If you're overweight, how much do you spend on food?

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I suppose my AIBU is 'To think I can't afford to put on weight'... but I MUST be! I'm not on the breadline. But eating any more just looks SO expensive!

This is my question:

1. I really want to put on weight
2. Every time I go to buy excess food (thinking calorie surplus) I think of my bank account
3. But when I go food shopping, I see soooo many overweight people. Some of whom MUST have less disposable income than me
4. How have they got to that weight!?
5. My jazzy banking app tells me I spend £700/mth on food (+3kids, no other adult).
6. That's 350 on food shop and 350 on eating out (we live in a very cafe-y area, but it's like fancy quiche deli salad places. Ain't nobody getting fat on this stuff)
7. Apparently UPF is great for putting on weight but I really don't like the taste and texture of processed food (which is apparently fab for making anybody overweight)

I like homemade, pure food. Like, if I want a sausage roll, I'll make sausage rolls. I don't like the taste of pre-made or cold food. I only really like hot and fresh, made on site etc.

1. Food is so expensive! I don't buy snacks or crap for the house because it's just.. more money. But discussing snacking with school mums, I'm starting to think maybe I don't keep enough snacks in.

I only eat 3 meals, I can't dream what would happen to that £700 spend if I started snacking too!

If you are overweight: HOW!? Do you spend £700+ on food/mth?

I just want to understand the balance I need to make between my spend and my weight. Is my food spend unusually low? Do I need to start splashing out on the calories?

I get that being overweight for many isn't desirable. But being underweight is no treat either.

i spend £700 a month on Greggs alone for PROCESSED sausage rolls.

Maybe follow a few fatties round the Supermarket, and steal their trollies before they get to the check out - they will be so enormous they won’t be able to chase you.

I spend my entire food budget on lard. Melt it down, drink it with a straw. Job done.

eh?

I steal food to fund my addiction. It's a full time occupation to keep myself this fat.

Interesting post. Perhaps just eat the same amount and just sit on your arse all day starting ridiculous threads on mumsnet. That might help to retain a few kilos…

How about a really, really MASSIVE salad, OP?

Surely you have a few suet sprinkles on top of your liquid lard?

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If you're living in a developed country, unless you're literally devoid of any money at all...then money is pretty irrelevant in terms of your weight. A quid could buy you a bag of salad or a bag of cookies.

The following foods will definitely make you fatter…

Donuts, crisps, chocolate, biscuits, pizza, sandwiches.

You can make homemade ones, if it works out cheaper.

I am NOT trying to be a windup! Trust me, if you're overweight, lucky you in my book.

I'm tall. If I'm also underweight I look like Peter Crouch.

I would actually like some feedback on how much is reasonable to spend on food to put on weight.

I tried weight gain shakes, they're gross.

Errr...
...most overweight people spend less than you! Healthy fresh ingredients and hipster cafe food are a LOT more expensive than calorie dense and UPF food. E.g. if I'm hungry and I go into a shop with £1, I could buy a small bag of apples on promotion. But apples aren't very filling, so I'm more likely to buy a pack of chocolate biscuits with my £1.

Go to the less fancy quiche deli places and stuff on high carb shite instead ??

Do you eat a balanced diet OP?

Add fats to your homemade meals- butter, oil, avocado.
increase your carbs a bit- extra handful of rice with your meal will literally be an extra 10p

Maybe lay off the £700 a month or so you clearly spend on glue?

Top everything with pâté. Even as an extra layer in homemade sausage rolls. Improves wheatabix too.

If you can't afford enough food to maintain a healthy weight, you should really be a little more responsible with your choices, and stop wasting money on cafe food that isn't providing you with enough calories.

£700 is plenty to spend on food. If you are underweight it's not from lack of money.

She wouldn't be able to force it down (or afford it)

I spend £900.

3 adults, 1 nearly adult, 2 younger secondary age children. That’s £150pp compared to your £175pp.

All meals are from scratch. UPF in the form of crisps and chocolate only (and I don’t eat either). I also don’t eat breakfast (never have) and don’t snack. I often just have fruit or salad at lunch, occasionally eggs.

I am neither overeating nor eating junk, it’s just that my metabolism massively slowed at 40. My maintenance calories are 1200: any more and I gain weight.

I am NOT trying to be a windup! Trust me, if you're overweight, lucky you in my book.

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Switch your water for melted butter. No upfs, and good animal fats.

Minced meat at 20% fat is much cheaper than the 5% stuff, swap out your breakfast cereal for fried minced meat and double cream instead of milk.

Have you thought about supplementing your income by working in a supermarket? You’ll get a discount and can buy more food. All those overweight people are most definitely earning much more money than you (surely that’s obvious by all the food they buy!), it’s time you got off your lazy arse and increased your income!

What are your skills, maybe people on here can help. Can you take in some ironing?