Group holiday - cost of food.

[PandaOrLion]

Six adults away for a week in a fairly rural area, self catering. Roughly 7 breakfasts, 4 lunches and five dinners, plus snacks like crisps and chocolate. No alcohol.

How much would you expect to pay per person?

30 pounds.

😂

Just buy what you need for breakfasts divide equally. I assume other meals will be aten out? If not divide the costs equally.

Maybe £50 to enable holiday eating with treats etc?

100 pounds

It’s the food for breakfast every day, about 4 lunches and about 5 dinners. Most days will be spent walking, cycling etc so not much eating out as it’s 30mins drive to nearest town.

I would budget about 100 assuming that you eat nicely in a holiday fashion?

I mean you could probably do it for cheaper if you need to. £30 would be tough tho if you're meat eaters.

When we holidayed with another couple we put all the receipts from the restaurants and supermarkets, etc, on the kitchen counter with our initials on. At the end of the holiday we added up those with our initials on and then those with the other couple’s initial on, and then whoever had paid out the least, gave the other couple half the difference - worked for us!

About £100 pp. obviously it can be done for much less with a bit of planning but if everyone wanted a full English daily, naice ham and bits for lunch, and a big group dinner every evening with starters and puddings I'd be amazed to get away with £100

Really depends if yous are having beans on toast or lobster every day for lunch?

A fair bit as I assume if you are eating in you are eating nice food as you are on holiday.

Are we talking coco pops and milk or a full English?

Nuggets and chips or steak and dauphinois?

I'd go for
B-croissants, toast, cereals
L fruits crisps yoghurt
D- lasagne/chicken / chili/ stew / pizza etc

Plus snacks tea coffee squash juice milk eggs and a few nicer things from bakeries as you see them

About £45

You not planning on scrimping? And a few nice items?

I love your expression 'eat nicely in a holiday fashion'!

Makes me think of a table laden with lovely things that you'd never have at home 😋🙂

This is what we do for everything whilst we’re there, but this is for the big food shop that’s being delivered so we don’t need to shop as much. There isn’t much nearby.

Depends on your tastes extravagant, basic or mid range, appetite of the person or people doing the shopping and where the shopping is from (Lidl/Costco, Waitrose, M&S or local posh deli). It will still be a heck of a lot cheaper and more convenient than eating out. Just divide the cost by 6 and everyone pays up.

At least £100 given that you’ll have to get basics such as tea, coffee etc. within this.

£150. Unless there a some who are on fillet steak and others on nuggets and chips we'd just do the shop and split it.

Does it need to include fairly liquid, washing up cloths etc?

It’s currently around £30 pp but I haven’t added in much “nice” stuff. I want to, but if everyone said £30 was what they’d want to spend then I wouldn’t add it in, if you see what I mean. I also don’t know how big the fridge and freezer are in the property so don’t want to buy loads and not be able to store it!

£600 is an awful lot for a week even if nice holiday eating- all the treats!

How about £50 pre ordered and kitty of £25 for as and when?

Per person? That's £900 for a week?

Needs to include washing up stuff and toilet roll.

If people are arriving by car, I would stick with the basics and ask everyone to bring the treats they want rather than second guess what they'd like.

Honestly on holiday I’d expect some thing nice, and nit budget stuff at home, so I’d chip in at least 150 quid for 14 meals and snacks.

@Twospaniels

We do the same, but just check out banking apps, are you holidaying in the 90s? 😃

Won’t work with this group sadly. Other friends - definitely. This group, not so much. We’ve been away before as part of a larger group so I know them well enough that they won’t bring anything, will genuinely forget, life gets in the way etc.