What is for dinner in your household today and how much per person spend?

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We had homemade pizza with premade bases from the fridge and various toppings plus salad, £1.50 per head. Then yoghurt for pudding which will add another 50p or so each.

Have just worked out that per month a family of four would eat 360 meals for one in a 30 day month (3 meals a day times 4 people times 30 days)

So £1 average per person a meal = £360/month
£2 average per person a meal = £720/a month
£3 average per person a month = over £1K!!!

Aghhhh, this is a shocker! Cod wrapped in palma ham on Mediterranean veg with sweet potato wedges and salad. £4.50 a head. I’m having egg on toast tomorrow!

Sausages, cauli/broccoli cheese and roast potatoes.

I'd hazard a guess it probably no more than £2.50 for the both of us.

Harissa chicken & lentils

Chicken thighs - £2.50
2 x chopped toms - 70p
Half jar of harissa - £1
1 x carrot - 10p
1/2 pack lentils - £60

Onion, garlic, oil, pepper, stock

£5 but this is for 2 of us and feeds 4 so will have leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch, so £2.50 for 2

There's 2 of us in the house and I have no idea how much we spend per meal! I guess it's about £3? Tonight we had smoked basa and prawn chowder and night before we had Lemon and Asparagus pasta... tomorrow I'm out and Sunday will be Spinach and Mushroom curry with rice (cheaper meal I suppose) we spend about £450 a month on food and that's with fiancé buying lunch at work everyday

Sea food stir fry. Mixed seafood from the fish monger £4, rice about 20p, red pepper ( from a bag of 6) 20p green pepper 20p, garlic 2 cloves about 5p, 3 eggs 45p, mangtout £1. Prawn crackers x2 packs £1.40, so £6.50 for 4 so about £1.60 a head.
I spend a max of £60 ( usually no more than £59) a week to feed 3 of us including packed lunches.

Dc ate out so just me:
Salmon £2
Pre-prepared new potatoes and carrots £1.40 (some left for tomorrow)
Rice, peas and sweet corn frozen 50p pack
Portion of bread and butter pudding and cream from yesterday £1
= £4.50 approx

Totally posting for ideas....

Bit of a lazy jar of sauce day here today.

Jar of white wine sauce - 85p
Chicken breast, from the freezer, I buy online at £5 per Kg - I reckon we probably used about half a Kg - £2.50
Peas - 50p
Baby potatoes - reduced to 5p on the reduction shelf! (but would normally have been £1 or so, I guess.

So £3.90 for 4 = just shy of £1 each.

I generally spend about £80 per week for a family of 4 which equals £2.85 per person per day, so I guess that is fairly average for us.

DH away so I bought a large pizza for £5.50 which would do me dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow. But instead i ate a tub of Ben and Jerry's ice cream...£3.
My favourite inexpensive meal is chicken with red lentils. Chicken pieces (skin one) red lentils, stock, onion, rosemary. Even if you use organic free range chicken, because it's best made with thighs and legs it probably works out no more than £3 a head. DH does a lovely vegan curry with potato and spinach which must cost under a pound a portion.

Veg fried rice

Leftover boiled rice from yesterday - 50p
1 courgette - 40p
1 carrot - 10p
2 eggs - 40p
1 onion - 10p
Garlic & soya sauce, salt & chilli oil - 10p

40p per person! To be fair, this is a cobbled together meal to use up the left over boiled rice from yesterday's dinner. When I cook rice, I always cook enough for 2 meals so that I can have some form of fried rice meal the day after. And I bulk buy decent rice - a 10 kg bag of Thai Jasmine rice which lasts us quite a while.

Kids -snacky tea pre school disco
Us - steak anchovy butter, potatoes and spinach
Steak - 3 for £10, 1 in freezer so £6.66
Anchovies- 20p
Butter- in fridge already
Rosemary- from garden
Potatoes - 40p
Spinach bag - £1
£8.26= £4.13

This has really made me think about cost per head per meal

DD and I went to Cafe Rouge after school as I couldn’t be bothered to cook tonight 😬
I had a 3 course set menu and a mojito and DD 3 course children’s meal. £36, which I didn’t think too bad for all that.

