Do you earn enough for a minimum acceptable standard of living?

PasturesNew

marklv wrote: »

Not ridiculous at all.

What do you live on? Pot noodle? Tins of Heinz ravioli? :rotfl:

Any fresh meat and fish? Veg, fruit?

£10 would feed me for a week.

Not Pot Noodles. Proper food, with vegetables.

marklv

flea72 wrote: »

£10 a day? what do you eat?

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Sarnies from PretAManger at lunchtime weekdays (£6 including drink), and just standard stuff in the evening: fish, burgers or steak, sausages, etc with chips or mash, and veg. An occasional dessert and fruit. It all mounts up.

marklv

PasturesNew wrote: »

£10 would feed me for a week.

Not Pot Noodles. Proper food, with vegetables.

From Aldi or Lidl I suppose? Or maybe Iceland?

beecher2

PasturesNew wrote: »

£10 would feed me for a week.

Not Pot Noodles. Proper food, with vegetables.

I could do £10 at a push, but probably spend closer to £100 a month on food. I don't eat junk food and only eat when I'm hungry which makes a difference.

PasturesNew

marklv wrote: »

Certainly cheaper than Berkshire. My 3 bed terraced is worth c.£260k and semis are £300k+ where I live.

But what's the CHEAPEST. Where I live semis are £250k, but looking for the CHEAPEST yields a different result to a generalisation and looking only at "the nicer ones"

marklv

beecher2 wrote: »

I could do £10 at a push, but probably spend closer to £100 a month on food. I don't eat junk food and only eat when I'm hungry which makes a difference.

I'm hungry nearly all the time, so I restrict myself to two hot meals a day and a sausage or bacon bap in the morning.

Herbie_Hancock_I_wish

Scarily we are somewhat under what we need due to no mortgage, but with business as it is we are lower earners at present. When I netted £30k a year, one income, I was able to save a minimum of 10k a year not allowing for big " one offs " I guess housing costs make up for around 30% of many couples incomes.

beecher2

marklv wrote: »

Sarnies from PretAManger at lunchtime weekdays (£6 including drink), and just standard stuff in the evening: fish, burgers or steak, sausages, etc with chips or mash, and veg. An occasional dessert and fruit. It all mounts up.

I think you should get over to the Old Style Moneysaving forums - you're off your head if you give Pret £30/week for a lunch which probably contains more than your daily allowance of fat and salt.

marklv

PasturesNew wrote: »

But what's the CHEAPEST. Where I live semis are £250k, but looking for the CHEAPEST yields a different result to a generalisation and looking only at "the nicer ones"

By that argument you could live in a cardboard box! Where do you draw the line?

PasturesNew

marklv wrote: »

From Aldi or Lidl I suppose? Or maybe Iceland?

No. Proper food. Fresh stuff, that you have to cut yourself.

List what you ate yesterday then..... I won't as I was eating up some leftovers in the fridge to get them used up, so that doesn't count as normal.

But, take Sunday, roast chicken (£2 for the whole thing), roast spuds (25p worth), roast parsnips (20p worth), peas/carrots (30p), gravy (2p) - to serve 4. And there's still cooked chicken in the fridge today!