Food costs

[exnihilo]

10 steaks + 3-4 times eating out = steak EVERY day for lunch AND dinner.

That's way past liking a thing.

[Fozzy Bear]

Quoting exnihilo from 00:06, 16th Oct 2006
10 steaks + 3-4 times eating out = steak EVERY day for lunch AND dinner.

That's way past liking a thing.

you forget. they also claim to get through a huge amount of smoked salmon AS WELL as their 10 steaks a week.

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[exnihilo]

That's simple enough - breakfast every day.

[munchingfoo]

I did meet a guy in the OTC who would eat 2 steaks with no vegetables/mushrooms if he went to a restaurant, I'm pretty sure he didn't do it every day for lunch and dinner though.

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[munchingfoo]

theyahyahyahs is obviously just trying to create a scene. From his/her first appearance in the yahs in the bop thread to here he/she has just been trying to get a reaction. I wouldn't trouble yourself with analyzing anything he/she says to be honest.

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Tired Freudian references aside - your mother played my mighty skin flute like a surf crowned sea nymph trying to rouse Poseidon from his watery slumber!

[jequirity]

I remember back in my first year, t'was the year of the tesco value meat paste sannies and in my second year, t'was the year of the pie.
Third year was the year of the pie AND the curry. Fourth year was the year of the girlfriend and the year of balanced eating. Postgrad year its been the same except, theres not enough variety for us in tescos. This might be the year of the morrisons.

As for £125 per week spent on food, i couldn't spend that much on food, nor could i spend that amount of time choosing expensive foodstuffs and cooking the stuff.
Life's too short to spend that amount of time on food.

Each to their own i guess, but time can be spent so much more effectively, and i'd rather spend about £30ish worth of time on food rather than £125 worth.



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[flarewearer]

Quoting Rufus from 23:27, 15th Oct 2006[/b] Don't you charter a private helicopter to deliver your shopping from Waitrose?

enough of the Waitrose bashing! you ever been to a Waitrose? It's a foody's heaven (and downright ethical if you are into that sort of thing). I try and go there once a week for some of the niceties in life, and for good quality food and ingredients it's no more expensive than Tesco and has an infinitely better range and quality of produce. ~~~~

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[flarewearer]

Quoting flarewearer from 02:35, 16th Oct 2006
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oh dear Lord! I need to get out more ¬_¬

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[Gubbins]

I used to try to live on £1 a day (so £7 a week), but now I'm getting paid, that tends to be more like £10-£25 a week, depending on whether I use Tesco online or get distracted by the "cheap" salmon steaks in Morrisons... mmmm...

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[queen of scots]

To be fair to the yahyahyahs, if we go through to an M&S to shop, it's not been unheard of that our bill will run into three figures. However, we buy things like the bags of salmon fillets and chicken breasts than can be put in the freezer and will thus last quite a while. And we certainly wouldn't spend that much per week!!


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[Colleen]

Quoting theyahyahyahs from 23:44, 15th Oct 2006

Quoting Colleen from 20:27, 15th Oct 2006
Currently spending about £7 a week, in terms of food bought in a supermarket, plus maybe a little more if I choose to get a quick sandwich somewhere in town.

No, really.

I'm on a fairly impressive budget, though, and al my main meal costs are split between five people. A lot cheaper that way.

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I am impressed with your budget. Any chance of giving us a basic shopping list?

Firstly, I have to admit that I live in a house where 5 people share the food bill between us for main meals, so that brings down the costs a lot.

Easy. Maybe once a month, buy the biggest bag of rice, the biggest bag of pasta, biggest thing of cheap margerine and the biggest block of cheap cheese that you can. If there's something you like in sale - buy one get one free or something - then buy as much as you can carry home! From then on, buy stuff to work with that in a week. I only eat chicken, and I only eat that once a week - meat is far too expensive. A few peppers, a few onions, maybe a courgette, mushrooms, some stuff from tins and jars, so on and so forth. Don't get name-brand - very rarely does it actually taste considerably better. But, you know, buy a treat for yourself because otherwise you just go mad. I generally get a multipack of crisps. Buy cheap bread and a cheap box of cereals, and if you get hungry, snack on some toast with jam or some cereals or something. It puts down snack costs, which is normally where the extra money goes to! Take a sandwich into town for lunch, or warm up last night's leftovers.

Make sure there's lots of herbs and stuff in your kitchen, though! Mixed herbs saves any meal from disaster.

