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

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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?

We don’t often have a takeout purely became I prefer to cook myself. Last time we ordered was an Indian. We had a 1x chicken shaslick, 1x lamb buhna, 1 x peahwari naan and 1x pilau rice. This was for 2 of us. No idea on cost but it’s about the portions. If 4 people eating, would normally buy 4 dishes and share rice/naan. You seem to have about 8+ dishes for 4.

I've never come across a takeaway round here where rice or chips aren't included. Costs about £1 to upgrade from boiled to fried rice, or noodles at the Chinese ones. Indian always incudes rice/chips/chapattis and an extra £1 for pilau rice. We're in Yorkshire.

I've never come across a takeaway round here where rice or chips aren't included.

And I have never come across one where they are included.

I don't think you are fat bastards 😆... The way I'm reading it you got 5 mains & 9 sides to share between 4 adults & the left overs was eaten the next day. I'm north so it can be cheaper but for 2 adults & 1 ds we spend about £35-£40
Main Special curry,
Beef green pepper & blackbean.
Salt & pepper chicken
Chips ( ds)
Noodles
Fried rice
Prawn toast
Plus delivery so to double this for 4 adults it be about the same.
If this was daily it would be bad, but for a Saturday night get together I think its fine.
We have cut back recently due to cost of living though.

The cost doesn’t seem excessive for a Chinese for 4, especially as its including crispy duck and starters. Though, 1/4 of a crispy duck is very unreasonable for 4 people! The sheer quantity of food does seem an enormous amount for 4 though…and I’m all for reaheating leftovers the next day, but prawns do tend to go dry and chewed so I personally wouldn’t bother

We’ll sometimes get KFC or kebabs when my parents are round and I cba to cook.

So for 5 adults, usual order is 4 large kebabs, 1 small. 2 of those tend to be a lamb shish/tikka mix and the rest are doners, plus large fries. Sometimes they throw in a big bottle of pepsi. Around £35-£38 and 3 of us will have some left but the kebabs are huge.

Kfc it’s 10 or 14 piece bucket, usually with wings or mini fillets (or both😳) as extra depending on what’s on offer. I think that includes 4 sides of fries/gravy, costs around £30-35, with some left over.

On a Chinese or Indian for 2 it's normally around £40 but we have leftovers for next day.

Bought a Maccys last week for 2 adults and 5 kids and that was eye watering!

Same @RampantIvy I've never known a single takeaway that includes rice or chips with a main.

It seems like a lot to me. Your portion sizes must be huge to polish all that off between you. We order a large egg fried rice and two dishes (one beef and one chicken) and between me and DH that lasts us for two days. DD(20) has chicken fried rice which lasts her 3 meals and DS has a special fried rice which lasts him one. So it comes to around £32 and on average covers two meals.

It's an excessive amount for a takeaway £20 each.

Prices can vary depending on where you live of course.

For 2 adults and one teen, I would order 2 mains - one is usually a fried rice dish, get plain rice or chips for DD with the other and either a side or 1/4 duck.
That's loads for us and usually lunch for me the next day. Cost about £30?

Takeaway near mine is all really expensive so it usually comes to about £40 for two people and that's usually only one main and a side each. Sushi is double the price :'(

Nothing to add apart from you must really love prawns!

That's a shit tonne of prawns for 4.

Three in our house hold me hubby and 5 year old

we get Singapore noodles, house special fried rice, portion of curry sauce and a portion of chips

comes to about £13 and there’s left overs the next day

and no we are not skinny people (well 5 year
old is)

We would pay about £40 for a Chinese for 4 people. That would be 4 mains with noodles, chips or rice. Prawn crackers are usually included free. The mains are massive so we don't order starters and we nearly always have some left over.

Our local Indian though would probably be about £50-60 for 4 mains with rice or naans. It's very good, but to me that's a bit expensive for a takeaway. DS and DH tend to go for the mixed grill though which is about twice the price of a curry so that's probably what makes it more expensive.

We spend about £50 for five of us - but I live in the NW where meals come with rice or chips. Extra 50p I think for fried rice. When I lived down south the rice was always extra which definitely bumps up the price a lot.

Singapore noodles portion is about £8 so I budget around a tenner per person.

We had an Indian takeaway yesterday for 3 of us. It was £38.
We had 3 x main dishes
2 x naan breads
2 x side dishes
1 x rice
There is enough left overs for probably 2 or 3 more meals.
And we eat fairly large portions.
Not ordered a Chinese for years but if I got that much food, I'd expect a lot of leftovers.

We spend £50 on two adults and a teen that eats more than we do.

Usual order:
Salt and chilli ribs
Seaweed
Salt and chilli chips
Rice X 2
Special chow mein
Lemon chicken
Sticky chilli beef
Beef and black bean sauce

Sometimes there is leftovers for lunch, more often not.

That is so much food.

We're a family of 2 adults to big teens and we would order 4 mains, 2 x rice and maybe plain noodles max. There is always a small amount leftover for lunch the following day.

We are not skinny and like our food, but that would last us days

Again, that's 4 mains and 5 sides for only 3 people? I just don't get it 🤷🏼‍♀️ bearing in mind Chinese takeaway portions are always huge.

As a one off treat? Maybe? But if folk are doing this every week then it's no wonder all I'm seeing are threads about being broke and being fat. The idea of spending £200 a month on take out is utterly foreign to me.

And no this isn't competitive under eating, it's not wanting to eat myself into an early grave.

It's no wonder we have an obesity problem after reading about some of the gargantuan takeaways that people eat on this thread.

Usual order:
Salt and chilli ribs
Seaweed
Salt and chilli chips
Rice X 2
Special chow mein
Lemon chicken
Sticky chilli beef
Beef and black bean sauce

Again, that's 4 mains and 5 sides for only 3 people?

I don't really count rice or chips as "side". When you have a main meal at home, do you just have meat in a sauce with nothing else? Usually you'd have carbs or veg with it too, so the rice/chips count as a main to me alongside the main dish.

So lemon chicken with rice is a main. You just have to order the rice as a "side" but it's not really a side dish as in "extra".

So I'd look at that order and think 4 mains (chips and rice being includes alongside the mains because why would you just have lemon chicken on its own? You don't order curry and not have rice....), 1 side (seaweed), and 1 sauce.

People also order multiple mains because they don't eat the whole thing. They might take some sweet and sour chicken from the container, then some chilli beef, for example. So a lot of people share the mains meat/fish/veg between them, rather than eating it to themselves.

Even just for myself I'd quite often order two meat dishes because I won't eat a whole one. So I'll order a sticky beef and a sweet and sour, plus rice, but I'm only putting some of the sticky beef on my plate alongside some of the sweet and sour, not the whole things! Then save the rest.

Usually spend about £20-25 for two of us on an Indian or Chinese. That includes delivery fee. When there's four of us then it's about £50-60.

I live in Ireland so find that cheap but that is a serious amount of food for 4 people!!!

Cost wise it's tricky to compare based on quality, regional variation etc. The food you have ordered seems excessive for 4 people. So does the poster with two mains, rice and chips per person.

We have 3 mains, 1 rice, 1 noodles and 1-3 sides for 2 adults and 2 kids. There's always enough for leftovers for one person the next day. where we are this costs us around £40. Fora curry we will have 2 curries, 2 rice, 1-2 naan/ chapathi and perhaps 1 side. Again, normally around £40. Pizza, Turkish grill, etc is normally cheaper.