Takeaway spending

[Bananaramaboat123]

How much do you spend per week of month on takeaways and how many do you have a month?

I'm thinking of cutting down to save money and wondered how much others spent/have..

We probably have a takeaway about twice a year so £40. I do buy ready meals for when we're really tired, which is usually at least once a week. I try to batch cook but not always ahead of myself. Also DD has a class in town on a Saturday morning and we usually treat ourselves for breakfast.

We probably eat out once a month too. Sometimes with friends others just with the children.

If we are not going out, we have one every weekend. We also often have one in week if we can’t be bothered to cook. But it would be a healthy one in week. But complete shite on Friday and Saturday.

Every week or every other week, £40 a time. We don't share tastes at all - DH insists on everything being very spicy - so we can't share dishes but it does mean the food lasts for a couple of lunches too. We moved a couple of years ago from an area with Deliveroo and really good takeaways to one with pretty indifferent places and our consumption has definitely gone down. It's more a low energy, low blood sugar, haven't gone shopping and it's Friday night thing now rather than a foodie treat.

I do think threads like this lack context though and hate to think that people feel judged. We have small children and rarely go out, so our takeaway budget stands in place of meals out and babysitters. Some people have talked about things in the round but lots haven't. We eat stupidly healthily most of the time (tediously so sometimes - last night we had a cabbage traybake FFS) so a weekly curry isn't going to see us off. Some people just don't like takeaways so don't get them and others can't afford them. We had a long period where we were in that category. We also have spells of being organised and buying nice steaks or seafood and eating them instead as a treat.

Rarely.
I prefer to cook. I love it with a glass of wine and some music and prefer my own food.
We tend to eat out as a treat rather than a take away. Use voucher codes or go on days when there are offers.

It probably averages less than £5 per month, as it's on fish and chips very occasionally.
I do buy the supermarket curry bags or boxes though, if that counts. They are much better value than takeaways and we would have to double the cost if we bought an Indian takeaway.

£0

can't afford it and we are both good cooks so there's no need

I'd say once a month, so that's about £30.
Takeaway of choice usually being a Chinese.
Unless it's just me and DH having it then Indian fussy kids

I spend nothing on takeaways as they are too expensive, unhealthy and calorific. My treat is to buy fancy-nancy top-end food at M & S and Waitrose. I buy it on special offer or with a yellow sticker. I eat like a king and spend like a beggar.

We average one a week/one a fortnight. Our local place is very cheap - It works out cheaper than buying a pizza from Sainsburys. Each pizza is about £3.50.

1 per month maximum which would cost £25 for two of us. I can’t believe how often people get them, especially people who complain they are short on money. But pre baby we did eat out nearly once a week costing £25-40 for two but that includes the social experience and we weren’t going drinking much by then.

Probably £20/25 a week on takeaways. More if we go out for a meal ( which is instead of takeaway)

We don't drink or smoke though so our weekly takeaway is our treat

Very rarely. Eat out once or twice a week, a couple of M&S ready meals then cook the rest plus make any desserts, cakes, biscuits myself.

Chinese/Indian/pizza once a month on payday, so about £20-25.

We don't. If we have £30 going a begging for food, I'd rather go out in the early evening & bring the children to a nearby indie bar with great burgers or pizzas. We're in central London so that kind of thing is pretty thick on the ground. If I don't want to cook but want an eat-in treat, I'll get ready stuff from Waitrose.

DH is vegetarian AND on the low FODMAP diet, so bringing him out anywhere is a pain until his exclusion period is over.

We’ll go through six weeks of none then have three in a week sometimes. It coincides with chronic laziness.

About 30 quid a week on takeaway (that's basically one a week). Usually a poke bowl or Thai if just DH and I, or pizzas with the DC. Usually have Deliveroo.

Then about 20 quid on coffees and about another 20 quid on lunches etc. although I do take lunch with me more often these days.

Neither DH or I like cooking and we rarely eat a meal at home at the weekends.

DH runs a pizza shop so obviously I don't pay if the kids want the occasional pizza, which isn't very often. We eat out quite often ratger than get takeaways and spend roughly £100 a week on that.

No, no, no!

Since I got a fantastic Slo-Cooker (6.5 L) I have been able to (with practice) enjoy any permutation of meat and veg. curries, goulash, chicken, chicken and more chicken dishes, prawn feasts, etc that certainly knock those cardboard pizzas into a cocked hat!

You can do donor kebab in the Sc. I had a takeaway kebab once and it was truly vile and I’ll eat most things. Home cooked ones taste really good.

People who call it "donor kebab" is that a weird and disgusting play on words, or a typo?!

I don’t know how it’s spelt I read the recipe every week but I’m still not sure if it’s donor or doner.

Husband hates takeaways so I get them when he is away for work - Probably works out about 20 quid every 6 weeks.

£0-00 maybe one or two a year when we are away. That's it. Complete waste of money IMHO! You can make for a fraction of the price what you spend on takeaways. If you need 'recipes, Google the food. There are 1000s of online. Have fun making them together

£0-00 maybe one or two a year when we are away. That's it. Complete waste of money IMHO! You can make for a fraction of the price what you spend on takeaways. If you need 'recipes, Google the food. There are 1000s of online. Have fun making them together

But I don't want to cook

I hate cooking

I'm a shit cook

There's absolutely nothing fun about making food ourselves!

I don't want to make something for a fraction of the price

We order Deliveroo because we want someone to make the food for us.

It's more expensive, but it's a damn sight easier and much tastier than if we made it ourselves

The whole point of a takeaway is that someone else does the cooking!

I wonder if... driving to the shop; storing the produce; cooking the produce; paying rent for a room to do such in; washing up; the purchase of related accouterments necessary... were all added up how much would that be to subtract from the price of a takeaway?

Subtract also the 'free' sandwich boxes, cardboard for making hats and alien legs (if ping pong ball added).

Plus we are a gregarious species and a lazy society who are also time poor due to worker exploitation. What's wrong with a treat, if indeed it's seen as one, once in a while?

Nothing is what it seems.

Answer to the question though: once every two months on pay day if we can stretch to it - about £20 a month.