how much do you spend on food

[mattycoss]

hi

im thinking about moving out and just doing sums and everything at the moment

was just wondering how much you usually spend on food in an average week?

obviously it will change from person to person but if i could get a general idea it'd really help

thanks

[Bizzy]

I would say around $100.

For that I can usually do breakfast, lunch and dinner!

[mikewebster]

Yeah easy a hunge.

If you work and usually buy your lunch, expect to spend at least $50 for the week on that alone.

[phillis]

I spend heaps... but then I am a really keen cook and I like to cook fancy stuff.... maybe one week I will spend $250 the next $50... but most people I know spend $50-80 a week, thats the ones that don't always eat at my place.
I depends on what kind of stuff you like to eat.... pasta & steak and 3 veg is going to be cheap, then again live around my area and you can eat in all the uni student places for $5 a meal!!!

[mikewebster]

If you live around fresh food markets, they're definitely the way to go. Make sure you have a fridge with a decent freezer, buy bulk to save and freeze your meat. Take it out before you go to work and leave it in the fridge to defrost for when you get home!

Markets a much cheaper that supermarkets for fruit and veg too!

[krafty_x]

Prolly $140 a week give or take. Say around $20 a day.

If I need to budget I make simpler meals and take leftovers for lunch and make my own breakky. I can get it down to $10 roughly.

If I'm being a bit slack I'll buy my breakky and lunch.

If I go out to dinner that figure would go up.

k_x oxo

[Plankton]

I spend about $120 and it lasts 2- 3 weeks. I live my myself.

I buy my lunch during the week.

[muli_]

how much i spend on food at home? Or do you mean including what i spend on food i eat out?

Groceries etc.. about $140 a week for myself and fiance.

then we eat out at least once a week, plus i have a pub lunch at work on friday plus some takeaway lunches on weekends. So $200+ when you include that.

[MCSphinx]

I spend about $120 and it lasts 2- 3 weeks. I live my myself.

I buy my lunch during the week.
I'm the same.

[THEHEATH]

I usually have in my head that I want to spend $100 odd a week. I get paid on a Thursday, by Friday I usually have $50 of that $100 left and nothing in the fridge to show for it.

[MadMike]

Probably about $150/week if I dont go to any restaurants (which I hardly pay for anyways)

$50 off that is lunches when I get lazy and buy instead of going home and making a sandwich.

[yow mamma]

a lot less if my GF could see that you don't have to eat gourmet every night.

[riichiee]

Around $120 per week, not including Friday and/or Saturday night..

[poorboy]

yeah about a 70-90 a week depends if i go hard on the takeaway on the weekends. but my actual mon-fri budget would probably only be $50

[LuvDatPoontang]

bout 150... all on takeaway/eating out. i should be fat. :|

[mattycoss]

thanks all

[Raving_Pagan]

I don't. Id rather go on a hunger strike.

[jazzyd]

Woolworths costs me about $340 per week, greengrocer $30, butcher $70.. But thats food & stuff (including Nappies for 1) for 5.

[ewokie]

If your just talking home cooking and not including any restaurants (and ONLY talking about food, and not other essentials like washing up liquid etc) then I would say around $100 give or take.
Now if you are referring to a weekly shop, then I would say $150 (but once again that does not include eating out at restaurants, or ordering pizza etc)

[Profiler]

I've always done a weekly shop, but when i moved into my flat, right near King St, with convenience at your finger tips, I stopped doing a weekly shop because everything would go off. Even with the best intentions to eat at home minimum 3 nights a week, something always comes up.. I stopped buying bread because it would go mouldy before i'd get around to opening it.. i don't know the last time I actually finished a 1 ltr bottle of milk.. i usually have to throw it out before it's finished.. i think it's been about 3 weeks since I used the stove top... and i could not tell you what the last thing i used the oven for was...

So how much you spend on food really depends on your lifestyle...

I do however have a box of weekbix at work, and tend to buy salad stuff to keep in the fridge here, but that was health motivated, rather than money conscious...

[nettsu]

I've always done a weekly shop, but when i moved into my flat, right near King St, with convenience at your finger tips, I stopped doing a weekly shop because everything would go off. Even with the best intentions to eat at home minimum 3 nights a week, something always comes up.. I stopped buying bread because it would go mouldy before i'd get around to opening it.. i don't know the last time I actually finished a 1 ltr bottle of milk.. i usually have to throw it out before it's finished.. i think it's been about 3 weeks since I used the stove top... and i could not tell you what the last thing i used the oven for was...


I was the first person to use the oven @ the bf's place :lol: (it was brand new)

we're shocking
we shop daily if we are eating at home
we eat out a couple of times a week
and manage to do takeaway as well

I have no idea of how much we spend on food and I find the idea quite frightening to work out just how much it is :lol:

[polkaudio]

i would say about $150 a week, for 2 people.

Thats fresh fruit, meat and stuff.

We just make massive dinners and take the leftovers the next day.

[Gregama]

Easily $150 a week for two adults and one (nearly) 3 year old. Truthfully, its probably more than that.


We are vegetarians too, so its not like we are buying the best cuts of meat.

[jasonlloyd]

$20 to $25 a day on Morning tea and Lunch, and a pack of smokes ( $12 ) a day.

[Lady Le Red]

I spend minimal money on food if i can help it. Ive always seen grocery shopping as a waste of my precious money..

[squak]

too much. lol. quaffing and snorking is serious business. :blush: snorky, snorky, *shifty eyes* pass the peanuts.

[pfalzon]

Just go out and have big ones all the time. I find I eat much less that way.. Problem solved!!!

[Flame667]

When i was back packing when i was 15 i ate for $70 a week.

[peepyfun]

depends how skint i am. i can survive on $30 a week eating noodles and sitrfied or rice and pickles and some or i can spend up to $250 throwing a dinner party/bbq, trying new recipes and the odd pub meal

[Dbauch]

I live alone and spend on average about $100 a week... but that doesn't include having dinner out at a restaurant.. or the occasional lunch time outing. I usually make my breakfast and lunch.

I love having all yummy stuff in the fridge and pantry... I couldn't live on crappy boring food. I would rather drink less alcohol but eat better food.