Do you spend much on food?

yoshytoshy · 08-01-2011 2:43am

How do people get away with 30-40 a week for everything ?
I'm spending around 80-90 a week:(

Tar.Aldarion · 08-01-2011 3:02am

cant spend very little if i want but these days i eat out more because i can

starbelgrade · 08-01-2011 3:10am

chicken fingers wrote: »

€20 per person worth of meat in a home-cooked meal would not be unusual.
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Do you buy those chickens that are exclusively bred to grow fingers?

wmpdd3 · 08-01-2011 3:42am

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Spend a fair bit each week. The below always feature on my list which come to about the 65 mark depending on special offers etc. I don't eat sweets or drink fizzy drinks or crisps or even processed food so i never really have any hidden costs. Don't eat bread or milk currently either.

25 chicken fillets
2 kg's of turkey mince
30-40 eggs
Porridge
Mixture of natural nuts
Loads of vegetables and fruit

Bloody hell, like a few of the guys in work, high protein low carb / dairy. Scared to sit beside them cause 1 day their intestines are going to explode with the mankyest fart ever.

See them skipping in to work with their tuberwear boxes with 15 bolied eggs, leeeeeeeeeeeen white chicken and plain rice.

Thing I'd rather eat colours.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 08-01-2011 3:46am

Anything between 40-100 oer week. But I need to have a good steak at least once, and a chinese at least once which brings it up.
If you have sambos or rolls for lunch you get it real cheap in dunnes if there's one close buy, wouldnt work out much dearer than making it yourself and you get fresth stuff each day
Making a hell of a lot of stir frys these days which cost shag all and you can have some for lunch the following day
Eating a lot of bungos too

johnmcdnl · 08-01-2011 4:32am

sashafierce wrote: »

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ya buy a loaf of bread for 2 euro, butter is 1.50 or something, packet of cheese is 2 euro sorted for the week

buy your cheese sandwich everyday and it's gonna cost 2-3 euro a day - course it's cheaper to make it at home - simple mathematics - unless you throw the loaf and fillings out every day :rolleyes:

and for the purists out there who won't touch tesco branded cheese or butter - on a blind taste test how many of you would actually notice the difference in taste - and think the difference in taste was enough to make you spend extra on your branded food...

30-40 euro a week is enough to keep me going although I'll admit there mightn't be a huge variety throughout the week until I've finished the pack of XXX so I can move onto a new meal

Caitlinn · 08-01-2011 6:08am

I spend more than I'd like on food but, then again, food is kind of a necessity so I suppose I can't complain. It has to be done.

Sea Sharp · 08-01-2011 6:16am

around 30 a week
Th diet mainly consists of weetabix, apples, oranges, pasta, scrambled egg, beans on toast, noodles and protein shakes.

Mahatma coat · 08-01-2011 6:22am

I've recently moved houses, this one has a much nicer Kitchen, Previously I would spend between 15 and thirty dollars a day on Takeaways/pievans/servoschlock, for the last 3 Weeks I hacve been cooking for myself, I'm spending about $40 a pop on groceries twice a week. the main benefit has been that I dont eat as much Crap anymore and I'm starting tofeel a bit healthier.

Also helps to have a kitchen in your Office so you can Prepare somethig for lunch, dosent have to be big, I like to boil twice as many spuds as I would eat for dinner and then Fry whats left with a few rashers etc on the George Forman in the Office kitchen, takes 5 minutes and is Gorgeous, I cant understand why I ws SO Lazy for So Long

stoneill · 08-01-2011 8:40am

My food bill per month is more than my mortgage.
Mind you I have three always hungry kids foraging in the kitchen presses and only two years left on the mortgage.

Jimmy Garlic · 08-01-2011 8:59am

You could get the ingredients for a meal for two or more people in Lidl for less than a tenner, and that includes dessert.

Jimmy Garlic · 08-01-2011 9:01am

Sea Sharp wrote: »

around 30 a week
Th diet mainly consists of weetabix, apples, oranges, pasta, scrambled egg, beans on toast, noodles and protein shakes.

Good god man, that is very restricted.

yoshytoshy · 08-01-2011 9:04am

Tought I'd mention in Glasnevin ,lidl store ,theres a new fish shop adjacent to it. All loose frozen fish ,very easy to pick exactly what you want.
Loads of stuff even octopus.

Ciaran500 · 08-01-2011 9:10am

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Bloody hell, like a few of the guys in work, high protein low carb / dairy. Scared to sit beside them cause 1 day their intestines are going to explode with the mankyest fart ever.

See them skipping in to work with their tuberwear boxes with 15 bolied eggs, leeeeeeeeeeeen white chicken and plain rice.

Thing I'd rather eat colours.

Try it for a while. I'm on a similar diet and farting is never a problem, if anything the situation has improved.

ebixa82 · 08-01-2011 9:20am

Breakfast: weetabix/muesli mix + milk = 7€ per week

Lunch: salad...red onion, tomatoes, lettuce, sweetcorn, olives, cucumber with either slices of brady's ham/chicken fillet/tuna etc, low GI sliced pan = 15€ per week

Dinner: Aldi cous cous range (49c per pack) or pasta or rice + vegetables + fish/mince/chicken = 25e per week

Always tasty, healthy, quickly prepared homecooked food for less than 50e.
Treat yourself once a week to a thai/indian etc.

