£1000 a month on food???

mrsHall2b

i could really easily do that, i was (when OH was working) spending £130 a week on shopping, and i was buying cheap end stuff too. and now it would be even more as my littlest now has the same meals as us and my 2 year old eats loads.

i would buy the same but not branded, and i would stock up my big chest freezer so if there was a time i was struggling id have some left

BearNy

£1k a month to spend on food, i'd admit i'd probably find it difficult to buy a grocery shop for that but I could definitely eat out everyday for a month on that, even on just takeaways, it wouldn't have to be a flash restaurant!

Eg: There's a cafe local to us that does fry's in the morning for £2.50, McDonald's Meal is about £6 for a large one, +extras (Like McFlurrys etc), then a big dinner that night in possibly a restaurant is easily £30 depending on how many courses you have, and this is just for one! Not even including my other half! lol

catwoman73

Considering that somthing like a pizza and a bottle of water can cost nearly £15 per person at Pizza Express etc, and there's the price of ready meals, meat, fish, fruit and veg etc at the likes of Waitrose or M&S, a family of four could easily spend over £1k pm on food if they are not deliberately trying to economise. More so if lunches and coffees are bought out regularly. And then tnere's alcohol - plenty of couples share a bottle of wine most nights. Say a fiver a bottle 20 times per month, that's another hundred quid there.

If you bought two coffees and a Pret type lunch every working day, and there will be people that do that, this would cost at least £200 pm per person alone, and then you would need breakfast and evening meals.

On MSE people work very hard to spend very little on food, but plenty of people don't want or need to do this so don't.

If we are talking about a family of four, isn't the recommended amount for groceries on a debt management budget about £600 pm or more? So £1k pm for someone who is not needing/wanting or trying to economise isn't that massive an extravagence.

mrs_lds

Wow we are a family of 7 and i probably spend no more than £60 if that on food per week. I do have a food storage which i use regularly but tne £60 is on fresh food items milk, fruit vegetables bread, meat. £1000 per month, i wiuld love to shop for them and give them at least £700 back in change for just two. Build up food storage when items like pasta, flour and non food items e.g toilet rolls are on offer same with essentials kike toothpaste and soaps etc.

VfM4meplse

I might eat a couple more mangos with a bigger food budget....nowhere near anything like £1,000 though!

PollySouthend

Its easy to spent 1k a month on food for a couple.

I easy spent 500-600 just on me as I like berries, quenoir, cashew nuts and stuff like that.

Bella73

Assuming it is a couple who eat out sometimes and have included this is the figure then I think it could be done fairly easily if you buy everything branded and all organic.

I could easily spend lots more than I do just on better meat and things but due to budget restraints don't, as we normally buy things that are on offer but if I didn't have to worry about it I think our shopping bill would probably double.

couponqueen123

i would spend the £1000 easy i think

organic meat daily , organic fruit and veg daily, organic milk , organic bread (from a posh shop) id also shop at the local farm shop and thats expencive the cheeses yum yum

then move on to the treats, i love waitrose all butterflapjack 89p for one id buy lots of them lol , also rich dairy ice cream , real choclate , posh eggs where hens run free (i buy these now ) kettle crisps even if not on offer

lots of juices , pop and squashes

toilet roll and cleaning stuff id buy better ones than i do now ,

yogurts id eat a massive pot each day i think there not cheap

cereal

i could spend the £1000 just for the house never mind eating out

Moomum

We probably spend that a month, there is me, hubby and 2 kids, one cat and a dog. We just buy what we fancy. Nothing ridiculously flashy though.

JIL

I would have a dusty cooker if I had that much to spend.
We would have shop bought lunches and eat out most evenings.
Some meals would be the bargain two for a tenner but others would be the real Gastro pub with lovely veges.
But I bet I would soon get bored with it.