How many takeaways?!

[Southtrainer]

I'm wondering if my husband and I are over indulging and it would be good to know if we are normal or not

How many takeaways do you and your DP (not DC) have per week / month? 🤫

About once a year.

No kidding. Takeaways always seems like a good idea, but I can cook better than that.

About once a month, then usually regret it because we could have cooked it better ourselves.

ive had 2 takeaways this year

I'm shocked by the frequency. And shocked by the expectation that weekly is the norm by many 'I ONLY have it once a week' or 'I only have it at the weekend'

This shows such a cultural shift from perhaps 20 years ago. People seem to consider it their right to have a night off cooking or a weekly treat. And this is in the context of poor wage rises and massive inflation and rising bills at the moment.

Does this partly explain the debt and obesity crisis....the fact it is even as entirely normal or a right to eat like this at least once a week?

Note, I'm not saying people shouldn't have takeaway or enjoy it. I'm interested in how it fits in financially, when at the same time often the same people say they financially struggle, plus we face the obesity crisis in their country. There seems to be a disconnect between understanding how regularly eating takeaway impacts on finances and on health/weight.

Is it the case that within certain groups, takeaway eating is much more prevalent than others or is it across all groups? Do those eating it weekly (or more as a number are) find their friends and family do the same?

I know I sound judgemental, and of course lots of people can perfectly afford this frequency without it impacting anything else they need to spend or save for (for example housing or pensions) and lots of people might eat extremely healthily the rest of the week and be a perfect weight and BMI and exercise frequently. I know eating weekly takeaway might not drive you into financial difficulty or make you over weight.....but what about those where it does contribute to these problems....is there any awareness of the connection?

Twice a month, occasionally 3.

“Winday

Too many, twice a week. I'm easily persuaded.”

Me too, just need to hear ‘takeaway’

Almost none.
The dc's have a takeaway nandos a few times a year and that's it.

Too many. Since the pandemic, once a week. Used to be once a month. I plan to cut down to that again.

@WombatChocolate it's the opposite in my family. My parents had a takeaway every Saturday. We have one every other weekend.

Maybe two a year. Not because I'm amazingly healthy or anything, but because I can't justify spending a weeks food shop money on one meal!

Well - this thread doesn't reflect the eating habits of villagers here!

We have a Chippy/Chinese, a twice weekly pizza van, an Indian take away AND an actual Indian restaurant in our village.

They all have queues out the door most Saturdays and if you order a delivery from the Chinese much after 6pm on Sat it's over an hours wait.

If you drive from one side of our village to the other it takes you about 2 mins

A Dominos every couple of months or so, and don't come at me with your "I can cook better myself" shit because Dominos is the King of Pizzas, it's the only thing that can really hit the pizza spot, and I will brook no dissent on this.

I'd happily have the odd Chinese or Indian takeaway now and then, but we're in a bit of a takeaway black hole so the closest I get is those Sainsburys "Indian meal for two" things once in a blue moon.

[quote rambleonplease]@WombatChocolate it's the opposite in my family. My parents had a takeaway every Saturday. We have one every other weekend. [/quote]
Same here. My parents had an Indian takeaway every Saturday night and we often had fish and chips on a Friday after swimming. My mum wasn’t a keen cook and my dad worked away a lot.
We have it far less frequently than they did.

One every couple of months? We live rurally so they’re not really an option. We only have one if we’re desperately hungry and on the way back from the nearest town.

@VeryLongBeeeeep

A Dominos every couple of months or so, and don't come at me with your "I can cook better myself" shit because Dominos is the King of Pizzas, it's the only thing that can really hit the pizza spot, and I will brook no dissent on this.

I'd happily have the odd Chinese or Indian takeaway now and then, but we're in a bit of a takeaway black hole so the closest I get is those Sainsburys "Indian meal for two" things once in a blue moon.

I hate Dominos, it’s my least favourite takeaway pizza option

Once a week here, sometimes twice. Sometimes the odd Greggs/Subway/McDonalds might creep in as well. TBH I think once a week is reasonable and what most people do. Isn't anyone allowed any pleasures?

We used to have one a week, but we are saving to get some renovations done, so we are down to one per month now :(

ShallWeTalkAboutBruno I'll have yours then

2-3 a month. Plus maybe 2-3 meals out a month.

That might end up being 2 in one week and none for the rest of the month though, depending on what’s going on and how we feel.

Once a month.

Very rarely a takeaway, maybe 3 times a year but we eat out on average once a month sometimes twice.

Every 6 weeks or so, eat out about once a month.

Birthdays and Christmas Eve.

We never eat out.

@WombatChocolate

I'm shocked by the frequency. And shocked by the expectation that weekly is the norm by many 'I ONLY have it once a week' or 'I only have it at the weekend'

This shows such a cultural shift from perhaps 20 years ago. People seem to consider it their right to have a night off cooking or a weekly treat. And this is in the context of poor wage rises and massive inflation and rising bills at the moment.

Does this partly explain the debt and obesity crisis....the fact it is even as entirely normal or a right to eat like this at least once a week?

Note, I'm not saying people shouldn't have takeaway or enjoy it. I'm interested in how it fits in financially, when at the same time often the same people say they financially struggle, plus we face the obesity crisis in their country. There seems to be a disconnect between understanding how regularly eating takeaway impacts on finances and on health/weight.

Is it the case that within certain groups, takeaway eating is much more prevalent than others or is it across all groups? Do those eating it weekly (or more as a number are) find their friends and family do the same?

I know I sound judgemental, and of course lots of people can perfectly afford this frequency without it impacting anything else they need to spend or save for (for example housing or pensions) and lots of people might eat extremely healthily the rest of the week and be a perfect weight and BMI and exercise frequently. I know eating weekly takeaway might not drive you into financial difficulty or make you over weight.....but what about those where it does contribute to these problems....is there any awareness of the connection?

I agree, am also surprised that posters would have a takeaway more than once a week. Expensive and unhealhty.