Batch cooking of the likes of mince and then freezing is always a cheap way of
doing things. Mince, tomato based sauce, garlic, onions, mushrooms etc. Could make 5 large adult portions for less than 10e. Then just defrost and reheat as needed.

yoshytoshy · 08-01-2011 9:24am

EdiT : Never mind . On steroid overdrive at the moment.

sashafierce · 08-01-2011 3:40pm

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Novella · 08-01-2011 3:49pm

I spend a lot of money on food come to think of it. I love to cook and bake. Plus I eat out once a week or so.

ebixa82 · 08-01-2011 3:52pm

sashafierce wrote: »

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100% agree.

Carl Sagan · 08-01-2011 3:57pm

I don't eat any carbohydrates and try to keep to non processed foods so for a normal person, it probably wouldn't cost too much. I eat in or around 4000 calories a day so it does get expensive.

azezil · 08-01-2011 3:58pm

ebixa82 wrote: »

Breakfast: weetabix/muesli mix + milk = 7€ per week

Lunch: salad...red onion, tomatoes, lettuce, sweetcorn, olives, cucumber with either slices of brady's ham/chicken fillet/tuna etc, low GI sliced pan = 15€ per week

Dinner: Aldi cous cous range (49c per pack) or pasta or rice + vegetables + fish/mince/chicken = 25e per week

Always tasty, healthy, quickly prepared homecooked food for less than 50e.
Treat yourself once a week to a thai/indian etc.

Batch cooking of the likes of mince and then freezing is always a cheap way of
doing things. Mince, tomato based sauce, garlic, onions, mushrooms etc. Could make 5 large adult portions for less than 10e. Then just defrost and reheat as needed.

What magical place are you living in? lol, even stores own brand stuff isn't that cheap

Also stores own brand stuff tastes like shíte :S
For me a dinner for one cooked at home generally costs me €10 - €20

ebixa82 · 08-01-2011 4:37pm

azezil wrote: »

What magical place are you living in? lol, even stores own brand stuff isn't that cheap

Also stores own brand stuff tastes like shíte :S
For me a dinner for one cooked at home generally costs me €10 - €20

Dublin, it's not that magical. I shop twice a week so as to ensure fresh fruit and veg. By adding up receipts from both days I come to the "magical figure" I quoted.

A home cooked meal for one costing 20e? Only if you've bought fresh oysters, lobster, 20oz fillet steak etc. which obviously we are not talking about here.

Carl Sagan · 08-01-2011 4:49pm

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Spend a fair bit each week. The below always feature on my list which come to about the 65 mark depending on special offers etc. I don't eat sweets or drink fizzy drinks or crisps or even processed food so i never really have any hidden costs. Don't eat bread or milk currently either.

25 chicken fillets
2 kg's of turkey mince
30-40 eggs
Porridge
Mixture of natural nuts
Loads of vegetables and fruit

Pretty much what I get.

Susie_Q · 08-01-2011 5:27pm

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Bloody hell, like a few of the guys in work, high protein low carb / dairy. Scared to sit beside them cause 1 day their intestines are going to explode with the mankyest fart ever.

See them skipping in to work with their tuberwear boxes with 15 bolied eggs, leeeeeeeeeeeen white chicken and plain rice.

Thing I'd rather eat colours.

I think you missed the part where he said he eats (and I quote) "loads of fruit and vegetables". They have carbs AND colours.

johnmcdnl · 09-01-2011 12:07am

sashafierce wrote: »

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so make a big ass sandwich with whatever you want - point still stands that it'll be cheaper to make yourself than too buy

Novella · 09-01-2011 12:16am

azezil wrote: »

What magical place are you living in? lol, even stores own brand stuff isn't that cheap

Also stores own brand stuff tastes like shíte :S
For me a dinner for one cooked at home generally costs me €10 - €20

How do you spend 20 euro on ingredients to make dinner for one person?! Seriously. You can get a bag of potatoes on special offer in Tesco for 1.89. They'd last for a few days. Vegetables - two for three euro, again in Tesco. And meat... I dunno, 'cause I don't eat it really, but you can get 2 packs of chicken kiev for a fiver at the moment. That'd make four dinners!

Spending up to twenty euro on one dinner to be made at home is, in my opinion, madness.

Giselle · 09-01-2011 12:25am

azezil wrote: »

What magical place are you living in? lol, even stores own brand stuff isn't that cheap

Also stores own brand stuff tastes like shíte :S
For me a dinner for one cooked at home generally costs me €10 - €20

Even if you shop in Harrods Food Hall it doesn't cost that much.

You must be drinking fine wines with every meal.;)

I did my weekly shop today, it cost me 75 euro including a good few household products like detergent. I think my original estimate of 50 was a bit low.

annieire · 09-01-2011 12:29am

When i was living away from home i would spend around €40 per wk on groceries+ €20/25 on alcohol and takeaways.

Stheno · 09-01-2011 12:44am

About 60e for the two of us if I were to cook every day, neither of us eat breakfast but the 60e covers lunch, dinners and snacks.

I enjoy cooking and do it in bulk, lunch tends to be soup and a sandwich, then dinner a variety of stuff from the freezer given that I cook in bulk.

Son Of A Vidic · 09-01-2011 1:26am

I spend a lot on food during the week...but thankfully my company pays for it all.:)

Do you spend much on food?

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