Caporegime
About £4 a day, but I still live with ma & pa, and they usually feed me at dinner time. 
How much money do you spend on food a day?
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WOW!!!!
Family of 4 and we spend about 500 a month on food. A large chunk of that is milk for the twins too. My wife and I are gym users and are used to measuring food for macros so there's VERY rarely waste food going in the food recycling bin.
Soldato
I miss those days, being early 20's and my mum doing everything for me.
Soldato
around £10 day all in(including coffee/work lunch, dinner etc)
Soldato
About a tenner in the week and about 20-30 per day at the weekend.
Usually have a nice Steak or a roast over the weekend.
Usually have a nice Steak or a roast over the weekend.
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Family of four here and our shopping bill is around £900 a month. That also includes stuff like washing up powder, bathroom smellies etc etc
Initially we set a budget of around £80 a week, but it's very tight. However, when you check through the bank statements and actually add it up proerly it's surprising. When you start adding toilet roll, showergel, toothpaste, wash powder, bin bags it's expensive before you start on the food.
My daily spend is around £4 to £4.50 on lunch
Initially we set a budget of around £80 a week, but it's very tight. However, when you check through the bank statements and actually add it up proerly it's surprising. When you start adding toilet roll, showergel, toothpaste, wash powder, bin bags it's expensive before you start on the food.
My daily spend is around £4 to £4.50 on lunch
Including alcohol and everything else (cleaning, shaving, shampoos etc) we do about the same, but a family of 3. I have reviewed it all a few times and i struggle to see how, everything included, we could spend much less, unless we cut out all alcohol and really did start to economise on meals.
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That's a lot of tea
a grand a month including alcohol is perfectly normal
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single and spend on actual 3 meals a day food about £55 for 28 days. then junk food (chocolate/biscuits/2L fizzy something) maybe £2 a week.
tend to have the same thing every day for breakfast and lunch. then tea is usually chicken + X.
tend to have the same thing every day for breakfast and lunch. then tea is usually chicken + X.
Soldato
Probably about £15/day for breakfast, lunch, dinner all in for me. Its not efficient as I don't do batch cooking or plan ahead so its pricier, but as I don't have a family I can!
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Caporegime
A month also isn't a day. Nor is a week.
Use a damn calculator y'all.
Use a damn calculator y'all.
Soldato
Approximately £6 a day.
I've reduced alcohol to Friday and Saturday only which has helped my body and my finances.
I've reduced alcohol to Friday and Saturday only which has helped my body and my finances.
How on Earth is this possible? There is absolutely no way you can use decent ingredients or cook tasty food on that budget. I swear people just grossly underestimate what they actually spend.
£2.07/ day for 3 meals. 69p/ meal. No chance.
£2/ week on junk food? So 1 maybe 2 items (2l bottle of coke (on offer) + some custard creams??
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I cook 12-15 chicken breasts to do us 3 days meals. Having it with rice twice a day too. might seem boring but with all the sauces it's actually ok to chop and change flavours.
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breakfast - make my own granola 1.9kg + cheap all-bran + cheap low fat yoghurt, comes to £16.50 (ish) for the 28 days
lunch - fried egg sandwich, eggs + bread for 6 days a week, for 28 days worth comes to £5.00 (ish)
tea - roast chicken for the week days £3.30 + veg &/or rice or salad. 28 days comes to £26/27 (ish) (might do a sausage/ meatball casserole sometimes, comes to same cost)
saturday tea - half a 14" supermarket fresh made counter pizza. 28 days worth comes to £7.00
sunday tea - roast @ parents. comes to £1/2 (i supply pudding
)food is fuel, i get what i need and i'm not a glutton, never hungry, not losing /gaining weight so...
i also don't buy the expensive brand stuff, something like yoghurt can go from what i spend, 45p per 500g pot (i buy 4), up to £2.x for the same amount (500g pot). with the pizzas, i could get through a full 14" no problem, have done in the past, but was absolutely stuffed, stopped doing it, felt better after eating and saved money. i also don't buy something i'm not going to eat and that will get left in the freezer for weeks/ months. i don't dawdle around the supermarket going up and down every aisle buying things i don't need to. i go in with a plan of what i need, get it and get out.
of course there may be up to £5 on things like butter, salt + pepper etc too but either way £55/60 is easily a manageable budget for a single person.
