Jye

No wonder I'm always skint, £170 spent in supermarkets in the last fortnight, and probably only a couple of 'real' meals

Is this an unusual amount for two people to spend?

/me puts his fillet steak and king prawns back on shelf

ProperCharlie

Get down the kebab house - Large donner and chips, £4.00. Sorted. 5 Stellas, £4.00. Sorted. Eat like a king for £56.00 a week and never have to wash up.

Neil Smalley

Smell like a kebab shop and look like the end results too though

sexy wrx69

Jye.....we spend around then same...which is why we're always skint. Its healthy foods that cost the earth...salads, fruit and veg.

why is it that healthy stuff costs a fortune, and fatty fast food is sooooo cheap??????

i dont want to be a fat bloater

dazc2

Me and my Dad spend roughly £50 a week.

However I spend roughly £1400 a year on my dinners for work.

And I eat quite healthily as well.

*Sonic*

Depends which Pizza Delivery place I use

ProperCharlie

yeah right. A lettuce costs 40p, some tomatoes and a big potato might add another 30p. If you prepare your own salads they cost very little. even less if you go to a market rather than over priced supermarkets.

sexy wrx69

yeah but if you actually eat salads, etc regularly...they tend to disappear very quickly and you have to spend more money buying the same food 2/3 times a week.

super_si

Im spending nearly £100 a week :!

In a day i go through dozen eggs, 3 pints milk. 2 Loaves break. Steak a day and other bits and bobs

Si

workshy_fopp

Buy all the big stuff at somewhere like Costco or Makro, i.e. bog roll, washing powder, olive oil etc. then you don't have to spend as much in the supermarket. I rarely spend over £50 a week for 2 of us.

TopBanana

Erm, ate out twice today (so far)... so too much probably.

ProperCharlie

sexy - when the man asks if i want chili sauce and salad i always say yes to both. doesn't cost any extra.

boxst

Hello

Food is usually the biggest expense after your mortgage. We spend over £100 a week on food from somewhere like Sainsbury's.

Steve.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

We budget on 100 for the weekly shop for me the missus and three kids, the kids are getting older and are costing more each week, not counting my Gin, Wine and Beer budget either.

fatherpierre

I spend about 50 notes per week on food just for me.

I eat well, though and that doesn't include the odd sarnie I buy at work.

Plus, I get all my fresh fruit for nothing from work.

[Edited by fatherpierre - 7/21/2003 12:02:31 AM]

Mice_Elf

Spend about £20 every other week or so, if that...

When I used to live at home, mum would spend around £70 - £100 per week to feed 5 of us, with packed lunches to go to school.

Salad and fresh stuff is cheaper at farmer's markets or town markets and more often than not, better quality too...

When living with my fiance a few years back, we weren't exactly flush, so used to go the market in the town centre about an hour before it closed. Market traders are often eager to get rid of produce rather than packing it back up, so 6lb of spuds for 50p became(maybe) 12lb for 50p, 1lb of plums for 30p became 2lb plums etc.

Iceland were better then too. Used to be able to spend around £25 on all the BOGOF offers and fill the freezer for a month. Now they've restricted it to 3 offers per customer...

ChrisB

Are you lot feeding half the street?

Circa £20 to £25 per week to look after me. I make my own lunch everyday during the week as well, so includes fresh bananas and apples.

[Edited by ChrisB - 7/21/2003 8:36:13 AM]

Jye

I suppose when I say food I mean shopping, this covers everything including, toiletries and wine etc , but I'm deffo going to have to find ways to reduce the cost somehow. I'm amazed (assured? ) that some of you can eat cheaply. I guess items such as fresh fish (I love tuna, swordfish steaks etc), fresh herbs, olive oil, avocados etc aren’t on the menu much. I wish I could face 'normal' food such as processed stuff but my guts would hate me.

[Edited by Jye - 7/21/2003 9:27:57 AM]

TelBoy

Too much! One of life's indulgences to me, more in terms of quality than quantity. By shopping around, using farm shops and so on, i guess i could get my basket cheaper, but for the convenience i don't bother.