To spend £30 a month on ALL food and drink?

So your post is utterly pointless because you spend over 30 pounds in less than a month and you spent it on complete and utter junk. Anyone with half a brain would buy porridge oats, eggs, veg and lentils to make a big pot of soup to last around 5 days and get some veg in you, some fruit, milk and bread.

Of course you can....50 years ago 😂

So one day you'd plan only to eat a Greggs pizza slice? Because that's essentially more than a days budget?

I think you need to look at your diet bad attitude to food, rather than money if this is typical

Oh and you haven't bought any loo roll, toiletries or household cleaning products.

So you'll be filthy, stinky, rotting teeth, greasy hair, shitty arse and zero clean clothes.......

Absolutely not. And even if you would somehow manage to meet your calorie requirements, you absolutely won’t manage to eat enough protein and fruits / vegetables. Which means that you won’t manage to consume the required amount of essential mineral and vitamins.

or in other words: you’ll make yourself sick. Don’t do this.

Placemarking so I can see the meals for the 19 days already done (and for the other helpful links).

*goes off to read the rest of the thread

You could maybe manage to survive for a couple of weeks on that, but it wouldn't be at all healthy.
Weekly shop of -
Bread 75p for toast each breakfast, butter 25p per week, banana £1
Lunch pasta and pesto £2.50, apple £1
Dinner seperate and freeze bolognese for 2 or 3 meals £2.50. Tuna jacket potato £2.50
That would be about £9 a week. But it's not a very balanced diet and you'd likely need a new top ups like nuts/cheese/crisps/biscuits to help with calories and hunger.

So what has this proven?

You are bloody minded enough to make yourself pretty hungry and miserable for 3 weeks (because it hasn't actually been a month yet!) by spending £35 on snacks and crap...

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I have had to live on horribly tiny amounts of money.

Between two households (so five adults, 3 in mine, two next door, my best friends at the time)...

We'd buy:

Sack of rice (12kg? ish)
Sack of spuds
Sack of porridge oats
Sack of flour of some sort (often gram)
Cheap bread on discount/whoopsies, to freeze and use slice by slice (so it didn't matter if it was on the verge of going off/stale), two or three loaves
Big tub of cheap spread (then we'd split it into two smaller tubs one per household)
Block of cheese (strong, a luxury, but it meant you could use a lot less)
Box of (nasty caged hen) eggs (15)
End of the day veg off the market - whatever there was, would usually get a couple of carrier bags for £2, stuff that would otherwise have gone in the bin.
Milk
Bag of 30 frozen sausages
Whatever other meat - sometimes a chicken, sometimes next door would get a couple of rabbits for free.
Bacon offcuts
Dry beans/pulses/lentils

We already had a stash of spices.

That would cost us around £30, and last us two or three weeks.

From that we could make big vats of chilli, stew (We called it 'slopdop' a sort of curry/stew thing), and soup, which would be served with rice, baked spud, mash or chips.
Whatever meat would be stripped off the carcass and the frame used for the soup or stock.
We'd use the bread for cheese on toast for lunches, and when that ran out, make chapattis or some sort of flatbread.
Porridge with watered down milk or just water for breakfasts, occasionally overnight oats if there was any interesting/suitable fruit in the market 'end of the day' bags.
Sometimes we would be given free stuff by one persons work place and also occasionally by the corner shop owner - things like bags of sugar that had split or just past use by date jars/packets so we might make cakes if that happened.

It wasn't a lot of fun, but none of us starved. There was zero snacking though!

Perhaps you could last two weeks on that? Buy a big bag of brown rice and beans, potatoes, bananas and apples.....those are cheap and healthy.

This is one of the most bizarre threads I've ever read in the 15 years I've been on MN!

Who, even with little or no experience in budgeting or food shopping, spends most of their money on biscuits, snacks and pre boiled eggs (I didn't even know such fuckwittery existed)

And does this for larks.......

Honestly. What. The. FUCK !!!!!!!!!!!

Doable? Maybe. Depends how much you enjoy being hungry and miserable 😄

Yes, cos the OP needed more cheese…

What do you appreciate far more? Just admit this was an exercise in stupidity and go back to eating properly.

This would be very tight. When I lived alone 25 years ago my budget was £50 a month. I ate at relatives twice a week and was out all weekend.

£30 a week would be tough. Why don't you look at what you've spent over the last 3 months and base it around that.

What do you like to eat?

That’s ridiculous

Possible yes. Bulk buy rice or pasta. Yellow sticker food every day.

I think its possible with pasta, potato's, loaf of bread, tinned soup. But it wouldn't be healthy or sustainable

There is a page on Facebook called Feed your Family for about £20 a week. They have an emergency monthly food plan/budget that includes shopping lists that comes in at about £30 for the month.

Not recommended long term as it's more focussed on filling tummies than really good nutrition, but it might be worth a look for you if you need that budget

Poor taste and pointless if you have done this. Certainly not setting up longer term lower cost healthy eating. That would have set you up with sustainable weight loss and maintenance

I won’t pretend to know what that feels like to live in food or fuel poverty. PP have - please take notice.,

Food budget and eating out for a month? Well only if you’re currently living in the 1950s.

Oh it was certainly a politer version than what some opposition (and some of his own colleagues) MP's called him....

How overweight are you?

If you’re overweight and wanting to reduce weight - this is not the way to do it. It will likely lead to binge eating and establish a pattern of unhealthy and disordered eating.

I live alone and spend about £50-£60 on everything from Sainsburys but that includes cleaning stuff/toiletries etc so a bit less than that on food alone.

It actually used to be more but I cut out most snacks like crisps,biscuits and cakes etc which also helped with my weight loss as well as making me healthier.

They have a lot more cheese on than a supermarket pizza.