What is your average weekly food budget?

[sheothebudworths]

Direct link to the vouchers part of moneysavingsavingexpert.com


The rest of the forums are well worth looking at too - for instance, the man who runs the site suggested the other day that now is the best time to change energy providers and has links to decent comparison/referral sites which give you a bit of cashback if you go through his link and use the referral site to change to the cheaper provider.


Also (nearly finished ), with the Tesco's shop - any bogof's/discounts are taken off at the time they go through the till, so for example, if you ordered £50 worth of bogof's, then used a £10 off voucher (they're usually for a minimum spend of £50/£75/£100 giving a discount of anything from £5 - £15 off), your total would show as £50 - thus making the voucher work, but then you would have a further £25 deducted for the bogof's, giving you a total paid of £15 (plus delivery charge of between £4 and £6 depending on the day of delivery) for £50 worth of shopping.

 

[mentalchik]

It must be hard to manage..... are you in London?

Nah, live in Northampton !


Again let me state i wasn't at all crticising anyone for how much they spend..............m'kay !

Have to say that food shopping has actually gone way down my list of priorities these days anyway.
I work from 1.30pm-10pm and am never at home to make dinner etc apart from sometimes at the weekend and because my eldest son (he still lives at home for the time being) does wierd shifts and my youngest is some of the time at his dads and loud 1 is an erractic eater at the best of times..........


food comes way down the list...


and this week its nil because the stupid inland revenue have cocked up my weekly child tax credits !

 

[Zinedine*]

I probably spend about £50 on myself, which I can't really afford.

 

[Wolfie]

Am i the only one that is quite astounded by how much people have to spend on their food budget ?

I'm absolutely astounded by how little people manage to spend - our bill for 2 of us is between £150 and 200 a week including booze but not including eating out two or three times a month - how you manage to feed 4 people on £50 a week I just don't know ...

 

[Callie]

I probably spend about £15 a week just for me. I could make it less but Ive been really slack with what Im spending recently and spending more than I should. £7 bottle of wine yesterday being a good example (that would go on top of the £15). I dont usually buy alcohol and certainly dont spend £7 on wine if I do, it just looked nice

When I was at uni I kept it down to about £10 week but I pretty much lived off of pasta and home made tomato sauce and obviously had a seperate booze budget

 

[SubZeroCat]

I spend around £20-25 on myself a week.

I often go food shopping with my boyfriend though and we split the cost 50/50

We are really bad together, we both want to buy nice expensive foods and lots of it!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Our total income (excluding rent actually, but to cover all bills etc.) is just under £200 a week!

I find it astonishing that you could possibly spend what you do too Wolfie but I think it's just the usual case of spending what you have available.

It takes a bit more planning and thought is all (I think all it takes to spunk loads of money in general actually, is to have the freedom not to have to think about it iyswim).




(I'm not complaining btw! It suits us both not to work atm - having our second child is much less stressfull/more enjoyable all around with both of us about although from past experience, we wouldn't be much better off if one of us was to go back to work right now in any case )

 

[MysteryGuest]

No point in trying to do a sensible post, sheo - it's a bit late for that don't you think?

 

[sheothebudworths]

....mind you...

including booze...

...that's probably more like a tenner for the food then eh?

 

[sheothebudworths]

No point in trying to do a sensible post, sheo - it's a bit late for that don't you think?

Are you trying to flirt with me?

 

[MysteryGuest]

I'm absolutely astounded by how little people manage to spend

It's by buying food with a list of ingredients...

 

[MysteryGuest]

Are you trying to flirt with me?

eh? gerrooffff!



<tries to shake sheo off leg>

 

[sheothebudworths]

 

[Shirl]

....mind you...






...that's probably more like a tenner for the food then eh?

Yes

 

[sheothebudworths]

 

[sheothebudworths]

Fuckin' 'ell - my last two posts are both reactions to the one before last, not the previous one!




But while I'm here.....fancy a tin of Fosters Shirl love?

