What do You Spend on Food in a Week?

05-01-2012 01:35AM

When I'm in college about €20. Less if I want. At home nothing really. Unless I'm eating out...which is a rarity! There is always food at home and when I'm working I get free food.

Rockery Woman · 05-01-2012 02:12AM

I spend about E80 per week on groceries, do the main shop in Aldi, Lidl, get a few bits in Dunnes (not much though).

This feeds (and washes - think shower gels, washing powders etc) me and my husband! :DWe have 2 big dogs (I buy the big bag of dogfood in Lidl and mix in the tinned stuff) 3 cats (again mix the dry food with tinned stuff).

I work shifts so tend to leave dinners in the microwave for my husband, I bring my own dinner to work in a food-jar (like a flask but shallow - great for stews and soups). The canteen in work isnt making much money the last few months, more people are bringing in their own (healthier, tastier) food.

We use 16 litres of milk every week though cos my husband drinks about 20 milky mugs of tea every day!:eek:

Micky Dolenz · 05-01-2012 02:14AM

Eating is for the weak.

Johro · 05-01-2012 03:09AM

drunky monkey wrote: »

jesus !! i spend 50 average a week on lunches !! including 2 coffees a day !! i am planning a trip to aldi and bring my lunch to work !! ps i get paid very little just lazy ha !! other than that my mam cut the shopping bill down to say 12o a week for 4 of us !! 7 yummy dinners a week just no real treats in the fridge i guess !! dont miss them though and better for the waste line !!

You must spend at least another fifty on exclamation marks!!

kraggy · 05-01-2012 04:37AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

When I'm in college about €20. Less if I want. At home nothing really. Unless I'm eating out...which is a rarity! There is always food at home and when I'm working I get free food.

What do you eat? Pasta with no sauce or something?!

I can't believe anyone can pay for 7 days food with just 20 euro. Even if you are only in college Monday to Friday and then go home at the weekend, that's 4 euro a day.

Azureus · 05-01-2012 08:16AM

I spend way too much on food a week when Im cooking for two (tend to do fancier dinners and the bf eats way more than me) but he's living away from home for a few months and I cant believe how little I've spent just cooking for myself this week! I'd say about €25 and that's including two steak dinners and nice chicken dishes with no scrimping. A little goes a long way when you're just eating for one it seems :L

Gonna start trying to be more frugal and see what difference it makes each month. Not having a car to do a weekly shop and organise my meals is my main downfall-its hard to buy a weeks worth of food when youre lugging shopping bags on a 15 minute walk home!

HovaBaby · 05-01-2012 09:59AM

€50-€60 a week for me.

Not including takeaways, which I might have once every 2 weeks.

emeraldstar · 05-01-2012 11:25AM

Johro wrote: »

You must spend at least another fifty on exclamation marks!!

Maybe they're still drunk.

BraziliaNZ · 05-01-2012 12:50PM

I'd say about 5 sterling a day. Maybe 2.50 on lunch, and 2.50 on dinner. Dinner is usually fish and veg, lunch something similar or soup. So maybe 35 pounds a week, for one person. I only buy things I need to eat for my meals per day so that I don't snack for no reason. I can never understand why people on diets buy biscuits etc!
We have free breakfast stuff at work so I don't need to buy that but if I do I just buy a big bag of oats for nothing that lasts for ages.

denhaagenite · 05-01-2012 01:03PM

CamperMan wrote: »

€40 a week for 2 people, and that includes the odd bottle of wine, fresh meat, dairy produce, fruit & veg :D:D:D

but then we are in Germany, if we bought the same in Ireland, it would be at least €110

Spent some time in Germany and hubby used to live there, I would think that this is almost impossible unless you're eating crap or alot of stuff other than the weekly shop.

Daisy M · 05-01-2012 01:12PM

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Food alone, I spend around 70-80 a week, then toiletries, etc on top of that. My son is a toddler who eats a good bit, I cook everything we eat (there are 3 of us here) from scratch, so ingredients can add up.

I shop around though, Chicken fillets are cheapest in Dunnes, Tortilla Wraps are cheap in Aldi, can't beat Tesco then for the kiddy snacks It pays to shop around. I save myself a fortune that way.

Try a local butchers for chicken fillets you will get twice as much weight for the same price. It is usually between 1.60 to 1.75 for one fillet and they are huge at least twice the size of the ones in dunnes packs and are much nicer.
A nice homemade veg soup will only cost a couple of euro to make and will provide quiet a few portions which can be frozen and defrosted when needed.

