Scorer
Striker
Whole chicken so I can make stock or chicken thighs if I’m just doing a curry or stir fry, much tastier and cheaper.
Monthly food cost
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Napoleon Dynamite
Striker
£700 a month we put aside
Darlo1973
Striker
Are you eating unicorn steaks every day?
Vauxie
Striker
Move to S.E.Asia
hairynaker
Winger
About the same as us, family of 4. Then takeaways and eating out, ridiculous really.I do about a £100 a week me, and I don't even have any takeaways or ready meals. I must be doing something wrong
Sunlun79
Central Defender
I’m finding that food shopping now is getting to be like it was years ago, where it’s better to shop round. The bairn wanted lollies yesterday 3.50 in Asda but next door in Iceland there own make of ‘dupes’ was 1.00.
My two lads never stop eating, I feel like I’m constantly stocking up.
My two lads never stop eating, I feel like I’m constantly stocking up.
Same for me right now as a family of 4
Has to come up from Leeds apparently cant be very good for the environment?
Mind I love Waitrose
KeefBeer
Winger
Has to come up from Leeds apparently cant be very good for the environment?
Mind I love Waitrose
Never realised, off the top of my head the only Waitrose I can think of was Hexham and thought that would be a trek to Shields.
Her Ivory Tower
Winger
I've never added it up, it's so variable. Guessing £50-£100 a week for me and 2 cats.....
I don't enjoy cooking for myself so just have easy stuff like salads, pasta, soups etc, lots of fruit and vegetables but don't really eat much meat. I like the M&S meal deal/Dine Ins. Obviously I'll make more effort if entertaining, will always buy really nice food and drink for guests. Eat out few times a month as well. Have my nieces to stay a lot and we are always out and about hither and yonder exploring so eat out a lot with them too.
I don't enjoy cooking for myself so just have easy stuff like salads, pasta, soups etc, lots of fruit and vegetables but don't really eat much meat. I like the M&S meal deal/Dine Ins. Obviously I'll make more effort if entertaining, will always buy really nice food and drink for guests. Eat out few times a month as well. Have my nieces to stay a lot and we are always out and about hither and yonder exploring so eat out a lot with them too.
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During Covid, when garden centres were allowed to re-open, the butcher in my local Dobbies was selling off fillet steak at £10/Kg. I'd get about 15 steaks from a £30 fillet.
Nookie Bear
Winger
2 of us budget £100 a week including stuff for lunches and dog food ,laundry stuff , toiletries etc. We buy a lot of yellow stickered meat so every once in a while we have a £50 week or two and just buy fresh veg , fruit , bread and dairy plus any dog supplies to use subsidise the freezer stuff. We mainly cook from scratch. I think I was single it would drop to £75 a week but not £50
monkeytassle
Striker
I asked my butcher if he could order some skirt in. He called me this morning and said I've got it. Just nipped up and he said smallest portion he could get was 11kg.
Bought the lot for 80 quid.
Bearing in mind 4 chicken breasts from waitrose is 25 sheets that's incredible value.
11kg. Let's say I use 500g twice a week that's almost 3m of protein for 80 nicker. Yes please.
Wilfy
Striker
That is a tremendous price.
Lambchops
Striker
Thats mental!!! Prices have gone up here but not like that - supermarkets about 8quid, butcher a tenner, farmers market about 14
monkeytassle
Striker
He said I won't be able to sell it so you can have it for that. No brainer.
Can't believe more people don't go for cheap cuts like that. Butchers cut man.
Waitrose is daft mind. Especially the duchy stuff
Thats mental!!! Prices have gone up here but not like that - supermarkets about 8quid, butcher a tenner, farmers market about 14
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The skirt is excellent value but I don't know where you got the price for chicken breasts in Waitrose, they are nowhere near that price.
monkeytassle
Striker
Waitrose Bromley
Waitrose Preston, I'm glad I live oop North!
