Takeaways - cost

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How much is too much, in your opinion, for a takeaway for a family of 4?

For context we do not go out to eat aside from once in a blue moon and this is a 1 takeaway per week scenario.

Oh my eldest tried to nick my madras sauce whenever he could 🤣. But he’s got food issues and can’t have sauce touching anything else on the plate, so a curry is generally out of the question. And they prefer Iceland cheapo pizza to dominoes (I’m not complaining!)

It's about £35 now for me DH and dd (13). Prices have gone up so much now. We used to get them a few times a month but now hardly ever. I can see many takeaway businesses going under tbh

we realised we'd been spending 300 - £350 a month on takeaways this past year (eeeeeep) it wasn't until our mortgage shot up by close to £300 a month we did a proper cash flow and saw how much we were spending - that money now goes on the mortgage and we haven't had a takeaway for about 3 months now! it's not worth the money I don't think - we were just being lazy and didn't want to cook

What do you order for £20?

£20 round our way will get the 'set meal for two' - 2 x starters, 2 x mains, 2 x sides.

We’ve mostly stopped having takeaways as it’s just so expensive, I can’t bring myself to pay it!

Not a huge amount of choice for us but the last Thai we had for 4 (2 adults, 2 teens) was £90

We are not big eaters and there is just two of us. I find portions in takeaways especially Chinese so big . So we will get one sweet and sour between us and maybe a portion of spring rolls or something on top so Chinese is 25e for us, chippers is about 15e again because we get a large chip between us, Pizza is about 20e or 25e aswell so to me its not too bad cost wise and worth is for a treat and one night free of cooking a dinner

you can probably get fish and chips for less than a tenner per person so no more than £40

I ordered pie and chips recently and it cost me £12.95 , so a family of 4 £50 probably more.

We're a family of 2 adults, 2 older teens, (so basically 4 adults).

Ideally I'd like to spend £50 or under, but in reality it's more like £60-80 for anything good (Indian/chinese/thai/japanese) Could probably keep it to under £50 for chain beige stuff like pizza/McDs/KFC etc.

Not round our way, you can't. The fish alone would be more than £10 per person, before you've added chips/sauces/pickles/drinks etc

We spend £40 for more than we can eat, £30 for sensible between the two of us Chinese/curry.

fish and chips £30 for 4 of us.

I spent £49 on a Chinese for 5, all ages 15+ so no little kids who don’t eat much, of us a couple of weeks ago and thought that was extravagant. There was loads and some left over for the next day. Where do people live that takeaways are £100 for 4??!!

Wow £20 that would be £40 where I Iive
We have to order separately for my son as he has Arfid & Autism.
We order a Meal for 2 for the £40 but then get an extra starter, this means that there is a main left over for the next day

Family of four adults:

Fish and chips £32 for 4 small fish and XL chips

Kebab £30ish for 4 small kebabs

Chicken and chips -.£35 for 4x3 chicken pieces and chips and a drink KFC would be more due to sides.

Chinese £40-50 for chow mein, special fried rice. Chicken balls, prawn balls, pancake roll, chicken and mushroom, pineapple chicken and another main

Ribs: £74 which is insane to me

McDonalds about 12.50 a person once you factor in the cost of going large, upgrading to milkshake, throwing a McFlurry on top that people often do. Even more if you’re the type who likes a second burger or some nuggets on the side.

Had mini cod and chips the other night for £8.

That is a decent meal for 1. Full cod and chips I dunno how much, but that would feed 2. Midlands.

Let’s see

Only 3 of us ate last time and my last order was

2piece chicken and chips £4.80
children’s cheeseburger with chips and drink £5.50
children’s hamburger with chips and drink £5.50

delivery fee £2.50

came to £18.85

About £40-60, but kids are still small. Domino's is much cheaper early / mid-week than from Thu onwards.

Wow! Fish and chips for 2 was £32 last time , I nearly fainted.

In Ireland and converting it it looks like about 35 pound, 2 adults, 2 teens, 2 children and generally chipper, chipper adds a bit more. Very rare now as someone said because we make Jamie Oliver pizzas and they’re as popular but of course if everyone is in a takeaway mood we’ll do it. Kind of wince as you hand over the money though when you think how much it would get you in a shop!!

I wouldn't want to spend more than £40 tbh, our children are both under 10 though. I think people massively over order and over eat when they have Chinese.

We get an Indian more often for the 4 of us which comes to £37

Wow . People have money to burn .
We don’t get takeaways . But on holiday this year we did buy fish and chips 2 portions one day which we shared. All the rest of the time we cooked our own meals - much cheaper

Sorry I meant Chinese and it costs a bit more!

£12.50 for pie and chips????