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To ask how often you have a takeaway/eat out?

136 replies

Tatgalore · 09/11/2018 11:24

Honestly?

I like to have a takeaway once a week but want to cut this back to save money/lose weight.

OP posts:
Tatgalore · 09/11/2018 11:48

I'm thinking to try to cut back takeaways to once a month as a payday treat.

The savings would be a mortgage payment! Or a good chunk towards a holiday.

But it's so hard because come Friday I don't want to cook.

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RedSkyLastNight · 09/11/2018 11:48

Takeaway - once in a blue moon, probably less than once a year.

Eating out - every couple of months

I prefer to spend more on food to cook at home.

SpuriouserAndSpuriouser · 09/11/2018 11:49

I'd say that we eat out probably about 1-2 times a week, sometimes more depending on what's going on/if we are meeting friends etc. Takeways would be maybe once a month or so, we don't get them very often.

ileclerc · 09/11/2018 11:49

We'll eat out for dinner or have a take away once a week, usually have some kind of lunch out at the weekend at a cafe. We have relativley young kids so dinner tends to be of the Zizzi / Ask / curry type places rather than high end dining. Maybe once a month we'll have sunday lunch at a local pub too.

Millipedewithherfeetup · 09/11/2018 11:50

Takeaway probably once a week..eat out once a month or so (nice restaurant etc) and lunches around twice a month.

Megan2018 · 09/11/2018 11:50

We don’t have any takeaways as none near us (we live in the sticks). I’d sometimes sell my soul for soecial fried rice. But no chance 😭
I have a pub lunch with friends once a fortnight at work.
With DH it is probably every other month that we eat out. We splash out when we do though on somewhere nice (usually £100+) on a nice lunch or dinner locally.

We do buy some takeaway style supermarket ready meals once a week though, usually costs only £10.

MoaningSickness · 09/11/2018 11:51

There's a basic tension in our house between DH who literally gets takeaway/eats out every single night if left on his own, and me who would prefer it to be a couple of times a month treat.

It ends up being once a week, sometimes more depending on what we do at the weekend.

TheBitterBoy · 09/11/2018 11:54

I would say we have a takeaway about 4 - 6 times a year, and eat out once or twice a month. I've never been able to get my head round people (usually on those fat shaming shows) that have takeaways 2 or three times a week.

nomorespaghetti · 09/11/2018 11:54

Takeaway once a week, Friday night. DH has a takeaway on a Wednesday as well when I'm at my evening class (he has to get 2 year old and baby to bed so i don't blame him!) Eat out maybe once a week. Takeaways and eating out are our only real extravagance, and i look forward to them hugely.

GiveMeAllTheGin8 · 09/11/2018 11:57

Once a week after school in a cafe.
We get a take away every Friday night when dd' s are in bed and we eat out as a family in a sat/sun.
I've joined sw so that's going to have to stop now 😬

TheBitterBoy · 09/11/2018 11:57

On Fridays we have a roster of 'treat' minimal or no cook dinners - sharing nachos, or pitta chips and dips, baked camembert with bread and celery sticks, that kind of thing. I don't 'cook' on Fridays unless we have guests!

fuzzywuzzy · 09/11/2018 12:00

takeaways usually about twice a month, if we’re too tired to cook or as a payday treat.

Eating out usually a few times a year as treat for birthdays or if we’re going to see a film we make a day of it and have lunch afterwards. Also for birthdays treats altho a lot of the times birthday person wants something I cook. So it’s their decision.

shearwater · 09/11/2018 12:03

Once a month after pay day for takeaway. Eating out probably once a month as well.

hidinginthenightgarden · 09/11/2018 12:04

We used to eat out most weeks but rarely get takeaways. Now we only eat out on special occasions as we are trying to lose weight.

DisneyMillie · 09/11/2018 12:04

Takeaway normally on a Friday (or sometimes an m&s dine in for 2 offer). Eat out normally at least one day of the weekend, sometimes both

dontalltalkatonce · 09/11/2018 12:04

Once a month.

adaline · 09/11/2018 12:06

Takeaway maybe once every 4 months on average. We eat out maybe once a month as a couple, and I go out for lunch/coffee with my mum every fortnight or so as well.

bellsbuss · 09/11/2018 12:09

Takeaway normally every Friday , I have breakfast or lunch out with friends twice a week whilst the children are at nursery/school. Eat out as a family either on a Saturday night or Sunday lunchtime. If it's an evening it will normally be a chain restaurant as there are always offers, Sunday lunch would be a country pub.

VanGoghsDog · 09/11/2018 12:10

I live in a village and have to drive quite a way (well, 15m each way) to get one.

But I do like them so maybe once a month? I'm single and live alone so its not a huge cost, but that's not the main point for me, it's more about health.
I started a Friday f&c habit but I have knocked that on the head due to them being rubbish around here, so now I buy a box of frozen battered fish and oven chips in my usual shopping and make that my Friday treat, it costs about £1 and is not any worse in terms of quality.

I then also cook in bulk so I always have two types of curry in the freezer, and microwave rice - probably costs about £2 a meal, so far better value and I know what is in it. So, that is sometimes my weekend treat.

Then once every two weeks I buy a ready meal, which is more for variety than anything, so maybe a Thai curry etc, about £3 at Aldi.

So, with all that, I find I cannot replicate the Chinese take away (I don't like pizza, though I always keep one in the freezer for emergencies) so maybe have a Chinese once a month or on special occasions - night before holiday, birthday, new year (which I spend on my own with a Chinese crispy duck!). I can't actually remember when I last had one to be honest.

VillersBretonneux · 09/11/2018 12:10

Takeaway Rarely.

I'd say once every 3 months.

But we do have a lunch out at a cyclists cafe may e once a week but it's in budget and we enjoy it.

When I was saving hard we just didn't eat out.

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 09/11/2018 12:11

Never - hate them!

RosieAndJimDoTheOldRagDoll · 09/11/2018 12:11

Take aways - once or twice a year

Eating out - haven't for years.

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 09/11/2018 12:15

Takeaway about once every 6 weeks, eating out about 4-5 times a year.

Has changed massively since I loved out of London though, used to be eat out at least twice a week and takeaway at least once then.

Much healthier now!

GhostsToMonsoon · 09/11/2018 12:16

Takeaway almost never.

Eating out maybe on our birthdays or if we are away for a weekend, and on the school gate mums' night out.

AleFailTrail · 09/11/2018 12:18

I have borderline ASD and definite severe anxiety in certain situations. Like eating with the people I’m staying with. And they won’t let me eat alone so I find myself out at the local Spoons every night almost. It’s bankrupting me :(

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