To wish there were healthier take away options?

[KenAdams]

We're out in the sticks so no chance of Deliveroo out here unfortunately.

I wish we could get healthier takeaways here though. Chinese seems to largely be just congealed carbs (where I used to live the Chinese did really lovely fresh food with loads of veg in), Indian (which could be really quite healthy but most of the dishes seem to be in creamy sauces), pizza and cheap chicken places.

I love a good junky takeaway but I'd love the option of something a bit healthier too. At the moment the choices are junk or junk.

Yes I know I could cook myself and I usually do, but sometimes I just want something quick.

So AIBU or am I doing takeaways wrong hopes someone comes along and provides me with info that will allow me to eat takeaways but be skinny

Is sushi available near you?
Alternatively, a tikka is fairly healthy, as is a chicken kebab (BBQ not fried)

We usually have shish kebabs as there's not much choice where we live either.

I live in the sticks with no delivery too. It’s odd that most of the dishes at your Indian are creamy - mine has the normal range.

No sushi unfortunately. There is a kebab place though that might work actually - I'll just have to stop having the one that comes wrapped in a naan bread...

I love a grilled chicken kebab, no pitta and extra salad. Yum!

shoot me down if you like but i always think of a take out as the sort of food you dont normally eat in other words yummy but definitely not good for you

We're the same here. I'd love a Thai or Sushi place nearby.

I live in a Deliveroo area and the healthy options aren’t great. There’s 2, I think.

carries on tucking into my muckhadi curry with nan bread that is full of cream and totally delish

Chicken shish in a pitta bread is our good bad takeaway....a vegetable curry with boiled rice from the Indian always seems ok as does chicken and vegetables in a sauce (oyster/black bean or similar) from the Chinese with boiled rice. I don't think our takeaways are much less healthy than what we cook a lot of the time to be honest, pasta is often in a creamy sauce, if I make a risotto it needs a good amount butter, and so on.

Pizza and the childhood are a bit more of a headache of course 😂 we tend to make our own pizzas or just have a supermarket fresh one with sensible toppings

Chippy not childhood!

The whole point of a takeaway, for us, is to indulge in unhealthy food. We eat healthily the rest of the time.

I like a chicken kebab which is essentially a chicken salad sandwich. You could forgo the pitta to reduce the carbs

For Indian get the tandoori grill dishes with a nice vegetable side. No rich, calorific sauces involved but still good taste.

I get takka dahl and a chapati from the Indian, pretty healthy.

You just need to move house - the takeaway equivalent of ltb!!

Good advice above. Though our local Indian places are really not great, so I tend to go for supermarket ones instead (I particularly like Iceland sound of a thousand MNers recoiling) and then have it with a pile of veg and less rice if I feel like a curry.

Tandoori is your friend.

I agree with you. Sometimes you want a takeaway because wth I'm after some fat and carbs, other times you want the option of something a bit lighter.

Definitely Indian. Tandoori meat with a chapatti instead of a naan, maybe a chickpea side dish, something with spinach.

For a pizza the old advice I was given as a teenager was to get the vegetable option and blot the top with tissue to remove the oil - then leave the crusts.

Not that I ever followed this advice.

Kebabs get a bum rap but I think they're pretty healthy - or at least the place I get my kebabs from is. Barbecued lamb, loads of different salads and relishes, wrapped in a flat bread freshly baked in the tandoor. Starting to want one now.

I don't eat the bread that my kebab comes in (polishes halo) so a kebab is a good low carb option for me

Eat healthily at home, so you don’t need to worry about it when you get a takeaway.

I think the key to making take away healthy is just to eat a small portion of it. Which is the same for home made meals as well - you can make almost any meal unhealthy by loading up a big plate full.

Saves money too. If you get Chinese order one meal between two instead of one each plus sides.

Saw something a few years ago that said that fish, chips and mushy peas wasn't actually that bad as a takeaway meal. The peas are fibre and are veg at the end ofnthe day, the fish is protein and although fried if you remove the batter not that bad and that although chips are never going to be brilliant, are still just potatoes in oil.

Otherwise when I was doing slimming world beef and mushrooms or chicken in black bean sauce type dishes weren't horrendous. Boiled rice rather than egg fried or special rice, chappatis instead of nans, chicken tikka rather than onion bhajis to start.

But I don't think even the tomato based indian sauces such as bhuna can be healthy because of the amount of oil they use. I have cooked curries takeaway style and you need a fuckton of oil to get the texture. So would stick with the tandori dishes if I want to be healthy.