Food delivery apps

[Lsgandhi20]

food delivery apps reasonable spend

just wondering what an average spend is on food delivery apps in London excluding groceries, for family of 3 .
thanks

Delete the apps and accounts op make it as difficult as possible to order the food. Then use chat gpt to design a easy meal plan that fits your life and budget.

Thanks everyone for the posts. Stocked the freezer. Back in the kitchen . 48 hours without a takeaway and counting . Apologies if it sounds presumptuous but baby steps .

Good stuff. Come join the meal planner thread in food and recipes if you fancy it, no judging there, and people are happy to share ideas.

Also not presumptuous at all, go at your own pace. You've identified a problem and are moving to fix it, baby steps are good!

None, I’d rather go to a restaurant with friends. Which probably happens 2 or 3 times a week on average.

I have just seen that thread . It looks like a great resource . Thanks

You'll see I'm not ashamed of using oven chips, bagged salad, and batch cooked meals from the freezer....

And if you like the sound of something someone else is doing, they're always happy to give a recipe link. My haloumi curry this week is nicked from a poster helpfully giving a link and then tweaked via chat gpt to my preference.

I also find it helpful to refer to to know what I'm doing that week! Writing it down helps me keep it varied.

Maybe once a month and it would only ever be a sushi delivery.

Well done! It’s great to hear your update. I’m sure lots of us would be happy to help/give you ideas if you need them? Definitely start with small steps. You don’t need to go from ordering all meals on apps to perfect chef in 1 day!

I try as much as possible to ‘cook once, eat twice (or more’). Most meals take the same amount of time to make whatever size they are, so I’ll double or triple ingredients and then freeze portions either in ‘whole family’ size meals or individual portions. It’s also fine to have ‘easy’ meals. Eg. We have jacket potatoes most weeks.

How many people are you cooking for? Do you have a partner to share the load with? Or children who might help?

There are 3 of us including partner and teenage son . They are more motivated as long as the freezer is stocked up! Partner is stay at home mom .

Well partner could do a bit of batch cooking if the shopping is in then. You need to work as a team.

The teenager could cook one per week too. It'll come in handy re life skills!

Hopefully follow our lead

Indeed, they need to watch, learn and do before he/she leaves home , so a good time to start! You could ask what they want to cook, look at recipes together, then add ingredients to the shopping list. Taking ownership will be good for them. And a sense of pride when done.

Oh, another thought is something like gousto boxes. They give a good discount when you first sign up, and send everything, including mini amounts of spices, you just need oil, salt, pepper and butter as a rule. Step by step instructions, totally idiot proof (as shown by DP!) And I keep the recipe cards we like in a binder and then shop for those from supermarkets later to remake. A wide range of food, Asian, African, European, whatever. Hello fresh is similar but I've never used that.

It allows me to be a bit more adventurous without worrying that I'm going to get the spice balance wrong, for example.

Zero. I can make better food at home.

None.

I get about four takeaways a year but we have no local taxis, therefore no delivery apps. Some of the takeaways do delivery, but they charge for it.

The EASIEST transition for you to make would be to buy your 'takeaways' from a supermarket, and get that delivered once a week. Then you just have to get the stuff out of the fridge and heat it up for dinner.

That's still more expensive than committing to cook every night, but a heck of a lot cheaper than what you're doing.

Hi OP!

We’ve never been at 7 delivery orders, but have gotten to 7 meals out/delivery if we include a bagel or muffin on the go. We are still above average but a month for us of delivery looks like
1 meal PMS
1 meal fun or mental health
2-3 takeout meals on the run like burgers or bagels
if we have days when I’m sick or my disability is flaring up it could be a week with 3-4 deliveries.

Reducing frequency and cost

• try to always have bad for us/good tasting instant meals like ramen, kraft dinner, frozen pizza, nuggets/hot dogs

• going out on weekends/in evenings not worrying about packing a proper picnic/meal. Grab leftovers if any, loaf of bread and jar of jam/block of cheese and knife, fruit, packet of nuts or biscuits or do the same from the grocery store. So we’re making the sandwich/salad as we’re hungry, not delaying going out until it’s done and leaving dishes everywhere. We do still get some weekend takeout but not as much (and I’m in Canada so some things like a burger are cheaper out