Takeaways

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Is a takeaway considered a treat for you?

Which day/days do you have one?

What do you choose? Pizza, Indian, Chinese etc etc

People are saying with the price of food, it’s getting almost on par with eating out/getting a takeaway 🤷🏻‍♀️

Personally I try for cheap, egg fried rice and chips.
other wise if it's no limit then domino's pizza, or a low spicy Indian. It's a mix really

My local Curry place is £8.50 for chicken curry and is bloody amazing. Very large portions too.
I don't buy their rice i just buy own brand cooked pilla rice in a pouch.

I could never ever recreate the taste of their curry at home.

Have one every fortnight.

Don’t bother much with them anymore, always find them disappointing. Will buy the occasional bag of chips, because I can’t be bothered cooking. Don’t really regard them as a treat, or worth the cost.
Like another poster would prefer to get the calories from some nice chocolate or a cake.

Takeaway at ours is really for the convenience and I only tend to order if I'm not well and don't feel up to cooking.
The only one worth buying here that everyone in the house will eat is fish and chips. £14 for two large portions, that plus two kebab rolls, the total comes to £21.
the pizzas all taste bland and rubbery and although the idea sounds good I always feel we've wasted a trolleys worth of shopping money when we get pizza.
i suppose the kids think of takeaways as a treat now because of the rarity of them. Maybe a few times a year now compared to once every couple of months.

@Alphabet1spaghetti2

Ooh! I'm hearing you. I had scraps in mind! I'm East Midlands but even moving up to Nottingham it was a whole new world food wise. Cob?!

That sounds like a bargain.

I really want a Chinese takeaway but our local one closed down due to rents being too high and nowhere else delivers to us

Definitely treat for us. Maybe once every couple of months?

@BertaHoon it is! The chippy is very well
known locally and always busy. Oh I miss scraps-our local chippies all seem to throw them away 😞
Cobs are lush!

We don’t have as many takeaways as we did years ago.

A fairly basic Chinese (2 curries, a rice, noodles, a couple of spring rolls and some
free prawn crackers) comes to about £30, but there is usually enough for DH to have for lunch the following day.

We have a takeaway once a week, on either Friday or Saturday night. Usually Chinese or Indian, occasionally pizza. It’s just me and my husband, usually about £30-35 for the two of us and it’s definitely money well spent!

We have one every 2-3 months, so def a treat. I really look forward to it and enjoy it ❤️

DP likes fish and chips, he would have it once or twice a month if there was nothing stopping him. I like a Chinese so will have about it 3 times in a year. Dd likes pizza so again that’s about 3 times a year treat.

I think it averages 1 take away a month at the most. I don’t think they are particularly healthy but as a treat they are fine.

I am always amazed watching those TV programmes about changing lifestyles where you see people who have 3 or 4 takeouts a week.

So hit and miss. We're lucky in the range of choice we can get delivered. But it can be great one time. Then really disappointing if we try again. Things like Thai don't travel well unless it's a curry. Pizza needs to be piping hot and it never is. Premium Indian ready meals now are so good and just as convenient. M and a gunpowder potato's and makhani daal is restaurant quality. DH does love a crispy duck though. So he gets that and I have noodles one in a while.

I rarely get one, but I do eat out quite often. My daughter likes papa johns but I never get any. I do like Chinese

Definitely a treat
Used to get a Chinese once a month

Have now mastered the art of cooking Chinese so haven't had a takeaway in months

Rare for us, maybe once or twice year but that's because we love so far from any.

We only ever have them for family members' birthdays: birthday person chooses the type (with the kids it's usually pizza, sadly - I consider it the most overpriced). We can afford them, but I'm usually disappointed by them.

I always like the idea of a takeaway more than the reality

We have a big freezer full of curry, mexican dishes etc, so prefer to defrost something the night before

Cheaper, more tasty, more healthy, quick option = win win

Most weeks we get a takeaway, we rotate from Indian to Chinese to KFC to chippy. By the weekend we are both fed up of cooking so a meal ready prepared, cooked and delivered is fine.
Prices for us two
Chippy £22, that's 2 fish one chips and mushy peas.
Indian £17.50 for two curries, 3 chapatti and fries.
Chinese around £17
And KFC about £25.
Theres a jamaican restaurant nearby that I keep wanting to try but its shut a lot.
No nearby thai places
And only I eat pizza and burger so it's rare I get one.

Not as much of a treat as it used to be.
Curry - 3-4 times a year they don't deliver and have gone slightly downhill but still the best in town
Chinese - maybe once a fortnight for convenience but we are getting more into making it ourselves. There were two excellent Chinese takeaways that closed, the rest all have (to my mind) funny tasting chicken
Pizza - not a treat at all

Never a thing for me. I'm a good, adventurous and keen cook, and so are my parents, so I grew up with curries, Chinese food, Thai etc. from the kitchen.

I don't consider it a treat, but the DC do because of the novelty of it all. We very occasionally grab fish and chips after a late footie match or something, and we had a Chinese meal this week for Chinese New Year, but that will be it for another year

It's sometimes cheaper to eat out than to get to get a takeaway!! Wetherspoons isn't gourmet but is definitely cheap and cheerful! Four of us with drinks can eat for the price of a chinese takeaway!

We got a takeaway tonight but we had a just eat voucher, a dominoes voucher and £8 winnings on a scratchcard so thought would get a treat! I hate dominoes though so got Chinese (a tray with chips, fried rice and curry sauce with salt and chilli chicken to share with ds2). Ds1 just wanted chippy chips and then db got a dominoes pizza with chicken wings.

First takeaway in a while and it was quite nice but only because essentially it didn't cost me anything!

Used to have one as an occasional treat when fed up with cooking or really tired, simply cannot afford it now. Indian or fish and chips was my choice.

only as part of a celebration or Christmas eve

Maybe once a month, Indian not from a takeaway but a local Asian shop that makes its own delicious food. I like a pizza, but by the time they're delivered they are too flaccid. Otherwise I'd rather go out and have ramen, or buy 2 good steaks from Waitrose and make my own steak frites with a good bottle of red wine.

I much prefer doing a fakeaway at home with a Simply Cook recipe kit.Cheaper,healthier and more enjoyable imo.
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If anyone wants to try 4 recipes completely free 😋