Me and 3 large teenagers here this evening.

We had 2 x Co-Op pizzas (2 for £5.00)

Co-Op bbq chicken drumsticks (£4.00)

Olives, hummus, garlic and herb dip, carrot and cucumber batons, baby pomodoro tomatoes, a sliced up red pepper - perhaps another £2.00?

£11.00 between four of us, excluding pudding (ice cream for the teens I won't have any) seems good value to me!

The older teens had a bottle of Estrella between them.

We had a really expensive tea. Sushi, salad and then rack of lamb, sliced potato thing and broccoli probably around £24 in total for two of us.

Pizza night for our 16 year old, not sure, make them myself. Carrot sticks, sugar snaps. Then strawberries, blueberries and a magnum (come on, it’s Friday!) about £4?

Husband and I: poached salmon, leeks, courgettes, asparagus and mushrooms (we’re not martyrs, don’t normally do 4 veg, they were on their last legs). Nice bottle of Pinot Noir, contemplating a mivvi. About £12 between us?

Actually probably £14 between us.

A fortune, my grocery bill is about £800 a month for a family of 5

Bacon and leek risotto. 7 portions for a smidge over 2€.

I reckon we spend 45€/person per week on home meals. Kids eat at school 4 days a week which is 3.60€/meal and one fast food meal which is about 25€ total for 4 kids 1 adult. Boulangerie - probably 10€/week.

So we are looking at 70€ minimum spend per kid/week.
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Adults more because DH eats at the work canteen which is 30% subsidized, it costs about 5€/meal. We probably have lunch together once most weeks which is at least 25€.

Then we probably drink 10€/wine per week.

I'm glad I've worked that out. No wonder the shopping is so expensive. I'm always amazed how little people in the UK spend on food.

We produce our own eggs, veg, chickens, ducks, lamb. Other meat we bulk buy from friends that produce. Zero ready meals.

We eat well but have no food waste.

Pork steaks in bbq sauce, with mash green beans and broccoli.
Water to drink, no pud.

£1.18 each.

I know exactly how much ours was, because I bought it all from M&S on the way home:
fishcakes for dp and cheese and onion croquette things for me
minted new potatoes
beetroot / cucumber / red onion to make a salad
bread and butter pudding and cream
£12ish

Normally there would't be a pudding and generally I wouldn't spend so much on one meal, but it was a lazy alternative to going out.

I ended up working until 8pm tonight so when I got home it was a store cupboard dinner for me and dh
2 little gem lettuces
1 tin tuna
Olives
2 hardboiled eggs
Croutons

Total cost about £5 for two

Plus bottle of wine (£8)

we had stuffed sausages wrapped in bacon (£6.66 - 2 packs from a 3 for £10 deal at the butchers), roasties (£1), half a cauli (10p) and carrots which were free (asda giving them away last monday!)

4 people, so £1.94 pp, and there were 2 leftover stuffed sausages. Yum!

I forgot! we also had a pack of profiteroles yellow stickered to 63p from £2.50. Love a bargain!

Our dinner was super cheap tonight. I would say we have a range of meals with varying costs, but this is one of the cheapest.

Left over roast chicken soup.

Chicken was a yellow sticker £2.50, and this dinner only used a small amount, max £1 worth.

So...

Chicken £1.
Olive oil 15p?
1/2 an onion - 15p?
1 carrot - 10p?
Stick of celery - 5p?
Handful green beans - 20p?
Corn cut off of two mini cobs - 40p?
Peas - 10p?
Garlic - 5p?
2 stock cubes - 20p?
Served with 3 slices of bread between us - 10p?
Butter - 5p?

£2.55 total, and it served dd and I big portions and dh had a small bowl to try. So under £1 pp.