I spend €500pm on groceries

Overheal · 23-11-2015 06:46PM

It's all about clearance pricing. I don't care that this expires tomorrow I'm eating it tonight, yo.

jamesbere · 23-11-2015 06:49PM

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Well, what do you use to keep your truffles lubricated?

WD40

Nodin · 23-11-2015 06:51PM

jamesbere wrote: »

Truffle oil, what the actual f**k.

I did a search and found it mentioned on boards at 35 Euro a half litre two years ago. Obviously a vital foodstuff that would be on the weekly shop. I never eat a batter burger without a dash of it.

titan18 · 23-11-2015 06:52PM

250 pp isn't too bad tbf. I wouldn't get close to it myself. 150 a month is plenty really. If you like food, 250 isn't an awful lot. 500pp would have been ridiculous

smash · 23-11-2015 06:53PM

jamesbere wrote: »

WD40

5W30 might be more suitable

Eugene Norman · 23-11-2015 06:54PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

It's not an outrageous amount in fairness. I spend about €200 a month on groceries for just meself and I'm as tight as a whore's handbag. It's less than 50 quid a week.

Cooking doesn't really scale up like that. It gets cheaper the more mouths you feed and the easier bulk purchases become.

It depends, though, on whether "groceries" included other items like cleaning equipment.

nice_guy80 · 23-11-2015 06:55PM

I must tot up how much I spend on food per month

basic shop in Aldi or Lidl

the local butchers and fruit and veg shops love me though

Red King · 23-11-2015 07:08PM

There is enough in Dominique McMullen's Lidl experience for Paul Howard to launch a whole new series of books.

Absolutely painful.

23-11-2015 07:17PM

Anyone ever shop in Iceland, I had never been in one till the other day, its really strange it had very cheap frozen food and very expensive frozen food, lobster tail and turbot side by side with the cheapest of cheap frozen meat.

23-11-2015 07:22PM

I can see how you'd spend that much in Ireland if you were keen on things like free range and organic meat and veg. To be honest, as a student I spent a lot on food for that reason - about £260 pm, rather than the Ramen that were the staple diet of my peers. I didn't consider it a waste of money either.

I had a decent student job and I don't drink, before I'm asked how I could afford that.

lisasimpson · 23-11-2015 07:24PM

Morto for her.. It really was like reading a ross o carroll Kelly piece

kowloon · 23-11-2015 08:08PM

Overheal wrote: »

It's all about clearance pricing. I don't care that this expires tomorrow I'm eating it tonight, yo.

They see an almost expired kilo of cheese, we see a challenge.

homerjay2005 · 23-11-2015 08:37PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

That's cheap actually. I was spending close to that on just myself at one point. It's easier and cheaper to buy and cook for more than one.

and come here, while you can see why they spend it (as i said in previous post due to where they actually shop) its not cheap at all - its at the upper end of extremely expensive if you want to be realistic and compared to the average person in ireland.

if you want to buy the most expensive stuff on the market, which you don't have to by the way, thats choice.

but you can be pretty sure theres couple eating in Aldi, getting quality almost as good and spending only about €250-€300 maximum per month. we have guests over regularly for dinners/dinner parties etc and most of the time we buy the food in Aldi.

we have yet to have one bit of food not eaten and we are talking about 200 visitors to our house over the last 4 or 5 years since we started doing it.

"Quality" tends to associated with brand names and price, its food snobbery to be honest.

YFlyer · 23-11-2015 08:40PM

That's about right. An Indian and a bottle of red each evening.

simdan · 23-11-2015 08:49PM

When we were doing our mortgage application 2 years ago we realised that our monthly food spend was 1500-2000e per month. This was a combination of fast food, restaurants and grocery shopping and treats. We thought this was normal until I talked about it at work. Lol. Now we manage things differently and are actually able to afford to buy other things haha.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 23-11-2015 08:51PM

We wouldnt spend too far off that each month, and its certainly not extravagant. I do cook a lot though, and use a lot of ingredients for sauces, rather than use packets / bottles.

Two €120-€150 shops in Aldi, a couple of €50 runs to FX Buckleys for meat and then a few €10-20 stops in Centra for things like salad, milk etc. That covers toiletries, householder cleaners etc though.

