Takeaway-loving Brits are racked with guilt when they order fast food as prices soar during cost of living crisis
TAKEAWAY-loving Brits are choked with guilt when they order fast food as prices rocket, a Sun on Sunday poll has found.
Our researchers discovered 70 per cent now feel bad after getting a curry, pizza, Chinese, fish and chips or other takeaway favourite.
Of those, 76 per cent said they now feel takeaways are not worth the money and the cash should be spent more wisely because of the cost of living crisis.
Eight out of ten people also said they are conscious of over-spending on grub because of rising food and energy bills.
Glaswegians suffer the most with takeaway guilt with 80 per cent having feelings of remorse for not being more thrifty.
Some 77 per cent of people from Southampton said the same, with 75 per cent of those from Belfast saying they think twice before ordering.
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A further 72 per cent of people from Bristol, Norwich and Sheffield said they were also burdened with feelings of guilt while tucking into a takeaway.
Seventy-one per cent of Londoners felt shame, as did 70 per cent of Geordies and 69 per cent of people from Cardiff and Manchester.
Meal kit company Hello Fresh asked 16,882 adults how their food habits and feelings have changed during the cost of living crisis.
Spokeswoman Mimi Morley said: “Many of us feel guilty ordering a takeaway, but this has become amplified with the rise in the cost of living and inflation.”