how much are you spending on food shopping a week?

LizzieS_2

To be fair, Dave can live very healthily on £3pw - if he has some-one else paying for the vast majority of his food, eg parents.

aylithuk

I think it could be done however it might of needed some start up costs for the store cupboard basics e.g. stock cubes, rice, eggs etc

I don't think the meals would be exciting however if we're talking about saving money then that shouldn't matter.

A Sainsbury's Whole Chicken, Basics (approx. 2.3kg) cost 1.99 and spend the other £1.01p on potatoes and veg (Please bare in mind I'll be buying a single items of veg and that could be 2p per item)

Chicken risotto
Roast Chicken(breasts) and Veg
Slow roasted chicken thighs with tomato/herb sauce
Cajun Chicken legs with potatoes wedges
Veg risotto
Stuffed pepper with rice and herbs

I think this is the closest I could get for £3 per week purely on food and not taking into account what basic items I might already have

Not sure however
Ay x

LizzieS_2

aylithuk wrote: »

I think it could be done however it might of needed some start up costs for the store cupboard basics e.g. stock cubes, rice, eggs etc

I don't think the meals would be exciting however if we're talking about saving money then that shouldn't matter.

A Sainsbury's Whole Chicken, Basics (approx. 2.3kg) cost 1.99 and spend the other £1.01p on potatoes and veg (Please bare in mind I'll be buying a single items of veg and that could be 2p per item)

Chicken risotto
Roast Chicken(breasts) and Veg
Slow roasted chicken thighs with tomato/herb sauce
Cajun Chicken legs with potatoes wedges
Veg risotto
Stuffed pepper with rice and herbs

I think this is the closest I could get for £3 per week purely on food and not taking into account what basic items I might already have

Not sure however
Ay x

Good try, but thats one meal a day. Dave claims to buy all meals including the 5 a day and toiletries.

Fire_Fox

For those of you who don't believe Dave, there is a thread on the Old Style board by Weezl74: 'Eat Healthily on 50p per day'. This was a couple of years ago, is primarily vegetarian and does include some oddities like a pig's head :eek: .... however she did manage to keep it going for many months, and there are a lot of ideas you can take away.

candygirl

Fire_Fox wrote: »

For those of you who don't believe Dave, there is a thread on the Old Style board by Weezl74: 'Eat Healthily on 50p per day'. This was a couple of years ago, is primarily vegetarian and does include some oddities like a pig's head :eek: .... however she did manage to keep it going for many months, and there are a lot of ideas you can take away.

yea, but i'm not sure she included toiletries and pet food in this:o

alisong_2

Just to say that the basics chicken is £1.99 per kilo so the whole chicken would cost over £4 which would take it out of Dave's reach! Sorry to disaapoint but I thought 'wow, that's a bargain, I'll get some' but saw the price when I clicked on the link!

Rolandtheroadie

We were £120-£140 a week for 6 of us but with clearing the freezers and a bit of forward planning and cutting out some of the stuff you dont really need, we're down to £80. That includes everything (toiletries, cleaning products, food etc).
Every meal's home cooked too. 2 mince (spag bol and a lasagne), 2 chicken (tortilla wraps then curry), silverside joint (roast and a steak pie) and macaroni cheese for day 7.

dave4545454

today i had beans on wholemeal bread and blackberries after. baked potato and peas later. came to about 40p

Lady_of_D

I tried this once.

One week I decided to see how much I could get for as little money possible. Sort of an experiment. I decided that I was going to buy all the food on the Monday and last until the following Monday morning!

I managed to do a weekly shop for about £4.50. My shopping basket consisted pretty much of cheap noodles (8p), jelly (7p), apples (9p), pasta (43p), bread (47p), cereal (46p!!!), milk (49p), jam, (35p) sandwich spread (27p) and beans (26p)! I was infact well fed for that entire week. I drank water for the whole week. I could have probably went for £3 if I hadn't wanted so much variety and just practically lived on the noodles and cereal.

Everything I bought was the lowest price and to be honest it tasted pretty much the same as more expensive brands...well except the cornflakes...they were a bit gross.

I think it IS possible to live on £3 a week. Difficult and probably not advised in the long run but entirely possible. I think it's unfair to say things about Dave being malnutritioned etc. To be fair, you could give me £80 a week to spend on food and I'd likely get a takeaway most nights and live on crisps, ready meals, sausage rolls and fizzy juice!

I think the healthiest I've ever eaten is when I'm on a budget!

~~Diane~~

dave4545454 wrote: »

today i had beans on wholemeal bread and blackberries after. baked potato and peas later. came to about 40p

Are you by any chance a student Dave, that is not healthy eating, beans on toast and fruit fine but spud and peas is not very good.

Lady_of_D wrote: »

I tried this once.

One week I decided to see how much I could get for as little money possible. Sort of an experiment. I decided that I was going to buy all the food on the Monday and last until the following Monday morning!

I managed to do a weekly shop for about £4.50. My shopping basket consisted pretty much of cheap noodles (8p), jelly (7p), apples (9p), pasta (43p), bread (47p), cereal (46p!!!), milk (49p), jam, (35p) sandwich spread (27p) and beans (26p)! I was infact well fed for that entire week. I drank water for the whole week. I could have probably went for £3 if I hadn't wanted so much variety and just practically lived on the noodles and cereal.

Everything I bought was the lowest price and to be honest it tasted pretty much the same as more expensive brands...well except the cornflakes...they were a bit gross.

I think it IS possible to live on £3 a week. Difficult and probably not advised in the long run but entirely possible. I think it's unfair to say things about Dave being malnutritioned etc. To be fair, you could give me £80 a week to spend on food and I'd likely get a takeaway most nights and live on crisps, ready meals, sausage rolls and fizzy juice!

I think the healthiest I've ever eaten is when I'm on a budget!

That is not living its surviving