Is £60 per week for family of 5 ever possible?

LandyAndy

prosaver wrote: »

90 a month for food for 2 adults and 2 children
3 pound a day ?
could you tell me your secret:cool:

I'm not convinced it is desirable (let alone possible) to feed a child for 75p a day.:(

Buttonmoons

LandyAndy wrote: »

I'm not convinced it is desirable (let alone possible) to feed a child for 75p a day.:(

I can't see how it's possible myself, my daughter is 5, and her lunchbox costs me more than that everyday (seeded breads/tuna/grapes/yoghurt)

I'm not any help OP, I spend more than £60 PW on me, DD (5) and 2 cats

patchwork_cat

natlie wrote: »

Hi, I am same on maternity leave until feb 6th son is 15 weeks now I have 2 girls age 11 and 5, I cannot manage on SSP and unfortunately have to go back to work as OH is unemployed. last month I paid £90 for food for the month - mainly by shopping the reduced section and this month I am trying approvedfoods.com I have been shopping for a few days rather than weekly/monthly as I find we waste less and I can meal plan better

If you are on mat leave and OH is unemployed am I correct in thinking that 2 girls have free school meals. This would make quite a difference to budget although £90 is still very frugal

HappyMJ

LandyAndy wrote: »

I'm not convinced it is desirable (let alone possible) to feed a child for 75p a day.:(

It is possible as the poster said they shop every other day and only buy heavily reduced foods and meal plan based on that.

Bigjenny

Hi Snugglemunchkin

Try this site for some ideas http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/

HTH

[Deleted User]

Hi I have pm'd you a message,hope it helps
JackieO x

quintwins

we are a family of 5 (me, oh, 2 x 5 years olds and a 2 year old who eats as much as the 5 year olds) the twins get free school meals (it's different over here you can get them if you get working tax credits and earn under £17k) we have dinner at mil on a sunday aswell which helps, we we live off £200 a month easily this includes takeaways and some treats

valk_scot

Well, I spend £75 per week for four of us. Two adults, two kids, one of whom is a hulking 15 year old rugby player, the other is a bottomless pit even though she's 10. Is your £60 just for food? In which case it's more than do-able. If it's to cover cleaning materials, milk and nappies as well it will be harder. TBH I've no idea of the current price of formula and nappies so it would be better if you could take these off your budget first, since they're pretty well fixed costs. How much per week is left after that?

quintwins

valk_scot wrote: »

Well, I spend £75 per week for four of us. Two adults, two kids, one of whom is a hulking 15 year old rugby player, the other is a bottomless pit even though she's 10. Is your £60 just for food? In which case it's more than do-able. If it's to cover cleaning materials, milk and nappies as well it will be harder. TBH I've no idea of the current price of formula and nappies so it would be better if you could take these off your budget first, since they're pretty well fixed costs. How much per week is left after that?

for formula and nappies your talking £15(if your using own brand nappies), however unless your feeding yourself it won't be long until you need a tin a week so would be more like £25 a fortnight (we had twins and at one point we were using 3 tins a week, it was depressing back then and it was near half the price of what it is now)

ubamother

If 'food money' includes other supermarket things such as nappies, toothpaste etc. etc. I would find that very difficult. If however, it is food items and only food items I think it can be done. A lot depends on where you like, i.e. which sorts of food shopping is available in your area, your tightwad cooking skills, time-saving cooking techniques you know to use, and the family's expectations.

If you and yours agree to change from, for example, individually wrapped Twix's (or whatever) in packed lunches or as treats, to homemade cake-bakes sliced and frozen into individual portions, and other changes like that, you'll find it much easier. If you and your husband don't want to not have meat at every meal that will make it harder, or are unhappy saving every scrap of leftovers and making something tasty out of it etc. etc.

Tips like batch cooking, home-baked treats, leftover recipes will make it all a lot easier.