How much do you spend on food a week?

Probably £60-70 for the two of us including lunches, everything cooked fresh. Used to be a lot more when we bought lunches at work.
 
Glaucus said:
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.
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Well this is a problem to a certain degree but we manage with the help of tablets. I did say she was slight but she gets by enough to do 4 days at work a week. It isnt even chocolate its that cake covering stuff thats like chocolate. She gets bad ecxema (sp) with dairy. No we dont do little extra runs to get in supplies , we dont need to as we plan our weekly meals in advance (well mine anyway).

Jono8 said:
Well, yes kind of :p.

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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I know it sounds odd but a cake divides nicely into 6. I work shifts so sometimes I have a slice for my tea instead when I get home.
 
Our weekly shop for 3 Adults is £90 - £110 pw

Don't know what some of you guys are eating to get it so cheap!!!
 
£989 last month (excluding any cash spending) spent on food. Scary considering we didn't buy food for Christmas as we were away over the Christmas period. This does include some household shopping so probably £30-£50 of non food stuff in there. It does include some stuff for New Years Even mind, maybe £150 on drinks etc.
 
Probably around £20-30 when i'm living on my own, although i have planned out roughly what i'd do if i had to live on £10/week for food.

1kg Oats - 75p
2.27l Milk - 89p
Loaf Bread - 55p
255g Cheese Slices - 82p
Lettuce - 56p
500g Carrots - 37p
500g Red Onions - 50p
2.5kg Potatoes - £1
Tub Butter - 69p
500g Spaghetti - 20p
1kg Rice - 40p
3x Tin Kidney Beans - 90p
Tin Tomatoes - 33p
10 large eggs - 80p

Total - £9.16. Room for some salt/pepper/herbs/flour/bouillon cubes if you're starting from scratch. Porridge for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, soup/pasta/rice for dinner. Much of that will last more than a week so you've got more options to diversify later. I'd probably start with some more veg, parsnips and leaks probably. Definitely doable.
 
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Really not sure. Probably around £100 for 2 of us, including lunches and we go out at least once a week for lunch (work in the same office). Food really isn't something I'd put budget on. If I feel like having something I will get it and save money somewhere else.
 
When i was a student (2003-2007) we did a £5 a week challenge a few times when times were hard. By hard i mean we spent all our money on beer.

Easiky do-able but not very nutritious mind!
 
Usually average out at £35 - £40 /week.
I live alone, and that is everything including toiletries.

Porridge for breakfast (a 2kg packet only costs about £2 and lasts ages - months!).
I take my own sandwiches to work, along with some fruit, and drink water.
For dinner, amongst other things, I sometimes do chilli con carne (a 500g packet of mince does 3 nights - I just freeze what I don't use and eat it another week), or pasta bake (can do me 2 nights).
I don't buy crisps, cake or chocolate.
 
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ALDI own make pot noodles are 45p and their Rustler clone burgers are 85p. I can easily live off these alternative nights.
 
PermaBanned said:
Probably around £20-30 when i'm living on my own, although i have planned out roughly what i'd do if i had to live on £10/week for food.

1kg Oats - 75p
2.27l Milk - 89p
Loaf Bread - 55p
255g Cheese Slices - 82p
Lettuce - 56p
500g Carrots - 37p
500g Red Onions - 50p
2.5kg Potatoes - £1
Tub Butter - 69p
500g Spaghetti - 20p
1kg Rice - 40p
3x Tin Kidney Beans - 90p
Tin Tomatoes - 33p
10 large eggs - 80p

Total - £9.16. Room for some salt/pepper/herbs/flour/bouillon cubes if you're starting from scratch. Porridge for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, soup/pasta/rice for dinner. Much of that will last more than a week so you've got more options to diversify later. I'd probably start with some more veg, parsnips and leaks probably. Definitely doable.
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Those are Morrisons prices. ;)
 
I only buy food for myself and it varies wildly. Sometimes it can be as little as £20 or as much as £60. It depends on whether I do a big cook at the beginning of the week, where I'm working and am I eating what I cooked or just buying ready made stuff from Marks & spencer at lunchtime.

I need to be more strict I could get everything I need for £20 from Aldi if I wasn't occasionally so lazy.
 
LeeUK said:
ALDI own make pot noodles are 45p and their Rustler clone burgers are 85p. I can easily live off these alternative nights.
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I went into Aldi a few days ago and bought 2 hotdogs for £1, rustler style and they were very nice actually, better quality than rustlers.
 
£100 - £130 including drinking / eating out (collectively twice per week average).

Not sure if people are trying to save money here or if it's just their diet / lifestyle.
 
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one person, I spend between £400 and £550 a month on food shopping, does not include dinner out, need to cut down. I normally buy 30 -40 bottle of Duchy Originals Royal Deeside sparkling natural mineral water per month, there eggs, chicken, bacon veg, I sometimes go to whole foods and buy some other stuff such as sugar free gum, sugar free custard, sugar free chocolate, ,around 4 cartons lactose free milk a week, wheyhey ice cream at £7.99 500m tub once a month.every 2/3 months I buy blue ice cod liver oil and butter milk.
 
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