All in all, averaged out over a month, it's about £10 a week on food - perhaps £7 in total spent in the shops and then the rest is costing out what I bought in bulk in the previous weeks. It's very easy to live like that and I eat pretty well!

I sort of don't understand why people spend so much on food, to be honest. I can see how the budget will creep if you switch to name brand, but...

(I did, for a few horrible weeks last year, live on £5 a week for food. The more I budget now, the more I will not start thinking that Marmite soup is a good idea around May.)

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[Senethro]

There are some real horror stories on this thread :<

Should any woman ever be foolish enough to procreate with me I will be giving my kid extra sponged money for food.

[gringo]

just as some people are calling the yahyahyahs thread absurd/unrealistic, i would have to say that Coleens thread is a little worrying too. £7 a week??? Colleen: It's not that i don't belive you don't manage it, its just that it makes life in your flat sound pretty miserable. i have visions of a big smelly old fridge with very few things in it, all of which are generic Value products from Somerfield.

I live with 3 other boys and though we cook together maybe once a week, for the other 6 days its impossible to correograph when everyone wants to eat, and whether they want to eat the same thing. for example, one of my flatmates and i might only eat dust/fruit/veg for the main part of the week, whilst the other two might only eat rocky bars. i ,myself, eat at weird times, so all in all we really can't go out and do a big shared shop of the same stuff.

if you go shopping as a flat, and share the cost of everything i think its bound to cause problems/arguments. someone will have more than their fair share of something, whilst others will miss out.

I have no time for value products ( no amount of mixed herbs can remedy their taste) ,and though i don't spend £125 a week, i certainly don't go to the other extreme.

Colleen, i'll be honest, you sound like a bit of a skank. i'm worried for you- are you malnourished? if so you must come over for a proper meal

[The Kinky Monkey]

Quoting theyahyahyahs from 23:18, 15th Oct 2006


I'm glad i have found someone of like mind. I assure you i am not joking. For example when in stock i take my fair share of the (argentine) organic fillet steaks from our Tesco. They are reasonably priced, but if you get 10 of those per week it begins to add up. I also love Smoked Salmon, which i get through at a rate of knots!

Why the emphasis on 'Argentine'?

Fo the record I spend about £25-30 a week.

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[theyahyahyahs]

Quoting The Kinky Monkey from 12:50, 16th Oct 2006

Quoting theyahyahyahs from 23:18, 15th Oct 2006


I'm glad i have found someone of like mind. I assure you i am not joking. For example when in stock i take my fair share of the (argentine) organic fillet steaks from our Tesco. They are reasonably priced, but if you get 10 of those per week it begins to add up. I also love Smoked Salmon, which i get through at a rate of knots!

Why the emphasis on 'Argentine'?

Fo the record I spend about £25-30 a week.

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Do good to all men, but at the end remember to collect your fee.

a) because it's the finest quality fillet steak in Tesco and b) because it's just very good quality steak.

[theyahyahyahs]

Quoting gringo from 11:49, 16th Oct 2006
just as some people are calling the yahyahyahs thread absurd/unrealistic, i would have to say that Coleens thread is a little worrying too. £7 a week??? Colleen: It's not that i don't belive you don't manage it, its just that it makes life in your flat sound pretty miserable. i have visions of a big smelly old fridge with very few things in it, all of which are generic Value products from Somerfield.

I live with 3 other boys and though we cook togther maybe once a week, for the other 6 days its impossible to coreograph when everyone wants to eat, and whether they want to eat the same thing. for example, one of my flatmates and i might only eat dust/fruit/veg for the main part of the week, whilst the other two might only eat rocky bars. i ,myself, eat at weird times, so all in all we really can't go out and do a big shared shop of the same stuff.

if you go shopping as a flat, and share the cost of everything i think its bound to cause problems/arguments. someone will have more that their fair share of something, whilst others will miss out.

I have no time for value products ( no amount of mixed herbs can remedy their taste) ,and though i don't spend £125 a week, i certainly don't go to the other extreme.

Colleen, i'll be honest, you sound like a bit of a skank. i'm worried for you- are you malnourished? if so you must come over for a proper meal

I too am worried about Colleen. You are welcome to my pad anytime you feel you need some good scoff. Food is there to be enjoyed and you shouldn't have to suffer "value" products in this fashion!

Incidently you aren't Colleen McLoughlin are you? If so maybe Wayne should be shelling out more dollar on you!

