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Why the chuffing hell is everything so damn expensive these days. Had a few bits done on the car £200, wasn't anything serious even, shopping for the two of us comes to at least £70 a week without booze, just grabbed some pub food with a drink each (steak granted) £35, half tank petrol £25 etc etc could go on but Jesus why does everything cost so frigging much!? We take home an above average amount for our area, god knows how other people manage.
Trying to save money to go on Hols as well. It's a nightmare. thankfully don't run a car, don't think I could afford to.
Edit: Yes, don't even start me on my outgoings before I even start spending.
I think £70 is a lot, I know we shop at Sainsburys but where ever you go it's just bloody expensive 🙁
£70 is loads! I can feed myself for about £20.
£70 for 2 people? Bargain.
emsz - you are tiny though!
We take home an above average amount for our area, god knows how other people manage.
well, up until recently people were [i]managing[/i] by suplementing wages that have been steadily lowered in real terms with readily available lines of credit.
but that didn't really work out too well.
I don't do credit :-p never really have done either so is not like we go without but just noticed that More dosh has to stay in the debit account with much less in the savings 🙁
£40 per week for 2 of us here (west midlands), were big eaters too. The key we've found is to write a menu at the start of the week and stick to it. We do shop at Aldi though.
lunge - what is the quality of food like at Aldi? Do you buy free range etc? How much fruit and veg do you eat?
Real wages for the working and some of the middle classes have been squeezed for the last 10 to 15 years as the top 2% of the population became richer and richer.
We were then sold the dream that houses would continue to rise and rise in value forever and boom and bust was over so we could keep drawing down on the increasing through more and more equity releases. However, the credit crunch and the Great Recession ended all of that.
We, well the 98% who have not become steadily richer over the last 10 to 15 years, are going to go through a big period of correction and reduction in our living standards and the public services that we have become used to because the borrowing that was funding all of it was not sustainable.
Deleveraging will continue into the medium term, austerity is going to be a buzzword and it isn't going to be much fun.
20 quid for a week's food for one? 70 quid for 2?
My weekly food bill is about 65,00€ for 1!
£5 per person per day for food - tht isn't bad really - but you could eat cheaper if you tried harder.
shopping for the two of us comes to at least £70 a week [b]without booze[/b]
Are you dining on gold bars?
More dosh has to stay in the debit account with much less in the savings
So basically you're not saving quite as much as you'd like to be, well the government did warn us that it would be a tough road ahead.......although it does seem particularly tough for you 🙁
nah I don't mean it like that, I fully accept that we are still much more financially secure than others potentially and I know truly we are lucky but we are finding everything extremely expensive. Just a general moan really.
Inflation innit
And the Tory VAT bombshell
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emmas shopping trolley yesterday 😀
we still spend the same on food as we did 2 years ago- just less of it .... im not training so im not eating huge ammounts like i used to ...
damn it i give up ....
just mental image a mcvitties gold chocolate bar
lol, you having a moment trail_rat?
£70 for two is about what we pay.
Unfortunately it looks like things on are the way downhill for many financially. Wages aren't rising anywhere near as much as inflation. Utilities are rocketing too.
one of those days !
ha, I'd rather have the biscuit than the gold. For someone who gets into a very tight fitting, clingy wedding dress in 8 weeks I have a surprising big appetite! 🙄
My wages don't even stay the same any more - they go down each year.
I spend about £90-100 a week on food for one and do not consider myself to be particularly extravagant. I am lazy in so much as I buy my lunches at work, but don't feel that would save a great deal. Teetotal as well so no booze in that.
I really don't know how you can feed yourselves on £5 a day
it's probably due to the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme which effectively devalued the pound and caused price inflation for imported goods / services.
Or the cumulative effect of inflated commodity prices impacting the entire supply chain...
ernie_lynch - Member
And the Tory VAT bombshell
That chap on the left (as we look) seems like he could do with a drink...
My weekly bill at sansbury's, for just me, must average 35 to 40 quid these days. Nothing special, I cook for myself so no ready meals, just fresh veg, meat and fish, often 'basics' brad stuff, the rest is sainsbury's own brand..no brand names or 'taste the difference....I just eat a lot. But then food is my fuel as I cycle to work....bloody glad too as a tank full of petrol for the car is now 85 quid (mondeo)
I'm grateful my parents taught me the valur of money, spend only what you can afford, don't borrow if you can do without etc....means I'm okay ...notice the price rises thogh and worry for many with less well paid jobs or kids to bring up.
lunge - what is the quality of food like at Aldi? Do you buy free range etc? How much fruit and veg do you eat?
