How much realistically for 2 adults

Bananabrain

tessie_bear wrote: »

im not dissing anyone here but i find these threads a hoot...an op posts how long is a piece of string then many and various pile in normally adopting a cats backside face with the immortal line...i feed x more people on 6.4% of that budget you mention

unless u shop lift u pay for the food u buy...some food is dearer than others u pays your money and takes your choice some peeps want organic fillet steak some want iceland £1 specials...its a free country

if my husband complained about how much i was spending i would say have ago yourself mydear...if anyone said if u spend less i will get u a handbag i would say shove the bag i want good food

hth

Absolutely! If my husband moaned about the grocery bill I would say 'you can jolly well do it yourself dearest heart' In real life of course that sentence would be filled with 'strong words.'
Very strong.
In our house food is important [although I have spent many hours getting tips from this site because I am attempting to lower our food bill] and I personally would rather have good food than a new handbag. But each to his own.

CommitedToChange

Edwardia wrote: »

So when I see people boasting about how little they spend on food and deluding themselves that a diet full of processed food and stuff from animals reared on GM food is healthy, I do wonder what they will be like after 20 years on that kind of diet.

Are handbags worth getting diabetes ?

I find this quite offensive - I spend £100 a month on me, 2 cats and all the household stuff. My diet is not full of processed foods - I cook from scratch and try to mainly buy organic meat. I look out for HEATHY food that is reduced - not all yellow stickered food is processed. Please get off your high horse, just because I don't spend much on food doesn't mean my diet is carp - just because you didn't eat healthily on a budget is no reason to tar us all with the same brush.

Sorry, rant over.

OP - next time your wife does a shop offer to go with her and see what she gets - look at the recipe afterwards and see if there are any areas you would be willing to compromise, to reduce the cost ie non-branded pasta etc.

I also thought the save £50 a month = holiday was a great idea :T

sweetilemon

I agree with the 'how long is a piece of string' comment. We are 2 adults and one cat. Probably average £50 per week, lower (£35-40) if we've done a big shop, higher (£60-£90) if we're not eating out or going out at the weekend and/or we have loads of cleaning products to use. Our cat eats Whiskers pouches - if your cats eat sheba etc your costs will obviously be higher but its a choice you make. We eat at work and I eat a minimal breakfast ( orange juice, yougurt&honey, fruit if i have time). I am not brand loyal, will shop around but its very easy for bills to creep up if you buy say flora no matter what, one week it can be £1, the next £2. I never buy reduced meat but do use coupons. We hardly buy ready meals unless as a meal deal 'treat' instead of a takeaway.

whitesatin

We are retired now but when we were working we just spent without thinking as we were too tired to plan. No problems as we both earned good money. When we retired, to keep him busy, I let my husband plan and shop. I cook, he washes up. Works for us and we spend £400pm, more if a five week month. We are home all day so have 3 meals. That budget includes loo roll,detergents etc. We buy our own personal stuff like magazines and bath products.

Edwardia

CommitedToChange wrote: »

Please get off your high horse, just because I don't spend much on food doesn't mean my diet is carp - just because you didn't eat healthily on a budget is no reason to tar us all with the same brush. Sorry, rant over.

The human body is able to function on fat or carbs as an energy source. When we are given dietary advice that says we should cut down on fats, obviously we are ingesting more carbs.

Any medical text book will tell you that carbohydrate is turned into glucose. If this isn't burned off it's turned to fat. Over time, the pancreas becomes incapable of churning out sufficient insulin to push the glucose in the blood into the cells to provide that energy and the cells become resistant to insulin. This results in diabetes ie too much glucose sloshing about in the blood.

For the last 40 years we've been following flawed research that says all fats are bad. If you are eating less fat you're eating more carbs. That's why we have an epidemic sized diabetes problem now.

My mistake was in eating a diet that was healthy by government guidelines, with less fat and more carbs.

Thankfully, after being diagnosed with diabetes I went low carb and organic and stabilised my health.

There are fat toddlers in the US with diabetes and we're the fattest nation in Europe so that's coming our way.

I'm not on a high horse, I just hope that by sharing my story, it will make a few people cut down on the carbs and chemicals and stay healthy.

Because if diabetes can happen to me not eating takeaways, fast food, processed food and sugar, it can happen to anyone.

shegirl

Edwardia wrote: »

I read this and despair. Is a new handbag really more important than eating good food not rubbish ?

I have diabetes so I would never say I'm lucky, but it certainly taught me that the old adage 'You are what you eat' is true, when I watched my cholesterol, blood pressure, liver enzymes, blood glucose etc normalise just by cutting down on carbs and going organic.

We were pretty broke 1994-1999 and although we cooked from scratch and had an allotment, we ate soya mince 5 nights a week and bulked out meals with pasta, rice and potatoes. I stacked weight on, going from size 14 to eventually size 22. I was diagosed with diabetes in 2007, went low carb in 2010 and organic last year. I'm now down to size 12 without doing any actual dieting.

So when I see people boasting about how little they spend on food and deluding themselves that a diet full of processed food and stuff from animals reared on GM food is healthy, I do wonder what they will be like after 20 years on that kind of diet.

Are handbags worth getting diabetes ?

I agree:o I certainly don't see food or the money spent on it as a waste either.Sure,you can free up money for other things but you only get one body (and variety is the spice of life lol)

DUKE

I spend £50 a week & we eat quite well, although I'm sure I could do £30 if my husband wasn't such a greedy pig & insisted on cupboards full of chocolate ..... This has probably already been said but you could try doing the shopping & cooking yourself.

cox377

It may sound sinister, but have you seen the receipts for the food shopping?

A guy in my office was saying about the fact he was being billed for an extorsionate amount, when he asks for receipts to be provided by his wife, suddenly the bills decreased somewhat.

JC

ender4

Me & my wife spend at least £120 a week at Tesco/Sainsburys.

This includes toiletries, cleaning products & alcohol.

Good food is important i believe, and so if you don't need to cut back, its one area where i think a bit of luxury is nice.

Especially on meat, the difference between a good piece of meat & a cheap piece of meat is amazing.

Treevo

sweetilemon wrote: »

I agree with the 'how long is a piece of string' comment. We are 2 adults and one cat. Probably average £50 per week, lower (£35-40) if we've done a big shop, higher (£60-£90) if we're not eating out or going out at the weekend and/or we have loads of cleaning products to use. Our cat eats Whiskers pouches - if your cats eat sheba etc your costs will obviously be higher but its a choice you make. We eat at work and I eat a minimal breakfast ( orange juice, yougurt&honey, fruit if i have time). I am not brand loyal, will shop around but its very easy for bills to creep up if you buy say flora no matter what, one week it can be £1, the next £2. I never buy reduced meat but do use coupons. We hardly buy ready meals unless as a meal deal 'treat' instead of a takeaway.

If you think Sheba is a premium food you're deluded. I've got a cat and feed her Bozita. It's cheaper than Whiskas and has 93% meat compared to Whiskas 4%.