How much do you spend

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A week on food, clothes and petrol?

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petrol- £35 lasts me 6 weeks.
Clothes- nothing yet this year !

£60- £80 per week on food for 2 adults and 2 children
Breakfast: cereal or crumpets
Lunch: DC have school dinners which cost £2 per child a day. DH and I have pittas filled with salad and tuna or ham or chicken
Dinner: beef and winter veg stew, moules and french bread, pizza and salad, chicken and veg curry, jacket potato with salad and cheese
Snacks: fruit, scones, yoghurt.
DH spends £30 per week on petrol. I spend £35 per week on rail travel to work.
Clothes shopping for me is an area I'm really trying to cut back on. The aim is around £60 per week for all of us.

I am surprised the poster feeding 8 feels the need to spend over £30.

I only spend £11.73 per week on food for 13 adults, 27 children, various pets and scrounging neighbours.

And we eat meat every day. A magic chicken can feed us all for a month, you just have to know how to carve it properly.

When I'm feeling particularly thrifty I don't spend money at all, I barter.

Food £250 ish for 7 of us which includes two hungry teens. This includes household products, laundry and pet food.

Petrol about £20 a week tops

Clothes? I have no idea what that works out.

£150 a week on food and drink, cleaning stuff for 2 adults

£150 a month on gas and electricity, £200 council tax, £85 water rates, £50 phones

£50 a month on petrol for my car, £100 for DHSs Antoher £100 a month to insure tax and service both cars.

£100 month on clothes for two of us

£200 a month on going out

£300 a month towards a holiday

£150 a month towards Xmas

£100 a month on presents

£50 a month on haircuts/toiletries.

When I'm feeling particularly thrifty I don't spend money at all, I barter.

Celia

3 of us. £60 food. £30 travel (no car). £10 clothes (adults don't buy any.)

£80 per week two adults, don't know about petrol, clothes averages about £25, probably less.

We're due to go through our budget again.

I may take the piss but I'm secretly in awe of those feeding huge families on half of what we spend.

That should say £80 to £100 per week on food. ^

2 adults
Food £80 per week
Fuel £30 per week
Clothes probably £20 per week

2 adults one toddler
£60 food
£20 household oddments
£10 diesel - rail ticket approx 4k pa
£5 clothes

I can't make a chicken last more than 1 meal plus a few sandwiches (even a big chicken). My boys would wonder where the rest of the chicken was if I served up a roast dinner with only a third of a chicken between the four of us. They would think I was forcing them into a life of vegetarianism against their will.
The level of portion control which would make a chicken last three meals for my family is a depressing thought, unless it's some magic chicken that I am unaware of.

No, not a magic chuck, not a poisson though. What about a starter? It may fill them up a little so they eat less chicken

5 adults 2 under 10 .

About £120 a week for food including ten packed lunches, plus about £40 a week diesel for DH and somewhere between £45 and £150 a week petrol for me depending what shift week it is . Clothes - as and when !

Having a starter means preparing an extra dish which means more types of food which is neither time nor cost effective.
I would rather stick pins in my eyes than try to make a chicken last 3 evening meals for 4 people out of choice.

it isn't a huge deal making a 1.7kg free range chicken last 3 meals between four of us. Its really plump, meaty and flavourful compared with a supermarket chicken
We have lots of roasties, veg, yorkshire puddings,gravy etc.
All my lot are very active and eat like horses !
DH and DS1 have a leg, DS2 and I share a breast- that's plenty of meat.
Next day I do a curry with the other large breast(probably 500g) and then boil the carcass and pick off the bits and use to make the base for a soup or noodles with loads of veg.
We aren't starving by any means.

3 adults. About 120 on food and booze, 80 on fuel, 40 on heating and a shitload on unforeseen emergencies. We haven't paid into our savings since June.

£45 on food for 2 adults and £50 a month petrol so prob around £12 a week. Don't buy clothes

I am so impressed at how many of you know what you spend on stuff.

I don't think it's a big deal to make a chicken stretch to three meals either. I've always thought we were quite serious meat eaters in our house but when I see so many people say that a chicken only lasts for one meal, I assume that maybe in comparison to others we aren't? When we roast a chicken we would have a loads of veg and roast potatoes, so its a few slices of chicken, none of us would eat a whole chicken breast for example. Then, when it is cold, I remove all the meat by hand (as in actual hands, not cutting it off with a knife and fork) and there is always loads left to have with pasta the next day and maybe a chicken and sweetcorn pie too.

We don't serve tiny portions either, in fact although none of us are overweight as such, it also wouldn't harm dh and me to lose half a stone, so if anything our portions are probably too big

Can I ask a question of some of you who spend £200 or so on groceries? Do you find that all that you buy is actually used, or is there a lot of waste? My SIL is forever complaining that her grocery bill is phenomenal, but weirdly she buys a huge amount of food but doesn't actually eat much of it (she is tiny).

Even if you're not much of a clothes shopper, surely everyone buys clothes at some stage, out of necessity? As a bare minimum everyone must occasionally need to replace a pair of shoes that are worn through, or a few pairs of knickers, or some smart clothes for work?

treacle- I agree about the chicken- I would never eat a whole breast. A leg perhaps with a big platefult of veg & gravy. We had a roast chicken on monday ( 5 of us) - I picked all the meat off the bones and made a spicy stir fry rice last night. I still have the carcass - that will make a pot of soup with veg & pulses on Friday.

We eat far too much meat.

I definitely think you have a point there treacle, about portion sizes. I'm doing weight watchers at the moment and it doesn't half bring you up short with regards to what they consider to be a "portion" and what I would previously eat! . Especially with meat.

I think I'm ging to buy a chicken next week and give it a go for three meals. I've only managed two before. Well, week after - I have next week's food planned and ordered

I agree treacle I guess it also depends on your chicken size !

I always turn the chicken over and pick it off-lots of tasty meat there !

Exit I order the same(different roast, changes to box) each week so the price is the same.
I wonder how people don't know what they spend