How much do you spend per week on food?
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How much do you spend per week on food?Just sorting out my student finance, and was wondering how much people spend per week on food. I know it probably varies for different people, but I won't be getting expensive stuff, so just like an average amount would be helpful.
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?Anywhere between £15 and £30 a week is fairly typical for the average student. No doubt there will be the people coming along as they do in every thread to tell you how that's "basically poverty", but they're just trolls so ignore them.
It can be done on less than £15 a week fairly easily if needs be, but that's a fairly average amount. -
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?We spend about £50 a week but we don't scrimp on anything, buy plenty of meat and veg etc.
It depends how well you want to eat. Supermarkets often do deals eg. three packs of meat for £10, that will easily last you a couple of weeks depending on how much you like to eat meat! Most have offers on veg too so that can work out quite cheap. I'd actually recommend buying single fruit/veg cos you'll end up chucking a lot away. Pasta is really cheap, probably about 30p and you can get pasta sauces for around 50p too. -
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?i'm a posh kid so i could easily spend an excess of £100(Original post by bonjour_ella)
Just sorting out my student finance, and was wondering how much people spend per week on food. I know it probably varies for different people, but I won't be getting expensive stuff, so just like an average amount would be helpful.
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?Frozen meat, tinned fish, big trays of eggs, frozen veg, supermarket value food (not on stuff like meat because that will just be mostly fat), offers, food close to use-by then freeze it, no cakes, sweets, chocolates or other rubbish.(Original post by Tycho)
I have a household of four and we spend £120 per week. It used to be £160, but we're making cutbacks. £15-£20 seems pretty low to me? Can someone who spends this let me know what you buy for that?
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?I'd imagine it depends on what you eat, I mean if you have a bowl of porridge (say 40p) for breakfast then toast (30p) for lunch and for dinner you have a frozen pizza (70p-£1.50), you can eat for less then £2 a day.
Wheras if you like your meat then i'd suggest giving SPAM a try!
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?i buy around 20 worth of sweets and then around 10-15 for food (not including AMT...their milkshakes r AMAZING).
edit: i live off subway for lunch and eggs in the morning.
cant cook to save my life
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?I reckon if you budget for £30 a week you'll be about right! You can easily spend less like others have said, but £30 allows you to buy the luxury/needed items like chocolate and biscuits!!! But if you get takeaways alot or have lots of meals out obv you'll have to increase the budget loads!
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?To get an answer more specific to you try writing down what you eat at home for a week, then look up how much that costs and you'll get the amount your parents are currently spending on your food. Assuming you don't change your diet at uni you can budget that amount (though you may choose to change your diet at uni to lower the budget).
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?Differences across supermarkets aren't that noticeable unless you go to Waitrose. The penny you save per item in Tesco won't generally be worth it for the transport you take to get there, if say a Sainsbury's is a lot closer.
I usually spend between £20 and £25. I do lots of exercise though so need to buy quite a bit of protein and carb based products. -
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?Once every few months I'll get in bulk tinned and dry food, that would usually come up to about £40, but would last me like 2-3 months. Then weekly I'll top up on fresh meat and veg which would be about £20.
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Re: How much do you spend per week on food?Wow - where do you shop, Waitrose?!(Original post by Tycho)
I have a household of four and we spend £120 per week. It used to be £160, but we're making cutbacks. £15-£20 seems pretty low to me? Can someone who spends this let me know what you buy for that?
We're a family of 5 (2 adults, 2 children, 1 toddler) and we spend around £70 a week - and that includes nappies!
In addition we also have £3.10 a week worth of healthy start tokens which I use on fruit.
I haven't a clue why you would need to spend £120 a week. Even when we shopped exclusively at Tesco (nowadays we do the majority of the shopping at Iceland, and just a bit from Tesco, because it's cheaper than doing it entirely at Tesco) we still only spent about £100 a week at the very most, and that was on a very extravagant week.Last edited by PinkMobilePhone; 25-05-2012 at 19:36.