Most of the stuff is as good if not better than your "standard" supermarket. Certainly the fruit, veg and cooked meats are as is the wine if you know what to buy. The raw meat is no better or worse than Asda or Tesco but I try to buy that from the butchers anyway. You struggle to get some specialist items as the range can be a bit limited but this is not the end of the world.
I've saved on average £20 per week from shopping there and have felt no real drop in food quality so it certainly works for me.
lunge - when i lived near an aldi/lidl i used to shop there alot - i liked alot of there stuff tbh - lacks variety in fruit and veg though 🙁
£90-£100 per week at Lidl. Less variety, better quality.
£140-£150 at Morrisons. More variety, lower quality.
Family of 5.
We spend on average £100-£125 a week for 2 adults and 3 children (1 a baby). We have really noticed prices/food shop increasing significantly and despair about it as everything else is also rising unlike our wages, she has had no wage rise in 3 years will be 4 years if none this year also, i am still waiting for my payrise to be finalised that should have been in effect on Jan 1st FFS.
We now try and shop at Aldi/Lidl with the odd supermarket trip, the value at Aldi is surprisingly good with quality being good also, however we can't get a whole shop there as choice is a little limited. If the wife goes to our local store Sainsburys she will spend £40 and have hardly anything to show for it.
We were then sold the dream that houses would continue to rise and rise
Lolz. People will make up anything to support their world view aye.
Point me at one single quote of someone in authority saying 'it's okay, your house will rise in value and bail you out, you can rely on that, this is your dream' and I'll accept your description.
30-50quid a week for both mrsconsequence and I. usually feed a friend or 3 with main meals each week too. that includes buying bottled mineral water which we dont really need but prefer to our tap water, and home delivery.
Good point there Molgrips, people invented that 'dream' themselves
Good point there Molgrips, people invented that 'dream' themselves
It wouldn't be the first time that people invent something to justify their position or view, would it?
I used to spend about £70 a week between 2, but more recently I've been hitting the £100 a week mark, with occasional booze and a occasional bbq's though.
I am currently earning more than I ever have before, but feel about as skint as I ever have.
New washing machine, cooker and fridge needed, all since I moved into a new house in November though so it's to be expected.
Saving has taken a back seat for the last 3 months, but hopefully by payday at the end of the month things will come bak into line again, but you never know!
I feed myself for about £10 a week, and I eat quite a lot, that's with sainsbury basics stuff thats half decent, plus some normal sainsburys stuff and some real brands!
Just as well that's all it costs to eat as rent + utilities + car is getting very expensive!
£450 a month for 2 adults and 2 kids.
Menus planned, no waste, not much booze.
Our bills have gone up by about 10% this year despite one of the kids coming out of nappies.
I feed myself for about £10 a week, and I eat quite a lot
This is getting silly now, how can you possibly do that on under thirty bob a day?
It amazes me how cheap most stuff is.
Compared to the 80s...
Booze costs no more, or possibly less.
Electronic stuff is almost free.
White goods are similar.
Cars aren't much more.
Car parts are similar.
Labour is insanely expensive. Not a problem if you DIY of course.
Fuel and power are the main things that are blatantly, insanely more expensive.
£30-£40 a week to feed a family of 5. I have my own chickens and grow my own salad and veggies. One thing that does help is a bit of searching to see which supermarkets have what offers on like the buy one get one frees and ONLY buy what you need. other than that i shop in Lidl and Aldi quality is a lot better and less crap in the food.
This is getting silly now, how can you possibly do that on under thirty bob a day?
No idea what becky_kirk43 eats but I could do it, or get very close. Look at pasta, cheap cuts of meat, rice, unidentifiable frozen fish... you could eat healthily for around £10 a week easily enough.
yup, mrsconsequence lived on less than 10pound per week for food and drink for 3 years at uni.
Yep - pasta and rice are very cheap - combine with mince and various vegetables are you can eat very cheaply.
Doesn't seem to have done me any harm for the last year and a bit so I assume I get enough nutrients!