BraziliaNZ · 05-01-2012 01:19PM

P.S. Iceland saves me a fortune for frozen fish fillets and frozen veg. I think they're planning on invading Ireland soon if they haven't done so already.

05-01-2012 02:11PM

kraggy wrote: »

What do you eat? Pasta with no sauce or something?!

I can't believe anyone can pay for 7 days food with just 20 euro. Even if you are only in college Monday to Friday and then go home at the weekend, that's 4 euro a day.

I don't eat meat. I usually buy pasta/rice/etc in bulk at the start of the year. All I really buy during the week is milk/eggs/cereal/bit of fruit and veg/juice.

And yeah that was only meant to be for 5 days a week...I work at weekends and get my food free there

Kitty-kitty · 05-01-2012 02:58PM

kraggy wrote: »

What do you eat? Pasta with no sauce or something?!

I can't believe anyone can pay for 7 days food with just 20 euro. Even if you are only in college Monday to Friday and then go home at the weekend, that's 4 euro a day.

I end up having to make that much stretch toward the end of the month (I get paid monthly) but it's not something I'd want to do all the time.

So we'll say (and I've taken price quotes from tesco because they're the only ones that have all the prices readily available on their website)

Pasta Bake:

Market Value Sausages (16) €1.39
Pasta (500g) €1.25
Bolognese pasta sauce (750g) €1.65
Value pasta sauce (440g) €0.65
Mushrooms (this week's aldi super 6) €0.49
Brocolli (this week's aldi super 6) €0.49

Dinner for the week: €5.92

Breakfast:

Tesco fruit and fibre (500g) €1.35
Milk (2l) €1 (tesco's own brand is €1.49 if this isn't available)

Breakfast for the week: €2.35

Lunch:

Tesco value sliced pan (800g) €0.65
Cooked ham (10 slices) €1.24
Cheese singles (10 slices) €1.15
Sliced tomato (this week's aldi super 6) €0.49
Kiwis (this week's aldi super 6) €0.49

Lunch for the week: €4.02

Okay, we're up to €12.29 for the week so far.

We've got 7ish euro to play with here.

Omelette ingredients
Eggs (x6) €1.09 or (x12) €1.85
Baked beans €0.25 - €0.65 (not own brand) (Lidl do the nicest)
Onions (1kg) market value (tesco) €0.92
Frozen spinach €1.30

Low fat sunshine fruit yoghurts (x6) €1.29
Spuds (aldi own brand crisps, taste exactly like taytoes) (x6) €0.99
Aldi brand lemonade €0.65 per bottle.

€6.49 total plus €12.29 = €18.78.

And let's just say we found a euro on the ground and went to the two euro shop and got 5 full sized chocolate bars for €2 because we're good to ourselves.

Bandana boy · 05-01-2012 03:12PM

Breakfast €2.50-3 per day €14 a week
Lunch €4-6 per day €25 a week

The rest is divided by 2 as shopping for two people
Butchers per week €30
Fruit and Veg per week €60
Weekly Shop €30

Dining out/take aways €30-100

€14+€25+€60+€65 =€174 a week

A fair bit to go to get down to the €40-50 a week brigade

yupyup7up · 05-01-2012 03:18PM

I bring cooked pasta to work, heat it in there and stir in sauce. - about €6/7 a week.
Box of cereal in work for the week - €3
buy McCambridge bread and laughing cow cheese spread (get 4 days out of it) for snacks - €3.50.
And a bottle of robinsons concentrate is about €2 and you'd get over a week out of that.
about €15 a week for lunches and that will MORE than fill you.

Food at home then, just look for the yellow price tags in tesco and you'll get dinners for the week for about €30

cloud493 · 05-01-2012 04:33PM

Hardly anything :P I treat myself to one take away a month, on a week I'l have

no breakfast cos I'm never hungry when I wake up
Maybe a 50c pack of noodles for lunch
Whatever was cheap in dunnes, 2 euro pizza, other wise nothing.

So... I dunno, maybe 17 euro a week.

I'd say a 100 a month, on a greedy month.

whatcartoget · 05-01-2012 04:36PM

€100 euro from Monday morning to Friday evening when I am at college and this doesn't include Alcohol/Socializing!

cloud493 · 05-01-2012 04:53PM

kraggy wrote: »

What do you eat? Pasta with no sauce or something?!

I can't believe anyone can pay for 7 days food with just 20 euro. Even if you are only in college Monday to Friday and then go home at the weekend, that's 4 euro a day.

