Take away food - wow !

My name is nina and Friday night is convenience food night my house.

I buy ready meals for the three of us with my supermarket shop on Fridays, it's my night off from cooking. Curry for DH, pasta meals or sometimes pizza for DS and I.
We don't order in take away but I expect this is seen as the equivalent.
The rest of the week I cook from scratch including a roast on Sunday. Oh and DH will two or three times a year go and buy a Chinese take away meal.
So I have no guilt.

But that wasn't ironic.

No need for guilt anyway Nina. Your wallet and purse, your choice.

Mmmm. Sunday roast. Miss that now I'm working abroad. Yorkshire Puddings.

I don't have a kitchen where I am so although I LOVE having all my meals cooked for me, I have no opportunity to have whatever I might fancy. Does stop me eating junk though!

I have takeaway every Tuesday.

Absolutely no different to going out to eat, as far as I can tell, which I don't do.

Jura2 You are absolutely right. I have been thinking about that too. I never make pizzas now as it is too fiddly with the yeast although I have made scone based ones. Their Mum however,does make them and my grandson actually says "Mum's pizzas are the best". Unfortunately because he is autistic ,his diet is limited and he will only eat Margarita ones !
Still at least there is no pepperoni !

My grandson loves his mum's pizza the best, too Greenfinch! Got to the point he wouldn't eat bought pizza. I think it tasted too different. Now we've discovered he's allergic to tomatoes, it's just as well he prefers mum's. At least she can make a tomato free version.

Living in the country I do not have access to takeaway food, they just won't deliver it this far out of town, so I HAVE to cook from scratch.
BUT when I broke my back we were in a bit of a mess until I realised Iceland would deliver. So we lived off frozen ready meals for two months.
They were a life saver.
I do have to admit that I started to get heartburn and wind, which - until yesterday I'd put down to the cocktail of drugs I was taking for the pain. However, I will always keep some in my freezer for emergencies from now on.
If a takeaway firm would have delivered, I would have used them without a doubt.

I LOVE a ready-meal curry. But same old problem. Too greasy and I pay for it later with a dodgy tummy.

We have take aways sometimes, perhaps on a Saturday night while we watch a film on television. It’s always Indian or Chinese, never pizza, I only eat pizza in Italy, it’s horrible here. Sometimes we buy a Chinese or Indian ready meal from M+S or Waitrose instead of a take away. We never eat take aways in the week, and always do a roast on Sunday, or a family barbecue in the summer. Very, very occasionally we buy fish and chips from the ‘chippie.’ Usually my husband makes home made fish and chips, delicious.
My downfall is biscuits, cakes, and crisps. I make my own cakes usually, so I have to not bake, otherwise I eat it!

Gaga, ditto, I love a ready meal curry, but I can’t eat too many or I’ll pay for it later because my trousers won’t fasten.

We do not eat takeaways because they are just too much hassle. You have to find a phone and a menu and get the order right and pay and then wait around for ages for the delivery, or you have to get the car out drive down to the shop, hang around in the cold and then collect it and drive home. What a lot of hard work for an unremarkable meal.

In a fraction of that time, I can get home made ready meal from the freezer, defrost it while the veg cook and sit down and be eating it before you can complete the telephone call or drive to the takaway.

Why bother?

gagajo ok I apologise for using the word ‘irony’ incorrectly.

But I don’t know what assumptions you think I was making.

I didn’t see the programme so can’t comment on that.

I was responding to the remarks about the cheap deals for Coca-Cola and pizzas for 4 for a tenner, and the remark about it being great for people who were greedy and lazy.

It struck me that no-one makes similar criticisms of people who buy meal deals at the posh supermarkets, despite the fact that these usually contain a sweet dessert and a bottle of cheap wine.

I think it’s sad that the subject of food has become a battleground and a class issue. Michelle Obama tried to address this in the US by encouraging food outlets in deprived area to start stocking fresh produce and less packaged, processed food.

Health inequalities in this country have become greater in the last ten years and that is at least partly due to diet and the availability of nutritious food.

I only caught bits and pieces of the programme but it seemed a little boring so I flicked away to something else. I did notice some dire warnings about the effect of eating takeaways for every meal.
You can understand the problems that could cause but I don't think it would dissuade a dedicated addict to give them up and start cooking their own however healthy and wholesome it was.
What was the point of it?

When was this on please?

We live in a rural area so the only takeaway available to us is fish and chips. There’s a fancy restaurant opened up in town. They do takeaway f&c and they’re delicious so we occasionally have that. It’s the better part of £20, so it is only very occasional!

I’ve never understood pizza as treat. I keep one in the freezer for emergencies but they don’t float my boat. I don’t like any meat on them so my choices are pretty limited.

I really don't know why the takeaway is so popular, have on a couple of occasions in God knows how many years, ordered a couple of times from our local Indian restaurant , we've been going to it for donkeys years. Eating a take away can never match the enjoyment of sitting in a restaurant and of course the food loses something in the transportation.

When we took one of our sons back to his uni house after having his appendix out, given he'd had a major operation, wanted to clean up for him a bit, realised that was almost an impossible task. The rubbish from takeaways was out of control, lazy sods all the while paying lip service to green issues and how skint they were. really!!!! Yes mine included who happened to have the equivalent of the Amazon jungle in empty pizza boxes stored under his bed and they wonder why the neighbours hated them..........something to do with the way they disposed of their rubbish I imagine!

I've only bought one M&S 'meal for two' because usually, they're too expensive for me. But I have to say, the quality was lots better than the other supermarkets. I don't bother anymore with them because of the poor quality.

I prefer to eat at home rather than go out though.
Same food, different setting, so no worse than eating out once a week.

I thought the programme was interesting in that it did look at some of the food science behind the takeaway and attempted to compare it to similar supermarket options.

I agree with those who point out that targeting takeaway and the people who use them is an easy way of drawing attention to the undesirable habits of the great unwashed. Lazy, predictable journalism.

Having said that, it was mainly more of stating the bleedin' obvious. Surely it's no longer a great mystery why people who eat vast amounts of high salt, high fat, high sugar foods are not going to be in the best of health if this way of eating becomes the norm for them?

It's hardly rocket science, is it?

I DO wish the Beeb would stop peddling the 2000 calories a day myth, though. Most women need far fewer than that just to maintain ime.

THANK YOU oldgimmer! I've never been able to eat more than 1500 calories a day without gaining weight and have had SO many people tell me I'm wrong and I'm secretly eating etc.

I've always had to cut down to at least 1000 and these days, 800 to get a single pound of weight off.

Could someone please post a link to the programme or tell me which channel it was on?
Thanks

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000fs5n/the-truth-about-takeaways

Here you are, janea. We turned off after ten minutes.

gagajo same as me. I've always counted calories like a demon and finding it more and more difficult these days to shift the pounds.

I usually top out at 1400-1500 cals' usage a day - a few more if I'm active. That's according to my smartwatch, which counts steps and calories expended.

I'm fairly normal - 5'4" and a 10 (not sure about actual weight though).

Thanks Merlot
I’ll see how long I can last!

health.gov/our-work/food-nutrition/2015-2020-dietary-guidelines/guidelines/appendix-2/#table-a2-1
This link gives a recommended daily calorie intake for women over 50 as 1600/day, more depending on level of activity. .

The site is American, but I couldn’t find anything on the NHS website about recommended daily calorie for older women. All I could find was hints on how to maintain your weight in later life!