Doesn't seem to have done me any harm for the last year and a bit so I assume I get enough nutrients!
Far better than spending 10x as much on processed crap. In fact you can't do much better.
We cook everything at home, but the food bill still comes up to some 100 Euro for 2+1.
The car? Ooops, another 100 Euro per week, without it the missus would be spending another 2 hrs daily commuting for the total saving of 50 Euro weekly but I would be unable to see my clients - no viable public transport so we'd be losing another 100 Euro per week.
The food is affordable but we shop at Aldi, Lidl, local shops, Dunnes, Sainsbury's, wherever the particular things are cheapest. Luckily most shops are within a mile from home.
It was actually cheaper to do the internet shopping at Sainsbury's when we lived in UK as we bought no spur-of-the-moment items.
BTW I haven't been to a pub for months, not keen on 4.50 per pint. The bottle of Bells lasted me a month too.
One of the reasons I'm sort of considering moving out of town is being able to grow veggies. My wife has stopped eating meat a month ago, lost some weight that was unwanted, looks and feels much better. I have access to cheap and very decent beef, no worries there.
£7 for a kebab in Geneva - so I'm told....
Still find it hard to believe you can feed yourself for a tenner a week, two pints of milk is about a quid and the lettuce I get for my kids giant snails is sixty pence a throw
Blimey costs me about a tenner to feed the fish and moggy, mince and pasta ain't that cheap, even liver is about thirty bob a pound.
You could start with escargot for breakfast, fish for lunch, curried, err, meat for dinner. And you could have a nice fur hat.
I think about £10 a day each, £20 a day for a couple is what we assume is the cost for food on average (no booze).
Work on probably £100 a week on food and drink at the supermarket and same again on eating out. Sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the week.
Petrol / Diesel is till relatively cheap for how far you can travel for so little. Gas and Electricity is where the huge changes and squeezes have come for people.
The assess milk I bathe in costs me £250 per bath.
I have to pay it though, as it's my favourite time of the day.
You could start with escargot for breakfast, fish for lunch, curried, err, meat for dinner. And you could have a nice fur hat
Very good 🙂
You had better not let my daughter hear you talk like that, poor old moggy has already lost one leg in a road accident
What was done on the car for £200?
Back in the day people used to learn skills to fix/mend stuff or renovate the house etc. Problem is people are all to happy to pay mechanics/tradesmen to do stuff these days.
Very goodYou had better not let my daughter hear you talk like that, poor old moggy has already lost one leg in a road accident
Our dog costs more just in snacks than becky pays for food 😆
But when the apocalypse comes he'll be in the stew. After we run out of neighbours...
The assess milk I bathe in costs me £250 per bath.
What do you need to assess it for?
Mrs Grips spent some time in France not being paid by her job in 2003. She apparently survived on 2 € a week. Sounds impossible...
yup, mrsconsequence lived on less than 10pound per week for food and drink for 3 years at uni.
i did that living in africa for 3 months in africa - the last month was mostly eating out though as we found somewhere i deemed fit to eat 😀
It wouldn't be the first time that people invent something to justify their position or view, would it?
Nope. And nor will it be the last.
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Oh, and FWIW it's rare we go over £50 a week at the supermarket between the 2 of us, and that includes beer and cleaning products......
We can make dinner for £2 a head, easy.
But I do have steaks that cost £6 from the butchers from time to time 🙂
trail_rat... it helps that she's not a drinker, so that 10pounds went entirely on food 99% of the time. 🙂
This is heading the way of the Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch
Fair enough making dinner for two quid, but not a whole weeks worth of meals for a tenner
I reckon on about £10 a week fruit and veg and perhaps £10-£20 per month for store cupboard items
I suspect I eat far healthier than most on here but make almost everything I eat from fresh ingredients. I eat lots of fruit and fruit smoothies if I cut them out I suspect I could get nearer £1 a day as fruit is the biggest hit tbh.
I dont eat meat so I assume that helps pulses are not dear either.
Oh I might see what i could eat for £5 a week next week.
I pay 1.4% of my take-home in food costs for a family of 4. Seems reasonable enough to me.
