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I don't freeze any meats i only eat unfrozen meats. I eat steak once a week, £6. The only Frozen food i eat is chips and icecream everything else is fresh food, well non frozen. Frozen lasagne? does not sound nice at all. I do buy a nice lasaange from M&s cost about £6 with some garlic bread £1.50, that's £7.5 meal.

Nice steak meal for £10? what is this 1976?

arknor said:
your buying stuff like ready meals for £2-3 each?
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I don't eat ready meal, well only for lunch sometimes, ill buy the m&s pasta meals. If i have a pub lunch at work then ill only have a small pasta in the evenings or something like that.
 
anything I don't mind said:
I don't freeze any meats i only eat unfrozen meats. I eat steak once a week, £6. The only Frozen food i eat is chips and icecream everything else is fresh food, well non frozen. Frozen lasagne? does not sound nice at all. I do buy a nice lasaange from M&s cost about £6 with some garlic bread £1.50, that's £7.5 meal.

Nice steak meal for £10? what is this 1976?



I don't eat ready meal, well only for lunch sometimes, ill buy the m&s pasta meals. If i have a pub lunch at work then ill only have a small pasta in the evenings or something like that.
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What a strange post
 
anything I don't mind said:
I think bulky is being very optimistic and good luck to him with his house purchase would like to know how he gets on.
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I probably am being optimistic. I accept that. It might take me another 6 months, maybe a year and another payrise. But way I look at it most of the ground work is done by that point.

Please don't take it as an attack. Hats off to you, you are enjoying yourself and thats the main thing. I wish I could go out more (I don't think I do too badly anyways, but who wouldnt wanna go out more?). Wish I could spend more on alcohol (I rarely have any laying around at home)

Main factor is enjoying life. I use to have more fun. But I viewed saving for a house a a short term hinderence for a long term benefit. It's all personal preference.

I could spend all this time saving, get a house, and then markets crash and I am out of pocket and had less fun than I otherwise would have doing so...
 
anything I don't mind said:
I eat steak once a week, £6.
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Nice steak meal for £10? what is this 1976?
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Quoted for some irony.

Dude, stop saying Peasant food. £50 a week is my shopping for food budget for missus and I. We shop a combination of Aldi and local grocers / butchers right outside my work.

Home cooking, bulk and left overs - when stored and reheated correctly is enough to make most people jealous when I reveal my food budget. All my meats are fresh too.

Cutting your alcohol down by half will also help save more than what you can with food.
 
anything I don't mind said:
I bet you realy don't save that much money thinking you are cool eating beans on toast every night. You not healthy eating like a poor man i can tell you that much. You may die tomorrow and you look back and all you ate was peasant food, well done to you.
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Actually from what you have said I eat much better than you, because like most people I can cook properly and am not lazy :P


anything I don't mind said:
So what you save 200? 300 per month on food? big deal not going to buy you a house.
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Actually that would pay off a 20 year mortgage on a small house :P
 
anything I don't mind said:
I don't freeze any meats i only eat unfrozen meats. I eat steak once a week, £6. The only Frozen food i eat is chips and icecream everything else is fresh food, well non frozen. Frozen lasagne? does not sound nice at all. I do buy a nice lasaange from M&s cost about £6 with some garlic bread £1.50, that's £7.5 meal.

Nice steak meal for £10? what is this 1976?



I don't eat ready meal, well only for lunch sometimes, ill buy the m&s pasta meals. If i have a pub lunch at work then ill only have a small pasta in the evenings or something like that.
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did you ever ask the weatherspoon woman out?
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18612170&page=5
 
Mr Jones said:
Quoted for some irony.

Dude, stop saying Peasant food. £50 a week is my shopping for food budget for missus and I. We shop a combination of Aldi and local grocers / butchers right outside my work.

Home cooking, bulk and left overs - when stored and reheated correctly is enough to make most people jealous when I reveal my food budget. All my meats are fresh too.

Cutting your alcohol down by half will also help save more than what you can with food.
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No he said he could do a 5 person steak meal for £10. that is what i was saying was not possible.

£50 a week for food and that is including cleaning products and toiletries, for two people?

I would like to see what types of meals you guys eat for interest sake and how much time you spend cooking.
 
anything I don't mind said:
No he said he could do a 5 person steak meal for £10. that is what i was saying was not possible.
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Nah - family of 4, two of which are under-5 so don't get through much steak. We're talking about ~1.5lb of good quality sirloin from the butcher served with something potato based, with veg. Will cost £10-£12 all in.
 
Cooking is not difficult, its not some secret talent. You just put things in to the oven or frying pan and stand around. The arrogance of some people who cook is ott. They call people who rather get a fish and chips from the ship lazy when they spend about the same amount making fish and chips from the supermarket and lose an hour of their time in the process.
 
anything I don't mind said:
Cooking is not difficult, its not some secret talent. You just put things in to the oven or frying pan and stand around.
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Nothing is difficult if you know how but it doesn't mean it'll taste good. Are you surprised the amount that can't make an egg? Let alone some people throwing bacon in the microwave, ugh.

Some people class rubbery or burnt good.

The arrogance of some people who cook is ott. They call people who rather get a fish and chips from the ship lazy when they spend about the same amount making fish and chips from the supermarket and lose an hour of their time in the process.
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Convenience or discipline?
 
anything I don't mind said:
No he said he could do a 5 person steak meal for £10. that is what i was saying was not possible.

