Anonymous wrote:Is your cooking terrible?

This is immediately what I thought.

Is your cooking terrible?

Omg! It’s basically takeaway your money people!

Anonymous wrote:I’m canadian and we also say takeaway. I think it’s a British term and we are a commonwealth country. Maybe op is from the uk or just likes the term?? Let it go!

I'm also Canadian and have never said takeaway once in my life. I say takeout.

Takeaway? WTF? If you are on DCUM, I assume you are in the US. We say take out. Get with it.

Anonymous wrote:Whenever I ask my kids what they want for dinner they say take out. They would take out every night if they could. But we do it once, MAYBE twice a week as a family.

It IS a popular way of socializing. It's something they can do independently and generally can afford with their own cash, so I don't try to prevent that. Going out to eat is popular for adults too - he meets friends for a Jersey Mike's or something, and I'll meet a friend a Starbucks. Not so different.

I would imagine too that after a few years of restaurants and fast food places being with closed or limited eat-in dining, kids are making up for lost time. For well over a year in the DMV area, they couldn't even eat lunch together with friends in the school cafeteria.

My teens love to get take-out. We'll have a house full of food and they'll complain, "there's nothing here to eat!" Which actually means there's no Chipotle/Chik Fil A/Panda Express/Etc.

I'll treat them to takeout a fair number of times, and the cost is very high now. But they also go on their own (my college student will drive my HSer when he's home on breaks) and they have to pay for it themselves those times. My college student does appreciate the savings of a home-cooked meal and cooks a lot on his own in his college apartment. But my HSer would it take out just about every day if she could.

My 16y old kids have money from working over the summer, gifts, etc and if they choose to spend their money getting food when I have perfectly good food at home, that is their prerogative - but I am not funding it. We have had long conversations about spending/saving money and how that money could be better spent (they will be driving soon and expected to contribute to gas/insurance)

That being said, they can't drive yet, but can walk to several restaurants/fast food places near our house. I would say they get food 1-3x/week after school. I also want to know if they are not eating at home so I don't make a big dinner.

I would be annoyed by wasting money on the drink more than anything else. Water or whatever juice/soda is in the pantry should be fine.

Anonymous wrote:Can you say takeaway one more time? Please??

LOL