With so many popular fast food deals, curious to know how often the OzB community eats them? I'm thinking Domino's, KFC, Maccas, HJ's, Red Rooster, Oporto's, Pizza Hut.
I would probably include Subway, Nando's, Grill'd, Madmex & GYG too, although there may be much debate…
1-3 times per quarter
Its all expensive crap food from fast food stores so we make it fresh at home like pizza, hamburgers,yiros/kebab,sandwiches/rolls.
Better quality and taste if its made at home.
Not always better taste if made at home nor is it crap eating take away. Yes it is expensive.
For instance I tried to replicate Grill'd burger from home and it sucks.
Same with pizza. You can't really replicate a local pizza shop with their much better dough and better oven. Buy the time you buy all the decent ingredients it's costing over $20 to make a pizza plus oven time
You can't really replicate a local pizza shop with their much better dough
large bag of pizza flour makes plenty for cheap, 70% hydration 48/72 hours proofing 15 min heat up time 400c 3 to 4 min cooking time easy and delicious nice crisp chewy crust all with exactly the right amount of toppings
Nahh cant be done im telling ya
https://www.youtube.com/c/vitoiacopelli/videos
https://www.stadlermade.com/pizza-dough-calculator/
and i use this site for their thickness factor worksheet
https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=b95eov…
Alright you win on the pizza making part. Now I feel like a pizza :)
Better quality and taste if its made at home.
Mmmmm … for locally (your own produce) sourced ingredients yes, for supermarket bought ingredients not so sure.
supermarket bought ingredients not so sure.
Supermarkets have king prawns, leg bone ham, mozzarella, bocconcini, parmesan a variety of pepperoni, cabana, sausages, mettwurst, smoked cheese kranskys, bacon, onion, tomato, mushrooms, anchovies, olives plain or stuffed, capsicum, sauces and many more things you could ever want on a pizza. We don't think we miss out by having home made if anything its more gourmet than a pizza shop and it has the exact amount you want on it no to much not to little perfecto
Same with the crust thick and chewy or super thin and crispy or somewhere in between use oil in the crust or not, add sugar or not experimenter find what you like or what others like you cant get any more custom than that compared to the stuff churned out by the thousands at the local.
Dont get me wrong i still eat a good pizza shop pizza now and then but they are just production line pizzas nothing beats a custom pizza made to your exact specifications.
Try it one day
Does takeout from restaurants count? (Japanese etc)
Asking for a friend…
Might just stick to the fast food franchises for now. If you start including all takeout, it becomes a different poll…
In that case I’d change my vote if i could… but can’t.
Don’t eat much hjs maccas etc
Maybe once or twice a month
That junks as expensive as a real meal these days
I need to change my vote also. A few times per quarter for restaurant takeout, very rarely - probably never for fast food junk.
Whenever I think about how good KFC tasted, I remind myself of the grease dripping out of it. I'll never go back.
I'm a few sizes smaller after 9 months without that stuff. Minimal downside and huge upside to moving into the never/ rarely categories.
Anything you order is fast food.
Anything? So if you’re at an Italian restaurant and order slow cooked beef ragu with handmade pappardelle, you’d consider it fast food?
Yep, you not slow made it at home is it?
@boomramada: Just wanted to double check. Interesting that you classify anything from a $2 sausage sizzle at Bunnings to a 9 course degustation at Bennelong as fast food.
Yep, also cooked / soaked in seed oils :/
If any restaurant uses seed oil, it's just as bad for you ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM
The debate begins! 😂
Coles sells that for $2.50 a meal.
@askme69: So if it comes pre-packed by coles, or if you make it yourself from ingredients from coles, which do you consider as fast food?
@bitesized: Technical term for fast food would be commercially made food for mass. It doesn't matter slow cook, hand cook or machined or fried.
Usually they are bad for you as it easily accessible and some of the ingredients used to make them taste better.
But this all debatable.
Eg if you willing to make a big mac burger at home, you wouldn't be having it ever so often.
Not kfc
Strange definition.
I presume you mean takeout, because all eating out involves ordering, but not all eating out is fast food, right?
But an hour or two in a restaurant vs a few minutes at maccas surely aren't both fast food?
Maccas is still fast food whether you eat in or take out.
The restaurant doesn't become fast food just because you pre-ordered it for takeaway.
Just another vegan complaining about something
You're very narrow minded sir..
Umm what about raw diet? If you don't eat all whole vegan plant based food raw then you don't care about the environment or your health!
Some plant foods are more nutritious cooked, e.g. the lycopene in tomatoes more bioavailable when cooked.
Too busy to cook and there is a deal/promotional offer.
Almost everyday…..
Legit? Which are your go to’s and for which meals usually?
Usually maccas/hj's/subway/nandos which are within walking distance to me…. also local pizza/burger joints and kebab shops. I live alone so its usually for the sake of convenience. I am ashamed to admit but I haven't had a proper home cooked meal in a while.
Yea I probably ate more frequently when I was living by myself in uni too. Do encourage you to cook at least a meal or two a week though. Maybe invite friends over more often so it forces you to cook for them?
do you have frozen meals etc?
I used to eat out a fair bit living alone somtimes 2+ times per week. The rest would be heating up frozen veggies/can fish and frying up an egg. Or anything which can be cooked up in 15 min (e.g. steak/ salmon fillet)
@gimli: I'm lucky to have a wife who despises processed food. The convenience of junk food and frozen or packaged meals is a small price to pay for eating better.
Salmon, asparagus and broccolini is my go-to fast meal now.
For us, it's just a change to shopping regularly to always have fresh food instead of trying to shop in bulk.
Probably 4 times a year, roughly. Very rarely eat it. If we do go get fast food, only KFC or Hungry Jacks. Big family, so need a decent amount of food at decent-ish value.
Macca's is too small and quite a bit more expensive for what you get.
Does having snacks count? I often get mcflurry, frozen coke or frappe from maccas
If there were good Maccas/Hungries deals, I'd nearly go daily.
But generally only on weekends for lunch since I'm usually out and about, and even then I'd see what's on the apps and get the best deal.
Have to drive past so many other options before reaching a KFC/Macca or HJ that it is a very rare thing to frequent them. Most often use them when on a road trip as we stop for a splash of petrol and dash through the 'drive through'
Yea I reckon a fair few stop at them on road trips - mostly for convenience after having spent lots of time trying to pack the fam into the car.
Fast food is very expensive in Australia. When you go to places like the US where it is so so cheap its not surprising there is such an obesity problem over there.
It is but mainly due to the high cost of labour in oz. In the US the minimum wage is half and hence the cost of fast food follows…
In regional Victoria our healthier takeaway choices are very limited. Fish and chips or pizzas all we have in our town and their not very good at it either. If we are further away 4 towns over we have more options like sushi which my boys like. Otherwise we chuck something together from a supermarket if we are travelling somewhere.
Too often - I do wish I'd tried the spend $10 at Macca's comp (didn't list any prizes - was store manager's job to list 'em).
The Prado was won Very fast - thereby rendering entering a voucher/free food comp.
As last resort if cooking is out of the question.