£50 a week for food and that is including cleaning products and toiletries, for two people?

I would like to see what types of meals you guys eat for interest sake and how much time you spend cooking.
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Toiletries and cleaning product do not add up to more than £30 a month for 2 of us. We bulk buy stuff when they're on offers, e.g spending £21 on Sennex shower gel to last us for over a year thus far (2 for £3, we got 14)

Anyway, I cook nearly everyday on one week when the missus is home to dine with me. The other week is reheating bulk cooked meals that was usually done on a weekend - Beef Chilli, Bolognaise, lasagne are the best for frozen and either dinged or oven (Lasagne especially).

Cook times are never more than an hour around the kitchen. I am Orient, so I do a lot of Chinese Stir Fries, Japanese (not just Sushi) and Malaysian Curries. Cheap cuts of meat makes great curries.

I also use slow cooker for casserole or stew, always cooking for 4 so I have extra portions for next day or week. I rarely cook for 1 or 2 now as it works out best for time cooking to cost of raw materials.

Hope this gives you some ideas. I did the same when I was a student and working only in the holidays, managed to live on student loan without a problem. My housemates give me cooking duties too because I was better at organising it than them.

Hope this gives you some ideas.
 
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See now i don't reheat any food as i find that not very nice. Each to their own i guess.

Either way i don't think an extra £300 per month is going to make any difference to my housing situation. Plus i get to eat nice food and waste as little time as possible cooking.

I'm more focused on reducing my debt to 0 then finding additional income streams.

Back to housing. There is definitely a housing shortage, even if there are houses available the shortage comes in affordability and value for money. If there are 1000 houses available at out of reach prices then they are not realy available.
 
anything I don't mind said:
Is that including all your toiletries and cleaning products and so on, as well as the alcohol and sodas (if you drink them) Is that including lunch as well?
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We don't drink poison, sorry I mean alcohol. Yes, includes toiletries, but we bulk buy those at the beginning of the year (they don't have BB dates ;-)).

This is my shopping from last week, £73 in total

1kg cod steaks
20 Thick Pork Sausages
12 Chocolate Mousse
16 Toasting Waffles
24 Baps
2 Loaves Wholemeal bread
Brussels With Garlic
Iceberg Lettuce
Butter Me Up Original Spread 1Kg
500g steak mince
18 Cereal Bars
8 pints Skimmed Milk
1kg cornflakes
English Mustard 100G
2l orange juice
White Potatoes 2.5Kg
Brussels Sprouts 1Kg
500g seedless grapes
12 Free Range Eggs
Baby Carrots 1Kg
2l Apple Juice
Smoked Salmon Slices 300G
1kg corned beef
No added sgr Apple & Blackcurrant Sqsh 1.5l
Smoked Thick Cut Back Bacon 600g
6 Tiger Rolls
1kg Davidstow Cornish Classic Mature Cheddar
8 Pack Sausage Rolls
3kg fuseli Pasta
2kg chicken breasts
1kg tomatoes
1kg onions
1kg carrots
Ham 364G
Closed Cup Mushrooms 300G
8 Coca-Cola Coke Zero 1.75L
12 Fromage Frais Strawberry
5 pizza bases
Coriander
500g stewing steak
1kg lasagne slices
1kg white flour
750g leeks
1kg long grain rice
300g soured cream
1.2kg chicken thighs
1kg tuna steaks
 
I don't know UK supermarket prices but my feeling is it is comparable to US prices:
Minced beef, chicken, pork, stewing beef etc are $2-3 a lb, a quarter lb of meat is sufficient in a meal.

Carrots, celery, onions, turnips, beans, broccoli, courgettes etc. are all dirt cheap, around $1-2 lb. As are lentils, dried beans, pulses, tinned beans, frozen vegtables, apples, bananas, porridge oats, rice, pasta, flour, milk....
Buy all spices and herbs in bulk from Asian markets.


You can eat really really well for next to nothing.
 
See now as single person most of that food would go off before i could use it. I would end up having to freeze everything and that just sucks. Id much rather spend £5 on a tandori chicken from my local indian place than have to have a freezer full of frozen chicken that i then have to defrost, spice and then cook. You see why i opt to just ordering a half chicken from indian place? Plus my chicken would never taste as good as the one from indian place. It would be fine to eat but not the same as a tandori oven with all the spices.

http://www.gurufood.co.uk/Aroma/index.php/tandoori-specialities/tandoori-chicken.html

This half chicken is one of the best ive ever had.

D.P. said:
I don't know UK supermarket prices but my feeling is it is comparable to US prices:
Minced beef, chicken, pork, stewing beef etc are $2-3 a lb, a quarter lb of meat is sufficient in a meal.

Carrots, celery, onions, turnips, beans, broccoli, courgettes etc. are all dirt cheap, around $1-2 lb. As are lentils, dried beans, pulses, tinned beans, frozen vegtables, apples, bananas, porridge oats, rice, pasta, flour, milk....
Buy all spices and herbs in bulk from Asian markets.


You can eat really really well for next to nothing.
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That is subjective, guy saying he eats well goes on to explain what he eats and most of the nights he is reheating food from previous meals. Probably rarely eats any red meats and uses all cheap frozen meats. Just by adding loads of veg to everything imo is not eating well. But whatever i have no problem with how anyone wants to eat, i am just saying that me spending less on food is not going to allow me to buy a house any sooner.
 
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