How much do you spend on food shopping per week
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How expensive is expensive though, and where do you buy it?
Local butchers, £70 for a rib of beef is not unheard of.
£35 max
I live alone, with GF eating at mine once or twice a week and I get stuff from M&S, Co-op and Iceland. I eat 5 a day at least 3 times a week and always make sure I have fish at least once a week.
We will usually have one meal out a week too which costs between £18-£25 and take turns paying.
I live alone, with GF eating at mine once or twice a week and I get stuff from M&S, Co-op and Iceland. I eat 5 a day at least 3 times a week and always make sure I have fish at least once a week.
We will usually have one meal out a week too which costs between £18-£25 and take turns paying.
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Easily. As I say, me and my GF spend about £50 a week between the two of us, and that's not really skimping on anything. If you buy fruit and veg from the market, buy all fresh ingredients and no microwave type meals it's quite easy. Also as mentioned, we write out the weeks menu which means that we only buy what we need and hardly waste anything. Anything left over we freeze which makes a meal later in the week. Its perfectly possible to live very healthily on £20-£25 a week per person.
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I spend £50-60 a week. Every meal has protein, lots of chicken, some beef, cheese etc. I could easily spend more on better quality products but it's a compromise between getting the nutrition I want and not ending up broke.
As for money saving, buy cheaper cuts of meat but cook them appropriately, buy frozen chicken (just the same as the stuff in the "fresh" trays), learn to cook simple, tasty food using cheap herb and spices instead of buying cooking sauces and the like and put your snobery aside and give the cheaper brands a try
As for money saving, buy cheaper cuts of meat but cook them appropriately, buy frozen chicken (just the same as the stuff in the "fresh" trays), learn to cook simple, tasty food using cheap herb and spices instead of buying cooking sauces and the like and put your snobery aside and give the cheaper brands a try
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Around £150/day depending on how many celebrities are visiting, my personal shopper will only purchase garden-fresh, organic produce 
About £100 a week for a family of four.
A week?!
Probably £400 - £500. That's for a family of 4.
A week?!
Its easy to eat without spending fortunes, £30 a week should be doable per person, we don't always use every thing so theirs always stuff in the cupboards which helps keep next weeks bill down aswell.
I heard a saying on Tv, cant quite remember what show it was on but it made sense.
We eat to live, we do not live to eat!
I heard a saying on Tv, cant quite remember what show it was on but it made sense.
We eat to live, we do not live to eat!
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me and the misses seem to average about £35 a week, we don't eat badly, but we don't drink excessively either...
Between £45 - £50 (which includes food for lunch at work for us both) a week for me and my gf, we set out a menu for the week too and stick to it. Hardly any waste either this way
Don't want to be spending too much on food when it could go on gadgets
Don't want to be spending too much on food when it could go on gadgets
This is so similar to what me and my GF do, write out a menu for the week, averages around 50 quid.