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

I used to spend about £10/15 a week on food when I was astudent nurse but this was 30+ years ago and I ate an awful lot of pasta

Only if you steal stuff.

Try that OP.

Is it possible- yes- 19p baked beans, 23p white bread etc. is it advisable- no it would be almost exclusively poor quality upf food and not a good diet at all

Which implies you spent money on a food shop on either the 11th/12th November (unless you were living solely on air for 12 days) so had probably at least a weeks worth of food (at the very least) to get eat and have then spent another £30 since that date. So significantly over £30 a month! How much did you spend on food from the 1st-12th November? Add that to the £30 and you have your total for last month.

Also, spending £30 on food and eating only that £30 food you bought are two completely different things. If you’re still eating bits and bobs that you have existing in your cupboard, freezer and fridge then then you’re well over.

Anyone here could technically “spend” as little as £5 on food a month if they have a fully stocked cupboard and freezer allowing them to make meals from food they already own in their house. Spending an amount on food a month and consuming food with a total £value a month (if you’re including food you already have in the house not included in that last spend) are two completely different things.

“I’ve only spent £30 on food since Nov 12th!” Is utterly irrelevant unless you tell us a) what you spent from 1st-12th and b) what you are each day from the 12th-30th. I bet the total is nowhere even close to £30.

You've been asked multiple times what you actually ate in your 2 week (plus added extras) on £30. Is there a reason why you haven't replied?

Of course it’s not possible if you’re including Greggs/don’t want to starve yourself. I’ve lived like this at times when I was younger (and food cheaper), out of necessity. I would have a couple cheap packets of noodle a day at 25p for example, or would have beans on toast for a few days/jacket potato. But very few veg.

Next time on OP manages the impossible:

I can hold my breath for 10mins!

(if I start 2mins in, have a couple of breaths in-between and quit after 5mins)

The 1890s maybe.

I think it would be possible if you really really had to but it would have to be very basic food with no meat and not much fruit/veg.

Spend £6 a week at a food bank maybe. Do more home cooking too, and join fb cooking on a budget groups.

What perspective

Even a Greggs would blow your budget

If you have to of course you can do it. Lentils, rice are your friend. Meat is a luxury. Bulk cook meals. One shepherd's pie can last you a week, make with a small amount of cheap Mince and lentils. You can roast one whole chicken and shred the meat, chicken fried rice with frozen veg.

You could do it. It would take practise and self control. You'd fuck a weeks worth of food on a trip to maccies.

I reckon OP filled up on goats trip trapping by.

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Are you eligible for assistance from a food bank? I don’t think it’s do able at all, and you’d be miserable. You could try 21 per week (£3 a day) and that would be a squeeze. But maybe try that as a start?

Or dust

Too good to go magic bags etc greggs do them

Dust has very little calories.

I don’t understand why you bothered with this thread considering you’re unwilling to even state what you bought and what your meals have been apart from a Greggs slice. Waste of time.

You're setting yourself a project to experience food poverty, and then brag about how little you have spent on the internet as if it's been super easy and you should be congratulated. It's in such poor taste for people who are actually struggling and starving to see your smug and frankly ridiculous replies.

Cobwebs though, have no protein. Don’t bother with cobwebs, you will be hungry an hour after eating them.

@Jumell are you trying to drop three dress sizes in a month??? that is not going to be sustainable and you will make yourself so weak that you become ill! virtually a water only diet. think of a hunger strike!

This sort of eating costs £20 a week now.

Pretty sure Jarvis Cocker wrote a song about this in the 90s.

There were costed threads on the back of 30p Lee claims. Wise MNetters could n't make it add up to correct calories.

If you have a time machine and can travel back to the 80s it would be doable. Otherwise, its totally unrealistic. £30 a week maybe but you wouldn't be having anything particularly exciting not £30 a month.

Yes! Totally this is what I spent when I was a Student in 1995. So long as you can time travel you’ll be absolutely fine.