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?

Takeaway for a family is actually doable by the sounds of it . It’s single people who get stung price-wise. My takeaways are about £15-20 for one person! I foolishly got them multiple times a week during the first year or so of the pandemic, and dread to think how much I spent but Now I get them about once or twice a month.

£70 for a curry or Chinese for four here

We could get 6 x XXL pizzas of any type for £66 from the papa johns that’s a 3 min walk from us. That would easily feed 14. They are huge

What did you get for 4 for £15??

How many kids/adult meals?

Assuming 2 adults and 2 kids... Two mids meals is £7. Leaving £8 for 2 adult meals?

I’ve had 4 this week…..I’m not proud of that!

@BelindaMelinda

I've attached the screenshot of the order. I know all adults had at least 2 slices each, and a good handful of the fries each, the children (1y - 12y) had 1-2 slices each and handful of chips. In hindsight could have done with another portion of chips but no one was hungry!

One family took 3 slices of pizza home with them and there were still a couple of slices left for us the next day

We last had a takeaway Thursday and Friday. £40 for 3 and £27 for 2.

We can afford it because we’re fortunate enough to have the money.

Had a Chinese last night with my mum … we split a main course (crispy chilli chicken and rice) and got a small chips. £10.20. There was loads of food for 2

We spend a lot less.

Ds and I have a chippy which costs about £8-10 (depending on whether I have fish cake or mini fish) and Dh & Dd have Indian or Chinese which comes to about £12

We had takeaway yesterday for 2 of us. 2 x 8" pizzas 🍕 2 x cans of fizzy drinks, 2 x fries 🍟 and 8pcs chilli cheese bites for £15.

We had Chinese tonight. £18 for three. I voted YANBU for wondering, but I guess how everyone chooses to budget and what to spend their disposable income on is so subjective. Thankfully we are in the position to have a few takeaways here and there without giving it too much thought.

I did read somewhere about a family who used oven chips, shop bought rice etc. and just bought the curry from the takeaway to make it more affordable. I guess this could be an option if you want to keep costs down.

What did you actually get , we had McDonald’s breakfast this week with extra hash browns and that was £16.50 for 2 of us .

3 days ago. Dominos 2 large pizzas for £21 as they had 50% off. So that was 20 slices between 3 adults and we had some left over for the next day.
We only get takeaway if there's an offer and it costs around £20.

Are takeaways the new Mumsnet chicken??

We live rurally with not very many options, so we tend to get chippy tea.

Our normal order is:

2 x jumbo sausages
1 x large chips
1 x curry sauce
1 x large chips with cheese
1 x gravy
1 x onion rings

That comes to £13.

You could get (for example)

40 chicken nuggets & 2 large fries

Mix of cheeseburgers, basic chicken burgers, fries to share & drinks

2 x happy meal & 2 x basic burger and fries.

I get those kind of options when we take a few of the kids friends to the cinema as half of them only pick at whatever we get for dinner after they’ve had popcorn anyway and it’s not worth spending a fortune

We had a Chinese takeaway tonight, 2 adults and 2 teens. We had the set meal for 2 (sweet and sour chicken, chicken with mushrooms, beef chop suey, egg fried rice) plus plain chow mein and prawn crackers. Cost around £25.

We have a takeaway roughly once a month. It's much cheaper than eating out.

I’ll get flamed for this but we don’t cook all weekend from Friday tea time though to Monday morning, plus another midweek takeaway or meal out. We’re a couple and we spend anywhere from £20-£40 on a takeaway depending on where we go. In our area, Indian is by the far the most expensive, chippy is the cheapest.

£28 for a local kebab/pizza shop for 2 here in the Welsh valleys. Doubt we’ll have one again for a while. It was good though!

@thefamous5@thefamous5@thefamous5 my 15 year old will eat a 12 inch pizza to himself and 13/6 year olds will share another. It's a very rare treat here to order pizza in because I'm always thinking about just how cheap I could have bought the frozen equivalent 😂

But your Chinese takeaway is basically rice, chips and noodles with a little bit of chicken for everyone.

"Chinese takeaway of 3 portions of chow mein (noodles), Chinese curry (chicken presumably?) and chips with rice x2"

Others might order something like;
Sweet and sour chicken
Crispy chilli beef
Szechuan pork
Rice x 2
Chips x 1
Prawn crackers X 1

To share between 2 adults and 4 kids . Which would work out more expensive.than your delicious carb fest. Because there's more meat/expensive dishes.

They've become a very rare treat at our house purely because like you I imagine all the shopping I could get for that £30 odd pounds which is down the hatch within the hour.
Thankfully my teens are really good, they'll mention they feel like a takeaway, so long as we've had it once I can copy and produce something similar at a fraction of the cost. Burgers, noodles, pizza, I can do it all and it's mostly always better than the takeaway version. Saves loads of money as well so win win!

Tonight. Chinese for 2 adults. 2 mains and 3 sides. £18. Portions are huge and it lasts us 2-3 meals.

I budget £120 per week for food for DH, myself and DSC (50/50) including lunches.
£50 Gousto for me and DH. £45-50 Tesco delivery. Anything left over is takeaway treat.

Last takeaway was €13 for 2 of us, just burgers and chips. We just get one chips between us because our chipper does huge portions.

We tend to have takeaway and eat out once a month as a family. Takeaway is about £50/£65 depending on what we have (Thai tends to be the most expensive).