Takeaways.

We rarely have take aways. Despite living in a city with renowned Indian restaurants.
But we do have an excellent Turkish take away, where you can choose the fresh dishes that are cooked instantly for you. It caters for vegetarians and gluten free customers.
Fish and chips only at the seaside, can't beat the fresh taste. x

I can't actually remember the last time we had a takeaway meal. When we used to have Chinese takeaway food we would always ask for no MSG and no salt to be added. The chef was a friend of mine and thought the food he gave us was tasteless without the additives. We have a brilliant little restaurant nearby that serves Bangladeshi dishes and when our son was home we occasionally got a takeaway from there - delicious.

I guess some families live on take aways probably younger people.

Our age group is used to cooking meat and veg well I am so cook every night. thing is when you cook for yourself you know what is in the food.
I am on a low salt diet and have to be careful of my blood sugar levels also so even eating out I have to watch what I eat.

Alcohol delivery service? Remember 'Beer at Home means Davenports'?
They used to deliver to your door when we were young. My mother rarely drank but at Christmas and on special occasions she would have a small glass of stout. She used to get Davenports to bring a couple of bottles for such occasions.

Saturday evening dinner is usually either the Asda 2 x rib eye steaks for £7 which are delicious, or takeaway which is likely to be local Chinese - we get a 'one portion' plus an extra portion of noodles.

Our local Pub does carry out Sunday lunch from their menu , all freshly cooked and beautifully served in a polystyrene container ready to decant onto a warmed plate . Proper roast with veg and Yorkshire , salmon with new potatoes and veg ......... does that count ? .OH doesn't like eating out so this is a compromise . We also have a great Chinese in the village and when I am fed up thinking what to cook we get something , usually share one as they are too generous

I'm not sure what I think about a home delivery alcohol service. Perhaps I'm a bit po-faced about alcohol, but it worries me a bit. I know people will drink with or without a delivery service. It puts me in mind of something my son told me about the fact that it's now possible to have drugs delivered to your door, and to order then on the Internet apparently

Has anyone got a Home Delivery Alchohol service near them. We have. Their slogan is: You drink, we drive. Although we do have several resturants that include a taxi service home.

We've been here now 7 months and I don't even know where the chippy is! Time to get some weight off anyway so they will be off the menu for a while.

We have a Chinese take away about every couple of months and I go to a brilliant fish and chip shop every month when I can go shopping.

I simply cannot cook the quality of food they provide. Lord knows I have tried.

Looking forward to eating my fish and chips at Weymouth next week, hoora.

We have a sort of takeaway a couple of times a month from the golf club. The kitchen will accept take out orders from the menu so it could be anything from a carvery with veg to an omelette and salad. Not sure if that's a takeaway per se??

We always have Chinese on Mothering Sunday so no-one has to cook and we also have it probably about once a month as well .We never have fish and chips because I think I can do better ones at home.

We have an excellent fish and chip van that calls in our village once a week, excellent quality and what used to be a rare treat is gradually becoming more regular!

We have a very good chippy near us ( they take the skin off!) so we have fish and chips for lunch now and again. We also have a very reliable chinese take away and occasionally treat ourselves. I sometimes get tempted and bring home some KFC, but with any of these having them for lunch means just a sandwich for dinner.

Yes Kittylester that is what I miss after being diagnosed with Coeliac. We used to have Chinese and my favourite was fried rice with beef and tomato bamboo shoots & water chestnuts! Yummy!

We have fish & chips perhaps once every few months, and used to have a Chinese takeaway once or twice a year but I seem to have gone off fatty foods-I don't remember the last time I deep fried anything, it must be 15 years?
I've never had a MacDonald's so I don't know what I'm missing

It always amazes me that DH has not eaten a chinese take away for years, and when I think back to when we were first married and living in Singapore, a little man with a charcoal brazier on a barrow used to come down the road ringing a bell and DH would dash out with a bowl and come back with - variously - nasi goring, mah mee, or some other stir fried concoction which he would eat with great relish, washed down with Tiger beer. I once offered to go out and get it for him, and when I saw this little man and his portable kitchen, I recoiled in horror. He was filthy. His barrow was filthy. His wiping cloths and equipment were filthy. I went back inside and yelled "you are not eating anymore of that! You'll get something horrible!" Whereupon he grabbed the bowl and chased the man down the road! He never did get anything horrible. Cooked at extremely high heat and served immediately, germs would have had no chance to flourish I don't suppose. And yet now, he will not eat food even the most hygienic takeaway. Can't fathom it, myself!

We have fish and chips a couple of times a year and that is all. We find by the time we have found the take-away menu, chosen our food, either phoned through and waited for the delivery or gone out to order over the counter and sit and wait, we might as well drive to our local Indian Restaurant and have the meal in the comfort of the restaurant, with food plated and no washing up.

We are just too lazy to eat take-aways.

We have recently had a fish and chip van visit our village. Mr NTO refused to use it at first but when I was out of cooking-action for a while after hospital discharge, he decided to give it a go and it was magnificent. Now we share a portion of fish and chips most Fridays. Yum-yum, long may it continue. (Please no-one tell me how many calories in a portion of fish and chips - I don't wish to know!)

Chinese, once a month. McD, once a month. Fish and chips, rarely. Probably only had takeaway pizza three times. Didnt like it any of the times.

We have a great fish and chip shop in Durham. The fish is off the boat and you can see on a board which boat has landed it. It is expensive but it's so fresh and I don't eat the batter. We also have a very good Indian restaurant a little outside Durham called Le Raaj and I found out they do takeaway recently. I wouldn't bother as they really serve it well in the restaurant and I think it's Northern Indian cookery. About once a month for the Indian but not takeaway and every couple of months or so for the fish. It has to be a treat.

When I visit my DD in London, we always have sushi delivered from a local specialist restaurant. It's absolutely delicious, and so beautifully presented. I think that takeaway/delivered meals have their place in the grand scheme of things. When the DC were teenagers, and had their friends round, I would often order pizza because I was too tired to cook, it was a treat for everyone and there was no clearing up.

We haven't had a takeaway since I retired from full time work 7 years ago. Although we love all kinds of ethnic food I find the takeaway cooking far too greasy and overpriced so we would eat in a restaurant if we fancied a curry or something. I do my own fish and chips - DH doesn't like fish battered so I pan fry it and make potato wedges from the large backing potatoes which I spray with Fry Light and oven bake. I have never understood having a pizza delivered- pizza needs to be lava hot for me so I want it straight from the oven to my plate. Again its very fatty so its a couple of times a year treat at a good Italian..

Only rarely have I had takeaways, we are both veggies. chinese vege food is not very inspiring but Indian food does cater well for vegetarians as it is a big part of their culture.

I am not a big fan of pizza. All it is is a big toasted cheese salad sandwich, with some veg on top. Ok for a snack when little else is available.

We have an occasional Chinese or Indian takeaway, but it has to be a treat these days. When the children were young we sometimes had takeaway pizza. DH used to deliver for a pizza takeaway where we used to live. Our local Indian takeaway was involved in a scandal recently, they were raided by the police and several illegal immigrants were arrested.