To those who are not sure you can feed a family for less than £100 a week

[Metoodear]

I posted a few pictures on the other shopping conversation of the food I cooked as people simply refused to belive you can weekly shop for less than £100 and not just eat pasta all week

Just come back from shopping and just wanted to show you my list and weekly plan Monday is not on their because I already have the dinner we are having salmon baby roasted potatoes and squash wedges with green beans

I have 3 kids and a cat no less Sp 5 of us in total this list includes stuff for lunch as well for me and husband

I it can be done if you don’t allow grazing and make a meal plan the

That only includes four meals?

But that’s not a week. It’s four dinners.

I weekly food shop (not booze and no treats) for about £90 a week for four without trying hard. It's the extra stuff we buy that isn't essential that sends it up. Kids are y2 so still have free school lunches, I buy mine at work so the reality is a lot more than the £90 delivery.

That's 4 dinners, no lunches for a family of 5. No breakfast or snacks

I do it easily for four at Aldi, highly recommend! Seems to be impossible to go over £80/pw

What about Saturday, Sunday and Monday? And packed lunches, school lunch money and a kilo of cereal and an entire cow's worth of milk?

But yeah, it can be done. It's not nice, the food is cheap, processed crap but it's achievable. I do it.

We have a roast on Sunday and I already have the chicken

I easily do 4 at Aldi too for £80. That includes dinners, packed lunches for me, DH and DS1 and snacks . A lot of the time it's less. We have 2 veggie days a week and I bulk out chilli etc with tons of veg so it lasts 2 dinners.

What?

Firstly, of course you can eat for £100 a week. Secondly, what do your photos have to do with that fact?

We eat for under £100 a week, we do not eat cheap processed crap.

Our food is very nice.

School dinners are free or are you not aware of that and um i said in my original post today is not on their because I have today’s dinner already we have a roast on a Sunday as we already have the chicken and Saturday will likey be a chilli we already have those bits

And all those who keep going on about snacks if you look at the list you clearly see yougets and chocolate and biscuits and tray bakes can be made also what’s the obsession with have cereal every morning you are allowed to have eggs toast
Pancakes fruit that’s what we have not gallons of milk followed by boxes and boxes of creal

Do you not eat breakfasts or lunches ? All that food looks vile

I do three for about 50/60 at Lidl.

What do you mean the food looks vile? Why so nasty? The food looks nice, normal.

But... That's four meals for four days? A week is usually seven days and presumably lunch would be had at the weekend.

Having said that, I think £100 per week for a family of four is perfectly doable.

You've got a lot of yogurt and sweet stuff, there's hardly and vegetables or fruit. I easily feed 4 of us for under £100, nothing processed, no ready meals. It's not difficult. When I lived in London I'd go to the fruit and veg market once a week - the amount you could get for £10 was amazing. There're no markets near where I live now which is a shame because I hate relying on supermarkets and everything wrapped in plastic.

School dinners are only free if your child is under a certain age or you are unemployed.

For me school dinners are £25 a week for two kids, except when the youngest takes a packed lunch but that will be stopping soon.

Also when you work/study/both fannying arseing about on a morning making pancakes and fruit for three people isn't something there is time for when cereal is a perfectly healthy alternative.

I spend £50 per week in Aldi then a top up of bread, milk and bananas in Sainsbury halfway through the week. This includes breakfasts and dinners for 4 people, and packed lunch stuff for DH and me, snacks, small amount of alcohol, loads of fruit and veg etc. We're vegetarian so maybe it's the meat which would be expensive?

Well on that basis I can shop for my family of five for £15 this week, as I already have the stuff to eat most days already in

It's perfectly possible to feed a family of four on £100pw, including all 3 meals. But it would get very monotonous, as it only allows for the same cheap cuts of meat, same cheapest cheese and veg and low grade fruit.

I spend around £45/£50 per week at Aldi (including packed lunch stuff and snacks), £12.50 lunch money for DD1 and around a tenner topping up milk, bread, eggs through the week.

I'd be over the moon to have free school lunches and £100 p/w for food. We'd eat like Kings! I'd imagine it would be very easy to manage on.

School dinners are not free. One DC costs 11.50 a week and the other DC 15 a week on prepayment.

My DC never had free school dinners.

Two adults, 1 toddler. Were out of the house most of the day but somehow still spend 50-70 a week on food. I spent £68 today.

Granted, we are mostly gluten and dairy free which does seem to work out more pricey

Thats 4 days and not nearly enough food for 7 days, plus most people don't get free school meals.
If you want to be patronising at least do it properly!

You keep saying 'I already have that' but you must have bought it at some point! You are coming across as quite stupid.

I easily feed 5 for 100 quid, including packed lunches. School dinners are not free in England for the vast majority. Freshly cooked food, not ready meals and junk. From Aldi.