Food Shopping in modern times

jacko220

Rather a sensitive topic, would you call £700 for two people enough for only food shopping, I think I know the answer, however, I would like people's comments by the way this was in 2014. 

diystarter7

Go to Tesco's you get it for a lot less and even cheaper Iceland

p00hsticks

jacko220 said:

Rather a sensitive topic, would you call £700 for two people enough for only food shopping, I think I know the answer, however, I would like people's comments by the way this was in 2014. 

Presumably that's a month ?

In our household we'd consider it very high, especially if really is just food and doesn't include other supermarket items like toiletries, cleaning products etc, or drinks/alcohol.

But it basically comes down to what people can afford and want to spend - if people love cooking and want to use high end organic ingredients then I can see how you'd spend that much. 

Mnoee

£700 for an unspecified period in 2014 sounds reasonable enough. If it was annual, probably a bit low, but people over on the old style board were doing £1 per head per day back then so it's certainly possible if a bit too grim for me! 

jacko220

Yes forgot to say that it was per month.

Mnoee

jacko220 said:

Yes forgot to say that it was per month.

Then yeah, £23 a day is plenty. Both in 2014 and currently. Have you never been to a supermarket? 

flipflopflo

I could feed a family of 5 for around £350 to £400 a month back then. At the moment I’m around £600 to £700 a month for five which includes 2 late teen boys, 2 adult males and me and I’m the only one who eats like a mouse. 

jacko220

Thank you everyone for your comments, my late wife was a gambler, can I have £5000 just in case you die, yes I did give her £5000 she spent it on an investment for European Fine Wines which went bust the day I went into Intensive Care, she asked for my Debit Card when I was in Intensive Care with a Heart Problem, she had debts but refused to settle them, I paid off her debts a number of times, I am not looking for sympathy but I find it rather ironic that she accused me of Cohesive Control. I have found this site useful,

fatbelly

jacko220 said:

Rather a sensitive topic, would you call £700 for two people enough for only food shopping, I think I know the answer, however, I would like people's comments by the way this was in 2014. 

£161 per week for two people? Probably more than would be allowed on a financial statement both then and now.

Starting point (certainly in 2014) would have been £60 per week, with double that about the limit. 

With food inflation I think you would need to add 20% but that's still less than your figure

bouicca21

Much as I rather like the concept of cohesive control, my inner pedant is shouting Coercive. 

And yes, !!!!!!, 700 quid for food for two people is ludicrous today, let alone 2014, unless one was regularly dining on quail eggs and caviar and drinking fine wines and champagne.

This surely has to be a wind up.

jacko220

bouicca21 said:

Much as I rather like the concept of cohesive control, my inner pedant is shouting Coercive. 

And yes, !!!!!!, 700 quid for food for two people is ludicrous today, let alone 2014, unless one was regularly dining on quail eggs and caviar and drinking fine wines and champagne.

This surely has to be a wind up.

I am afraid it is not, she was a gambler and had debts, yes I did make a mistake thank you for the correction.

Was told if I did not give her that amount it was like controlling her, she gave up work as soon as we cohabitated and it became even worse when we married. 

I am over it now but people can use the reverse of domestic abuse to control people, I know that I was and the Church agreed with her. Many funny things about it. You mention fine wines, she asked for £5,000 just in case I died, I gave her the £5,000 and she invested in European Fine Wines, of which I had no knowledge, I found out later when she died that European Fine Wines went into liquidation the day I was rushed into A&E with a heart problem.