How much do you spend on food?

VfM4meplse

You've got hme economics / budget planning down to a fine art JackieO!

I remember something that AA Gill once said (not that I take much notice of home otherwise, mind) along the lines of: We have X number of years left. Multiply by 3 and that's the number of meals left in life (in my case, multiply by 1). Life is too short for a bad meal.

I'm reminded of this everytime I'm presented with something that I don't want to eat.

sweetcool

Total food spending of about 75% of my discretionary budget, very much towards the high end. About half is spent on groceries and half on restaurants, drinks, etc.

Goldiegirl

nuatha wrote: »

So how much do you spend on replenishing the food store and why not calculate that in your food spend?

I've noticed that about the store cupboard on these threads - once food is in there, it somehow becomes 'free' and is never included in the cost of meals etc!

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

The only big difference I ever can see is stuff like when people do rubber chicken. I might save the carcass for stock, but the chicken is one meal with maybe a few scraps. Xxx

With a chicken ( there's two of us), we'd have the breast meat for one meal, a leg each for another meal, and there's usually enough left over for sandwich fillings for a couple of days. I often use the carcass to make soup.


But, I never call it rubber chicken - that just sounds so unappetising!

Goldiegirl

There's two people in our house


Last year, we averaged about £50 per week at the supermarket, but that includes cleaning products and loo rolls, and some toiletries. About three years ago our average was between £70 - £80 pw. We have made these reductions by meal planning, cooking mostly from scratch and batch cooking


I reckon we are currently somewhere between £20 - £25 per head for food. We have a couple of vegetarian nights a week, but other evening meals contain meat, poultry or fish.


We are comfortable with our current expenditure.

dlusman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I remember something that AA Gill once said (not that I take much notice of home otherwise, mind) along the lines of: We have X number of years left. Multiply by 3 and that's the number of meals left in life (in my case, multiply by 1). Life is too short for a bad meal.

Wow - he eats 3 times a year, and you only eat once a year - impressive

nouveaunutrition

Too much probably - but all extremely healthy nutrient-dense high quality food so I'm convinced we get better value for money than if we bought cheap food ... And we almost never get sick :-)

Haljordan2814

I'm looking for a little input, trying to benchmark us against an average family, and hopefully find a reasonable amount for a grocery spend for a family of three. It's me, my wife and our 9-month-old daughter. Last month we spent around £450, this also included all of our household items.

Gnocchi

My household budget is for disposables e.g. it wouldn't pay for a vacuum cleaner but it would be used for cleaner bags.

Food + cleaning+ toiletries = £600pcm

Doshwaster

As a single person around £120-150 a month on grocery shopping including cleaning/toiletries. I probably could cut that back by better meal planning (I do throw out far too much) but I'm not under any real financial pressure to do so.

On top of that about £20-25 a week for lunches at work. I really should take sandwiches/leftovers in to save money as the onsite restaurant isn't great but I'd probably just eat the lot by mid-morning.

sarahj1986

I do a big shop on Ocado once a month which is usually around £120-150, this has most bulky items plus quite a lot of fish and meat for the month which I freeze. I then top up fresh fruit and vegetables probably another £50 over the month. If my husband is cooking he will buy bits and bobs plus he gets all the alcohol. He probably spends the same as me, so around £100 per week but this does include alcohol, toiletries and cleaning products.