Papa Murphy's bake at home pizza! Canadian bacon, pineapple tidbits, black olives. Sublime.

Mine will always be pizza...yeasty dough, no tomato sauce, cheese, onions, bell peppers and mushrooms. Also, I recently discovered a small chain restaurant that makes terrific fish tacos with a delicious slaw. It's a good thing it's not in my immediate neighborhood as I would be tempted to eat there at least once per week.

Take away is rare in our house. Maybe twice or three times a year and almost always Indian or Thai. Occasionally Turkish or Chinese. Never pizza. If we eat it we do so in the restaurant so it's straight out of the oven.

It would have to be teriyaki chicken from a restaurant, but I'm more likely to buy something easy from Trader Joe's, like Mandarin Orange Chicken, or Chicken Soup Dumplings, or their Sous Vide Chicken Thighs and a ready made salad.

Take away here is zero. I have a dish we call tired chicken. It's a chicken thigh seasoned, sprinkled with garlic and parsley 5 mins before the end of cooking. Cook until skin crispy and serve with oven chips. Simples! LOL

Top 5 take out?

1. Grimaldis pizza with bacon and meatballs (or any NY style pizza instead)

2. Thai noodles

3. Fried chicken

4. Chinese food

5. Ribs, wings, or chicken from Costco - whichever looks best

We do take-out often on Friday nights. Usually Mexican, Italian, Chinese or Mediterranean. All from small, close by places we like. Far from fancy but very good.

Taco Bell! Buuuuuut....we don't bring it home. We keep Tina's Burritos in the freezer for a quick meal. 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️

Let see, pizza for sure. We have a few local places that are really good. Mexican. Wingstop when we want absolute junk that is fast and good. SO likes Captain Ds. I do not like fish so not for me. There is a small BBQ place on the way home from one of the places SO delivers to, and it has enough room to park his 18 wheeler. They have the BEST cheeseburgers. So anytime he goes that way if they are open, he gets us cheeseburgers from there. For breakfast on a morning where i do not have time to get home from work and cook before SO leaves, McDonalds or Hardees.

When my kitchen counters are all clear, I love a takeout sushi/sashimi boat , wonderful splurge! That's what I had on mothers day. It gives me a respite from not only cooking but the ubiquitous cleaning.

Another occasional splurge , I loooove southern comfort food from Mama Carol's Soulfood - a local restaurant and she does it from scratch every day but it's across town so sometimes we indulge in Texas Roadhouse because it's closer.

All of those plastic containers do seem wasteful, but I do repurpose them when we have dinner parties to send home leftovers for our friends (we put on a southern feast back in March, dh made a full brisket, I did green beans with hamhock, friends brought other sides - leftovers for a week!)

I very seldom get take out and I don't like any of it very much, it has to be dire circumstances before I cave in.

I usually have one chili cheese dog at A&W per year with a root beer, but it gives me terrible heartburn so I have to convince myself it's worth it before I do it.

We live nearly 10 miles from the nearest grocery store and about 15 from any burger joint/pizza parlor/etc. so it's less time and work to just find something for supper than it is to drive that 20 miles round trip. There is no Indian/Thai/Mediterranean/etc available even if I drive into our small town, although there is plenty of fast food. Anything more exotic than KFC or Taco Bell requires a 50 mile one way trip. When I lived in my prior house we had a vibrant migrant community working on the farms so lots of freshly made tortillas, empanadas, tamales, rellenos, etc. Here everything is centered on the college students so lots of beer, wings and marijuana dispensaries.

Annie