How much do you spend on food?

[teslacoils]

I do the shop. Usually on a weekend. it's "the big shop" based on what we all want for meals over the next week. Then the "little shop" midweek for bread, milk etc.

I expect, including shower gel and washing powder, that we spend £140 a week on food, but that includes £10 we put towards tea "out" once a month.

The big shop is done at my local supermarket. The little shop at a nearby small shop. I get my eggs from the farm gate.

Me, the Mrs, two strapping teenage boys. They can eat some food. UK salad and seasonal veg. Sunday roast. We can make a chicken go a long way and all the bits get used.

 

[Alchad]

Interesting thread, but tricky to draw any real conclusions, particularly with such variables as alcohol consumption can really cloud the figures

Mrs Alchad normally does the shopping, although I did it during covid. We shop mainly at Tesco, although do have a Lidil and an Aldi has just opened. We’re OAPs so don’t eat massive amounts, breakfast usually fresh fruit and toast, sandwich sometimes for lunch and an evening meal, home cooked, no processed meals. Weekly shop food, soap loo rolls etc typically £ 80- 100 a week. Oh yes, that includes 3 dogs and 2 supposed feral cats.

 

[Wolds Beef]

@yellowbelly Trust you to come up with a wise crack!! See you at the show! Have you got Lincoln's there.

 

[twizzel]

£65-75 per week for me and Mr Twizzel. I do the cooking, mostly from scratch. Normally includes some chicken or sausages, but beef bought separately from the butchers, and lamb in the freezer is our own. Next year we will have our own beef in the freezer too.

Milk comes from a local farm that bottles their own and delivers, about £30 a month, for 4 litres a week. I thought about stopping it, but the milk tastes great and it’s supporting a local farmer, so I’ll keep on with it.

Tomatoes, courgettes, mange tout, French beans, peppers, spring onions are all growing away in the garden and greenhouse.

I found getting a delivery pass from Sainsburys worth doing; I get 1 delivery per week, and don’t go to the shop at all inbetween. That £65-75 delivery does include some treats, beers/tonic, all cleaning stuff. We have really cut back eating out now that we’ve finished our new kitchen. We lived on ready meals for 6 weeks whilst we were without a kitchen and it was depressing. I really missed cooking.

If i start creeping up past £75 I will empty the basket a bit. The good thing with sainsburys is my nectar points normally buy the Xmas shop at end of the year. I thought about going back to Aldi but the fresh produce went off quicker and they never had everything on my list.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Aldi and Lidl are fine for bits but we found you end up spending more money on a weeks shop because you need to go somewhere else to finish it off because they don’t always have everything you need.

 

[kiwi pom]

Does anybody actually pay that?
Lettuce are so easy to grow your own and not something I would ever consider a must have anyway. Strawberries are hardly an essential staple either.

Whenever I have been to Australia the supermarkets have always struck me on how good their display of fresh fruit and veg are. Good quality, lots of it and a very wide range, lots of things I have never even seen before.
It also strikes me as bloody dear compared to here! I can buy Oz grown Pink Lady here cheaper than I found them in Oz. That baffled me a bit.

Probably not, it just shows that there's a shortage according to retailers.
It happens a bit here too.
Its winter here but at the moment Broccoli is about $2 for a little head and cauliflower is about $5 each. Rarely buy tomatoes in winter because they are pretty expensive.
If you get a bit of a bump in the supply chain fresh veg soon goes short. Understandable really, we don't want to be growing twice as much in case there's a disruption, then just throw it away if its not needed.

 

[4course]

went into shop this afternoon under semi unrestricted orders from mrs 4 course to get a few items to restock .Noticed that since the last time my services where called upon medium o/r chickens had gone from @ £3.50 to a fiver, spuds had dropped if loose but similar if in a bag though the j. royals £1 for just enough for 2 still didnt taste as good tonight as they used to 50 yrs ago . Thin pork chops 4 for £2.50 cauli medium size 85p bread buns 5 p each reduced as nearly 4pm , easy cook chicken dish for 2 £3.80 own brand tinned tomatoes 48p bottle of gordons for mrs 4 course classed as sensitive information but cheaper than last time though the tonic has gone up from £1.50 tto £1.70, 18 cans for the hay making gang £12 but the deal of the day box of after8s which a couple of weeks ago was £4 now £2 .To be fair thought all was reasonable though I didnt buy the morrocan cherry tomatoes the egyptian grapes or the tanz anian avocados

 

[deleted user 436632456]

I know a middle aged bachelor farmers who eats out 21 times a week as apparently if you count in the depreciation of plates, pans, the kitchen and associated running costs with gas, electric and fairy liquid, he is better of just eating out all the time.

In some ways he is right as a local pizza place does Monday night madness were you get a BOGOF 12" pizza with three toppings for £9.99. He eats one on Monday night and the other on Tuesday so effectively it's £4.995 per evening meal, he couldn't cook it for that there.

He eats breakfast and lunch at the marts or at the local cafe and is known to go to couple steak nights at restaurants and takes the other portion home in a doggie bag.

I remember asking him why he didn't stick a lame bullock in the freezer as was told that by the time he bought 2 chest freezers and the running costs of £100 each per year and include all associated cooking costs that any potential gain was already gone.

