Take out is always a good option, no is perfect! Plus it’s fun to treat yourself! I’m in the middle of finals and am getting take out way more than usual, it’s just so much less time consuming!

I haven’t gotten takeout in over a decade. I know this because my husband and I were still living in Chicago at the time. 1999.

I just…don’t do it.

If that’s your worst ‘vice’, I say..enjoy it!

Take out is a necessity occasionally in our household with two kids under three. I need a break sometimes! 🙂 Our favorite is either Thai or a local fresh mex place.

You deserve a break once in a while!

I would give an appendage for a Thai takeout place close by. We have to drive 20 minutes for the nearest one. So, so sad.

We are seriously spoiled here in SF, as most places that do takeout also deliver! My favorite delivery foods are Vietnamese and Thai. Thai — chicken with yellow curry and green beans and jasmine rice (less healthy) or tom yum soup with tofu and veggies (more healthy). Vietnamese — either pho ga or a grilled pork rice place with tons of extra pickled carrots and daikon on the side. Yum.

I haven’t had take-out in years! That’s simply because the options in our little village are so terrible. Everything is greasy, salty, and full of additives. Yuck!
So I’d rather make myself a sandwich or raid the freezer for leftovers if I don’t want to cook, which doesn’t happen that often anyway.

Okay this is admittedly lame, but for both hubster and I the favorite takeout is soup! There is a place not too far from us that has 16 soups daily and my homemade soup can NOT compare to the amazing ness that there soup is. Plus hubster = meat and potato guy (he usually gets the steak bomb soup) and I am veg (I always get the tomato) so its easy yummy and cheap!

We order Indian quite a bit because Indian food is so hard to cook with all the spices!

I know exactly what you mean! The takeout craving is especially bad when I’m busy and don’t want to actually spend time cooking my food.

When my husband and I get takeout, we do some of the same things you mentioned. Especially swapping the rice… much to my chagrin since I really love fried rice!

So glad I found your blog 🙂 Can’t wait to read more about your life and how you make healthy decisions. I’m trying to get healthier in preparation for pregnancy and it’s been hard since I genuinely LOVE food. I mean, I mostly even blog about food, haha. Also, I gained 15 pounds for no reason that I can tell and my clothes all fit the same. It’s just on the scale! Anyway, I was wondering what you do about the scale. It’s really frustrating to see my healthy changes reflected by an increasing number even if I’m not actually getting bigger, and I was thinking about getting rid of it completely. But I need advice!

Pei Wei. It’s beautiful.

Still looking for a place around here that serves brown rice instead of white but I like the steamed veggies and shrimp and then add my own sauce to it!

I love to order Indian food, Sag Paneer to be exact! My mind was blown when I found out most Indian places do take out. I haven’t exactly tried to make it any healthier though…I could skip the naan I guess, but who doesn’t love nann? I guess my compromise when I do order it, is that I don’t do it very often.

There’s a great restaurant outside my building that’s a lunch favorite. They have salads, wraps and soup/noodle bowls. You pick your base (lettuce/spinach, rice, noodles, broth or a tortilla) then layer on the toppings – a MASSIVE salad is around $7-$9 depending on if I add avocado and kalamatas (which of course I do) and the staff is so friendly. It’s 100% customizable, so it’s great for vegetarian/vegan fare as well as carnivores! At home we love Costa Vida – the vegetarian salad is like crack to me. And who can forget pizza….oh pizza 🙂

My husband and I almost never get takeout. Not for any healthiness reasons, but actually out of convenience. Sounds opposite, doesn’t it? We just always find that in the amount of time it takes to get to a takeout place, order, and wait for our food (even if we actually called the order in ahead of time), we could have made food at home. And it’s just so rare that takeout tastes as good or better than our homemade meals, so it just ends up being a waste of money and time (and I *hate* sitting around waiting for food to be made at the takeout place or waiting for delivery. That waiting is such misery for me because the only days we consider takeout are the busiest days when I’m starving!).

I know it sounds so backwards, but on nights that we’re tempted to get takeout, we usually just give up and made a quick simple home meal. Maybe if we had faster/cheaper takeout places, we’d be more tempted? But darn, your takeout always sounds so good!

No place near me does takeout that I know of. Nothing that would have gluten-free options at that. I did get a gluten-free pizza a few days ago, but I think they must have contaminated it somehow because I’m still suffering the ill effects, ugh.

I’m not sure if this counts, but I love take-out sushi from the Japanese market. Or pizza delivery. Other that that, I will usually just go to the restaurant instead of getting take-out.

My favorite takeout is Chipotle. I get a burrito bowl, lots of veggies, brown rice now that they have it, and skip the cheese (although I do like a little sour cream) to make it a little healthier (the tortilla itself is almost 300 calories!). Can’t give up the carnitas though. It is more caloric/higher in fat and sodium than I’d usually have for lunch, but not awful like many fast food places. Or we get pizza and I throw together a salad for the side.

I’d say we do takeout maybe once a week, usually for a weekend lunch or Sunday night dinner if we’ve been traveling (or partying too hard hah). I try to cook 5 nights a week, always w/ leftovers for lunch. Then we eat out at better restaurants for date nights and fun with friends the the other 2 nights.