Moving in with the missus for the first time

I'll probably get shot down for this, but do part of your shopping at Aldi.

You will save some money by doing that, we buy bread, milk, drinks (non-alcoholic), cereal and cleaning products, I think that's it.

This has saved us around £5 - £10 per week, and we can't really tell the difference apart from the label is different! It all adds up at the end of the day.

Also I forgot to mention on my last post good luck!
 
Black Dynamite said:
I'll probably get shot down for this, but do part of your shopping at Aldi.

You will save some money by doing that, we buy bread, milk, drinks (non-alcoholic), cereal and cleaning products, I think that's it.

This has saved us around £5 - £10 per week, and we can't really tell the difference apart from the label is different! It all adds up at the end of the day.

Also I forgot to mention on my last post good luck!
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Ah thanks pal. And I personally dont mind Aldi but I don't think theres one near me :(
 
Black Dynamite said:
I'll probably get shot down for this, but do part of your shopping at Aldi.

You will save some money by doing that, we buy bread, milk, drinks (non-alcoholic), cereal and cleaning products, I think that's it.

This has saved us around £5 - £10 per week, and we can't really tell the difference apart from the label is different! It all adds up at the end of the day.

Also I forgot to mention on my last post good luck!
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Not at all, it's a very good suggestion. What a lot of people don't realise is that a lot of the products you buy in Aldi are the same premium products you'll find in other retail outlets, just with different packaging/branding on them and at half the price, more in some cases.
 
Efour2 said:
i spend about £250 a day on food, mostly flown in from Jersey or i have a boy fetch it down from my estate in the highlands.

Some of you guys are total peasants, you sicken me,.
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Haha I was just about to say, I stuff was that cheap here.
 
It is kind of depressing put it all together and working out how much it all costs.
Moving in sis soon and I will be paying £520 a month but that is all bills and rent included. Then I have my own out goings gym, phone, kick boxing, car, food etc.. will leave me with around £200 odd a month left over to myself urgh. Not a great deal really when you add in a car service or bike bam that is all gone :/
When I budgeted I thought hmm £160 a month of food should be doable, £40 per week for me. Then I realised I wasn't including all the other stuff that goes with it, luckily I looked in here as I forgot kitchen, bathroom stuff etc.. as well.
 
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Me and fiancée are moving into our first home next month we have budgeted a bit more on everything 'just incase'.

We spend about £60 a week on food. Not sure why all these people are telling you your budget for food. You do the shopping and no what you get...


We have a combined income of about £3500 and have budgeted about £1600 for everything needed.
 
MrFeathers said:
cleaning products, toiletries, other misc groceries.. it all adds up, £250 is not enough unless you are going to be really miserly
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really miserly?

How much are you betting that I can't get a half decent shop for the week on £29, that includes some cleaning products and toiletries?

Not sure what misc is, if misc is a crate of beer and 4 bottles of wine, then no, I couldnt

£58 for 2 people will be easy...

Just done a quick tesco shop that came to £58 and covered fruit, veg, salad, mince, chicken, fish (salmon) tinned tuna, eggs, cereal, milk, pasta, rice, cleaning products and toiletries. I over bought most things too (7 tins of tuna, 1kg of chicken, 15 eggs, 2 packs of steak mince, 9 pack of toilet roll) pasta, rice, shampoo and tooth paste will last longer than a week too

There are clearly some idiots on ocuk that don't know how to budget (or just eat beluga caviar every night)
 
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What about takeaways and eating out? I mean, I'm sure you could live off food purely bought from the supermarket and made fresh, but what about times when you fancy a starbucks or a snack at work? What about those days when you're in a rush and have to buy lunch out? Things soon add up to more than simply a grocery shop.
 
Take aways would come out of our funds that are left over, if we ever did decide on having one. We'd probably only have it when we had company thus splitting the cost.

It's all about packed lunches...
 
DanTheMan said:
What about takeaways and eating out? I mean, I'm sure you could live off food purely bought from the supermarket and made fresh, but what about times when you fancy a starbucks or a snack at work? What about those days when you're in a rush and have to buy lunch out? Things soon add up to more than simply a grocery shop.
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Restaurants, alcohol and other can come out of saving money
 
£250 a month on shopping is easily done between two people, we can manage it & i'm mega picky with foods, i won't touch "rola cola" type stuff with a barge pole. The only time it's difficult is when I want to do a full sunday dinner and we don't have much of what is needed already in.

Our alcohol & takeaways comes from a seperate fund, but otherwise it's easy, that includes feeding 2 cats & a dog too.
 
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