People eat more than they need. I get by perfectly fine on what I eat.

cson · 05-01-2012 04:55PM

kraggy wrote: »

What do you eat? Pasta with no sauce or something?!

I can't believe anyone can pay for 7 days food with just 20 euro. Even if you are only in college Monday to Friday and then go home at the weekend, that's 4 euro a day.

Can easily be done as kitty kitty demonstrated. I'd even argue that she [I'm attaching femaleness to you kitty kitty!] could do it cheaper and up the quality in places. Pasta in Aldi is 59c for almost every type and there are a few more things that could be sourced cheaper. The Super Six for example would almost never cost you more than €3 if you bought one of each and thats pretty much your fruit and veg for the week.

I must trial it some week for the craic when I get back to College to see what's the cheapest I could live on for a week having 3 meals a day.

Bandana boy wrote: »

Breakfast €2.50-3 per day €14 a week
Lunch €4-6 per day €25 a week

The rest is divided by 2 as shopping for two people
Butchers per week €30
Fruit and Veg per week €60
Weekly Shop €30

Dining out/take aways €30-100

€14+€25+€60+€65 =€174 a week

A fair bit to go to get down to the €40-50 a week brigade

How are you spending €60 on Fruit and Veg a week :eek:

DoesNotCompute · 05-01-2012 04:56PM

Real answer:

I set aside €50 a week for morning coffee breaks & lunches

Then I spend around €70 - €90 every time I do online shopping (not really weekly shopping, and not really fortnightly shopping - maybe once every 10 days).

That's for a family of 2.5 (myself, the missus, and the dog)

AH Answer: Atari Jaguar.

Jess16 · 05-01-2012 05:34PM

Kitty-kitty wrote: »

Pasta Bake:

Market Value Sausages (16) €1.39
Pasta (500g) €1.25
Bolognese pasta sauce (750g) €1.65
Value pasta sauce (440g) €0.65
Mushrooms (this week's aldi super 6) €0.49
Brocolli (this week's aldi super 6) €0.49

Dinner for the week: €5.92

Are you honestly saying that you share one pound of pasta with another person and that's the basis of both your dinners for an entire week!?

cson · 05-01-2012 05:45PM

Jess16 wrote: »

Are you honestly saying that you share one pound of pasta with another person and that's the basis of both your dinners for an entire week!?

Pretty certain she said its for herself.

On the pasta front; it's 59c/lb in Aldi so you could bump it up and still stay under budget.

madwomen · 05-01-2012 06:48PM

I can't belive what I read. Went to LIDL today, bought few things for two days, like:
-rolls, cheese, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, orange juice, small bottle of coke, chicked breast, cream, blue cheese, greapes
Maybe something else, can't remember, but not much more and I paid almost 50€!
I spend average 150 a week (including two bottles of wine for about 7€ each.
I don't eat much, but I do eat healthy and quality products and I cant do it for less then 100, when I have to buy things like washing powder, shampoo etc its usually around 150€.
Do you all live on potatoes and cheap sousages? :eek:

cloud493 · 05-01-2012 06:56PM

If your buying all that, you do eat a lot. I mean, even if you bought a box of 3 euro cereal for a week, a sandwich every day, and a ready meal for tea, you'd still spend, you'd still only be spending less than 50 euro. Add in costs of milk and tea bags and ****, still only cost around 60 euro.

madwomen · 05-01-2012 07:27PM

cloud493 wrote: »

If your buying all that, you do eat a lot.

-well, not really - lettuce will last for few days, I bought 5 rolls with pumpkin seeds -one each morning, chicken breast (tray of 3 free range is around 6€ will be for 3 dinners), tomatoes will use for salad and sandwiches, but I have to do another shopping for weekend and next few days and for sure that will be another 50€ in Dunnes.

Micky Dolenz · 05-01-2012 07:52PM

madwomen wrote: »

-well, not really - lettuce will last for few days, I bought 5 rolls with pumpkin seeds -one each morning, chicken breast (tray of 3 free range is around 6€ will be for 3 dinners), tomatoes will use for salad and sandwiches, but I have to do another shopping for weekend and next few days and for sure that will be another 50€ in Dunnes.

Banned.

Re reg.

tiernanobrien · 05-01-2012 07:59PM

I spend about 40 a week on lunches in work and max another 30 on the rest. I do like my food tho...

Jess16 · 05-01-2012 08:01PM

cson wrote: »

Pretty certain she said its for herself

My bad

(Must.Drink.More.Coffee)

kfallon · 05-01-2012 08:09PM

Prob between €70 to €100 a week I'd say

What do You Spend on Food in a Week?

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