To ask how much and how often you drink alcohol?

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I'm trying to cut back on alcohol for all the usual reasons: to cut back on calories, health benefits, save money...

Just as a barometer for the "norm" (and sheer curiosity) how often and how much alcohol do you drink?

I wouldn't say I'm the norm, but I drink hardly any. Probably averages out at 1-2 drinks a month? I almost never drink at home, only when out for a meal and even then I'm happy with just one glass. It's been tailing off over the years, I drank a lot more in my twenties!

6/7/8/9/10 morgans and coke once every 4/5 months.

Well, Last week I had:
A g&t after a shit day at work
A cider on Friday night
A cider on Saturday lunch
2 pints at Sunday lunch time

Most weeks it'd just be the midweek work sucked glass of something and a Sunday lunchtime pint, but the weather was cider in the garden weather!

I go to the theatre or ballet every Friday so I always have one large glass (250ml) of wine on a Friday night. It would be unusual for me to drink more than that in a week but if I meet friends for dinner then I'd have another large glass. I never drink at home unless it's a special occasion like Christmas. So I would say I drink 1/3 of a bottle of wine a week and never more than one bottle. I have alcoholics in my family, it puts me off.

I rarely drink during the week. Only if I'm out. That would be one or two drinks (e.g. glass of wine or G&T).

I drink a bottle of wine over the course of he weekend, (Friday evening to Sunday) although sometimes there is a glassful left over, which I freeze for cooking. (In a plastic bag - it goes like a slushy, so really easy to use.)

I might also have another drink on the weekend, like a G&T or sherry or Pimms, but if I do, I'm less likely to finish my bottle of wine.

Since the beginning of the year, two small beers and four glasses of wine.

3 times a week on average. Probably 1/2 a bottle of wine on 2 of those occasions, and 1 large glass on the other.

Well I'm distinctly abnormal going by usual MN barometers, so let's completely skew the thread...

I only drink on social events if I'm not driving so that can be anything from once every couple of months to a couple a times a month (like this month because it's around my birthday) I'll probably have a couple of drinks - two large glasses of wine or bottles of cider. I dislike getting drunk intensely although tipsy is fine. I'd say this has been my drinking pattern since my mid 20's. I drink a lot less that pretty much everyone I know who isn't an actual teetotaller or my DH

Sorry, should have said, I used to drink a glass of wine most nights, so two bottles a week, rather than one. I cut out the drinking from Monday to Thursday, when I decided to cut back.

OP. It has been my experience on MN that if you ask how much people drink on average you will get many many posters telling you they hardly drink anything ( which is fine) You are unlikely to get many coming on to tell you that they drink a bottle of wine a night ( although some may be honest). What I am trying to say is that you are unlikely to get a very accurate barometer of where your drinking habits lie within the norm.

x posted with a lot of people who drink a lot less than I'm used to on here!

Three glasses of wine a week on a Saturday night.

This month I have consumed 4 ciders on Sunday, then a bottle of wine over Wednesday/Thursday night.
Another 4 ciders on Saturday night, this is probably an average 9 days. I may have an odd weekend blow out every month but not much more than I have listed above as I am such a lightweight now & can't stand hangovers with kids!

Everyone is very different, I haven't been drunk in years, last proper drink was on my wedding day (September 2013!). BUT that's because I found out I was pregnant with DS1 two days later; then all time was spent looking after baby, and currently 39+6 with DC2. My time will come again I'm sure!

Ok i'll start the honesty...far far too much.

I try not to drink on Sunday or Monday nights. Tuesday to Thursday 2 gin and slims, sometimes 3 but not usually. Friday probably 3. Saturday usually 3 gin and slims and maybe a large glass or two of wine as well?

However this Saturday just gone I drank probably 4-5 gin and slims, a bottle of Sol, half a bottle of Rose and 2 glasses of red wine. Felt absolutely shocking all day yesterday and still not right today.

I go in fits and starts. I went out for a meal on Saturday and I had 3 pints (classy) and 2/3 of bottle of wine. Last week I had a bottle of wine a couple of nights - but I'm going through a really sodding rough patch and I tend to use it as an emotional crutch/helps me sleep.
I can go weeks without drinking, or I can go days. It just depends on how I feel/what social occasions I've got coming up.

Last week I had:-
Nothing Sun-Thurs
G&T on Friday PM
2 Large glasses of Red wine on Saturday PM
1 Large glass of White Sunday Lunch.

This week I had:-
Nothing Mon- Friday
1 large glass White Saturday PM with Dinner.

This or somewhere in between is about normal - last week was bit more than usual, however, sometimes go 2 weeks and have nothing. seriously craving a G&T now having thought about it

On the nights I don't drink I sleep much much better.

I think I'm a moderate drinker but by the standards of those who've already posted I feel like a lush! Most weeks Mondays and Thursdays are alcohol-free days. On all other days I like to have a drink with a little snack while I'm making the evening meal and then eating it. I never drink after my evening meal and hardly ever drink at any other point in the day. I never binge - I can't, on the odd occasion I had more than the above to drink when much younger, I moved in minutes from feeling very cheerful to vomiting copiously and feeling like death!

As to quantity, I either have one (generous) G&T or I have a couple of small glasses of wine - maybe 125-150ml in total? Not often more. I would say that comes to 8-10 units a week.

I binge drink occasionally which is very bad. But only 4 times in the last year.
I don't drink much as I don't like alcohol, just to get drunk.

I usually buy a bottle of red a fortnight, dh will also buy one if he thinks I've been stressed or under appreciated every once in a while. Dh doesn't drink so it's just me usually sat in a facemask watching some cheesy series. That bottle will normally last 4 nights (although I had two glasses last night to finish it off.

On average, the equivalent of one glass of wine per month. Two at the most.

Sometimes a bit more, some months nothing.

Usually if having restaurant meals and I'm not driving (or a tiny bit), or rarely at home, maybe sometimes after cooking with wine.

has anyone accused the teetotals/occasional drinkers of jumping on these threads yet?

Share a bottle of wine with OH 3-4 times a week, an occassional G&T. Rarely anything else and always with food. Holidays we share a bottle most evenings. Trying to reduce.....

I don't drink during the week. Friday nights DH and I share a bottle of wine then have two or three spirit and cokes.

Saturday night we have a bottle of wine each then five or six spirits and coke.

Sunday night we share a bottle on wine and have two or three spirit and cokes.

none, am teetotal. just not fussed by alcohol at all and my social life doesn't involve it