How much do you spend on food?

HappyMJ

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Dogs aren't meant to eat veg & grains (they cause most food allergies) so where is your dog getting his protein from?

There is about 21.5% protein in the Harrington's food. A larger portion has to fed to meet the daily requirements so the dog will get enough protein. 10kg dog needs 180 grams per day.

The grain free Harrington's food has 25% protein and doesn't require as much to be fed. 10kg dog needs 150 grams per day.

missbiggles1

HappyMJ wrote: »

I don't suppose you have a link to them online. My bet still is they say "fillets" which means half of one chicken breast. The other half would have been used in the skinless packet.

The store/butcher will make much more money butchering a large bird getting 4 chicken breast portions/fillets from each chicken than butchering small birds and wasting a lot of bone, skin and fat.

These are a bit heavier than mine but have the bone in and, as you can see, a breast is labelled as a serving for one person.

http://www.stiltonbutchers.co.uk/chicken-breast-skin-on-bone-in-pid69.html

That shows as 227 gms which after cooking, removal of bone and skin will leave about 120/140 gms which I just don't think is a portion for 2 people. In old money, that would be around 2/3 oz of meat each, great if you're on a diet or really skint but not for most people.

splishsplash

HappyMJ wrote: »

Get a bigger chicken. There is more yield from a larger chicken than a smaller chicken. As a proportion of meat to bones you get much more meat on a larger chicken.

You might get about 600 grams of chicken meat from a 973g chicken (£3 Tesco) which would only be enough for 2 adults and 2 children for one meal with not much left over. It's about 60% meat. The rest is bones, skin and fat.

but...you would get about 900 grams of chicken from a 1.35kg chicken (£3.50 Tesco). That's about 65% meat.

From the 2kg chicken (£5.50 Tesco) you might get around 1,400 grams of meat. That's about 70% meat.

If you go for a free range bird you get more useful meat and less fat.

I'm curious about the figures you mention. Is that just a guess or do you actually weigh your meat? I presume you're talking about cooked yields?

I buy 1.6 or 1.9kg chickens usually.
I can get 700g to 800g chicken yield from a 1.6 kg bird or 800g to 900g from a 1.9kg bird. That's with a fair bit of disassembling and picking apart of the bones.

That's less than a 50% meat yield.

I'm really curious to know how much meat others can get from their birds?

ourcornercottage

Feral_Moon wrote: »

It's hard enough to get people to understand human nutrition when the the majority of people fill their bodies with crap without giving it a second thought. Only those of us who actually care about human nutrition will give a flying fig about what we stuff into our animals also.
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Little bit offended by that, have just said on several occasions my dog cannot tolerate a great deal of meat and fish. The amount in this good is about the maximum my dog can tolerate. Basically if I feed it meat it just goes though it and it becomes very ill. What do you expect me to do? I know perfectly well about nutrition for dogs. Have tried a raw meat diet and it made my dog extremely ill. My dogs are both rescues and the damage was done to this ones digestion before I had him, I have worked very hard and spend a great deal of money finding something that doesn't go straight through him so he absorbs some nutrients into his system. Like humans dogs are all different, you need to be a little less judgemental.

I won't comment again but good luck to the OP in reducing your food costs

suki1964

splishsplash wrote: »

I'm curious about the figures you mention. Is that just a guess or do you actually weigh your meat? I presume you're talking about cooked yields?

I buy 1.6 or 1.9kg chickens usually.
I can get 700g to 800g chicken yield from a 1.6 kg bird or 800g to 900g from a 1.9kg bird. That's with a fair bit of disassembling and picking apart of the bones.

That's less than a 50% meat yield.

I'm really curious to know how much meat others can get from their birds?

Absolutely no idea, life is too short, says she who weighs her hens eggs daily lol

I work on the principal of a small chook will do 3 adults a dinner, a packed lunch for one and around 6 portions of soup

Med one will do 3 adults Sunday lunch, 3 of us a curry or similar and again soup

Large will do 5 adults and two kids and soup

Pollycat

VeGGie-STyLe wrote: »

A typical day for me would be....
Breakfast: Greek yoghurt + fruit/nuts
Lunch: Fish/chicken/eggs + veggies
Dinner: Fish/chicken/eggs +veggies

Plus coffee, tea, squash, maybe one fizzy drink, chewing gum.... herbs/spices/seasonings/sauce....

which works out around £8 per day. It's not £10 but as I said, it easily could be, depending on what varieties I choose. Please don't judge me badly - the foods I will eat are rather limited!

I never buy coffee out, or eat out.

I'm a girl

ETA: I feel I should also add that I am bulimic, so you can actually add an extra £30 per day on food that gets "wasted". :embarasse

I wasn't judging you, apologies if it came across that way.
I was just curious what you were spending £10 per day on.

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I don't much like most veg - I certainly couldn't eat a whole plateful.:o

If we're having a roast dinner we will have carrots, sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower or romanesco or broccoli, sometimes roast parsnips, sometimes leeks in onion sauce, usually a couple of roast potatoes and a couple of small new potatoes, stuffing if chicken or pork, yorkshire pudding if beef.

With that much variety on a plate, you really do only need a couple of slices of chicken.

But if you don't like veg much, I can see how you would think our portions of chicken are too small for you.

lizzy85

We don't usually budget. Hehe. Just buy the cheap stuff as much as possible. Then, make sure we make our own food than buying outside.

dawnylou

Around £300 per month for two adults and a toddler. Oh plus doggy.
Will soon be feeding another little boy too!

We mostly eat organic (and local) when possible though.

MrsMck

SailorSam wrote: »

I haven't got as many pulses as i did have. Morrisons use to have about 10/12 different ones and i just use to get one of each, but they hardly do anything now. The other supermarkets are the same. I thought i must go into Liverpool one day and checkout China Town.

Hi,
I was reading through the posts, and came across yours. I have lived in Liverpool for a number of years now. There are a couple of shops on Bold Street in the city centre. One is called Mattas, can't remember the names of the others. They sell quite a few different pulses/grains, herb and spices etc etc.
I keep meaning to have a wander through china town to see what I can find

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I live alone and my monthly food only budget is £60.00 I cook from scratch and spend about a third of my budget I'd guess on fruit and veg. I live quite well on that and am relatively healthy. I don't obsess about food and am happy to eat almost anything.Y/S stuff ,especially veg makes excellent soup.I don't buy or eat bread and the only butter I use is in shortbread.I bake my own biscuits and cakes (not that many of the latter ) breakfast is usually cereal or porridge,Lunch soup and crackers with perhaps pate or philly type cheese or a wrap with salad and cheese or shredded ham
Dinners vary Sunday and Tuesdays I eat at DDs or quiz night at the local pub where I get a decent supper inclusive for £2.00.So I only have five dinner to cook per week.I can make a £3.00 chicken do for a good half a dozen meals and cook it in the SC so all the meat falls off the bones The remaining stock gets used in soup.I cook and portion for the freezer curries,chillis Sheps Pies etc. growing up with my late Mum and war-time rationing means I can streetch a meal with extra veg and a pudding or soup.I enjoy cooking and run my menus as I would any business and don't waste anything