How much do you spend on food a week?

Guest2 · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:21

Everyone is saying food is getting cheaper or at least staying the same price but i'm not sure. I seem to be spending more now than ever.

I spend ~£30 on lunch a week whilst at work plus about £15-£2 on coffee.
My weekly shop is no longer weekly, its about every 3 days and £30!

Thats just over £100 a week on food and drinks! (not including anything like restaurant meals or take-aways)

ultralaser · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:23

1.2 billion (Zimbabwean dollars)

About £4 a day on lunches (work days) and £25 a week on other food.

StriderX · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:23

£30 on lunch... That better be worth it.

Noodleleg · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:25

About £70 a week. Not including lunches.

Armageus · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:26

~£60/week for my weekly food shop for 2 Adults/1 Child + 3 Children who are down 3 nights/week.

Half of that is spent at Aldi with the rest spent at Tesco for anything I can't get at Aldi.

Mr Badger · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:27

£4 per day - less when Pot Noodles are on special offer.

ShakenNstirred · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:28

About £35-40 a week

Pawnless Endgame · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:28

I'm more like Guest2 here.

About £20/week on lunches at work, about £10 every Saturday at Caffe Nero, then £60ish a week on a grocery shop. That does include booze, kitchen, laundry and bathroom stuff though.

The £25 weekly grocery spends from 1998 are very much a bygone.

kayomani · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:28

I'd guess at around 40 ignoring a take out which I may have once a week. I think i'm reasonably frugal pretty much always making my own lunch and I largely eat frozen veg rather than fresh among other things.

Digital X · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:30

Every two weeks for us, around £60 to 70 with 3 of us.

I eat out a fair bit so maybe £20 a week just for myself at fast food, subway etc.

helpimcrap · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:31

£5.10 - chicken meat and chips.
£15 - college food.
£10 - other food. A stew or spaghetti Bolognese lasts me 4 portions.

£25.10.

Oh and £5 to get my nana flowers because she makes me dinner every now and again.

Rroff · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:34

They are a bit sneaky about it... "new" "improved" version of my normal cereal - its only a few pence more but gone from 5xx grams to 400 grams for the same box size. Same with some of the biscuits I have - "new" version that has 5 in the box instead of 6 in the previous one but at the same price and so on.

So the per item (box/packet) price seems to be the same more or less but your overall bill goes up a little.

NexusK · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:36

~£5 pp chicken breasts per week (almost) and ~ the same on veg, breakfast less than both. No one is home for lunch outside weekends.

Should probably have more red meat but it's not a preference.

UTmaniac · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:41

~£50/week for two adults (and four guinea pigs, who have twice-daily fresh veg/fruit), including meals bought at work for both of us.

Guest2 · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:46

StriderX said:
£30 on lunch... That better be worth it.

~£6 a day or maybe £4 or £5 and a bit more on friday if I go to the pub/restaurant. Thsts pretty low i thought

M1k3H · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:51

Spend about £200 a month.

About £100 of that is spent in Morissons and £100 at Sainsburys.

We do go out once a week, so that is to cook 6 dinners a week, plus sandwiches for lunch.

Then going out can be from £10 if we go for something really quick, all the way up to £200 if we go to a nice restaurant and drink lots of nice wine.

Steedie · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:54

Food shop is around 60 a week, and other food like eating out probably average about 30 a week.

I spend far too much on food

StriderX · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:55

Guest2 said:
~£6 a day or maybe £4 or £5 and a bit more on friday if I go to the pub/restaurant. Thsts pretty low i thought

I saw that as per day... ;(

savagesam117 · 1 Jan 2016 at 18:59

Way to much. I spent £20 today!

arc@css · 1 Jan 2016 at 19:03

Not really sure, maybe £50+.