Would this last u a day?

[HappyGoLucky96]

With the price of everything going on
could you make £20 last you daily?
family of 4 two adults 2 children under 7?

Yes easily. We spend under that with 2 older children(one is a teen who has adult potions)

Just food - yes, definitely.

We spend around £100 a week on groceries, that includes packed lunch for 10yo. So yes.

Drinks? Food? Including breakfast lunch dinner and snacks?

school lunch’s takes up a bit of this as I need to top up fresh fruit veg every 3/4 days.

Just food, definitely, I usually shop three or four times a week and spend about £20- £30 each time - but that is because I already have a stock of food in the cupboards, fridge and freezer.

If I was starting off with a completely empty house, and having to buy everything then I actually don’t know (because I never do that).

If you're buying school dinners, that's at least £5-odd gone already.

Reckon you could make a sandwich, add an apple and a yoghurt for less than that.

Where are you as thought with 2 under 7 you'd get at least 1 child free lunches?

Yes I don't spend £20 per day on food for us all (2 adults and 3 children) and we don't eat badly.

"Drinks? Food? Including breakfast lunch dinner and snacks?

school lunch’s takes up a bit of this as I need to top up fresh fruit veg every 3/4 days."

Yes of course. I've just added the necessary foods to my Asda basket to see what I'd need.

Large chicken
Sweet potatoes
Lettuce
Corn
Peppers
Onions
Radish
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Mayo
10 happy eggs
10 rashers smoked bacon
Tagliatelle
Parmesan 100g
Garlic baguette
Pom bears
Soreen mini loaves
Cake bars
500g Greek yoghurt
Fruit and fibre
2 litre milk
Apple juice
Strawberries
6 Apples
7 bananas
2 loaves whole meal bread
Carrots
600g broccoli and Stilton soup
Cathedral city cheddar
Sprinkle ice lollies

It came to just over £35

If you can't make do with that then I don't know what to suggest. (Roast chicken, wedges and salad or carrots one night and carbonara the next plus soup and sandwiches for lunch and take your pick of loads of choices for breakfast) 🤷🏽‍♀️

(Yes I've got time to kill 😣🤣)

As pp said. If the UK both kids will get a free lunch at school. If you and partner WFH do homemade soups, cheese or marmite wraps, snack on fruit, cheap biscuits etc. Lots of own brand stuff cheap and decent eg Seabrook crisps fine and half the price of walkers. Evenings, pasta dishes, jacket potatoes, spaghetti Bolognese eeked out with tinned tomatoes. I'm one adult and one child and spend about half of your budget a week.

Yes definitely. My weekly shop comes to approx £120 per week. That is all food and drinks and packed lunches for all of us (2 adults, 2 teens).

They really don't need to eat like they're on a tiny budget with marmite wraps etc when they've got £20 a day. It's loads. They just need to meal plan better.

Yup - I don’t eat breakfast and the kids have eggs on toast or porridge every day.
So £2.50 on milk and porridge.
their school dinners are £4.50 for both.
£7 so far,
today lunch I had a tin of tuna, with a dash of mayo and some jarred olives and salad for lunch - about £3.

so £10.

for tea we had spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread. Mince was £4. Spaghetti £1. Tin of tomatoes 60p ish and whatever veg was in the fridge blended in, cheese grated on tops.

I spend more than that for 4 of us, but could do it if I needed to.

@TakeOnFlea thanks for that, you've saved me a task today! Our boilers just gone so needing to pay for a new one so trying to save all over!

£140 a week for food, easily. It's confusing how you have said daily though, do you shop daily?

No bother 🤣 hope you get the boiler sorted

For how long?
I could do it for a week but I have things like dishwasher tablets, washing stuff, foil, cleaning stuff, all those things that aren’t food but come with the food shop.
I spend more than £140 a week on our weekly food shop but I could definitely cut down if needed.
Family of 5 but usually 4 or 6 😂 (one dc at uni and the other is home but her boyfriend is often here).

Yes, £20 per day is fine, I spend less than £140 a week for our weekly shop and we eat well. If you’re trying to cut back though, get a cheap supermarket brand bottle of squash, that and water will do for the week. Have one meal as jacket potatoes, own brand beans and cheese, one meal tomato pasta with cheese, one meal sausages and mash with frozen peas. Sandwiches or pasta salad for lunch, porridge for breakfast. Snacks can be apples cut up and bananas, cheese on crackers, and cucumber and carrot cut up.

Yes, for food it would be fine (DD is 12 and DS is 11 and they eat a lot!) However if we also included toilet roll, kitchen roll, tissues, washing up liquid, washing powder, shower gel, shampoo, household cleaning products, etc. it would be tight on 140€ per week and we would go over if we needed wine or soft drinks (we just drink water, DH has juice in the morning and I have a coffee at the weekends, plus we sometimes have a herbal tea), something extra for dinner guests, a birthday, etc., or 'one-offs' like replacing olive oil.

It would be fine for food but we’d have to watch school lunches and top up shops.

I'm an extravagant shopper and think £20/day is lots

Well if you're shopping daily in expensive shops you might struggle but if you convert it to a £140 pw grocery budget, make packed lunches, use a normal supermarket and shop sensibly, don't waste things, it's plenty.

Another vague question where the OP doesn't really say what they mean or why they're asking.

That’s brilliant!!

might do an Asda shop next week instead of Morrisons

thanks

I think alot of the money is for lunch’s my kids won’t eat the school meals as there a bit fussy!

i do around 2 shops a week but i find Morrisons just so expensive right now!
someone said about Asda I also do my shop in store and I might change to online due to adding things in the trolley that’s just not needed!

even fruits £3 for bunch of grapes £3 for strawberries etc etc