[novium]

Actually, I could see 35 pounds per week for 5 people if they were being thrifty, because it really is a lot cheaper to cook for more people. Say you have a nice, very large roasted chicken on sunday, with potatoes. That isn't too expensive. But just from that, you can use the potato skins to create, say, a garlic broth (I mean, it's how you can make a broth as opposed to garlic flavored water). From the chicken, you get cold chicken leftovers for sandwiches and such. From the carcass, you can make chicken broth, which is easily turned into...oh, a lentil soup, or chicken soup, or something.

I am sort of discovering this for myself right now. This is kind of a lost art, I think. It takes a lot more thought and a little more work, but I don't think it is a particularly unpleasant thing. I just wish i knew more. Like how to bake bread competantly.

Quoting gringo from 11:49, 16th Oct 2006
just as some people are calling the yahyahyahs thread absurd/unrealistic, i would have to say that Coleens thread is a little worrying too. £7 a week??? Colleen: It's not that i don't belive you don't manage it, its just that it makes life in your flat sound pretty miserable. i have visions of a big smelly old fridge with very few things in it, all of which are generic Value products from Somerfield.

I live with 3 other boys and though we cook together maybe once a week, for the other 6 days its impossible to correograph when everyone wants to eat, and whether they want to eat the same thing. for example, one of my flatmates and i might only eat dust/fruit/veg for the main part of the week, whilst the other two might only eat rocky bars. i ,myself, eat at weird times, so all in all we really can't go out and do a big shared shop of the same stuff.

if you go shopping as a flat, and share the cost of everything i think its bound to cause problems/arguments. someone will have more than their fair share of something, whilst others will miss out.

I have no time for value products ( no amount of mixed herbs can remedy their taste) ,and though i don't spend £125 a week, i certainly don't go to the other extreme.

Colleen, i'll be honest, you sound like a bit of a skank. i'm worried for you- are you malnourished? if so you must come over for a proper meal

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[Rufus]

Quoting flarewearer from 02:35, 16th Oct 2006

Quoting Rufus from 23:27, 15th Oct 2006[/b] Don't you charter a private helicopter to deliver your shopping from Waitrose?

enough of the Waitrose bashing! you ever been to a Waitrose? It's a foody's heaven (and downright ethical if you are into that sort of thing). I try and go there once a week for some of the niceties in life, and for good quality food and ingredients it's no more expensive than Tesco and has an infinitely better range and quality of produce. ~~~~

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How on earth does that constitute Waitrose bashing?! Read something a little more carefully before you get on your high horse. I love Waitrose too, but only ever shop there when I'm staying with my Dad in Teddington and I can saunter over to the Kingston branch. I'm not implying that only yahs shop there, all I meant was that it's the best 'supermarket' available in Britain. Perhaps I should have said Harvey Nichol's food hall instead, hmmn?

[kitty]

I live in a catered hall, but one night on the weekend when we have to make our own stuff anyways I decided to try to get as much as I could (that would be a decently yummy dinner) for one pound. I actually got a tesco value pizza, one of those teeny cans of diet coke, and some tesco value chocolate covered digestives. It was actually pretty good.

[theyahyahyahs]

Quoting Rufus from 13:21, 16th Oct 2006

Quoting flarewearer from 02:35, 16th Oct 2006

Quoting Rufus from 23:27, 15th Oct 2006[/b] Don't you charter a private helicopter to deliver your shopping from Waitrose?

enough of the Waitrose bashing! you ever been to a Waitrose? It's a foody's heaven (and downright ethical if you are into that sort of thing). I try and go there once a week for some of the niceties in life, and for good quality food and ingredients it's no more expensive than Tesco and has an infinitely better range and quality of produce. ~~~~

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How on earth does that constitute Waitrose bashing?! Read something a little more carefully before you get on your high horse. I love Waitrose too, but only ever shop there when I'm staying with my Dad in Teddington and I can saunter over to the Kingston branch. I'm not implying that only yahs shop there, all I meant was that it's the best 'supermarket' available in Britain. Perhaps I should have said Harvey Nichol's food hall instead, hmmn?

Now we're talking! Harvey Nics and Harrods food halls are fantastic. All the different food rooms in harrods make for an excellent experience even if you don't buy anything (though you would be silly not to).

Before people start chiming in about being too poor to buy from these shops, the stuff is really quite cheap! You pay for quality people.