Do you spend much on food?

sashafierce

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I spend too much buying food at the canteen for lunch really, and coffees, I think at least 20 a week
other than that, food for the month is usually maybe 200 for the pair of us

sashafierce

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W.Shakes-Beer

I stopped buying food in college this year, in previous years have been going through fierce amounts of cash.

Money got a lot tighter + trying to run car meant that the aul cheese sambos had to come out.

bonerm

Nope. I dine nightly at Chez Dumpster and the prices are fantastic.

fonecrusher1

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Your lucky you have a job. You should have your head bowed & apologise for making such a boastful revelation.:mad:

sashafierce

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Ah no, I can get a loaf of bread for the same amount it costs for one sandwich at work

sashafierce

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kerryman12

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Ah come on it's still much cheaper over say a week to make your lunch than to buy it

brianthebard

I think I spend about 80 a week on food, make most of my own lunches, just eat a lot.

strokemyclover

"Save money by making a sandwich out of whatever falls off your body.

I saved €2,000 on sandwich fillings last year by eating hard skin and toenail clippings in between two slices of bread each day.

Ground up cardboard really adds to the crunch of a pubic hair salad."

-John Tightarse

chicken fingers

I spend about 800-1000 euro on food per month. Average salary here is about €300 per month.
I eat out a lot, but when I cook at home I use only the best ingredients and high quality meats etc. €20 per person worth of meat in a home-cooked meal would not be unusual.

Probably another €600 per month on drinks, about 15-20% of my income goes on food and drink. I think thats a good % to aim for.

chicken fingers

chicken fingers wrote: »

I spend about 800-1000 euro on food per month. Average salary here is about €300 per month.
I eat out a lot, but when I cook at home I use only the best ingredients and high quality meats etc. €20 per person worth of meat in a home-cooked meal would not be unusual.

Probably another €600 per month on drinks, about 15-20% of my income goes on food and drink. I think thats a good % to aim for.

Er is that a typo?

sashafierce

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Leftyflip

Oooh about €25-€30 a week, I'm a fat bastid...

sashafierce

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chicken fingers

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Er is that a typo?

Nope I live in Ecuador although I do travel to other countries(far east mostly) on occasion with work, although those numbers would be similar for all the places I work.

dxhound2005

People wouldn't need to spend as much on food if they ate all they bought instead of throwing a lot of it away.

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kerryman12

chicken fingers wrote: »

I spend about 800-1000 euro on food per month. Average salary here is about €300 per month.
I eat out a lot, but when I cook at home I use only the best ingredients and high quality meats etc. €20 per person worth of meat in a home-cooked meal would not be unusual.

Probably another €600 per month on drinks, about 15-20% of my income goes on food and drink. I think thats a good % to aim for.

Do you ever get a tingle feeling in your big toe?

sashafierce

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dxhound2005

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Nope I live in Ecuador although I do travel to other countries(far east mostly) on occasion with work, although those numbers would be similar for all the places I work.

You're only just in the South Pacific, I thought you must be the King of Tonga or something.

El Horseboxo

Spend a fair bit each week. The below always feature on my list which come to about the 65 mark depending on special offers etc. I don't eat sweets or drink fizzy drinks or crisps or even processed food so i never really have any hidden costs. Don't eat bread or milk currently either.

25 chicken fillets
2 kg's of turkey mince
30-40 eggs
Porridge
Mixture of natural nuts
Loads of vegetables and fruit

El Horseboxo

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Nope I live in Ecuador although I do travel to other countries(far east mostly) on occasion with work, although those numbers would be similar for all the places I work.

I have stayed in Cuenca a fair bit for work and there is not a chance in hell i would spend 1000 euro in a month there. And i would eat out regularly too.

Jennieflower

Leftyflip wrote: »

Oooh about €25-€30 a week, I'm a fat bastid...

Who ate all the pies? you fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies! lol

I've a sexay bodaaaayyyyy, I love my babyback ribs!:p

Ruu_Old

I very rarely eat sweet things, don't drink alcohol or fizzy drinks and prepare my own food and work lunches. I don't go out to eat (hate being rushed to eat my food) and takeaway is just crap for you in general. I spend about $30-40 a week at Aldi and that is for a lot of good stuff, nice produce section there as well.

Giselle

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I live alone, cook most of my own meals and bring food into work, and I spend a minimum of 50 euro a week. I don't drink so that doesn't include any alcohol.

A two litre carton of fresh juice costs about 3 euro alone, fresh fruit and vegetables another 6 ish euro, milk and cereal maybe another 5...how on earth can you survive on 15 euro? Genuine question.

matrim

Giselle wrote: »

I live alone, cook most of my own meals and bring food into work, and I spend a minimum of 50 euro a week. I don't drink so that doesn't include any alcohol.

A two litre carton of fresh juice costs about 3 euro alone, fresh fruit and vegetables another 6 ish euro, milk and cereal maybe another 5...how on earth can you survive on 15 euro? Genuine question.

I think he meant 15 euro a day.

I'd probably spend about spend about 45 - 60 euro a week on food but about 15 - 20 of that would be lunches.

scientific1982

About 30 euro a week.

yoshytoshy

I make my own lunches for work ,I find I get more done in the day if I'm not wondering around shops.

--LOS--

I've eaten far too much money this year
Eating out so much and not just sticking to a proper grocery shop once a week, end up in tescos every other day.

