Single person weekly food budget?

MattMattMattUK

I spend about £36 per week on food in supermarkets on average, but it does fluctuate, according to my budget (actual) figures another £5.5 on non food (toilet roll, cleaning products, shower gel, deodorant, bin bags etc. in supermarkets) but that will ignore razer blades, shaving soap that I tend to buy in bulk online once a year and lives in the sundries line in my budget. 

I do not buy any ready meals, crisps, snacks etc. and cook from fresh, I do not drink alcohol at home and my food waste is pretty much zero. I usually eat out with friends once a week as well as drink with friends in a pub 1-2 nights a week and I have another meal once a week when visiting local family, often I might bake a fresh cake, prepare something else to take with me though.

I have lived much more frugally in the past, having worked it out I could probably get away with the low £20s if I really had to, but there are points in the past where I easily spend £100 as a single person, steaks, fresh fish, lots of meat every day etc. Your £60-70 will be more than adequate, just make sure you include the cost of non-food items as well.

cattom

I live on my own and I spend about £50-60 a week on food, beer and cat food. including things like loo rolls, cleaning etc. I like to do things like go to the market, buy big bag of stewing steak or chicken, root veg, chop it all up and put it in my slow cooker all day long. all ways do enough for several meals. so the surplus goes into containers and I freeze it. my version of a ready meal. 
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tastyhog

I'd say £70 a week for one is a lot, but I guess that depends on what you eat and how much you pay for convenience or pre / part prepared over cooking from scratch. 

I haven't really worked it out for a weekly spend, because it can differ so much, some weeks I might be topping up the freezer / cupboards and spend what I'd probably spend in a month, other weeks I'd buy nothing other than buying some milk and some fresh fruit / veg /salad

It's probably about £20 - £25 a week, but I do have a catering background so nice food out of cheap cuts and ingredients does me fine

It's so much easier to eat well but cheaply if you budget over a longer period and work a stocked cupboard / freezer / fridge staples in to it, because stocking that spice rack or buying those pastes / sauces / ingredients for Asian type dishes or whatever else can add quite a lot to the weekly budget, if you're just doing it week to week, but if you start with them your per meal cost is pennies added to a couple of chicken thighs and a few other cupboard staples