Or is £21 a day not enough to cover 3 meals for a student?

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This is a language school advertising for people to accommodate students in their homes. I don’t think £21 would be enough to cover breakfast, packed lunch & dinner plus things like extra hot water etc. It’s out of my area anyway but I do wonder if they will get anyone to do it.

I spend less than £60 per week for 2 adults and a child on the weekly food shop, so £21 per day is more than possible for food alone.

er, bowl of cereal / toast for breakfast, pack up lunch and a standard dinner of shepherds pie or something, perfectly doable. I let a friend stay at mine for £20 a week for 6 months. They bought their own food for dinner but all else came from my usual shop and I wasn't out of pocket.

Its £150/week - I could easily add extra breakfast stuff, packed lunch stuff and scale up dinner or another adult for that! Its not a lot to live alone and feed yourself on, but its a decent amount for another adult to contribute to a family budget.

That enough in my opinion because you aren’t buying all of their food from scratch , it is an extension to your own meals . As pp said cereal and toast then a packed lunch and maki g an extra portion of the family meal .

£21 a day is plenty, surely? You might not turn much of a profit from it, but I presume they don't want host families who are only in it for the money in any case?

My relative does this to make a little extra income.
I would have thought the student could be fed on about £5 a day.

Of course it’s enough!

Sounds like the £21 is for board and lodging, so not just food? That sounds on the low side for what host families usually get paid for putting up foreign students. You might just about cover costs, but it's not particularly generous.

Round here you would usually get at least £500-£600 a month for letting a room to a lodger, with no meals included and sometimes with extra contribution to bills on top.

Theres no profit but its more than enough to cover those things.

Extra hot water? How much do you think a daily shower is going to cost, even with extra heating costs these days?

Are you shopping in Harrods? We spent £100 a week for 5 of us (2 of whom as massive over 6 foot sporty boys who NEVER stop eating).

We spend £50 pw on food for two (includes the odd bottle of wine as well). if you take away food and extra for energy, you should have more than enough to cover paying for your time to prepare food and cleaning their room, especially if done alongside what's done for the family.

I could quite happily host a student for £21 a day

We spend £45 a week to feed an adult and a teen boy, including basic toiletries. What do you think students eat? Fillet steak?

Typical weekday in our house is (b) porridge or toast with fruit, and coffee 50p
(l) sandwiches or pasty with salad, cereal bar, fruit £1.50
(d) cassoulet with fresh veg, apple pie & cream £2.20

£5 a day normally covers food. Add £3 a day for hot water and laundry. Anything extra is for the host's hard work.

You could eat all 3 meals from takeaways and spend way less than £21...

£3 breakfast sandwich
£5 max for a meal deal
£10 pub meal

I don't know how you'd possibly struggle with homemade meals

£21 a DAY? That’s loads, surely. When dd was in first year halls that’s what she spent a week.

I spend about £100 a week to feed four people lavishly including packed lunch. Even if you bought breakfast and lunch out (as in, Tesco meal deal) and a ready meal every evening, I don’t see how it could total anything like £21pd.

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£21 a day is more than enough for 3 meals a day!

A box of cereal, large bottle of milk and loaf of bread would do a weeks worth of breakfasts so broken down to a per day cost would probably work out at about £2/3 a day

Packed lunch - sandwich, crisps, fruit, bar of chocolate and drink - buy bread, sandwich fillings, multipack of crisps, bag of apples, multipack of snack biscuits and water bottle and that again would probably work out at about £3 a day

So if you've spent £6 on breakfast and lunch that leaves £15 a day for dinner ... you could get a takeaway every night and still have change left over

Before DD was born, DH and I's grocery spend was £40 a week. Granted, prices have risen a bit since then, but now even with DD we spend £50-60 a week, and that includes nappies, toiletries, household essentials, etc.

So yeah, £21 for just food for one day is loads.

We are a family of 4 with 2 teens. If we each spent £21 a day for 3 meals our shopping would be close to 600 a week. So yeah I think it is more than enough.

£21 is plenty to provide the food but I presume they are not asking people to do this as a favour to them? Presumably anyone doing this would be doing it as smal business venture. Don't think there would be much/any profit left after food/heating/electricity plus the owner's time is taken into account.

Eh? That's £650 a month. That's more than enough to cover extra food and utilities when one person is added to a household.

That’s roughly £600 a month for an extra person’s food, water and electricity, sounds reasonable to me. We probably spend about £800 for food, water and energy for 3 people so that’s a massive increase for one extra person (although of course if your house is big enough to have a spare room for an extra person your gas and elec bills are probably higher!)

What everyone else said.

I don't really know anything about this but just for the question - £21 a day is £147 a week, I spend that for myself, Partner, 11 month old (formula fed) and 2 dogs! Of course that's plenty to feed one person!

My kids uni budgets include the princely sum of £5 a day so yes, agreed that £21 is high but does that include overnight too? I mean is it a board & lodgings rate of £21 / 24 hours?