To spend £30 a month on ALL food and drink?

[Jumell]

I’m single and live alone. I want to set myself a good budget and admit I’ve overspent /been wasteful in the past.

As a single adult female living alone - is £30 per month on food doable do you think ? Includes eating out etc

food budget not good budget aaargh!

How could that include eating out?

A pound a day?

Surely you mean per week?!
Weekly could be doable but not if eating out at all

I couldn’t do it, especially including eating out. I think £30 a week not including eating out is reasonable.

I think that's very low, especially if it includes eating out. I think £30 a week would be pushing it!

Add a zero and it would be easy but a £1 a day is impossible.

£7.50 a week for 3 meals/snacks?
Absolutely possible if you're living off ramen noodles and thin air.

E.g pizza slices from Greggs etc .. that’s the limit of my ‘eating out ‘ 😆

Good luck with that, less than £10 per week....what are you planning on eating?
You definitely won't be eating out!

£1 a day is very tough going indeed and basically near impossible.
Is there a reason your wanting to be £30 a month?!!

<£7.50 on food and drink and eating out a week is not manageable.

How would you even propose to make it work?

I'm not sure £30 including eating out for all food and drink for a month is possible, unless you're starting with a fully stocked cupboard? Or have some free food partway through?

Yes

No. Not week. Month

No. Obviously not doable. Have you ever eaten or bought food or been to a shop?

Maybe if you ate porridge made with water, for breakfast, you already have teabags in, you have lentil soup made with carrots, onions, water for lunch every day and jacket potatoes with beans or beans and rice (bulk bought) for dinner it could be vaguely manageable, but this seems quite difficult.

Greggs pizza slice is about £2.40

Can you give us an example menu for the week of all food/drink for less than £7.50?

Even with a Mumsnet roast chicken you’ll be struggling.

No chance. Not unless you want to affect your health or you are relying on handouts of food.

No - no fully stocked cupboard - just teabags /small jar of instant coffee.

Eating out for me is Greggs 🤣 maybe this gets it into perspective!

Well obviously it's doable if you barely eat anything but you wouldn't have a very good quality of life

I think that it could work well for one month as reset if you focus on using up what you have in cupboards, freezer etc.

I don’t think that it’s possible to manage on that longer term without either using food banks or it having serious implications for your health.

I think that for £20 a week you could eat healthy nice food and that unless you’re really really struggling financially that would be a better budget to set.

No it’s not possible Op. next.

Sorry quoted wrong post above - reason is - partial personal challenge /part seeing what I could live off if I was ever in real dire straits