 

[Wolfie]

*ignores miserygusset's innane posts*

we did spend a lot less when either one or both of us weren't working - obviously we had less to spend, but actuualy I find it takes more time to spend less - I used two shop in 3 seperate supermarkets buying the special offers in each and picking up the "just reached their sell by dates yellow label" things.
I guess, in a way, if you calculated the time you spent shopping and charged that at consultancy rates ...

I spend more time working to earn money so I don't have to spend so much time and effort doing the shopping ...

 

[Wolfie]

- don't offer Shirl Fosters!

it's NZ sauvignon or nothing for her!

or maybe Bombay Saphire and tonic ...

 

[sheothebudworths]

No champers tonight?

 

[Wolfie]

nah - we got bored with it every night tbh

takes the sparkle out of it when you want to open a bottle for a special occasion

 

[toggle]

I'm absolutely astounded by how little people manage to spend - our bill for 2 of us is between £150 and 200 a week including booze but not including eating out two or three times a month - how you manage to feed 4 people on £50 a week I just don't know ...

i know i could spend a lot less than i do. There are cheaper options than the meat i choose to buy, i could get cheaper and less variety in veggies and fruit, i could add a lot more beans to our diet.

but i'd rather buy my kids a punnet of strawberries or pack of grapes to munch instead of crisps or sweets and when you have a 7 year odl that asks for tofu as a treat, ti's worth spending the extra to ensure that they grow up knowing that helathy food isn't boring.

what i don't do is buy jars of sauces, pre prepared veggies or salad or ready meals. and i buy bulk on bogofs and staples, meaning that i've always got certain ingredients, so there isn't the temptation to pick up a few more treats when popping in for a jar of passata or some kidney ebans for tonight's meal.

what also helps in the local offy has a seemingly permanent 3 for 2 offer on wines now. So 6 bottles of drinkable red for a score and that will last me for more than a week unless i've had guests over more than once.

 

[Shirl]

No champers tonight?

No, I've discovered tequila and triple sec.

 

[Shirl]

No, I've discovered tequila and triple sec.

I would like to point out that our cats cost more to feed than we do, or at least it feels like that fecking cats

 

[feyr]

that leaves me wondering how in the hell you can eat on that little.

tbh i dont really eat alot anyway (aside the odd hormone driven chocolate binge ) i buy reduced veg/fruit, a big bag of pasta, some tinned tomatos,sliced bread for the freezer and cheese if i can afford it. i used to be anorexic , still have issues with food tbh, so i probably wouldnt eat much more even if i could afford it.

today however,i cooked for my mum who is having a dinner party, and have been paid in food, so am now eating homemade tapenade on homebaked olivebread , and Huevos Serranos (tomatos filled with ham and a poached egg,topped with cheese)

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Hmm. We are a family of five, youngest is 13, we have 2 dogs and 2 cats. £180.00 per week pays for food for us all, petrol (minimum 45 litres), treats to drink or smoke (adults only) and sometimes yields savings. What's killing us now is heating oil - a mostly stone house built into the side of a quarry is a bloody cold, damp place to be if you can't afford to heat it

 

[pennimania]

Tell me about the stone house


our heating bills are frightening but we are going to have new state of the art heating put in next year which will pay for itself (Or so the architect says)- I am undecided on that one.

It is all about how much you have - when I was a single parent I lived on much much less yet ate quite well. A freezer is a huge help as sheo says - particularly good for single people I would say.

I buy stuff like very expensive juice which the kids adore which at one time I would not have contemplated. If I was hard up I would make them have the value pack or water.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Uusally its about £25 per week for the two of us but it really depends on how many times i have to pop to the shops to get something i forgot cos i usually end up gettin treats that i fancy... When i lived in halls i used to spend £7 a week pound a scoop from the market kept me healthy

x

 

[cathal marcs]

20-25 quid maybe more if I have to buy Razors and deoderant etc although I always have lef over food and im a single bloke.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Tell me about the stone house


our heating bills are frightening but we are going to have new state of the art heating put in next year which will pay for itself (Or so the architect says)- I am undecided on that one.

...

How will that work?

 

[longdog]

About £25pw including the food and biscuits for the dog. I actually spend more on tobacco than I do on food