How much to feed you for a day?

[Bayerd]

Hmm..

Breakfast is usually a bowl of porridge, probably works out at less than 50p per portion.

Lunch is usually a fish sandwich, so about 40p for 1/2 a tin of pilchards/sardines (whatever's on offer) with 2 slices of bread, so about 50p for lunch.

Dinner? Hard to say, anywhere between one and five pounds depending on what it is. I've also budgeted in the Arch fashion in the past, still do to some extent. I find some of the best buys at the moment are to be found in the world foods section. A fiver for a 5kg bag of rice? Lasts ages. So do the pulses, which mixed with spices and tomatoes etc make great curries. Chakka flour is also cheap so now even chippattis are cheap as well.

It has been aluded to before that you can eat well for very little outlay, it's knowing what to get.....

 

[Kirstie]

Hmm. It's easy to calculate breakfast and lunch but dinner is always difficult...

Breakfast: 75ml milk, 75ml fat free yoghurt, 1tbsp oats and a banana all whizzed up together: probably 40p With fresh coffee (£2.99 a bag, one scoopful per mug) probably 15p.
Lunch: if I'm at work I have soup (no roll) and a salad, which is £2.48. At home it's much cheaper: tuna salad and some rice crackers maybe a quid?
Dinner: It's usually a veggie stir fry and rice; fish, veg and spuds; chicken pasta or something. I'd say a fiver.

For snacks I have fruit - 15p a go. Up to 60ps worth a day...!
I usually have a mid morning coffee (a quid at work) and a couple of mugs of tea in the afternoon if I'm working at home (all decaff), so that's another 50p or so...

And then occasionally a small glass of wine in the evening, maybe 50ps worth...

That's a grand total of: £8.73 to cover all eventualities.

Adds up don't it?

 

[numbnuts]

last month I spent a total of £125.67p on all my shopping but that includes everything
that works out at only £4.05 per day

 

[TVC]

On average Mrs VC and I spend £80 a week on shopping, so if you take off for detergents, toothpaste etc it most likely works out at about £10 a day for both of us. We don't do takeaways either, so that saves a fortune.

 

[ColinJ]

A friend of mine was complaining about being hard-up. He's pretty well-paid and his wife has a reasonable job too. Ok, they have a stupidly big mortgage, but where was the rest of their money going? It turned out that the weekly shopping bill for them and the one child still at home was ...













£250!

He didn't consider that a lot of money and didn't see much scope for reducing it ...

 

[Fnaar]

Probably about 3 quid, if you take away all the 'house' stuff. Most lunches I bring in from home, or occasionally do without.

 

[Arch]

A friend of mine was complaining about being hard-up. He's pretty well-paid and his wife has a reasonable job too. Ok, they have a stupidly big mortgage, but where was the rest of their money going? It turned out that the weekly shopping bill for them and the one child still at home was ...

£250!

He didn't consider that a lot of money and didn't see much scope for reducing it ...

£250! That'd feed me for... months!

I suppose if they spent a fiver each on a ready meal every day, that's £15 a day, x 7 that's.. <fingers> £105 on dinners.

I bet there are a lot of snacks and drink in there too.

£250 though. Every week. 52 times a year (and I bet it's more at Christmas)...

£13,000 per annum.

<swoon>

 

[ColinJ]

£250! That'd feed me for... months!

I suppose if they spent a fiver each on a ready meal every day, that's £15 a day, x 7 that's.. <fingers> £105 on dinners.

I bet there are a lot of snacks and drink in there too.

£250 though. Every week. 52 times a year (and I bet it's more at Christmas)...

£13,000 per annum.

<swoon>

I was pretty shocked when he told me how much they spent!

No, it's not that they eat a lot of expensive junk - quite the opposite! They are extremely fussy about their food. Everything has to be organic, absolutely top quality, fresh. They won't drink from plastic bottles or containers.


In principle, that would be nice but I think I'd be prepared to compromise to cut that bill in half! The way he was talking, it's as if the rest of the developed world is dropping like flies from contamination or malnutrition.

 

[Arch]

I was pretty shocked when he told me how much they spent!

No, it's not that they eat a lot of expensive junk - quite the opposite! They are extremely fussy about their food. Everything has to be organic, absolutely top quality, fresh. They won't drink from plastic bottles or containers.


In principle, that would be nice but I think I'd be prepared to compromise to cut that bill in half! The way he was talking, it's as if the rest of the developed world is dropping like flies from contamination or malnutrition.

Oh, I see.

I must be dead then. Oh, hang on.

Even given that, it seems a lot.

I'd love to know how much of the stuff they eat/drink has been stored in plastic vats at some stage anyway....

I know it's their choice and their money, but actually, I could get quite angry about it. Having watched Comic Relief last night, and seen film after film (I know, all lovingly crafted to make me cough up, well it worked), about starving kids, or people dying of malaria, or going blind, for the sake of a few penceworth of medication, spending that much on a fussy food lifestyle seems obscene. Jesus, there are plenty in this country living entirely on less that they spend on just groceries. There's plenty of perfectly good, nourishing food available cheaply, without resorting to turkey twizzlers and factory chicken.

If they are that bothered, they should at least grow their own veg.

 

[Adasta]

I reckon - with stuff I buy when I'm out and about (sandwiches, etc.) - it's probably about £5-6 a day. If I planned more could get it down a bit, I think.