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Jimbeam3678

Jimbeam3678

Jimbeam3678

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How much did you lot spend a month on food , i'm just trying to budget on moving out and trying ork out how much to budget for on food.

I was thinking roughly £30 a week? so saying £120 a month do you think thats reasonable??
 
Opps yeah sorry about that , yep just for one person. Is that amount assuming been strict or am I erring on the side of caution. Really want to over budget if you know what I mean
 
It depends on how much you personally eat and how expensive your tastes are. But £30 would be comfortably enough for most people - at least for supermarket shopping anyway. If you're also getting take-aways and buying expensive deli lunches etc than that is another thing entirely...
 
Nah I eat very few takeaways etc. Mainly chicken and fresh salads . Throw in the odd jacket spud etc. Don't eat crispsor chocolate. Breakfast would be weetabix or crumpets etc.

How much do other people on here spend just so I can get a rough figure
 
my shopping is around £22- £25 pounds per week. And that includes fruit and vegetables. I usually purchase a whole chicken and cut it up into portions and freeze it, economically it works out cheaper that buying chicken pieces. Also porridge oats are excellent and carry less salt content, and are cheaper than other manufactured breakfast serials. Slow GI release to.
 
CyZMyAssBaby said:
my shopping is around £22- £25 pounds per week. And that includes fruit and vegetables. I usually purchase a whole chicken and cut it up into portions and freeze it, economically it works out cheaper that buying chicken pieces. Also porridge oats are excellent and carry less salt content, and are cheaper than other manufactured breakfast serials. Slow GI release to.
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Sort of sounds like my sort of shopping list :p

SO by the sounds of it £30 is going to be enough. Unless anyone else wants to throw there hat in and offer different point of view............
 
£30 will allow you some room for the odd luxury. I spend about that a week, and if I pared it down a bit (as I have to some months :/) I find it pretty easy to live on £20/week.

Buy big and learn to freeze. Buying in one person portions is pretty expensive, so buy and cook for four people and then freeze them; you'll get 4 meals you can spread out throughout a month or so, for the probably the price of two had you cooked them individually.

Buy dry pasta in humungous packets (1-2kg), it costs pennies and combined with knocking up a quick sauce/buying a jar will give you a nice meal for about 50p. Thankfully I never get sick of it so this comprises 50% of my meals :o

It's very easy to live cheaply if you're not a pillock--that guy on here who spent £750/month on food comes to mind...
 
robmiller said:
£30 will allow you some room for the odd luxury. I spend about that a week, and if I pared it down a bit (as I have to some months :/) I find it pretty easy to live on £20/week.

Buy big and learn to freeze. Buying in one person portions is pretty expensive, so buy and cook for four people and then freeze them; you'll get 4 meals you can spread out throughout a month or so, for the probably the price of two had you cooked them individually.

Buy dry pasta in humungous packets (1-2kg), it costs pennies and combined with knocking up a quick sauce/buying a jar will give you a nice meal for about 50p. Thankfully I never get sick of it so this comprises 50% of my meals :o
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Sound advice and this is the type of shopping i tend to do. and yes £20-£30pw should see you nicely.
 
there are 2 of us, both vegetarians, both relatively healthy eaters - and we can spend anywhere between £30 and £60 a week on food
i don't know why the amount we spend fluctuates so much, but i think the more expensive weeks are when we buy necessities like toiletries, laundry products, etc.
the extras on top of food all add up too!
 
goldilocks said:
there are 2 of us, both vegetarians, both relatively healthy eaters - and we can spend anywhere between £30 and £60 a week on food
i don't know why the amount we spend fluctuates so much, but i think the more expensive weeks are when we buy necessities like toiletries, laundry products, etc.
the extras on top of food all add up too!
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But meat is normally the expansive part:confused:

Anychance you could get a few pot plants and grow your own plants(unless you have a small garden where you can grow them)
 
£30 - £35 is about what I spend, £5 on chicken £10 fish, £5 vegs and £10 on fruit and cereal, + any other small extras. (sauces,sugar etc)
 
Costs us anywhere between £180 to £240 per month betweent he two of us. I don't think it's ever gone above that and we eat pretty good on that budget.
 
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