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Post by Firefox on Jan 8, 2015 11:07:14 GMT
How much per day do you spend on food?
This is in normal day to day life, not special occasions like Xmas or going out for a meal. Unless of course going out for meals is part of your normal day to day life!
If you drink alcohol then include an allowance for that if you have it on a regular basis.
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Post by kangooroo on Jan 8, 2015 13:10:27 GMT
My weekly food/drink budget is £15 which works out at £2.14 per day.
It IS manageable - just!
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Post by Firefox on Jan 8, 2015 13:28:32 GMT
Quite a broad spread on the amounts so far
£2 a day is £730 a year.
£25 a day is £9125 a year.
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Post by penny13 on Jan 8, 2015 18:35:41 GMT
My weekly food/drink budget is £15 which works out at £2.14 per day. It IS manageable - just! Please tell what you eat and drink ?
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Post by seanrua on Jan 8, 2015 19:25:14 GMT
I tried to comment yesterday on the other thread but failed. I thought RT's fgures were very low, very good, or both!
Without alcoholic drink, my daily total would range between £8 and £12 for food and drink ( fruit juice, tea and milk).
I can clearly remember the time years ago when say £10 a day (£70 a week) would be plenty. Nowadays I feel I might be pushed to match that. Perhaps I'm eatng more in the cold weather or something?
If I added in the cost of fetching, carrying,growing, cooking, and seasoning, I don't believe I could get down anywhere near a tenner a day.
Not to worry, 'tis far dearer in Ireland!
Happy New Year, everybody!
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Post by Firefox on Jan 8, 2015 20:10:44 GMT
Mine was £11-15
But I'd probably drink 2 or 3 bottles of beer or 3-4 glasses of wine. At most supermarket prices it is £5 a day on booze. So without drink, I'd probably be in the £7-8 bracket. I tend to buy fresh food like fish, meat, fruit and veg. I don't have much tinned or packet or crap stuff. Fresh food does cost quite a bit extra, unless you can really hunt down the evening bargains which I try to do.
I don't have any expensive tastes in clothes, cars, music, sports, downloads, DVDs or electronics. I don't smoke or have pets at the moment. So alcohol is probably my only vice!
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Post by kangooroo on Jan 8, 2015 20:25:54 GMT
My weekly food/drink budget is £15 which works out at £2.14 per day. It IS manageable - just! Please tell what you eat and drink ? Mostly fish (fresh or frozen), bread, some cereals and I drink dilute squash.
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Post by X on Jan 8, 2015 20:45:55 GMT
Fresh fish on a £15 a week budget ? They charge that for a sniff at the counter around here !
Sent from my Nexus 4 using proboards
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Post by kangooroo on Jan 8, 2015 21:01:26 GMT
Fresh fish on a £15 a week budget ? They charge that for a sniff at the counter around here ! Sent from my Nexus 4 using proboards Try kippers - they can be cheap!
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Post by penny13 on Jan 8, 2015 21:46:56 GMT
Please tell what you eat and drink ? Mostly fish (fresh or frozen), bread, some cereals and I drink dilute squash. That's honest of you but its not healthy or nearly enough food !
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Post by kangooroo on Jan 8, 2015 22:05:54 GMT
Mostly fish (fresh or frozen), bread, some cereals and I drink dilute squash. That's honest of you but its not healthy or nearly enough food ! I get my quota of 2k calories but have to live within my means!
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Post by Firefox on Jan 8, 2015 22:57:11 GMT
What about the kit-kats and wine gums!
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Post by kangooroo on Jan 8, 2015 23:21:28 GMT
What about the kit-kats and wine gums! Yep, a daily KitKat but the wine gums were a one-off joke for an evening with you!
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Post by caz on Jan 9, 2015 0:34:38 GMT
I spend £70 - £75 a week on food and household stuff a week for 3 of us, so £25 each or £3 + each per day. The odd Tesco butty at about £1 during the week is offset by dog food, loo rolls, washing powder, shampoo etc in the main shop.
My wine & food in the van is included in the main shop, but not visits to pubs for food and drink at meets as I'm not on meets most weeks.
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Post by slider on Jan 9, 2015 21:54:02 GMT
We spend between £50/£55 but that's not counting food for the dogs and rabbit. I shop around for reduced items like meat and bread normally they have a short display date what we don't use straight away is frozen. Can get veg cheap but has to be used on the day of purchase so look out for two for one offers on frozen.
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Post by bessybongo2 on Jan 10, 2015 0:27:38 GMT
£50 for me living on my own love my roast dinner and coffee at Morrisons and my cheese toasty and coffee in my local café on my shopping trips! Bloody love this retirement Hx
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