Are we fat bastards? How much do you spend on a takeaway?

[Hottubby]

I was interested to see on another thread that some people were horrified at a poster spending £40 on a takeaway and suggested she must be ordering an awful lot.
We had a Chinese last night for 4 people and it was £85- there was some left over for lunch today.
this was our order;
1x King Prawns Mushroom in Oyster Sauce 1x King Prawns Hong Kong Style Sweet & Sour Sauce 1x Aubergine Black Bean Sauce 1x King Prawns Satay 1x King Prawn Ginger & Spring Onion Sauce 1x Quarter Crispy Aromatic Duck 1x Mixed Appetisers for 2 1x Chicken & Prawns in Yellow Bean Sauce * 3x Egg Fried Rice (300g) 1x Special Chow Mein 1x King Prawns Fried Rice

so how much do you spend/order for 4 people and are we fat bastards?

I love takeaways, but we only have 2 mains and 2 sides for 2 people. This usually comes to about £20. Rarely we might order a set menu for two which will come to about £25 and will include an extra main and starter.
I am fantasising about sitting in front of the spread you just described.

Wow don't like Chinese food thankfully

Got the nicest ever Indian takeaway Fri night

Enough food for two people 11.50 with a side too
It lasted us two meals x 2 people

Depending which takeaway, we spend £30-40 for two of us. But there's normally leftovers enough for a second meal. And that includes delivery (we are right out in the sticks). A four person set meal would be about £55 and for our local takeways the set menu does tend to feed 4 just fine.

So you had appetisers, crispy duck then 2 main courses each? Yes you are fat bastards then 🤣

I have to order over £30 at a time or my local won’t deliver - luckily there is a specific noodle dish I love from there that freezes brilliantly! About £7 for a main dish here.

I tend to order for one person:
1x chicken satay starter
1x shredded beef
1x plain boiled rice (only eat half)
3x beef noodles with black bean sauce (for the freezer)

Between two adults we’d get two or three starters/sides, a main and a rice to split and some free prawn crackers. Maybe a noodle dish to split too if we’re hungry. It comes to less than £30 and we’re full.

I think you’re ordering an awful lot of food.

That looks like a huge amount for 4 people. I think I can see 8 main courses, 2 appetisers plus rice for 4.

That's more than double what we would order for 4 people. And we would have some leftover too.

We had a Chinese takeaway last week for 4 adults. Total price was £38.

Special fried rice
Sweet and sour chicken hong kong style
Chicken chow mein
Chinese roast pork with beansprouts
2 Fried rice
1 chips
1 Mixed vegetables

We had chinese for 3 last night.

1 sweet and sour crispy shredded chicken (with rice)
1 beef and mushrooms (with chips)
1 beef chow mein.
1 chicken and pork fried rice.

£29

All of us had leftovers from it for lunch today.

Our general order is a main each and one fried rice dish to share, so when DD1 is home from uni it's £36 and we order an extra main.

We have takeaway very rarely (always Chinese) and for 4 adults and a teen order

Beef Chow Mein
Chicken Fried Rice
Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls & Chips
Beef Curry and Fried Rice
Deep Fried Shredded Beef with Chilli & chips

Comes to about £50

We got 1 x prawn korma, 1 x chickpea curry, 1 x king prawn madras, poppadoms and dips x 3 pillau rice plus a salad and x 2 cokes for 2 adults & 2 kids = £45

We share mains and don't like to eat leftovers so just order enough for one meal.

Ours is £32 for 3 delivered. The portions from ours are huge.

3 mains (2 beef, 1 chicken)
3 fried rice
2 sides

Ours is £32 for 3 delivered. The portions from ours are huge.

3 mains (2 beef, 1 chicken)
3 fried rice
2 sides

We have huge appetites but couldn't eat that much!
We usually order 2-3 main courses and 2 sides between 3 of us (& have leftovers).

I usually get chicken bhuna, lamb bhuna, prawn bhuna, mushroom rice, bag of chips, keema naan and 9 poppadoms.

Wow. That is lot for 4 people.

Last time we had a Chinese takeaway we had between the four of us:

1 Sweet and sour chicken Honk Kong style
Half a Peking duck with accompaniments
1 Prawn dish
1 satay chicken
2 x fried rice

Either ours were extra big portions or your portions were very small. We don't competitively undereat BTW. There was loads of food.

This thread is making me want a Chinese now.

I think the cost is irrelevant - that just depends on the takeaway. The issue is the amount of food. Everyone will have different views on that, so this is a slightly weird thread....?? If you were happy and there was no waste (fully agree with finishing leftovers the next day) then enjoy!!

We feel ridiculously extravagant if we hit £40... there are 6 of us 😂To be fair, I could spend a lot more but DH gets twitch about the expense.

We usually get 3 mains, a starter or two, chicken balls, chips, rice, noodles.

It’s going to vary hugely where you live if you ask about price. When I visit my mum in north wales we spend £30, here in south london we pay double that for the same amount of food.

I think the amount of food you've ordered there is pretty normal. Prawns and duck are both expensive - if you'd ordered chicken and vegetarian based things it would be far cheaper. Maybe the people who think that's expensive are the sort who would order veggie or chicken stuff?

Fuck a crispy duck @Hottubby where do you put all that?! Me and DH have

1 portion of soft noodles
half portion of chicken balls - 4 or 5
1 portion of egg fried rice
1 chicken curry
1 portion of chips
1 portion of prawn crackers
4 small spring rolls
1 small pot of sweet and sour sauce
1 small pot of curry sauce

Comes to around £23. Gives us 4 meals - 2 each obvs. Usually have it once a month - on a Friday, and eat half, and then have the other half Saturday.

A neighbour of ours has takeaways 3 or 4 times a WEEK. Maccies, pizza, Indian, and Chinese. 2 adults 2 kids - (12 and 5.) Sometimes delivery, sometimes they go fetch it. Sometimes, the man goes to get it, and has so much food that he takes a load in, has to come back to the car for the rest. I don't know where they put it all either, and I have no fucking CLUE how they afford it. Must spend £80-£90 a week on takeaways.

It sounds a lot. We don't have chinese but for any other take-away we would order one main dish each then the sides, popadoms, nan etc if Indian. Our normal Indian take away for 2 comes to less than £20. It would consist of one prawn dish, one veg based main dish, 2 onion bhajis, poppadoms and a nan.

Me and DP would order

1 rice
2 mains
1 or 2 side dishes to share

We don't usually finish everything so have something for lunch the next day or whatever.

I’ve never spent more than £40 on take away but we’re two adults and two under 10’s. If it started creeping above £40 I’d order less or get cheaper options. It’s nothing to do with being a fat bastard though

We have recently made our order smaller as we realised we were over-eating massively every time we had takeaway and also trying to cut down spending without completely denying ourselves.

on Friday we had Chinese and just a large chicken and pineapple rice and one main between us which was £12.40

we used to share a rice and 2 mains plus a side like sesame prawn toast or something and it would be about £20 ish