How much do you spend on food a week?
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How much do I spend and how much do I expense would have big influence. I guess my wife and I with shopping, lunches and dining out spend around £150-£200 a week on food. If I add on business lunches and dinners it can easily move to 4 figures.
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About £300-£350 a month.
On average about £50 a week but we buy our meat from online butchers and not supermarket.
We don't smoke or drink so that keeps the bill down.
Always make lunch so never have to buy it. Works out to be significantly cheaper.
On average about £50 a week but we buy our meat from online butchers and not supermarket.
We don't smoke or drink so that keeps the bill down.
Always make lunch so never have to buy it. Works out to be significantly cheaper.
Rubbish ? Why ? That is what we pay. Do you want me to break it down for you ?
My wife has a lot of eating issues and is very 'slight'. She lives on a few squares of choc for breakfast and through the morning (8 max I think). No lunch and then for tea she has some potatoes with some swede. This is every day , every week , every year. Not bothered whether you believe me or not , this is how it is.
I on the other hand just have cereal every morning and my wife bakes a nice big cake every weekend so I have 6 portions for my lunches all week. I cook up a batch of stuff like curry or a turkey in white sauce and this makes 4 meals. It really isnt hard to do and with a few more little touches of this and that I eat well enough to maintain my 80+ kg frame and do more than 100 miles a week cycling and do an active job. We shop at Aldi and do a bigger shop at Asda roughly once a month.
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Well over £100 not including about £10 a weeks worth for lunches and typically a couple of £20 a week shops to get bits and bobs.
Put it one way we have worked out I eat more than my partner and her two kids who she used to spend just £40-£50 a week on.
Put it one way we have worked out I eat more than my partner and her two kids who she used to spend just £40-£50 a week on.
To be fair there's no mention of portion sizes, even a 'block' of chocolate is highly variable.
To be fair there's no mention of portion sizes, even a 'block' of chocolate is highly variable.
True but assuming 8 squares of dairy milk and an entire potato and turnip that's still under 500 calories and missing basically every nutritional marker.
Where's the essential amino acids coming from to build muscles and other bodily structures.
I think the other poster is right, people massively under estimating those small corner shop supply runs.
Well, yes kind of
. I just don't think two people can live healthily in this country on £20 of groceries a week.
Also, cake for lunch all week is very odd to say the least!
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Well, I've just done a cut-back shop to last me the next week, using some frozen produce I already have due to xmas for the week ahead, and it's still come to £51.91. Admittedly there's one ready meal, and some precooked chicken (rather than raw) but I can still see me having to visit the supermarket mid-week for a few more items. Oh, and £3 was spent on quality chocolate (lindt 90% cocoa) but hey ho, I like quality food 
and the chocolate will last me 3 or 4 weeks now
I fail so see how someone can spend £20 for one person! If I spent that I'd disappear - I struggle sometimes to maintain my weight as it is.
I think people underestimate how much they spend. I saw someone else mention £20 a week on takeaways for a family of four which is do-able but where I live, a chinese meal for one is over a tenner for one of the set meals off of the menu. A single dish of chow-mein is probably £4-£5.5 these days depending on where you live, and thats hardly enough to fill someone up.
and the chocolate will last me 3 or 4 weeks nowI fail so see how someone can spend £20 for one person! If I spent that I'd disappear - I struggle sometimes to maintain my weight as it is.
I think people underestimate how much they spend. I saw someone else mention £20 a week on takeaways for a family of four which is do-able but where I live, a chinese meal for one is over a tenner for one of the set meals off of the menu. A single dish of chow-mein is probably £4-£5.5 these days depending on where you live, and thats hardly enough to fill someone up.
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Or could be ignoring the 3 pints of milk she drinks while eating that chocolate each day - nobody ever counts drinks!
Hmm, not so sure, I like an occasional rib-eye but that's a luxury, not an essential....
My 'food' this week (not counting beer, it isn't a food!) will come to about £18 and hits my macros spot on, this will consist of:
breakfast: porridge and 2 eggs
lunch: tuna mayo on wholemeal
dinner: pasta bake with pork meatballs or sausage casserole with mash.
Admittedly I'm trying to reduce by body fat a little, so only targeting about 1800kcals but with protein already over 100g a day I'd only be increasing cheap carbs to put me back up to 2200.
If I had an active job or worked out like some guys in the sports arena I'd need more of course and more of the more expensive stuff at that, but I don't.
(beer will be 4 or 5 pints mid-strength ale tonight - I'm not a big drinker anymore)
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£200 for all food shopping, toiletries, cleaning stuff etc per month for the two of us, little one and 2 cats. We all eat well enough, always plenty to go round, it just requires a bit of planning.
£50-£60 a week usually for 2 adults.
Not including the trips to the butchers. Every couple of months or so I go and stock up on some good quality meat in bulk. For example 25 chicken breasts.
Works out cheaper than normal supermarkets, are larger, and taste far better.
Not including the trips to the butchers. Every couple of months or so I go and stock up on some good quality meat in bulk. For example 25 chicken breasts.
Works out cheaper than normal supermarkets, are larger, and taste far better.
There is a strategy involved in the way items are placed in the store.
Notice that sweets, chocolates and kids drinks are on lower shelves so children can see them at eye level...Beautiful!
I think a lot depends on city living now. I find myself buying the small packs of asparagus (£2) baby sweetcorn and beans (£2) and generally small packets which only last a couple of days. Then steak for ~£6 and chicken. I just really eat veg, fruit, eggs and meat / fish which is why my shops are so expensive.
Suppose I could cut out things like rib eye steak and fish but its sooooo nice. I won't
Suppose I could cut out things like rib eye steak and fish but its sooooo nice. I won't
We spent around £60-£80 a week for 2 people. I have no idea about my boyfriends lunches though but probably another £10 - £15. I think we could probably do £50 - £60 a week if we didnt buy any extra bits but its probably not gonna happen 