Food cost

littletiger

How much do you spend on food every week include everything like coffee, sweets etc

Were are in a two person household. Shopping approx 150 per week i.e. 75each + for me about 20 euro for coffee and the odd lunch, so I would say less than 100quid.

Is this a little or a lot?

alwaysadub

Used to spend about 70euro or so a week on groceries and lunch(used to go to the shop for my lunch everyday).
Since my hours and pay were cut last year,now i spend around 30euro on everything. I make my lunch everyday and only treat myself once a week at most.
I eat a lot of pasta-it's cheap:)

littletiger

alwaysadub wrote: »

Used to spend about 70euro or so a week on groceries and lunch(used to go to the shop for my lunch everyday).
Since my hours and pay were cut last year,now i spend around 30euro on everything. I make my lunch everyday and only treat myself once a week at most.
I eat a lot of pasta-it's cheap:)

how could you live on less than 4.50 a day?

phasers

Family of 6.

Used to be about 300 quid a week, nowadays we have to get by on about 150 by buying day to day

Tiddlers

I probably spend about € 30 too.My biggest expense is fresh fruit and veg and they're not all that expensive.Once you have staples in the house like tea,pasta, rice etc and budget,shop around and plan meals ahead it's pretty easy to not spend a load on groceries.

alwaysadub

littletiger wrote: »

how could you live on less than 4.50 a day?

When you don't have the money,you don't have much choice. I've downsized-bring sandwiches into work, i live alone so i either eat things like pasta or make a big curry or something that i can freeze and will last me 3days or so. I can go days without having to buy anything. Make a shopping list and stick to it.

The only thing that puts my shopping bill up is buying things like toiletries or cleaning products.

(I probably sound like a scabby fecker but i just have to do it to survive. There's people out there a lot worse off than me)

mojesius

I pay rent to the mammy, she buys the food. I cook. Everyone's a winner. I also get free food in work 3 days a week and the other days I eat the cheap grease served up in college. I'd say under 50.

bazmaiden

I get free food in work so wouldn't spend too much tbh,

corkcomp

mostly €60 - €70 but that doesnt include work lunches (maybe another €30) or some of my parents food I take consume

Hank_Jones

I'd say I probably spend about €30 a week.
Depends on the week of course though.

After buying stuff like pasta, rice and sauces, I would only have to buy fruit, meat, bread, cheese, vegetables, tea, sugar and milk.
Possibly some toiletries as well.

Which will mostly likely only around €20.

Lidl and Aldi FTW!

Edit: Beer isn't food, right?

About 8euro on average a day at the start of the month.. By the end of the month, about 5 euro per day.

MIN2511

I live with a girl and we don't shop together but if she cooks i'll eat and vice versa(most times anyways) I spend between €20-€50 per week. The bulk of the money goes to fruits, veg, chicken, beef & Tropicana orange juice.
Gonna go shop for the week tmrw; i've spent a fortune on lunch & dinners in the last 2weeks

Midnight_EG

Why was there no option for > 50 =[

alwaysadub

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Why was there no option for > 50 =[

There is! There are the different prices for more than 50euro..

Midnight_EG

alwaysadub wrote: »

There is! There are the different prices for more than 50euro..

*blind*

goat2

phasers wrote: »

Family of 6.

Used to be about 300 quid a week, nowadays we have to get by on about 150 by buying day to day

i am same as you

RacoonQueen

I spent over 100 last week. Mum spent probably about 150 - 200.
Plus any food I but in work. About 200 - 250 for a four people, possibly more, herself goes shopping most days for essentials.
I eat a lot of fruit and veg, don't get how people find fruit and veg cheap 6 euro or so for a punnet of grapes, similar for strawberries, 39 cent for one kiwi. Veg usually isn't too bad but some fruit is unreal

I eat very little junk food my basket is usually - grapes if they're on offer, bananas, apples, plums, carrots, spinach, peas, corn, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, pasta, rice, meat. It's the meat and the fruit really that pushes the price up.

Leftyflip

I spent €20, ah they joys of living with parents.

rainbowdrop

€150 a week seems a lot to spend just for 2 people per week tbh.

Two people living in my house - me and my 13yr old daughter (she eats the same as me), and I would do a 'big' shop once a month of approx €80, and then spend maybe €40 per week on fresh fruit/veg/meat/bread and milk. My daughter gets €5 a day also for lunch at school, so €65 a week between us for food.

When I was working (before I was made redundant and went back to college), I had more money to spend and would spend maybe €100 - €120 a week on convenience food and takeaways.

I've discovered now that healthy food is usually cheaper AND better for you (and I'v lost 20lb... YaY me:cool:)

PirateShampoo

Im not working so its up to me to feed me and the gf on a tight budget.

I can usually get a weeks worth of food from Lidle for 60-70 euro.

I can make a large chicken last 3 days. Boil the chicken, remove most of meat and make a stock from bones for soup. You can get 3 different and nice meals from it all.

The Lovely Muffin

I live at home and usually do a 'big' shop every 2-3 months and spend about €80 - €100 on the 'big' shop.

In between, I spend maybe €20 - €25 per week on groceries. It depends, really.

I eat loads of Chicken and my local butchers have a deal on 6 Chicken fillets for €6.99.

Said butchers also sell peppered steaks, and between three of us, we can get 5-6 dinners (between 3 us) out of 3 steaks. The steaks aren't exactly expensive about €4 each (so for two dinners that's €2 per steak). Not bad at all.

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I can make a large chicken last 3 days. Boil the chicken, remove most of meat and make a stock from bones for soup. You can get 3 different and nice meals from it all.

My mam/granny do this too.

orourkeda

Double deckers meanies and coke and you'd be lucky to get change of a fiver. Outrageous skullduggery