How much does your weekly shopping come to?

It's much easier than people think to make a budget stretch, isn't it! If somebody said to me that I had to live on £50 I would struggle as there would be things I'd want that I couldn't have.

But, if someone said I had to live on £10 a week (again) I would do that with probably equal struggle. Because as humans we adapt to what we have quite easily, but also strive to get just that little bit more, which I think is great.

But yeah, you can get certain foods incredibly cheaply.

Reply 4

Too much. Gluten free food is uber expensive :frown:

Reply 5

LukeM90

17

30 odd quid when I was buying alone, 50-60 now im living with my girlfriend, we do buy alot of unessesary branded stuff though,

Reply 6

It's****ingWOODY

20

£30ish a week for my food shopping. I eat 6 big meals a day though, gotta feed dem muscle gainz!

Reply 7

Welsh_insomniac

14

About £20 - £25 a week.

2 nights a week I have fresh fish/seafood, 2 nights I have fresh chicken or beef mince and 2 nights a week are vegetarian nights. Sunday I leave to my parents to cook the roast :biggrin:

When I was a student I would easily go as low as £10 or less, but at that point I was eating a lot of carbs and **** frozen food that did my body no good.

Reply 8

BioIz

11

If I'm doing a lot of cooking, £20 - £30, but if I've got a lot of frozen leftovers from the week before and I'm just topping up for lunches it can easily be <£10

Reply 9

When I run out of meat I go to Aldi, buy the bulk packs and they last me so long, so I'm not spending a lot on meat. I spend most of it on veggies, fruit, cereal and milk. I go late, when the shops are closing and get the cheap stuff.
In Australia, a box of gluten-filled cereal is about $3, mine are at least $5 and have less in them. I have to have lactose milk, so I pay around $2L where as normal milk is $1L. Then there's pasta and other things that you have to get from the health isle, which costs at least 3x the price :frown:

Seriously considering only eating once a day. Twice if I can afford it that week.

Reply 10

Rakas21

Original post by _anyawalsh

My shopping for this week came to £5.73 and that's to last me 9 days. My flatmates are astonished at how I do it, but I get purely just what I need each week. Usually my shopping comes to just under £10 but I was just topping up with stuff to make meals with what I had this week.
I'm interested how much yours is and what you buy (value range/finest/takeaways/ready meals etc)

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I have lived on less than £5 per week via cornflakes, milk, noodles, beans, eggs and bread. I generally however spend around £20 and my last shop was the following..

Weetabix
Milk
Fresh Fish (i forget it's name)
Cod in butter sauce
Artichokes
Lentils
Peas
Spinach
Leeks
Sweet Potato
Avacado
Apricot
Guava
Banana
Mango
Pomegranate
Strawberry

Original post by Clementine101

Too much. Gluten free food is uber expensive :frown:

And tastes horrible, i had several of my grandmothers.

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Reply 11

CJKay

19

Original post by Clementine101

Too much. Gluten free food is uber expensive :frown:

I know, right? My parents are trying to get me on a gluten-free diet because I seem to lose weight exponentially quickly on them, but they just trivially go "oh, and you can get 6 sausages for £3". 3 quid!? I can buy 40 non-gluten-free for £2!

Reply 12

Original post by Rakas21

I have lived on less than £5 per week via cornflakes, milk, beans, eggs and bread. I generally however spend around £20 and my last shop was the following..

Weetabix
Milk
Fresh Fish (i forget it's name)
Cod in butter sauce
Artichokes
Lentils
Peas
Spinach
Leeks
Sweet Potato
Avacado
Apricot
Guava
Banana
Mango
Pomegranate
Strawberry

And tastes horrible, i had several of my grandmothers.

Some of it doesn't taste too bad. A lot of it does though.

Original post by CJKay

I know, right? My parents are trying to get me on a gluten-free diet because I seem to lose weight exponentially quickly on them, but they just trivially go "oh, and you can get 6 sausages for £3". 3 quid!? I can buy 40 non-gluten-free for £2!

Seriously, don't do it. Don't do it unless you know for sure you can't process gluten. If you eat a gluten-free diet and don't actually need to be on one, you'll end up having to be on one because you've damaged your bowels.

I hate buying food, it makes me want to not eat ever again.

Reply 13

Rakas21

Original post by Clementine101

Some of it doesn't taste too bad. A lot of it does though.

Seriously, don't do it. Don't do it unless you know for sure you can't process gluten. If you eat a gluten-free diet and don't actually need to be on one, you'll end up having to be on one because you've damaged your bowels.

I hate buying food, it makes me want to not eat ever again.

Does all fruit and veg have gluten, perhaps try that.

Reply 14

Original post by Rakas21

Does all fruit and veg have gluten, perhaps try that.

Nah, no fruit and veg have gluten, so a gluten free diet is pretty healthy (if you stay away from the cakes and bikkies!)

Reply 15

Reue

20

£30-£40 usually. Plus another £10-£20 with booze.

Reply 16

Jebedee

17

Don't do weekly shopping, I just go on a bulk meat run at the market which will last me over a month. That's like 30 pounds. After that just need some cheap veg and brown rice/pasta.

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Reply 17

Rakas21