Nothing processed gets bought - always cook from scratch - and this doesn't include meals out, not that there are many of those.
i was limited in eg by lack of stuff i could eat ...
olives (very cheap at 30-50p a pouch) , pasta , tinned tuna , tinned tomatoes , local bread , fresh fish and a bunch of spices i took with me - theres only so much you can eat !
one of the lads made us spam curry one night - didnt thank him for that - i dont make a habit of eating spam at home i aint gonna start in WA.
back here we spend 50 quid for 2 on average - some weeks more some weeks less
We spend about £50-60 a week for two of us doing a big shop once a week at asda with all our meals for the week planned out. We cook nearly everything from scratch too.
I dont think I can quite believe people can live on under £10 a week. Ceareal, milk and juice for breakfast and sandwiches and fruit for lunch and youre already pushing £10 and thats without even eating any evening meals or snacks!
I pay 1.4% of my take-home in food costs for a family of 4
Suggesting that you're earning a fair wedge and are probably a bit of a miser too.
Or you're not very good at maths 😉
Edit: Quick calc says that if you're only spending £200 a month then your salary is in excess of £250k.
there's absolutely no reason to lie about mrsconsequence spending 10pound a week or less on food at uni... so why aren't people believing it? maybe her portions are smaller than yours? maybe she bought pasta and potatos/veg in bulk so it would last and cost less on average, maybe she didnt eat snacks.. just breakfast, lunch and dinner. maybe she didnt drink fruit juices but was happy with weak diluted squash... maybe she was/is perfectly happy with the supermarket value range of food products.
hang on... there's no maybe, just fact. 😀
when you dont drink hot drinks, alcohol, buy expensive fruits, meat, weird vegetables and such... coupled with a determination to eat within a certain budget and accepting that will mean a limited choice of food/meals....you'd be surprised how cheap you can eat for.
there's absolutely no reason to lie about mrsconsequence spending 10pound a week
When was that, she could have been at uni years ago and my quote was from Becky anyway
Of course you could be a fruitarian, but I presume we are talking about someone eating the conventional breakfast,lunch and tea.
So far today I have had some sugar puffs with milk,glass of juice and several cups of tea.
Milk was a quid for two pints, cereal £1.50 a box (third off in sainsburys ) and waitrose essential grapefruit juice at about £1.80 a carton
Not exactly excessive, but that tenner won't last long and forgot the tea bags/milk for the cuppas
finished uni 2 or 3 years ago.
finished uni 2 or 3 years ago
Well thats at least another fiver at todays prices then regardless of what the official inflation figure is
you probably can eat for less than £10 a week, but why would you want to?
2 decent steaks cost nearly that.
maybe so TT... but i get the feeling if i had said she lived on 10 a week for food (15 by todays prices) there'd still be people finking i'm making it up! its all she could afford and she survived making 3 meals a day out of it ensuring to have both meat and vegetables each day.
agreed mr smith... you can, but i definitely wouldn't want to!
you probably can eat for less than £10 a week, but why would you want to?
Sometimes you can't afford more, ever considered this?
£10 a week at todays prices - no chance, unless you wait until the supermarket is closing every night to get the massive savings or live off boiled rice and water.
Excel spreadsheet on its way 😉
Breakfast Porridge - 50 p per week?? dont use milk do use fruit hate it but good for you. Aldi cereal perhaps £1
Dinner usually humus or lentil type pate or refried beans[ home made] with salad on pitta [ home made] and usually a banana - £3 a week? munch on seeds/nuts and fruit pieces [ about £5 a month for that]
tea mixed veg soup with broth mix [£2-3 for 8 days worth], pasta, curry or stir fry or perhaps a chippy tea or hot pot with veggie sausages peas and pickled beetroot
I am going for fiver next week. 😯
Porridge + whatever cheap fruit I can get probably apples and raisins
beans on toast for dinner ald and aldi bread [ YUK tp the bread bit]
veg soup for tea every day !!!
Scones
Just about doable for a fiver but not exciting.
Phil - I graduated from uni last year and one of the guys I lived with probably lived on about £10 a week, that was cereal breakfast, cereal lunch and dried pasta with peas and cheese everyday. No variation. So i do accept if you really needed to you could. What I find hard to believe is when people say they can have a well balanced varied diet eating fresh veg everyday.
Sometimes you can't afford more, ever considered this?
yes. but if you can only afford £1.42 a day for food then what are you doing wasting time on a mtb forum when you could sell the computer, cancel the internet and have more money to buy food (or look for a better paying job)
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