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How to stop weeknight takeaways — UK 5pm rescue plan
Takeaway is not a treat when it is the default. Keep a freezer backup that beats the app.
Seven moves. Beat the delivery fee.
- Name the trigger. Usually hunger plus decision fatigue at 5pm. Not laziness.
- Backup tea list. Three freezer meals you actually like. Not sad diet food.
- App off home Wi-Fi. Delete or log out of delivery apps on the house tablet.
- 20-minute rule. If dinner can be hot in 20, the app loses.
- Shop the backups. Frozen gyoza, fish fingers, tortellini. Own brand.
- Friday treat slot. One planned takeaway. Guilt-free. Rest of week protected.
- Printable teas. School-Night Teas Under 30 removes the 5pm decision.