food budget of £200

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ViolaLass wrote: »

70p a day?!

Michael must really love Instant Noodles.

smokieboy

Three of us in house and try to stick to a budget for food shopping. Also started to use my local butchers more, who do meat packs starting from £5. I get the £10 meat pack and can get meals out of that for 5 days. At the same time, getting better quality butcher meat to eat. Worth checking out your local butcher's to see of they do any kind of offers.

double_mummy

just did £250 for 4 of us and will easily last until early march have spent 5 hours batch cooking though! at least its almost all done

Skinnylatte

michael1983l wrote: »

I eat on £20 a month and I am a single person so 2 on £200 a month is easy peasy.

I'm dying to learn how you live on £20 per month food...

Gettingolder

I have a family of four and we spend £90 a week. I gave my wife the challenge of shopping for £50 a week. She managed to do it but I soon retracted the challenge after she stopped buying beers, wine, my car mags and my newspapers lol.

Gettingolder

Skinnylatte, we spend that on toilet roll

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Skinnylatte wrote: »

I'm dying to learn how you live on £20 per month food...

Beans on toast every meal?

Actually, probably not, as there's no mention of 30 cans of industrial strength air freshener.

Madchickenlady

There two of us in my household and our food budget is £200 a month I am hoping to reduce it. I am normally really disorganised so end up not being able to cook what I want due to not having all the ingredients so I need to plan plan and plan I spend more on top up shops because I go for one small thing and end up buying loads, so I am making lists and sticking to them.
If a recipe says it serves 4 I make it for 4 then either freeze the extra for another day or I take it to work the next day for my lunch

Prothet_of_Doom

in 4 nights alone, per week, with no freezer, I spend £12, and that covers lunches, and coffee.

Lets not talk about the weekend when I'm back home, and my wife can spend £50 on one meal.

Danni-R

My house mate and I manage to put £50 each in the kitty and that easily does dinners for us for the month (plus 2 cheap take aways) It also covers cleaning materials.

We have one cheap pasta meal a week. And I bulk cook chilli mince for lasagnas and chilli and we have left overs for the odd lunch/ saturdays at home.