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Is £50/week enough to live on?
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Barden
i'm 15st and 5ft11 - so no im not small at all lol
i just stick to 'value' range foods for the most part if im doing a cheap shop - can get 1kg of rice for 73p..enough for 5 days or so, then 5 peppers for £1.89, canned tomatoes for 31p per 400g, 1kg of onions for 69p
i didnt say couscous was the only protein i eat, i meant that it lowers the amount of meat required per meal. and meat is bloody expensive
i just stick to 'value' range foods for the most part if im doing a cheap shop - can get 1kg of rice for 73p..enough for 5 days or so, then 5 peppers for £1.89, canned tomatoes for 31p per 400g, 1kg of onions for 69p
i didnt say couscous was the only protein i eat, i meant that it lowers the amount of meat required per meal. and meat is bloody expensive
Fair enough- i'm just greedy. Towards the end of the first year a mate decided to buy whole chickens which are surprisingly cheap and we would share that between a few of us and it worked out really cheap, and it was always buffffffffffffffffff. Also the cheap sainsbury's wholewheat pasta is really good and very cheap. white pasta sucks.
I suck at cooking- never did it until at uni. Then i just got mates to cook for me lol- occassionally even paying them. One of them laughed at me cause i couldn't cook bacon successfully- i laughed back and just ate whatever had been 'cooked' in the pan and said'' umm, yummy''. (it was rank)
GorgeousMatt
How do you manage that? I can't imagine that you would get 7 balanced breakfasts, lunches and suppers for a tenner.
Even if you ate an awful Iceland frozen pizza every night, which is about the cheapest meal that I can think of, that would be £7!
If I decided to make sandwiches for lunch everyday for a week, I would spend more than a tenner just on that
Even if you ate an awful Iceland frozen pizza every night, which is about the cheapest meal that I can think of, that would be £7!
If I decided to make sandwiches for lunch everyday for a week, I would spend more than a tenner just on that
i dont eat breakfast.....hmm i guess its not healthy lol, but i can get enough food so as not to keel over lol, its not that i do it regularly anyway, just when i've used up most of my money for a week before food shopping
Don't worry, that's more than enough 
Barden
i dont eat breakfast.....hmm i guess its not healthy lol, but i can get enough food so as not to keel over lol, its not that i do it regularly anyway, just when i've used up most of my money for a week before food shopping
I have a friend who would blow all his money on drugs (he had around 150 a week from parents) and he would go weeks living of other people's scraps pretty much. This was a big guy too, and could eat and take drugs for England. Never met anyone who can eat more than me- except this ****. The body is one strong piece of kit- I have seen this dude abuse it beyond repair, or so i thought.
This one time i filled up an empty carton of apple juice with piss, because he would always come in and take my drinks. He drank it all despite me laughing and saying it was piss half way through- He didn't believe me though
I'm not at Uni but I get £50 a week to live on and £9.30 of that automatically goes to my housing organisation to pay the service charge. I'm living on £40 and doing fine-ish... just means there's no room for luxuries like the cinema or going out but sure, you can live on it 
sam188
I have a friend who would blow all his money on drugs (he had around 150 a week from parents) and he would go weeks living of other people's scraps pretty much. This was a big guy too, and could eat and take drugs for England. Never met anyone who can eat more than me- except this ****. The body is one strong piece of kit- I have seen this dude abuse it beyond repair, or so i thought.
This one time i filled up an empty carton of apple juice with piss, because he would always come in and take my drinks. He drank it all despite me laughing and saying it was piss half way through- He didn't believe me though.
This one time i filled up an empty carton of apple juice with piss, because he would always come in and take my drinks. He drank it all despite me laughing and saying it was piss half way through- He didn't believe me though.
Sounds a bit like but worse than 2 lads I knew at uni last year, massive lads who looked like Jay and silent bob, at least if they were both fat and smoked cannabis all the time they were both 18 and got about 4 student accounts and 5 or 6 credit cards and a loan and grant yet were skint by 4 weeks in and kept stealing food and I told one of them I hope the person who took my butter enjoyed the cum I put in it and they freaked out and said they would beat me up and sue me for thousands etc.
Anyway OP the problem here is that many students are used to a lifestyle or the ones from poorer family want to treat themselves.
I can easily live on £20 it just means you cant go out and have random treats like take aways or drink more than once a week unless you buy say a bottle of vodka and have a few shots every time you go out and then about 2 or 3 £1 drinks
Markets are often good, even butchers where you can get say a bag of say pork chops for £5 that lats 3-5 days, then make home made stuff like cakes, eat soup etc you can still live good if not better than someone with more cash since they are paying for ease rather than quality.