Adyx

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What? I can feed myself 3 meals a day with good, decent food for €35 to €40 a week.

yoshytoshy

How do people get away with 30-40 a week for everything ?
I'm spending around 80-90 a week:(

Tar.Aldarion

cant spend very little if i want but these days i eat out more because i can

starbelgrade

chicken fingers wrote: »

€20 per person worth of meat in a home-cooked meal would not be unusual.
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Do you buy those chickens that are exclusively bred to grow fingers?

wmpdd3

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Spend a fair bit each week. The below always feature on my list which come to about the 65 mark depending on special offers etc. I don't eat sweets or drink fizzy drinks or crisps or even processed food so i never really have any hidden costs. Don't eat bread or milk currently either.

25 chicken fillets
2 kg's of turkey mince
30-40 eggs
Porridge
Mixture of natural nuts
Loads of vegetables and fruit

Bloody hell, like a few of the guys in work, high protein low carb / dairy. Scared to sit beside them cause 1 day their intestines are going to explode with the mankyest fart ever.

See them skipping in to work with their tuberwear boxes with 15 bolied eggs, leeeeeeeeeeeen white chicken and plain rice.

Thing I'd rather eat colours.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Anything between 40-100 oer week. But I need to have a good steak at least once, and a chinese at least once which brings it up.
If you have sambos or rolls for lunch you get it real cheap in dunnes if there's one close buy, wouldnt work out much dearer than making it yourself and you get fresth stuff each day
Making a hell of a lot of stir frys these days which cost shag all and you can have some for lunch the following day
Eating a lot of bungos too

johnmcdnl

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ya buy a loaf of bread for 2 euro, butter is 1.50 or something, packet of cheese is 2 euro sorted for the week

buy your cheese sandwich everyday and it's gonna cost 2-3 euro a day - course it's cheaper to make it at home - simple mathematics - unless you throw the loaf and fillings out every day :rolleyes:

and for the purists out there who won't touch tesco branded cheese or butter - on a blind taste test how many of you would actually notice the difference in taste - and think the difference in taste was enough to make you spend extra on your branded food...

30-40 euro a week is enough to keep me going although I'll admit there mightn't be a huge variety throughout the week until I've finished the pack of XXX so I can move onto a new meal

Caitlinn

I spend more than I'd like on food but, then again, food is kind of a necessity so I suppose I can't complain. It has to be done.

Sea Sharp

around 30 a week
Th diet mainly consists of weetabix, apples, oranges, pasta, scrambled egg, beans on toast, noodles and protein shakes.

Mahatma coat

I've recently moved houses, this one has a much nicer Kitchen, Previously I would spend between 15 and thirty dollars a day on Takeaways/pievans/servoschlock, for the last 3 Weeks I hacve been cooking for myself, I'm spending about $40 a pop on groceries twice a week. the main benefit has been that I dont eat as much Crap anymore and I'm starting tofeel a bit healthier.

Also helps to have a kitchen in your Office so you can Prepare somethig for lunch, dosent have to be big, I like to boil twice as many spuds as I would eat for dinner and then Fry whats left with a few rashers etc on the George Forman in the Office kitchen, takes 5 minutes and is Gorgeous, I cant understand why I ws SO Lazy for So Long

stoneill

My food bill per month is more than my mortgage.
Mind you I have three always hungry kids foraging in the kitchen presses and only two years left on the mortgage.

Jimmy Garlic

You could get the ingredients for a meal for two or more people in Lidl for less than a tenner, and that includes dessert.

Jimmy Garlic

Sea Sharp wrote: »

around 30 a week
Th diet mainly consists of weetabix, apples, oranges, pasta, scrambled egg, beans on toast, noodles and protein shakes.

Good god man, that is very restricted.

yoshytoshy

Tought I'd mention in Glasnevin ,lidl store ,theres a new fish shop adjacent to it. All loose frozen fish ,very easy to pick exactly what you want.
Loads of stuff even octopus.

Ciaran500

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Bloody hell, like a few of the guys in work, high protein low carb / dairy. Scared to sit beside them cause 1 day their intestines are going to explode with the mankyest fart ever.

See them skipping in to work with their tuberwear boxes with 15 bolied eggs, leeeeeeeeeeeen white chicken and plain rice.

Thing I'd rather eat colours.

Try it for a while. I'm on a similar diet and farting is never a problem, if anything the situation has improved.

ebixa82

Breakfast: weetabix/muesli mix + milk = 7€ per week

Lunch: salad...red onion, tomatoes, lettuce, sweetcorn, olives, cucumber with either slices of brady's ham/chicken fillet/tuna etc, low GI sliced pan = 15€ per week

Dinner: Aldi cous cous range (49c per pack) or pasta or rice + vegetables + fish/mince/chicken = 25e per week

Always tasty, healthy, quickly prepared homecooked food for less than 50e.
Treat yourself once a week to a thai/indian etc.

Batch cooking of the likes of mince and then freezing is always a cheap way of
doing things. Mince, tomato based sauce, garlic, onions, mushrooms etc. Could make 5 large adult portions for less than 10e. Then just defrost and reheat as needed.

yoshytoshy

EdiT : Never mind . On steroid overdrive at the moment.

sashafierce

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Novella

I spend a lot of money on food come to think of it. I love to cook and bake. Plus I eat out once a week or so.

ebixa82

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100% agree.

Carl Sagan

I don't eat any carbohydrates and try to keep to non processed foods so for a normal person, it probably wouldn't cost too much. I eat in or around 4000 calories a day so it does get expensive.