To wonder how people can afford a takeaway for a family?

[MaknCheeese]

We haven't had a takeaway for a while and I was thinking about ordering one for the family as a treat tonight. I decided not to once I worked out the price, I just couldn't justify paying 1/3 of my weekly groceries budget, £30 on a curry for 4.
When did you last have a takeaway?
How much did it cost and how many did it feed?

Yep, same here - £47 for cod and chips for 4 and that's just 4 cod and 2 chips as at least the portions are generous. We often used to do this on Friday nights but think twice now as I can cook the same at home for a quarter of that. Eating out here cost a small fortune so we're buying more luxury foods to have at home instead. We're not struggling either but just finding the costs eye watering.

Never get a takeaway (if they fancy something stick a few spring rolls etc in the airfryer 🤣)

I do like a coffee shop visit though

Bet your fun...😜

2 mains, 1 rice & 1 naan between 4 adults?

We share a curry, rice and naan, so it’s £13 for two of us. We do it once a week. When the kids were at home we made our own.

I can never justify the cost of a takeaway pizza, I rather a £2 one from Iceland !

Surely it also depends on portions given.

So one curry place near us if you order chicken tikka masala you'll get about 6 pieces of chicken around the size of a thumb, and the rest of the take away tub is all sauce.
Another,you'd get 15+ odd pieces for the similar price.

So, first place is one portion, second place is two generous portions.

Very rarely we get a takeaway and it’s usually a Chinese set meal for two which has three main dishes and costs £26 does the two of us two evening meals

Had a Indian tonight for 2 adults. 2 curries, 2 rice, six poppadoms, six chutneys. £28. Delicious.

3 mains.

That’s cheap for a curry - we would spend about £45 for 3 people.

Everyone’s circumstances are different, I wouldn’t bat an eyelid at that. We don’t get takeaway much as I like to cook, but we eat out a reasonable amount in restaurants and probably spend at very least a couple of hundred a month eating out, probably more.

I would never order delivery pizza. Really good ones are available in every supermarket much cheaper, take 10-12 mins to cook and you eat them hot, not back-of-moped temperature.

We can't. Can't even afford fish and chips except as a very very rare treat. We do Friday night fakeaway and have become rather fond of it.

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14 inch cheese and tomato pizza
12 inch bbq chicken pizza
Chicken burger
3 large portions of fries
Garlic bread pizza

• they add a 1.5l bottle of Pepsi in as well for free

OR

Small fish and chips & mushy peas (kids portion but huge!)

Popcorn chicken and chips x 4

Kebab and chips

OR

Chinese takeaway of 3 portions of chow mein, Chinese curry and chips with rice x2

Indian works out a little more expensive, more like £40 but thats for 2 x chicken or prawn curries, potion of rice, portion of chips, 2 x garlic naan, and then 4 kids nugget meals

Everything is relative though isn’t it !

I have 1 or 2 takeaways per week but that’s because eating out has gone so expensive.
Those now sitting in restaurants might previously have had nights or weekends away.
Those having spa breaks might have previously had foreign city breaks..etc etc

Burgers for 3. £40. April 1. Deliveroo.

I hate the prices of a takeaway too. If I’m paying those sorts of prices I’d rather just eat out.
Some of the supermarket dine in meals are pretty good at a fraction of the cost (thought you have to test them all as some are no good).

We got used to delivered meals during lockdown but now, we would always choose to go out as a family. I don't think there is a big price difference and WFH means that I am more desperate than ever for a change of scene while I eat.
I would not compare the cost of my grocery shop with what we pay for the food at restaurants. One comes with hugely elevated profit margins and you know that when you participate in the hustle.

Or, they can afford takeouts AND decent school shoes. Weird, huh.

Our last Chinese cost us £15 for 2. 8+7. You can get an extra large meal for £2 extra and extra side for £1. This would feed us both tbh as I now can't finish a whole meal and the leftovers do me the next day. Its choosing a dish we both really like. I love my prawn satay
Though a extra large honey chilli chicken would cost £10

Perhaps some people do.

But a lot of people don't.

No way down here would you get curry for 4 for £30 . I bought Indian takeaway for 3 last month and it was £58 . Only curry / rice / naan so not masses of sides either

We never get takeaway (unless summer seafood platters or fish and chips on the beach once a year count). We don’t scrimp on groceries and I’d rather home cook good, fresh food from scratch and go out at decent restaurants when we are in London or at a quality gastropub, and eat out really well on holiday. We were in Andalucia last week and ate delicious, fresh restaurant meals every day for less than a takeaway here. Yesterday DD and I nipped into a lovely Syrian restaurant, which was so much nicer than decanting plastic pots of food, and not much more expensive. Takeaway just feels like money down the drain. I feel the same about chain restaurants.

Takeaways are so much fatter and saltier than normal foods too. On the rare occasions we’ve eaten takeaway I’ve been up half the night with indigestion and needing to drink gallons of water because of the salt.

Yes some can..but a lot can't. So they sacrifice somewhere else, because they're prioritising a takeaway over decent shoes/activities/holidays/clothes or whatever they deem less 'important'.

2 here - we don’t do takeaways
if I can’t be bothered to cook we see what’s on offer on meal deals at various supermarkets - often only £10-15 which includes wine or beer