I was on jobseekers before and got £45 a week(£37 some as was paying back crisis loan) yet was still able to go drinking once or twice a fortnight and spent £15 in the bar.
As said markets are good as a lot of stuff comes without boxes but you can get stuff half the price of shops.
sam188
You're going to die in approximately 3 months- if you're lucky. Should i bring flowers or food to your funeral?
Oh, its worse than for most. I want to get into olympic weightlifting at uni too so I need even more food than a normal person!
Hmm, bring plenty of mayonaisse, nothing that mayonaisse cant make better. Even a funeral
sam188
I have a friend who would blow all his money on drugs (he had around 150 a week from parents) and he would go weeks living of other people's scraps pretty much. This was a big guy too, and could eat and take drugs for England. Never met anyone who can eat more than me- except this ****. The body is one strong piece of kit- I have seen this dude abuse it beyond repair, or so i thought.
This one time i filled up an empty carton of apple juice with piss, because he would always come in and take my drinks. He drank it all despite me laughing and saying it was piss half way through- He didn't believe me though
This one time i filled up an empty carton of apple juice with piss, because he would always come in and take my drinks. He drank it all despite me laughing and saying it was piss half way through- He didn't believe me though
surely he could taste that it wasnt apple juice?
marijuanahero
Not simples. Awful.
To live in any comfort or security (or healthily, you know, fresh meat, fresh vegetables) I seriously reckon a ton a week.
To live in any comfort or security (or healthily, you know, fresh meat, fresh vegetables) I seriously reckon a ton a week.
GorgeousMatt
How do you manage that? I can't imagine that you would get 7 balanced breakfasts, lunches and suppers for a tenner.
Even if you ate an awful Iceland frozen pizza every night, which is about the cheapest meal that I can think of, that would be £7!
If I decided to make sandwiches for lunch everyday for a week, I would spend more than a tenner just on that
Even if you ate an awful Iceland frozen pizza every night, which is about the cheapest meal that I can think of, that would be £7!
If I decided to make sandwiches for lunch everyday for a week, I would spend more than a tenner just on that
i must be dead unhealthy then. i eat pretty much NO fruit or veg. about once a month i might eat an apple or a few grapes but no veg as i cant stand the taste of any of it and i dont eat much meat, if i do its a bit of chicken for a sunday lunch or other stuff that isnt classed as Fresh Meat but im fine (pretty healthy tbh). i also dont eat breakfast, maybe the odd slice of toast every now and then but last time i had breakfast was 2 months ago. my biggest problem is im very fussy with food as theres a lot i dont like but luckily i pretty much live on things like pasta, rice, things on toast, pizza, noodles etc.
vickie89
i must be dead unhealthy then. i eat pretty much NO fruit or veg. about once a month i might eat an apple or a few grapes but no veg as i cant stand the taste of any of it and i dont eat much meat, if i do its a bit of chicken for a sunday lunch or other stuff that isnt classed as Fresh Meat but im fine (pretty healthy tbh). i also dont eat breakfast, maybe the odd slice of toast every now and then but last time i had breakfast was 2 months ago. my biggest problem is im very fussy with food as theres a lot i dont like but luckily i pretty much live on things like pasta, rice, things on toast, pizza, noodles etc.
that's an AWFUL diet! yeeesh
Eat some proper food! It will keep you healthier, defo.
vickie89
i must be dead unhealthy then.
Yeah probably.
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Barden
surely he could taste that it wasnt apple juice?
The only thing i could think of was the fact i drank aload of the apple juice just before pissing it back up?
This guy is a tough cookie though. I think he thought it tasted weird but was probably too desperate for some fluids to give a dam.
Depends on where you are, but I can happily live off a tenner a week, unless I spend the £4 return to London to see the boyfriend, and then the £2.40 busses back and forth from his.
I get all my food from the local organic farm and make the rest from scratch
I get all my food from the local organic farm and make the rest from scratch
vickie89
i must be dead unhealthy then. i eat pretty much NO fruit or veg. about once a month i might eat an apple or a few grapes but no veg as i cant stand the taste of any of it and i dont eat much meat, if i do its a bit of chicken for a sunday lunch or other stuff that isnt classed as Fresh Meat but im fine (pretty healthy tbh). i also dont eat breakfast, maybe the odd slice of toast every now and then but last time i had breakfast was 2 months ago. my biggest problem is im very fussy with food as theres a lot i dont like but luckily i pretty much live on things like pasta, rice, things on toast, pizza, noodles etc.
