How often do you eat takeaway and how many people in house?

Once a week mostly. Usually fish and chips. Our kids love the 'fish bites' offcuts so a meal for 4 only costs under a tenner including some chicken for me. Sometimes get dominoes pizza with the 50% NHS discount. Very occasionally I get a chicken shish kebab and the girls get halloumi kebabs from a really nice Greek place near us. Even less frequently we will get an Indian from an excellent restaurant nearby
 
Usually once a week on a Saturday night.

We do rotate what type of food we get so it's not the same every week.
 
Christ, if I ate takeaways 'most' nights of the week I'd be seriously worried about my health :confused:

Personally, my girlfriend and I cook from scratch most nights. We probably get a takeaways once a month or so, and that's just a curry craving. If we fancy a proper chinese or anything else we'd much prefer to go out to a restaurant and do it properly.

OP, you're kidding yourself if you think takeaway works out cheaper than home-cooking. It's just nonsense. You need to learn a few good recipes, what uses the same ingredients so that you can buy fresh for the week. It'll take time to get into the swing of it, and you won't be used to dedicating whole evenings after work to do so, but it will be seriously worth it. I can't imagine what you're doing to your body by having takeaways most nights. The amount of salt, sugar, processed meat, MSG.. yuck yuck yuck.

Why don't you buy a Jamie Oliver book, or maybe even A Girl Called Jack? Jamie Oliver has a great 'whizz bang' approach that takes the fear out of getting anything wrong, and Jack Monroe's recipes are ridiculously cheap per portion. I just checked out her blog and I couldn't see a pasta dish that was over £1 per portion.

Not having a go, but threads like this make me think we really need to educate people on cooking. If I can cook a lovely green veg and creamy pesto pasta in under 10mins, so can you. It just takes a bit of education and effort.
 
Raymond Lin - I'm sorry but you seem to be being obnoxious for the sake of it now.

I vote that you and spoffle refrain from being allowed to discuss this any more.
 
I find one thing that makes cooking for one a complete pain in the backside is the way supermarkets often sell stuff in small enough quantities. This is worst at neighbourhood branches that don't seem to do loose veg either!

Anyway the amount of takeaway I get varies a lot. Sometimes I work very late and when that happens then I'm probably eating almost as much as the OP. But normally it's a lot less.
 
Ace Modder said:
Raymond Lin - I'm sorry but you seem to be being obnoxious for the sake of it now.

I vote that you and spoffle refrain from being allowed to discuss this any more.
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It's alright, I had no intention to, it was merely a question at first. I am fully aware what is a take away meal :) and tomato soup isn't what normal people refer to as take away.

In that regard, about once a month.
 
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K.C. Leblanc said:
I find one thing that makes cooking for one a complete pain in the backside is the way supermarkets often sell stuff in small enough quantities. This is worst at neighbourhood branches that don't seem to do loose veg either!
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Agreed that's why I warned the OP about having a large freezer, it also helps to have small pans too. You do have to be a little bit creative to avoid eating the same thing over and over again but it's not that difficult if you plan it out. Like make a roast chicken dinner then use some of the left overs for a curry and the rest for soup.
I love takeaways but you're spending a fortune relative to the cost of doing it yourself.
 
Raymond Lin said:
It's alright, I had no intention to, it was merely a question at first. I am fully aware what is a take away meal :) and tomato soup isn't what normal people refer to as take away.

In that regard, about once a month.
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My local chinese does soups, pretty sure they have a tomato :p
 
rhysduck said:
Craig (assumin that's your name from the username you have), why do you have a masive fridge and freezer if you only make 10 meals a year?
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Because I have all intentions of filling it and eating from there.. I've filled it often, both fridge and freezer.... Then binned it once it goes out of date. I open my fridge to get milk out of it, and if I have any in Juice. I put it back in after and disregard everything else in there currently.
 
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People suggested making things like curry, chili etc and freezing them but it sounds a bit repetitive. Has anyone living alone got any ideas on meals for one? I want to improve my eating..
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Stir fry is easy and takes like 15-20 mins inc prep. Or you can even get meal deals where you get a bag of noodles, bag of veg and the sauce for £3 from tesco. Then get ready diced chicken breast and you have a pretty decent meal that will make around 3 servings. If you put the veg in a ziploc bag in the fridge it lasts a good few days.
 
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Stir fry is easy and takes like 15-20 mins inc prep. Or you can even get meal deals where you get a bag of noodles, bag of veg and the sauce for £3 from tesco. Then get ready diced chicken breast and you have a pretty decent meal that will make around 3 servings. If you put the veg in a ziploc bag in the fridge it lasts a good few days.
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Stir fry is a good shout, I like that too!
 
Once a week, maybe twice if i work a extra long day. Mostly it's chinese as my better half adores the local chinese around our way. I do like a good take away pizza more though.

Titles should say, Take away junk food. and i would imagine chinese soup is full of msg so i would consider it junk food.
 
Jesus dude, that's a lot of take away! Where do you get your veggies from??

If you buy 500g of beef mince you can make up 3 or 4 portions of bolognese, chilli or lasagna. Eat one with some spaghetti, rice or garlic bread and then freeze the other 2/3 portions.

Roast a small chicken which costs around £3.50 (it honestly isn't difficult) and then shred the chicken. Cook a basic curry of your choice using curry paste and you have yourself enough curry for probably 4 to 5 meals. Eat one, freeze the rest.

If you have a microwave you can do the same with paella but I'm rapidly turning against reheating rice as I can't make it not go soggy.

There are quite a few recipes like this where you can make it bulk. It will cost around £9 for all of the ingredients but that covers you for at least 3 or 4 meals. Just those two cooking sessions above have made enough for 7 to 9 meals! You don't need to eat them one after another, just have different things each day. To defrost, put in the fridge the night before or, ensuring a tight seal all the way around, put it in cold water in the sink and the food will defrost quicker. Then just add spaghetti or rice.

Damn, you can even buy that proper breaded chicken (not the reprocessed stuff) from a supermarket for 2 for £5. That's three meals there. Some sweet potato wedges and corn on the cob and you have yourself a meal.
 
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Roast a small chicken which costs around £3.50 (it honestly isn't difficult) and then shred the chicken. Cook a basic curry of your choice using curry paste and you have yourself enough curry for probably 4 to 5 meals. Eat one, freeze the rest.
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This. The girlfriend won't eat anything 'less' than an M&S freedom foods chicken (I think?) so we buy them for £5-6 but between us two we will have the roast with it on Sunday, lunches for the both of us for 3 weekdays and 2-3 double portions to freeze for thai curries etc. All for a fiver. We never buy chicken breast, it's just stupid to spend £7-8 on two, when you can get a whole chicken (including two breasts!) for less.
 
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