To remind you all to think carefully before moving to a village...

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...that isn’t covered by takeaways that deliver (or Just Eat etc? I love living here but god I would kill for some readymade dinner right now.

Lighthearted, obv. DH is away on a work trip, 8 month old DD just gone to bed and the kitchen looks like a bomb’s gone off from my (failed) attempts to create tempting and nutritious weaning recipes.

I swore I would never become one of those cringy real life mum memes that bangs on about having g&t for dinner but I think I’m heading that way.

Seriously considering bribing next door’s teenager to go to the chippy for me ...

They all taste really horrible. Someone told me they use beef dripping up here which I find really strange if true

Well, that's just wrong! Chips cooked in beef dripping are absolutely heavenly.

I hope I don’t sound smug but refused outright to move
To a village .. just didn’t want to get in car just to get a pint of milk etc ...your takeaway dilemma isn’t one I thought of 🤣👍 I bet it’s lovely though alll the pretty surroundings ;0)

We don't have a shop or deliveries but we do have a very nice pub. Nothing out of the ordinary here to see people going to the pub with an empty dish and jug and coming out with food and beer :) I love living in a village!

When my ds was 8m old I wasn’t much good at cooking either, but you absolutely can get better at this, my other half and enormous 13yo will tell you I’m the best

But it wasn’t always that way.

Tomorrow is another day, you can get to supermarket and stock up on good stuff and actually perhaps try out cooking for yourself after LO has gone to bed?

Heaven is living in a pretty suburb of Birmingham, but having lots of takeaways within a 5 min drive.

I moved from somewhere that had 80+ just eat places to to somewhere with only 36. Was a wrench I can tell you. Amazingly, as I'm typing this I've just had a notification from just eat. I don't have a just eat problem. I DON'T.

I live in a city Would there be any money in opening a takeaway chat line for deprived MNers?

"Just unpacking the bags on the table... MmmMMmmm, they're SO heavy! Slooowly peeling off the first lid. Biting into a BIG, greasy pancake roll now...."

Domino's Pizza delivery distance was factored in to our house purchase search. Deliveroo and UberEats didn't exist then and don't quite reach us.

No, you certainly are not. It’s just quite surprising how popular it is. I must be a dinosaur. A family of dinosaurs, that is.

It was in answer to someone who felt they were the only ones who did not order takeaways..

Really? I live in a village with no takeaway delivery. Doesn't bother me in the slightest to drive to the nearby town and get it. I have a pub and a village shop. And a lovely quiet village unclogged by traffic and people picking up takeaways.

Our pub does takeaway, even on plates 😬

I’m the opposite. I grew up in a village where it was a few houses a church, a village hall and a pub. No shop. No takeaway. No park. I didn’t even realise other people got food delivered until I was about 18 and at a friends house who lived in town and she ordered Chinese and it delivered! I now live in a town which has numerous takeaways but I very rarely order them maybe once a month if that. As convenient as some things are having all the shops and takeaways and things within walking distance I would still live in the country again without it all if I could.

No takeaways that deliver, no pub, no shop.
The best Chinese takeaway locally doesn't deliver anyway so it doesn't matter too much.
I'd like to think my waistline and bank balance are better for it but it's only a 10 minute drive to civilisation

My village is dead as a dodo and has no excitement, there are no takeaway restaurants and only one shop. It is quiet except for putting bins out and the event of the week is when the village green grass is cut.

Urban laydees, do not come here. You will hate it. Stay in the lovely, edgy, vibrant city where fast food and drugs can be couriered to your doors by children on motorbikes.

I'm in a village and the only thing we can get is a chippy. Or order an Indian from like 12 miles away. But I love our village because there are so many places to eat out and go for a drink because we also live in a national park.

In fact, ours is a tourist village so it is utterly bustling with visitors from around the world in the summer and then so serene in the winter with the snow on the mountains and only the residents about.

Our local pub does take away, pizza and fish and chips. But you have to collect.

However we do get deliveries here, as the nearest town is about ten mins away,

I'm always astounded that I can't get an Uber here. They are everywhere ffs. Why not here, 😂

We are 4 miles from a small (ish) city. It takes Dominoes 2 hours to deliver to us. We tried it the day we moved in, the kids had fallen asleep by the time it arrived 🙄 then foolishly thought it must have improved 3 years later... Nope. Still took 2 hours to get here. Ffs. And I've now gone right off Dominoes.
There is however, a new Chinese opened about a mile away who deliver. My neighbour rates it very highly so it's on my list!
We don't do takeaway very often, about 3-4 times a year if I'm honest, but when you're in the mood, nothing else will do!!

@Omfgareyouforreal
I have just imagined your village. It must be a fantastic place. I wish I could live in a place like that. I’m done with the big city. I truly am..

Someone told me they use beef dripping up here which I find really strange if true. Why would you want you fish (or chips) to taste of beef?

All the award winning fish and chip shops in Aldeburgh on the east coast use beef dripping.

@Jacopone my village is on the trossachs of Scotland as part of Loch Lomond and trossachs national park. Thst was it tonight when I took my son and 2 dogs a walk

All the moans are why we live where we do, no street lights, no takeaways, a fantastic shop and nice pub, with another down the road. Little traffic, peace and quiet birdsong from early to late.

If you want takeAways live in a town, if not learn to cook or go to M&S!

What’s happened to the Chinese restaurant at the Meadows then? Did the Indian close on the Main Street too? No wonder the locals are complaining about the state of the place Omfgareyouforreal !

There is a fine line between serene in the winter and utterly dead and depressing! There is only 10 people from my year of 114 pupils still living in the high school catchment area 19 years after we finished high school, we all left asap!

@MrsAmaretto there is still a Chinese. No Indian though. I love it here, I suppose it depends what floats your boat. See, I find large towns and cities depressing and very impersonal so again, it's all relative.