He does enjoy the social aspect of the cafes as he wouldn't chat to many people during the day.

Is is right in that it's probably the same money to cook for 2 than it is to cook for a single person.

 

[Chae1]

I know a middle aged bachelor farmers who eats out 21 times a week as apparently if you count in the depreciation of plates, pans, the kitchen and associated running costs with gas, electric and fairy liquid, he is better of just eating out all the time.

In some ways he is right as a local pizza place does Monday night madness were you get a BOGOF 12" pizza with three toppings for £9.99. He eats one on Monday night and the other on Tuesday so effectively it's £4.995 per evening meal, he couldn't cook it for that there.

He eats breakfast and lunch at the marts or at the local cafe and is known to go to couple steak nights at restaurants and takes the other portion home in a doggie bag.

I remember asking him why he didn't stick a lame bullock in the freezer as was told that by the time he bought 2 chest freezers and the running costs of £100 each per year and include all associated cooking costs that any potential gain was already gone.

He does enjoy the social aspect of the cafes as he wouldn't chat to many people during the day.

Is is right in that it's probably the same money to cook for 2 than it is to cook for a single person.

Worked with a guy that lived on take away pizza. He took leftovers to work for lunch next day.

 

[Will 1594]

£9/week veg box. £40/fortnight farmers market. £30-40/week farm shop. Get meat as wages. Alcohol and take outs on top.

You sound similar to us ,

 

[deleted user 436632456]

Worked with a guy that lived on take away pizza. He took leftovers to work for lunch next day.

I used to be no better, When I was bailing in England I always got a 2 for Tuesdays at Dominoes. If you have never tasted a 'sizzler' pizza reheated on the manifold of a 6499.. I would highly recommend it

 

[Chae1]

I used to be no better, When I was bailing in England I always got a 2 for Tuesdays at Dominoes. If you have never tasted a 'sizzler' pizza reheated on the manifold of a 6499.. I would highly recommend it

It was Dominoes this guy worked!

Was staying in Chelmsford.

 

[Bury the Trash]

like bobk im not bothered currently keen cheese and onion crisps battenberg cake tin of spam or corned beef ate with a tae spoon out the tin ...beans on white bread toast ,somtimes brown proabably about £25.50 a week including teabags which i drink a lot of those that get all excited and plan religeously about meals are a bit gay imo lol
Not overweight and not fat guts either sometimes go most of the day without at all infact, i think just forget to eat
but i never forget a nice cup of tea

 

[deleted user 436632456]

It was Dominoes this guy worked!

Was staying in Chelmsford.

It wasn't for a contractor near Danbury??

I think it was 02/03 I was going to go bale chasing for this guy around there, on the second day there, he got me to run the tractor and chaser miles away up into Norfolk in a panic and then suddenly ran out of work... it clicked with me a day or 2 later what he had got me to do.

I seen him years later in the FW in a different part of the UK.

 

[designanddetail]

I would think ours is in the region of £200 per week with cleaning stuff (7 people). Take-aways only on birthdays. Meals are all planned out ahead and cooked from scratch, except nuggets for the kids once a week.

 

[delilah]

You sound similar to us ,

Those giving all of their money to the cartel, I trust they never post on here bellyaching about the cartel.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

We eat out 2/3 times a week . OH works hard on farm so unreasonable to expect too much from the kitchen some days .
We have a decent veg garden and 4 freezers with beef ,lamb,pork and plenty of soft fruit all home grown . When at home it's mostly ,as far as we can, use our own produce .

Interesting how much cost variation there is to eating out with the food not being much different .
We ate out Sat night at a local pub ...decent food four of us with drinks £154
Ate out yesterday lunch different local pub .....decent food four of us with drinks £71

 

[kiwi pom]

Those giving all of their money to the cartel, I trust they never post on here bellyaching about the cartel.

I get all my cleaning stuff, dry goods, tins, frozen etc from the supermarket, not really sure where else I could get them from. So might as well get fruit and veg from there too - I don't think there's such a thing as a greengrocers round here. Get meat from there too if its any good, butchers or the freezing works own butchers shop occasionally.
Mrs KP works for a processor so the freezer is often full of cheap chips and veg that got clipped by a forky

 

[Chae1]

It wasn't for a contractor near Danbury??

I think it was 02/03 I was going to go bale chasing for this guy around there, on the second day there, he got me to run the tractor and chaser miles away up into Norfolk in a panic and then suddenly ran out of work... it clicked with me a day or 2 later what he had got me to do.

I seen him years later in the FW in a different part of the UK.

No it was for Peter Philpott.


Boyton Hall. Think it's all split up now.

 

[lloyd]

We eat out 2/3 times a week . OH works hard on farm so unreasonable to expect too much from the kitchen some days .
We have a decent veg garden and 4 freezers with beef ,lamb,pork and plenty of soft fruit all home grown . When at home it's mostly ,as far as we can, use our own produce .

Interesting how much cost variation there is to eating out with the food not being much different .
We ate out Sat night at a local pub ...decent food four of us with drinks £154
Ate out yesterday lunch different local pub .....decent food four of us with drinks £71

£71 for 4 sounds like a Tupsley job.