Food - £60-100 a month. Enough to eat well?

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I need to be more careful with my money and start sorting a few things out so I'm going to try and budget around £60-100 a month for food. Obviously as low as possible would be ideal but I would spend more if it means eating well and being healthy.

I have some ideas so far in terms of buying less meat, more veg, cooking in batches and buying items such as lentils/grains/beans/pulses etc and spices and herbs to flavour food.

I guess my main questions are how much do people spend on food and what kind of things would be on your shopping list for my budget?

Cheers :)
 
I wish I would only spend £100 a month for food...
just for lunch (taking I would be eating same everyday) chicken fillets (3 for £10) make £100 plus sauce and mushrooms ...
what about breakfast...dinner..
I would like to see others ideas as well..
 
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You could eat a very basic diet for that but it wouldn't be balanced - cereal, rice, potatoes etc. I would be aiming for twice that at least.
 
Absolutely, the difference between say 25 and 50 quid a week is massive in terms of variety and quality of food you will be eating, especially if you intend to eat 3 times a day regularly.
 
The toast sandwich is only about 75 p a serving so you might just make it with that.

TBH though my Wife and I eat fairly well and healthily (sometimes :D ) and we spend 60 a week on the main shop and another 20 or so for extra fresh goods in between.
 
for 3 people we consistently spend £100+ a week on groceries at the moment and that isn't for a particularly lavish week :(

hoping to reduce that to £90ish.
 
I agree it doesn't sound enough. It would also depend on where you were shopping. For instance you would get a lot more for your money shopping in LIDL or ALDI than you would in Sainsbury or Waitrose.
 
I have easy access to both an Aldi and ASDA so I will be doing most of shopping here. Also have excess to two fruit and veg stalls as well for things like that too.
 
on a tight budget buying only meat veg potato and milk pasta and fruit, i guess you'd get away with £150 maybe if you find a good butcher and farmers market along with aldi for your fruit, 100 a month is minuscule 150 is seriously pushing the envelope unless you start growing your own $"!%, the diet would get old fast and you would long for more.


This is planning for breakfast, lunch and dinner mind. a good full diet!
 
could be easily do-able and be healthy.

Breakfast - Cereal which costs 30p per 100g or less (check mysupermarket)

Lunch - A couple of sandwiches with home made fillings and some salad (spinach/lettuce/rocket)

Dinner - cheap pasta with cheap pasta sauce, peppers, garlic, tinned sweetcorn, chillies (make in big batches, enough for at least 3 days). could add tinned tuna for a cheap source of protein.
 
I reckon so. I have started to notcie the prices of certain items and am avoiding them and replacing with other alternatives.

Take ham for instance. The good stuff is really quite expensive, but you can buy a gammon joint for £3, roast it with your Sunday Roast and it will last all week in my sandwiches. Tastes a lot better as well.

Fruit is expensive but root vegetables are dirt cheap. Massive bag of carrots is only £1 these days. Potatoes are the same.

You could eat a balanced and heathly diet for that amount, you just have to be smart when you shop.
 
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