How much do you spend on food/supplements per week?

Leon11

Just wondering as I done up my list and it comes to roughly €100!

Now I don't buy all this myself as my parents are very obliging, all I'd have to buy would be the chicken, supplements and I might pick up extra eggs if I remember. All I know is that when I move out, Accountancy better look after me well:D

Would be interested to here from any of the BB's/PL's on here how much they would spend in any given week or month if it's easier to calculate with supp's etc.

Eggs x24 €7.10
Chicken x20 €20
Cheese €3.10
Broccoli x 2 €2.60
Frozen Veg €2
Pasta €2
Spuds €4
Porridge €.8
Raisins €2
Milk €6.50
Tuna €7
Olives €3
P-Butter €2.50
Nuts €4
Ram x 5 servings €10
Pro-X 20 servings €12
Bread €1.70
Fruit €6
Jelly Babies €3
Peppers €2
Yoghurt €3
Cottage Cheese €3

That list is only stuff of top of my head. I'd get my fruit n veg in aldi, along with natural yoghurt, cottage cheese, olives n jelly babies. Chicken is from my local butcher and everything else is bought in dunnes/m&s.

If I averaged that it'd prob be roughly 90 a week nearly €4600 a year!

PeakOutput

im moving out in september for college and one hundred euro has to get me eating healthy and living in general each....im hoping your way off:o

rubadub

Sounds a lot.
24 eggs is €3 in tescos
€4 nuts can be 2kg of salted nuts.
€2.50 peanut butter is about 800g.
€2 raisins 1kg

I could go on.

im moving out in september for college..... im hoping your way off

You can do it for much less, just depends if you buy branded or not. If I can taste the relative difference I pay the relative difference. i.e. if branded food tastes a little better but costs way more I will not pay it, if I think it is worth it I will. e.g. I dont buy cheap bread or porridge, I do buy cheap milk & nuts. I can taste the difference in cheap eggs, but the ones I like are about 4 times the price, not worth it IMO.

ali.c

PeakOutput wrote:

im moving out in september for college and one hundred euro has to get me eating healthy and living in general each....im hoping your way off:o

I estimate say around 60-70 euro a week for food if you plan it well. This would include bringing a packed lunch and your snacks with you everyday etc. Eggs are a good cheap source of protein so are tins of stuff like tuna, salmon etc. If you plan your meals in line your budget you'll be grand. Also eating well is alot cheaper than eating in the college canteen in UCD if thats any consolation?

I dont really supplement though, 1.5 scoops of RAM post work out, means the tub lasts a couple of months.

Aedh Baclamh

Not 100% on this but I'd say I spend roughly 60-70 euro a week. Spent on things like 3 500g packets of pasta, 4 bags of wholegrain rice, about 15 chicken fillets, oils (would typically last about 3 weeks - walnut, almond, sesame), nuts (again, would last about 2 weeks..depends), porridge (doesn't last long), kilo of honey which is 5 euro...and so on.

yomchi

about €5,000 a week on supplements

Leon11

rubadub wrote:

Sounds a lot.
24 eggs is €3 in tescos
€4 nuts can be 2kg of salted nuts.
€2.50 peanut butter is about 800g.
€2 raisins 1kg

I could go on.


You can do it for much less, just depends if you buy branded or not. If I can taste the relative difference I pay the relative difference. i.e. if branded food tastes a little better but costs way more I will not pay it, if I think it is worth it I will. e.g. I dont buy cheap bread or porridge, I do buy cheap milk & nuts. I can taste the difference in cheap eggs, but the ones I like are about 4 times the price, not worth it IMO.

I eat free range eggs hence the price, peanut butter is generally bought in health shops, you could definitely eat for a lot less easily around the €60 mark if your prepared to eat unbranded products, since the parents buy most of the food it's branded.

Again some things you'd buy and it'll last longer than the week like porridge, raisins, olives.

Most of that food would cover every single thing I eat since I'm currently eating nearly the same every day.

t-ha

'bout EUR 100.00 /week on food, and that's only so low because I buy cheap & in bulk (thank you Lidl). Not much on supplements - I get the odd thing every now and again - maybe EUR 50.00 every 3 months or so?

walt0r

A lot. In college about 20-30 a day on food. I spend very little on food at the moment because I'm at home studying, maybe a tenner a day that I spend on my lunch but my supplements - including udo's oil and powders and vits is about 300-350/month.

Smellyirishman

$100-150/week.

PeakOutput

walt0r wrote:

A lot. In college about 20-30 a day on food. I spend very little on food at the moment because I'm at home studying, maybe a tenner a day that I spend on my lunch but my supplements - including udo's oil and powders and vits is about 300-350/month.

do you not think thats a tad excessive???

i havnt read your log yet so dont know what your going for but there has to be a cheaper and more "natural" way

walt0r

Ah, it's not that expensive. What's a few hundred quid every month? Sure most people spend that every weekend on the sauce. Actually, come to think of it, I probably do too
You haven't read my log because it's gone, I'm starting a new one this evening to get back my focus.
I don't think I'd be able to make any progress without my supps as I'm hungover for most of Sunday/Monday sometimes. I "lack discipline" as Arnie would say.
My supps are - usn mass fuel, animal pak and stak2, USN endurofuel, udo's oil, floridix magnesium, eyeQ (to help me concentrate for exams right now), glucosamine tabs, and a few other things I use sometimes like ZMA . It's definitely at least 250 a month alright.

PeakOutput

man you must work your ass off studying, drinking, getting fit and earning enough to fund it all.

i meant your new one clicked into it but i feel wierd looking at guys bodies in work when the people walking by dont know the context

denvey

i find it too hard to hit the right balance to keep improving in weights so i generally just take supplenents,any of the maximuscle do the trick for me.Like a tub of cyclone does you for ten days at 60 quid (and less if u buy in bulk on the net).Other than that im aware of eating eggs lean meat etc but i wouldnt necessarily work my shopping round it,i did before and it came out too expensive and time consuming.At least with supplements u know where u stand and there not too expensive (tho not cheap either).

walt0r

hahaha I know what you mean peakoutput. I worked in Intel on my placement last Summer and I was on bodybuilding boards the whole time in my cubicle. I'd say the whole floor thought I was a weirdo. I'd be going down through some forums and nearly every 5th poster would have an animated avatar of some pornstar getting banged. I was caught about 30 times but nobody said nothin, ahaha

agentgreen

walt0r wrote:

eyeQ (to help me concentrate for exams right now)

How do you find these??? I was going to buy them today, but they were quite expensive and you need to load 6 a day for 2 weeks. Is it worth it????

walt0r

Well, you're dead right about being expensive. The loading is supposed to last 12 weeks. I've been on them nearly a month and find them helping me so far concentration wise. Could be my imagination, but whatever it is I'm focusing better while using them. I take 3 in morning and 3 in evening every day.