The web...friend of all those for whom leaving the house is the very last resort, only to be attempted in times of great trouble and strife. One obvious service you don't traditionally get so much via the web though is instant(ish) food to your door. Plenty of takeaways to phone (remember the old days when you had to speak to people? When you dialled numbers rather than Google?), but not so many to click your mouse at in the UK; especially for those outside the capital city of London.

Maybe things are changing with just-eat.co.uk. Not that it's especially new, but it seems recently more restaurants have been added around the UK. True you probably still need to be in a city most often, but go try the postcode search and see what you get.

Basically you sign up, it will show you your local takeaways and provide an online menu to pick and choose from (yes - no more do you have to repeatedly shout "pepperoni" down the phone as some slightly deaf teenager on a bad phone can't quite make you out and then you get a chicken flavour pizza anyway). Pay by credit or debit card, choose - depending on establishment - whether you want to pick it up or have it delivered and sit back and relax.

Once you've done it a few times and chosen your favourites you can apparently use 1-click re-ordering. Mmm. Other advantages include the promise of special offers, and the accumulation of "points" which you can exchange for slightly lame baseball hats and the like at present.

Small bonus: a competition is running at the moment to win £500 of pizza. Yum. To enter, go to their main page, and enter the following code into the competition box at the bottom of the screen: 1100010.

If you want to be especially nice to the Poorhouse, sign up to their site initially by clicking on this link which gives us 5000 points after you make your first order and costs you nothing more. But if doing favours like that is against your principles, then just go via the standard http://www.just-eat.co.uk/ link.

Bonus for money saving professionals: They're on Quidco! Yes, you can get 4% cashback on your orders here if you're a Quidco member (and if you're not, you should make yourself one). The Poorhouse is not aware however if the online prices are the same as the offline ones at this point. This is a service the restaurant has to sign up to so it is possible you might be paying a premium - anyone with the knowledge do let the Poorhouse know.

If our treasured Kat comes this way a-reading then if this is not how you get crispy shredded beef delivered to your door via Quidco then do feel free to enlighten the nation below.