentioned that I'm tired and fed up)

DH gets take aways for the taste. In the past he has been known to ask if I want an Indian for supper while he is still eating his dinner

I find it difficult to understand how someone can be thinking of their next meal, whilst still eating their current one.

He likes the curry I make but says he gets 'cravings' for 'proper' indian curry. I was begining to think that the local Indian was putting crack in their Madras. He now gets 'cravings' for Chinese food. These cravings started at around the time I started working in one and started getting free food . He eats the fatty, carb ridden, greasy chinese food I bring home and makes me a stir fry or roast chicken and salad for when I get in. Everyone is happy.

It's greed imo and no amount of DIY takeaway recipes is going to change him or the countless others like him so YANBU.

Dooin - I think it's the ghee in the Indian Takeaways that is addictive.

I bought a tin and am scared to open it

YANBU - takeaway in our house is also usually bought because we're too knackered/busy doing other things to cook and while I do appreciate our local takeouts it's hardly a "gourmet experience".

Also isn't it a bit pointless making "fakeaway" as none of the recipes will be even remotely as full of fat/salt/sugar/MSG etc as a real takeaway so clearly it won't taste the same/as "nice"?

I do understand the concept is getting people who don't usually cook to try it and the idea is that they'll be more likely to try making something they eat on a regular basis. I also wonder how successful this ends up being when the dish they make so clearly doesn't taste like the takeaway food they know and love...

You make a better curry than the take away ? really? I can't. like Norfolk's dh, I take hours to make mine and its nice. full of large bits of chicken, but , no patch on takeaway.
And I've treid all sorts. Pataks paste, even buying cumin, coriander individually, but all to no avail.

I agree with OP. Its not the actual quality food we're buying!! its the ease, the convenience, the too tired, can't be bothered to cook, and even less to wash up, ease of it, that is what we are paying for.

YANBU

Also, you can't lace your salt and pepper chicken with MSG at home.

Mmmmm, MSG.

Chinese food is tasteless slime. Fact.

I've gone right off Chinese food as well Shirley I wasn't ever really over the moon with it but now I can't be arsed at all.

mmmmmmmmmmmm MSG mmmmmmmmmm
Yum yum, in my tum
do they sell it so that we can sprinkle it over our cornflakes ?

I was never keen on Chinese food, always preferred Indian then, right, a new Chinese take away opened in the village and I made the mistake of sampling their wares. Bleedin' lovely it is. It is the main reason that I have five bellies.

dickie! If I never ate Chinese again I would be Happy. That's right.

It doesn't even seem to matter if it costs a FORTUNE either.

Oblomov - I think you CAN buy MSG. I keep looking at this umami paste.

Oblomov Pssst...just for you here's the real secret ingredient to an authentic home-made curry, Gormeh Sabzi...buy it online