The Beautiful British Takeaway

Week 5 : The Beautiful British Takeaways

You know the scenario all too well, you start out on Monday with a determined spring in your step, then by Wednesday you're feeling a little bit stressed out, the family are camped out in front of yet another midweek must watch football match and you're getting hot & bothered in the kitchen.

Then by Friday YOU want a night off to celebrate the end of another exhausting week, and so the family agrees that a takeaway is just what the doctor ordered. To cheers all round you order your Chinese / Indian Takeaway or pop to the local chippie and join the queue ( because there is always a queue on a Friday night ) and then for a family for four you fork out anything in the region of £ 20 -£ 30 on a takeaway.

Coincidence or not, the takeaway is next to the local off licence so you will call back for your takeaway in a little while and nip into the shop to buy a bottle of wine ( or 3 for a tenner ) to wash it all down with.

Now, I am not against the odd takeaway now and again, but my mini survey recently showed this as WEEKLY in many households, sometimes TWICE a week or more. I recently wrote an article about this challenge and my waistline, which is shrinking week by week as a result of just trimming my food bill.

If you think about the portion size of a takeaway ( which we eat whether we are male or female for some reason ) then you can see how by reducing the amount of huge takeaways you consume each month, one major benefit will be losing weight.

We are drawn to takeaways for the fast food factor, which by the time you get in your car, drive to the cash point, collect the takeaway, visit the corner shop then come back home is stretching the title of fast food a little far, they are fast food when you unwrap and eat none the less.

My idea of Fast Food was turned upside down for good on a visit to the Good Food Show LIVE at the NEC one year and witnessed Madhur Jeffrey cook curry and rice from scratch in less than fifteen minutes in front of the gathered, gob smacked audience. What's more, my sample tasted absolutely delicious and I have never thought about fast food in the same way since.

For the purpose of the challenge we are going to make a saving on two takeaways per month ( plus that £10 extra on each trip for the wine! )

That alone, using £20 per takeaway plus £10 for the wine, twice a month = a saving for the Freedom Payment of £ 60 per month.

Any savings that you make should be added to your Freedom Payment each month and used to Pay Off Your Mortgage in 3 Years or Less. Anything else & it simply will not work.