Eat for £12 a week?

spike7451

I can live on around £12 of fresh food a week,my staples are;

Eggs-(farmed) 10 for £1.00
Bacon mishapes £1.00 a pack
Fresh veg around £3.00
Beef pieces (for curry ect) around £1.50
Sausages around £1.80
Baked Beans 39p
Mushy Peas 54p
2l Milk £1.00
Pasties £2.00 (pack of 2 from my butchers.

On top of that I have the staples that last for 2 weeks,coffee,bread,cheese ect.In all it comes to around £30 a fortnight,Daisy my cat cost's me around £9.00 a fortnight....

I don't have a microwave & Freezer (That packed in a few months ago & I've not gotten round to replacing it yet!:p

For a snack,I make a batch of Hot Dog rolls which I use a tin of hotdogs,some mustard & a pack of Jus Roll puff pastry.I get about 10 which last me the two weeks.

quintwins

i found this very interesting so thought i'd add some shopping to an online shop and see how it went and i do think this is do able

800g mince - £1.92
cooking bacon- 75p
value frozen chicken portions-£2.79
2 onions- 36p
bag of apples - 60p
5 bananas- 71p
milk- 74p
6 eggs- 69p
tinned tomatoes- 33p
value kidney beans -17p
value marge 1kg £1.20 (would only use maybe 1/4 of this so 30p
frozen mixed veg 65p
brown bread 60p
potatoes 99p
porridge 1kg 99p will only use say 1/3 of the bag so 33p

that comes to £12.47p so abit over but there will prob be some chicken left for the next week ok it's abit low of fruit and veg but not too bad if your were buying for several people you could manage more

crockpot

£12 a week for an adult, well sainsburys meal deal is 4 for £50, but thats 2 adults and 2 children.

So it can be done, just better not snack and just have tap water!

Li0nhead

crockpot wrote: »

£12 a week for an adult, well sainsburys meal deal is 4 for £50, but thats 2 adults and 2 children.

So it can be done, just better not snack and just have tap water!

These meal plans are in the region of £70-£80 per week these days......

Anyone still doing it for £12 PW as the thread started 6 years ago?

I think these days it will be £15-£18 PP per week.

Boodle

We are trying to keep to £25 at the moment but seem to end up around the £30 pw mark for two adults and two young children. We are vegan so no animal products at all but do have the occasional veggie cheese etc, and soya milk/yog in place of dairy which is actually pennies more expensive than the dairy. So I suppose we could do it for the £12 pp if we really tried. There was a few people took part in the £1 a day challenge successfully which involved starting a cupboard from scratch so though it wouldn't be much fun to sustain I think it could be done.

Li0nhead

Boodle wrote: »

We are trying to keep to £25 at the moment but seem to end up around the £30 pw mark for two adults and two young children. We are vegan so no animal products at all but do have the occasional veggie cheese etc, and soya milk/yog in place of dairy which is actually pennies more expensive than the dairy. So I suppose we could do it for the £12 pp if we really tried. There was a few people took part in the £1 a day challenge successfully which involved starting a cupboard from scratch so though it wouldn't be much fun to sustain I think it could be done.

I don't think thats excessive what you are spending.

Boodle

Me neither Lionhead Thanks for resurrecting the thread. Will have a good read with a cuppa.

adelight

Li0nhead wrote: »

These meal plans are in the region of £70-£80 per week these days......

Anyone still doing it for £12 PW as the thread started 6 years ago?

I think these days it will be £15-£18 PP per week.

I did £10-12 a week regularly when I was at uni 1-2 years ago. I think £12 is a serious squeeeeze for most people now unless they are in the right place at the right time for useful reductions, market at closing, have a cheap local source of meat etc.
I'm currently doing £10-15 a week but that's with some bulk buys that are probably worth ~£5 a week. A plan can't include unrealistic, unreliable things like yellow stickers and it really gets my goat when people are all "you can live on 50p a month too just buy yellow stickers!"

quintwins

I think £30 a week is good aswell, we can do around £45 for the 5 of us however it doesn't include many nice things but does include a lot of fruit and yogurts/milk for the kids, I spend around the same on fruit and milk as I do on meat, but with small kids I'd never stop that.


It's worth noting this threads from 2006 although useful I doubt anyone would say an adult can live off £12 healthily now.

Boodle

I would say we eat pretty healthily tbh yes It's all perspective though. Some people see to think butternut squash is somehow superior to carrots, or that supermarket blackberries in summer are better for their kids than raisins, or that to not eat aubergine as a weekly staple is somehow depriving their children (I don't mean anyone specifically here, just in general )

Of course it would be pretty grim to survive on £12 per week with nothing to caarry across week to week, lke a few of us did on the £1 per day challange.

Quintwins, for what is is worth, I think that fruit and yoghurt does sound nice, and so would your kids I imagine