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Money · Takeaway audit
Takeaway Frequency Audit
Is the cost of delivery orders a genuine problem or a reasonable modern convenience? A verdict on your takeaway habit — without being preachy about it.
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Plain-English why
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What this means
This instrument starts blank so it does not judge a made-up example before you have entered your own situation.
Formula used
Takeaway burden = (annual spend / net income) × 100 vs lifestyle proportionality benchmark
Worked example
Ordering four times a week at £30 each on a household income of £35,000 net: £6,240/year or 18% of take-home. That crosses from convenience into a category worth examining.
Common questions
What counts as a takeaway?
Any delivered or collected food order — Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat, collected Chinese, local pizza. Not restaurant meals you sit down to eat.
What percentage of income is reasonable?
There's no universal answer — it depends on what other priorities you're managing. The tool flags when the percentage starts to compete with savings, rent, or other meaningful outgoings.
Plain-English summary
Fill in the questions on the left to generate a verdict card.
This section translates the result into a short, direct takeaway rather than leaving the page at a bare number.
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