You must get your protein the natural way
I can get by on under £20 per week...
- I barely spend any money on books, but I don't need to buy them.
- I have a digital camera and take photos of stuff rather than photocopying or printing.
- I rarely use busses, I usually walk. I don't use taxis.
- Walking 3 miles a day suppresses my desire to pursue other exercise. I have a bike so if I really feel like it I can cycle, or I could go for a run... I'm not interested in gyms and I'm rubbish at competitive sports
- I know how to find good clothes in charity shops and I take advantage of being back home in the holidays when I can get clothes from places like TKMaxx.
- I buy cheap stuff from Aldi, or stuff on offer or reduced from Tesco, then cook in bulk and freeze stuff (this is good if you don't go through bread very fast). I tend to buy seasonally/locally so it's less pricey.
- I'm vegetarian and I don't buy ready-meals unless they've been reduced a lot.
- For simple stuff like tinned tomatoes it doesn't really make a difference if you buy the really cheap ones, so that helps.
- My mum buys stuff like rice in bulk at the beginning of the year which works out well.
- I've been on medication so haven't been drinking much
- I've been writing a dissertation so have spent less money on societies and socialising.
Realistically I wouldn't plan to live on £20/week because it could be restricting, but unless you want to be permanently smashed in a taxi while eating the finest meat with the most expensive imported fruit/vegetables and wearing your 6 impulse-buys from the last week while smothered in a mountain of textbooks, I think that £50 isn't likely to restrict you too badly. There are a lot of little things you can do which all add up one way or the other.
I'd still consider the non-ensuite though. It depends what you'd do with an extra £20 and how important that is in comparison.
- I barely spend any money on books, but I don't need to buy them.
- I have a digital camera and take photos of stuff rather than photocopying or printing.
- I rarely use busses, I usually walk. I don't use taxis.
- Walking 3 miles a day suppresses my desire to pursue other exercise. I have a bike so if I really feel like it I can cycle, or I could go for a run... I'm not interested in gyms and I'm rubbish at competitive sports
- I know how to find good clothes in charity shops and I take advantage of being back home in the holidays when I can get clothes from places like TKMaxx.
- I buy cheap stuff from Aldi, or stuff on offer or reduced from Tesco, then cook in bulk and freeze stuff (this is good if you don't go through bread very fast). I tend to buy seasonally/locally so it's less pricey.
- I'm vegetarian and I don't buy ready-meals unless they've been reduced a lot.
- For simple stuff like tinned tomatoes it doesn't really make a difference if you buy the really cheap ones, so that helps.
- My mum buys stuff like rice in bulk at the beginning of the year which works out well.
- I've been on medication so haven't been drinking much
- I've been writing a dissertation so have spent less money on societies and socialising.
Realistically I wouldn't plan to live on £20/week because it could be restricting, but unless you want to be permanently smashed in a taxi while eating the finest meat with the most expensive imported fruit/vegetables and wearing your 6 impulse-buys from the last week while smothered in a mountain of textbooks, I think that £50 isn't likely to restrict you too badly. There are a lot of little things you can do which all add up one way or the other.
I'd still consider the non-ensuite though. It depends what you'd do with an extra £20 and how important that is in comparison.
sam188
Are you joking? You must be really small or have a ridiculously slow metabolism. You need protein ffs, you'll just wither up and die. couscous- oh dear....
You can get p[rotein from cheese so if you eat alot of that it would lessen the meat costs and remember most of use eat way more protein than we need and more than our bodies can comfortably synthasise at a time.
I reckon i could shop around and could eat well enough on 10 a week, however the first shop would probably ahve to be more because you need spices and canned ****, but after one decent shop a term i could eat off of 10 a week. And i'm a huge **** so the tiny excuse cannot be made.
Libtolu
You can get p[rotein from cheese so if you eat alot of that it would lessen the meat costs and remember most of use eat way more protein than we need and more than our bodies can comfortably synthasise at a time.
I reckon i could shop around and could eat well enough on 10 a week, however the first shop would probably ahve to be more because you need spices and canned ****, but after one decent shop a term i could eat off of 10 a week. And i'm a huge **** so the tiny excuse cannot be made.
I reckon i could shop around and could eat well enough on 10 a week, however the first shop would probably ahve to be more because you need spices and canned ****, but after one decent shop a term i could eat off of 10 a week. And i'm a huge **** so the tiny excuse cannot be made.
Cheese is well expensive douche! And besides it has something really bad for you in it.
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