Takeaways

Enjoy your fish n chips Primrose and I hope you sleep well tonight.
In similar to circumstances, I found a local small business delivered decent home made food for less expense than ready meals. Yes our generation can generally rustle up good food but there are days when a bit of a rest is welcome

Primrose53
You have certainly earned your fish and chips, so enjoy them.
We have been on the go all day too, helping elderly neighbour, sorting out sleeping arrangements for imminent family visit,
preparing utility room for painting.
We are going to have Chinese tonight as a reward.

We are just about to order our fish and chips. I have been up since 8am, getting husband up and toileted and dressed. Put a load of washing in. Emptied urine bottles and disinfected. Replenished the bird feeders, made breakfast. Took bedding back upstairs. Put loads of washing away. Made up horse feed. Made coffee. Hung washing out. Cleaned commode and put in summerhouse. By then it was 12 and I managed to get washed, dressed and did my hair. Physio arrived so I watched the session and took instructions. Made lunch. Someone came round to collect a Freebie mirror. Husband went for his sleep so I sat down to read the news and nodded off.

I reckon we deserve fish and chips tonight. Cooking is not on my To Do list tonight. 🤣. I will watch Gladiators tonight and reminisce about how I was very sporty and agile and had a lovely figure.

petra

Mollygo
Don’t fret, they are like buses another one will come along soon.

Indeed.

It works out ridiculously expensive if you live alone, even if you bypass the Just Eat/Uber etc delivery charges still push the cost up so much you can land up paying 50% more just for delivery.

When one of my children come to stay we will often have a takeaway delivered but that's probably 3 times a year at the most. Occasionally if I'm feeling flush, I order from a local Indian which is fabulous and I might order 2 curries - cool one of them quickly and put in the freezer.

I stick to meat as I know I could be double freezing so avoid seafood. I've been doing that for years and I've never had any adverse effects.

When I think of all the half eaten chinese/pizzas that my children and friends would throw in the fridge and then eat for breakfast, I don't think one frozen lamb bhuna is the end of the world.

Whitewavemark2 👍

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petra

Mollygo
Don’t fret, they are like buses another one will come along soon.

🤣🤣🤣

Mollygo
Don’t fret, they are like buses another one will come along soon.

RosieandherMaw

^Especially as I have said many times that there is nothing wrong at all with take-aways- occasionally^
Apart from stating "most takeaways are full of fat or sugar or both"
And that you "could feed a family of 4 for a week for the same cost",
However apparently "many times there is nothing at all wrong with takeaway meals"

Thanks for that RosieandherMaw.
I’d noticed Claremont’s mixed comments, but CBB to go back and look them up.

Especially as I have said many times that there is nothing wrong at all with take-aways- occasionally
Apart from stating "most takeaways are full of fat or sugar or both"
And that you "could feed a family of 4 for a week for the same cost",
However apparently "many times there is nothing at all wrong with takeaway meals"

Iam64

Claremont - I’m beginning to feel you’re a tad 😇. Sometimes accepting good enough rather than perfection is least worst.

Now that is funny thanks. And it is certainly not about clutching pearls or looking down.

Especially as I have said many times that there is nothing wrong at all with take-aways- occasionally. But not as a very regular and frequent habit.

Charlie Bigham fish pie tonight
Cooked by me 😇

I am not looking down on those who have takeaways. I am just too lazy and because I do it so rarely it is always a hassle.

Mind you, during COVID, when a local specialist catering company with a mobile wood fired pizza oven trailer came to the village one evening a week and parked down the road, we were regular clients. Likewise, on DD's birthday during lockdown, we were, bubbling by then, we contacted the restaurant, we would otherwise have taken her to and ordered up a three course birthday meal.

But now I have drifted back into the regular torpor that grips me when the idea of ordering a takeaway arises and if for any reason home catering is not practical, we eat out.

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Claremont - I’m beginning to feel you’re a tad 😇. Sometimes accepting good enough rather than perfection is least worst.

When my late mum was in our local hospital the food was pretty appalling. It wasn’t unusual for the relatives to bring in takeaways of all descriptions McDonald’s being a popular one or the patients if they felt well enough would go down to the hospital branch of a well known coffee chain for food.

Hurray! Back on! Love the story of Mum calling teenager down for breakfast no response. Knock at door, breakfast delivered. I think she might have taken it up to him, it would have been in a box.

Test, lost phone.

We have takeaways every fortnight, I love not having to bother about food that day. I can get stuck into an uninterrupted day's decorating or gardening. They are probably more salty than what I cook, we do find we're thirstier on takeaway days (especially the local Chinese).
Agree it's up to everyone, as children we always had fish & chips takeaway on friday - & my mum was a jam-making, fruit-bottling farmers wife who grew all our own vegetables.

So Medics and Government should never do research or try and influence factors which have huge influence on public health and costs

Since when do you constitute either?
(Too many influences )

If I could afford it and the take away was really quickly delivered I would have them all the time, but I’m always on a diet and I often see a cyclist cycling from the local KFC to my road which can take 25 minutes and the thought of how cold the food is getting puts me off.

RosieandherMaw

^But children do get used to having food with lots of sauces, more sugar, more salt, more additives, etc- and yes, become used to them- and even to some extent 'addicted^ ‘
FGS could you add the word “some” occasionally?
Some children , some home-cooked food is bland “compared with a takeaway “ and so on, but no, lofty condemnation is a much easier resort.

Of course- research looks at averages and general trends, not individual cases.

And I did state 'By comparison, and for some people who are not keen or good at cooking. Not talking about you, or me for that matter.'.

So Medics and Government should never do research or try and influence factors which have huge influence on public health and costs. Smoking? No worries? Vaping, no concern. Obesity and diabetes, no worries. Nonsense.

Take-away is fun, fine, no worries- if occasional. If regular, it becomes an issue, for individuals and for all. Especially for children, who often do not have a decent balanced meal at school either.

No pearls, no looking down- just common sense.

GrannyGravy13

Not aware that it was against GN guidelines to describe one’s food? Whitewavemark2

I was just posting that it is more than possible to have order in healthy meals.

Of course healthy food is served in restaurants.

When in the city we typically choose an Ottolenghi Restaurant (no idea if they do takeaway). Wonderful food, all healthy in my opinion.

Oh for the shame, the expense...

My comment about eating dust was clearly tongue-in-cheek, but almost any thread on GN about food inevitably leads to someone delivering a lecture. If you are one of the 'my body is a temple' brigade, good for you - but live and let live.