We do waste a lot of food which contributes to the bill. Its warm in our apartment and things like broccolli tend to turn after 3-4 days. Open a packet of pittas, use two, and the rest are mouldy 2-3 days later. I also buy lunch meat to offer sandwiches if someone drops over, which generally gets thrown out as we dont really eat much bread.

But no truffle oil to be seen

steddyeddy · 23-11-2015 08:55PM

That's f-ing idiotic. Some people should learn to budget properly.

23-11-2015 09:00PM

Is nobody amazed at the second woman in the article, she managed to feed a family of five for a week from M&S for less than 70 euro.

Galego · 23-11-2015 09:02PM

We don't mind spending money on good food so would possibly spend something between 100-150 per week for two adults. I would rather eat well and healthy than cheap ****e. We cook all our meals from scratch.

steddyeddy · 23-11-2015 09:08PM

Galego wrote: »

We don't mind spending money on good food so would possibly spend something between 100-150 per week for two adults. I would rather eat well and healthy than cheap ****e. We cook all our meals from scratch.

That's still stupid IMO. Good quality food shouldn't be that expensive.

Teyla Emmagan · 23-11-2015 09:08PM

To be fair to her, she's in her late 20s with very few bills (like kids, or a car, from what I remember about the article). She may be a lazy ****e, but give her a few years and more than 2 to feed and she may think differently. Right now, she's spending her disposable income on nice food. So so what, she's not getting anyone else into debt. Just not managing her income wisely.. We all have to learn!

cbreeze · 23-11-2015 09:11PM

Nodin wrote: »

I can't afford night. I have to fight the seagulls for scraps of takeaways at dawn of a Sunday.

nah! I lay traps for seagulls and eat them;)

steddyeddy · 23-11-2015 09:15PM

What's the breakdown of food though? I think some people just have some sort of lazy snobbery regarding food. Coupled with an inability to cook.

Galego · 23-11-2015 09:17PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

That's still stupid IMO. Good quality food shouldn't be that expensive.

If 50/75 eur per adult per week for all meals is expensive..........do you live in pasta, rice, milk and bread all week?

I generally buy with my eyes and/or nouse. I do care about what I put in my body. Not the same to buy organic meat than that low quality meal pumped with water.

steddyeddy · 23-11-2015 09:17PM

I'll put my money where my mouth is. 20 Euro per week will get you 5 pork chops, five chicken fillets, a pound of diced beef, a pound of mince and a pork roast.

Good quality meat for 20 Euro and from a butcher. How much are these guys spending on meat?

steddyeddy · 23-11-2015 09:18PM

Galego wrote: »

If 50/75 eur per adult per week for all meals is expensive..........do you live in pasta, rice, milk and bread all week?

I generally buy with my eyes and/or nouse. I do care about what I put in my body. Not the same to buy organic meat than that low quality meal pumped with water.

I was being a bit harsh there. I don't care what people spend on food. Where I do care is when people equate cheaper food with bad quality. I equate that line of thinking with an inability to budget properly.

Harry Palmr · 23-11-2015 09:23PM

I can eat good food bought in Lidl that will last for a week spending no more than 20 euro (note I say food, general groceries are a separate matter).

steddyeddy · 23-11-2015 09:26PM

Also butchers have better quality meat than M and S if you know where to shop. It can also be cheaper.

C.K Dexter Haven · 23-11-2015 09:26PM

snubbleste wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/swap-shop-a-lidl-shopper-and-an-m-s-fan-switch-stores-for-a-week-1.2437997

€500pm for two on supermarket food. :eek: That is nuts!
The recession must be over.

The article is like a free add for Lidl - you couldn't write it better if you tried.

Galego · 23-11-2015 09:27PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

I was being a bit harsh there. I don't care what people spend on food. Where I do care is when people equate cheaper food with bad quality. I equate that line of thinking with an inability to budget properly.

No, I don't equate quality with expensive but at the same time you can't expect to buy an organic whole chicken (for instead) for a fiver (like idle or aldi). My family raised chickens for years and i know some of the meat out in the supermarkets (and butchers) is very poor quality.......

I spend €500pm on groceries

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