Eat for £12 a week?

hermit-crab

Lydia wrote:

That means you are living on £7.16 a week for three people. That means £2.38 each for a week. Thats amazing! What an example you are. Please please would you give us some kind of breakdown or an example of a typical week because I'd love to give it a go.

I have asked black saturn the same question in the past but she has always declined to answer.

swizzle_2

Looking at it, I`m doing quite well £152 for jan - say 4 weeks for 4 of us thats £9.50 each a week.

I must admit i don`t buy alot of fresh veg-buy frozen,but sometimes it`s fresher that way. We do eat quite alot of fruit and do`nt eat meat every day.

Also crisps and biscuits are a treat not the norm.

johanne

JackieO wrote:

Yes I watched this programme and found it a hoot.The lady was spending £75.00 per month on Champangne !!!.She said she would find it hard to live without her Champers and her bottled water .I was yelling at the screen GET a Life, I don't think she could ever pay off her mortgage. She was spending £100.00 a week on her food for herself alone

My OH ended up sitting with his hand across my mouth so i couldnt talk cos i was sitting there going "£100 a week??!!!! Shes needs to get on Oldstyle!!!!" "If you feel you really neeeeeeeed bottled water get tesco value 17p stuff not bl**dy Evian!!" Then when she said she was "slumming it" in her luxurious looking flat i went mad!! "what am i living in eh??? eh??!! God help her if she thinks THATS slumming it - she wants to move in round here!!!" :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I manage to live off about £12.00 a week for myself and eat a reasonably well balanced diet... it can be done. But thats only cos i buy value/basic everything i can, buy reduced stuff and build meals round them, buy fruit n veg from my local greengrocer etc.

[Deleted User]

It sure is possible. I get an organic veg box and now an organic meat box. Cost is £33 a week for two. Take the organic out of it and I could definitely do two of us for £24 a week. All HM things mind

Graham_S_4

Not sure what my weekly food spend is - i go to the local farm shop every few months and stock up on meat - last time I spent about £10 - that got me 18 sausages, 8 chicken thighs, 1 pack of mince, shoulder of pork, (small) pack of steak and quite a few veggies - that was enough to make - 8 sausage casseroles - 6 steak and kidney pies - 7 chillies - 4 chinese chicken - 4 chicken stew - not done anything with the pork yet. So with a few spuds and a bit of veg that is 29 meals. I tend to have the slow cooker on every day for a few days - once a month or so and then freeze things (i'm only cooking for 1) so i don't eat the same thing every night. I also take my lunch to work - last week i was having salmon & pasta salad - 90p for a big tin of salmon (3 days) 60p for a lettuce (3 days) a bit of tomato and cucumber and own brand pasta - less than £1 a day

Cheers

Graham

thriftlady_2

I can spend £50 a week for 2 adults and 3 kids(including household things),so I suppose that works out at about £12 per adult,the kids eat varying amounts but less than us.

That said I usually spend more than £50 but my budget is not that tight at the mo.

Black Saturn,you are an inspiration.

comping_cat

black-saturn wrote:

I feed me, 2 children 11 and 8 a dog on £53 every 6 weeks. £10 of that is dog food. I make absolutely everything I can from scratch unless it works out cheaper to buy them from the supermarket. I find bread is cheaper to buy than make but I suppose it depends on what kind of bread you like. We have breakfast, lunch and dinner and pudding every day. I make my own ice cream, cakes etc. Steamed puddings are a cheap and easy way of giving a pudding.

Spending so little just comes naturally to me as I have never really had a lot of money to play with. In fact, the amount I spend seems like a lot to me!!!!

Remember, black-saturn spends £53 every 6 weeks, when you do a big shop, no extras, and then start bulk making meals and freezing them, then its perfectly reasonable to spend so little on your food, especially if you meal plan, and have a decently stocked store cupboard!!! My tip is, once you have your store cupboard set up and running, keep 2 of everthing in it, one open, and a spare, then buy another as you open the spare!!! It means you dont run out, or overbuy, and that in itself will help keep your bills down as you will only be buying what you need!!!! That and making a shopping list and sticking to it, thats my weakness, i keep seeing things i fancy whilst im shopping, and buying them, i would spend a lot less if i was more disaplined with myself!!!! (spend about £35 a week for 3 of us, 1 adult, 2 children, but 9 year old DS eats more than me!!!!)

calleyw

I spend on food between £80-£100 a month. This month is a little bit more due to getting a freezer and discovering Sainsburys time for reducing to clear items :rotfl: .

On average I believe it is about £90 a month for two people. So on a 4 week month that makes £11.25 per person. And on a 5 week month then £9 per person per week.

Which is not bad at all. I don't buy hardly any ready made things apart from veggie sausages and burgers and the odd pack of sausages rolls for husband and tins of soup as I am not that good at making it And always try and get anything that like that soup etc when on offer.

We both like are food. So no half portions here.

Looking at it £11.25 per person per week is not bad at all. We do eat a lot of veg but most of it apart from cabbage and potatoes and spring greens are all frozen.

There is always apples or bananas about. And makings of a salad. Must get my seeds from my mums and start on my salad leaves. Yum as well as saving a lot of money.

I really don't know how to get it any lower. And personally I don't want to. As I am at a comfort level that is fine for me. We do have the odd packet of biscuits and I do buy Tuna and salmon also joints for a roast for a sunday but that does last more one meal. I also buy gammons to cook myself rather than keep buying sandwich meat.

Also out of that money comes the makings of lunches for both me and my husband. He also has multi-packs of crisps and packets of biscuits to take to work to for snacks.

If we have dessert it something like tinned fruit and custard of rice pudding made in the SC.

I suspect the reason that certain people will not reveal how them manage on such little money for food. Is that they are afraid that people will either sneer, laugh or ridcule or make them feel strange or weird for what they see as being perfectly normally for them.

But then are lots of things that I do that I don't tell other people because they will think I am strange. Like changing the bedsheets/duvet covers once a fortnight. But before someone thinks I really dirty if they get dirty for what ever reasons they are changed straight away. And I air the bed for nearly all day everyday which is better than most people do so it is not as bad as it sounds.

Yours


Calley

jcr16

i didn't watch that prog, but by the sounds of it that lady is a snob. if she feels she is slumming it , in her luxury apartment thats then why is she there. and y does anyone need to spend £75 a month of champagne ? sounds like she is trying to make up for something. maybe she thinks u can only be a nice person if u waste money.

i don't know how much i spent on food this month but it gone totally to pot as i wasn't organised and my hubby came with me a couple times and that just meant we bought stuff we didn't need.

but i generally spend £200 a month for 2 adults and 2 kids plus all cleaning so that works out at £12.50 a 4 week month and £10 a 5 week month per peson per week. which is very good. considering we do also have treat's inculded in that.

Juni_3

The biggest trick (which I expect everyone here does) is to plan every meal for the days between your shops.

I feed myself, my wife and our two teenagers very nicely on an average of £35 a week.

When I was working we regularly spent £500-£600 a month. Most on convenience foods and masses of veggies which spoiled and were thrown out.