How much do you spend on food a week?

Around £30-40 a week. Make my own lunch to take in. Regarding dinner I'll often cook a roast chicken on the Sunday and make use of leftovers throughout the week. Works out alright...
 
Probably around £40, prep a lot of my own food and coffee so few costs outside the odd meal meal I grab during the week.
 
Shamefully, about 100~150 a week. 2 in the house but to be fair we buy a lot of pet biscuits and stuff too. We also end up chucking a lot out because we buy takeaways which is included in that amount. It also includes alcohol.

Hopefully this is going change dramatically though as the wife has recently found out she has an intolerance to yeast, so we're radically changing out diet.
 
Clov!s said:
I used to be stupid when buying food on the way to work, i'd have no problem buying a sandwich, crisps, chocolate and a drink everyday, if i remember it cost around £6, give or take a few pence.

Now i buy the rolls with cheese on top, 4 for 69p i think it is, slices of beef or ham, cheaper and just as filling.
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this.

I pick up a nice stick of bread, ham filler and make a baguette for work now. Ham and filler lasts a few days and the bread is 49p for what would be a nice sized large.
 
Around £25-30/wee on groceries with the cost going mostly towards meat(chicken/steak/minced beef) and 4 litres of milk.
I get free breakfast/lunch from work.
 
About £30 for myself including food for work.

I tend to buy expensive stuff though (Tesco Finest Bacon can't be beaten)

Though I freeze a lot and I will cook a lot at onces then divide it up into multiple meals.
 
Over the past 12 months I've averaged just under £17/week. That's for all my meals and toiletries.

It's pretty easy to do; I make my own lunches for work which saves a fair amount and I cook everything from scratch which makes meals cheap but good quality. I buy value products where I see no perceivable difference in quality, e.g., fresh carrots and potatoes, oats (£0.80/kg!), white flour, tinned tomatoes, frozen peas/sweetcorn etc because once cooked it tastes and looks the same - I grew up eating home-grown veg which is far nicer obviously.

I'm pretty savy and tend to stock up on meat and freeze it when on offer; I had about five chickens in my freezer once :o.

I probably eat better than most people I know to be fair :).
 
I don't understand how people spend so little.
Easily £100 a week just for myself. Been trying to get it down, but damn it's hard.
 
Glaucus said:
I don't understand how people spend so little.
Easily £100 a week just for myself. Been trying to get it down, but damn it's hard.
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Most people significantly underestimate how much they spend on groceries. Chances are most of those who think they spend <= £30 on food for a week are incorrect or simply trying to show off.
 
No, it's quite easy to eat reasonably for <£30/week if you live by yourself. Especially if you cook things that you can put portions of in the freezer so one thing may do you five or six meals and works out quite cheap. Take a sandwich to work for lunch and don't normally drink much (if at all) so not buying lots of booze and not buying lots of junk food. I'm not sure how you come up with that most people are underestimating how much they spend, I go to the supermarket once a week for a shop and maybe the corner shop midweek to grab a desert (<£3) and I know how much I spend ... and showing off for not spending much on food .... really?

If anything I'm not sure how someone could spend ~£100/week just on food unless they are eating out several times in that period. I used to spend more on food per week but even then would struggle to spend more that £40/week.
 
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