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Do you spend much on food?

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  • #52
    azezil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    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 :D

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


  • #53
    ebixa82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


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

    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.


  • #54
    Carl Sagan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Carl Sagan


    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.


  • #55
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    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.


  • #56
    johnmcdnl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    sashafierce wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

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


  • #57
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


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

    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.


  • #58
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


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

    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.:confused: 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.


  • #59
    annieire
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭annieire


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


  • #60
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    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.


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  • #61
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


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


  • #62
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    I shop mostly in Asian shops and Aldi - my weekly is about 30/35 a week between two people (milk, tofu, eggs, bread, assorted fish, cheese, fruit, juice, veg, assorted lunch meats and sometimes alcohol/dessert) and maybe an extra 25 every two/three months for extras like Miso, soya sauce, dashi stock, tea, coffee, rice/noodles etc

    It works out at, I suppose, 67 - 73 a month for one person., somewhere around there.


  • #63
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    azezil wrote: »
    For me a dinner for one cooked at home generally costs me €10 - €20

    What the hell are you cooking? Roast chicken stuffed with money?


  • #64
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Peanut butter on a playing card mighty tasty.


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