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? 🤫

1 every 3 weeks nowadays. Times are tougher than they were during lockdown.

Realise this is extreme , lived in this house 12 years , and had a takeaway ( my understanding being gone out , ordered food , bought it back home to eat ) all of once ! 😂
We tend to go out and eat out , even then not very often in the evening but mainly during lunchtimes, maybe a couple of times in the month.

About once every four to six weeks.

Once every couple of months. It's expensive and either a hassle to order and pick up or there's the uncertainty of when exactly it will be delivered. It seems easier to cook something.

Couple of times a year and New Years Eve.
Always with others, usually offered as a thank you for a favour. Thanks for helping us, we'll get pizza in.

Just dont think it's that nice.

We go to a care or restaurant probably every couple of months for birthdays or catch ups.

It always feels like more faff to choose and order and wait or collect than to just make something or use freezer food.

Maybe 4-6 weeks. I’m not really a fan.
DH is from a big city and the choice there is amazing and it’s not all crap. Where we live it’s pizza, chips, Chinese etc etc….yuk

Once or twice a month (usually pay day & another day I can't be arsed)
Eat out lunch maybe once a month with friends/mum... usually pub or cafe.
Though every week mum will pop round for 'brunch' & brings some fresh croissants & I make coffee.... I mean lidl bakery not anywhere fancy lol

Maybe twice a year if that. "We have food at home" as all mums love to say 🤣🤣🤣

Once a month, but we have a supermarket equivalent (M&S dine in, or their Chinese box type thing) every weekend.

Never had a takeaway at my house, but have at others houses. we either eat out in a restaurant which I prefer, because no washing up and it gets you out of the house. or get a supermarket ready meal, which are much cheaper and just as convenient where I live.

About once a month.

Not more than 3-4 times a year, but it's a budget thing. Left to my own devices, with plenty of funds, I'd probably do 3 times a week.

@ShallWeTalkAboutBruno

And no food ‘makes you fat’. Eating an excess of food makes you fat. You could have 5 takeaways a week and be a healthy weight, as long as your overall calorie intake is within your limits.

Exactly. Even if a takeaway has a quite large calorie count of 1500 to 2000 calories they usually contain enough food for two decent meals so you'd not need a lot more food that day, eg a light breakfast or some fruit.

Or you could have something like sushi, noodle soup, chicken tikka or other marinated meat and salad, mezze bowl and it's not unhealthy or calorific.

Takeaways only make you gain weight if you look at the whole large pizza, fish and chips or curry and sides as one meal for one person and eat all of it plus other meals regularly.

Less than once a month
I'm in peri menopause and I put on 5lbs if I even walk past McDonald's these days!

1 a month.

Just for birthdays, so that's four times a year, plus other special occasions like GCSE/A level results, when D1 comes home from university etc. Definitely less than once a month.

Once sometimes twice a month

3-4 a month.

Once a week on a Friday. I hate cooking so it gives me a break and sets the weekend up.

Only on birthdays.

Approx. 1 every 6 weeks or so.

We are really bad 3/5 times a week and eat out as well. It’s got to stop.

About 4-5 times a month in lockdown, then I got fat, so now about 4-5 a year as a treat (or desperation when I've no food in).

We used to have a lot .. like several a week .. it was an awful habit to be in.

Now we're trying (!) to lose weight and get healthy, so we've cut it done to one every couple of weeks, for a real treat.