Ok so last night my parents came back from holiday so had a big Family night as my brother and his family came up as well. As my parents had just flown in that day we ordered a Chinese take away. I was quite good and didn't have too much but boy oh boy... did I feel so ill after and so incredibly thirsty! It was all nice but not amazing, I would have been just as happy (if not happier) with a home made meal or something. I had Chicken Satay and Chicken Kung Po Chicken with Rice. I did go over my 1500 limit but I did plan ahead as I still had just over 750 calories left to use for the night and normally I only leave myself 500cals.
The good thing I am taking from it is that it has made me realise that I really don't like ready meals... I know a Chinese isn't a ready meal as such but its quick access food and it just doesn't do it for me. There was an article in the newspaper the other day that the average Briton eats up to 12 takeaways a month and spends on average £1320 a year on takeaways. That is crazy! Biggy and I very very rarely eat takeaways or ready meals, I would say on average we probably have a takeaway/readymeal on average about once every three months if that. I know that often people don't feel like cooking especially if you are cooking for just you but it is so easy to make fresh healthy meals from scratch with minimum prep and low cost. Our easy meal is a salmon fillet which you buy at the fish counter, you ask them to out in the the " ready for oven" bags with a bit of seasoned butter, shove it in the oven for 20 minutes, boil some pasta and when cooked mix up some pesto in with it... DONE... you have a lovely salmon fillet with pesto pasta and minimum effort. All of that is also probably cheaper than a take away...god knows how much it all cost last night as we ordered about 20 dishes (my father and brother always go a bit overboard!) Going forward next time my parents order a takeaway I will just go for a Soup ...something that's not bright orange or full of oil!
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