With January coming to an end, our waistlines still engorged after the fun of Christmas festivities, and our purses well and truly stretched there's an everyday household solution to our woes.
According to one dietitian the humble microwave is actually ''better for your health'' because it encourages us to make food with less oil especially when it comes to the latest 'fakeaway' trend.
As well as reducing calories by cooking up healthier versions of our favourite takeaways, using a microwave cuts costs from ordering that Friday night binge.
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Dietitian Juliette Kellow, who teamed up with Panasonic to promote their new combi-oven, explained how our overall health can suffer due to the large amounts of calories, fat and salt hidden in takeaway meals.
"Microwaving food helps to keep it moist without the need for oil. That’s great news for waistlines and for hearts, as for every less tablespoon of oil you use, you save 100 calories and 11g of fat."
For example, a typical serving of beef, green peppers and black bean sauce with fried rice from a Chinese takeaway has 1,386 calories, 48g fat and 10.7g salt, while a chicken korma with pilau rice from an Indian takeaway has 1,595 calories, 76g fat and 3.8g salt.
"Compare this with health guidelines, which recommend a maximum of 2,000 calories, 70g fat and 6g salt a day, and it’s easy to see how frequent indulgence in takeaways can have a dramatic impact on our weight and health," she added.
As well as the usual tricks to lower calories, Kellow also suggests choosing lean cuts of meat, opting for fish instead of red meat and using natural yogurt instead of cream are all easy ways to cut calories and fat.
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Avoiding a takeaway order also means you can control your portion size as more often than not your local restaurant tends to serve you portions that far exceed recommended serving sizes.
The enormous portions that we don't get through also means we end up throwing away more food than we could ever eat.
According to Love Food Hate Waste, we throw away a massive five million tonnes of perfectly good food a year – which is enough to fill nine Wembley stadiums or 100 Royal Albert Halls.
It’s equal to a typical family with children binning around eight meals a week and putting £70 of food that could easily have been eaten in the bin each month – that’s a huge waste of £840 a year or £8,400 in a decade.
When it comes to what we’re putting in the bin, it’s estimated that 25 per cent is leftovers, where we’ve cooked or served too much, while 41 per cent comes from food we’ve not used in time, that has become mouldy, mushy or rotten, or has passed its use-by date.
A new report also found the average household in the UK spends £38 a month on takeaways – that’s £456 a year or a staggering £4,560 in a decade.
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