AIBU to wonder how much others spend on coffee and eating out?

[TheOpalFox]

how much does everyone spend on coffee and eating out

I hardly spend anything on coffee 'out' as I'm a bit fussy so take my own into work.

Impossible to say how much I spend on eating out as it can vary dramatically.

On coffee? Normally very little, I usually make it at home.

This last week, that I spent in Amsterdam? Probably about £50. I drink a lot of coffee, and it's an expensive city.

I treat myself to a sausage and egg McMuffin after yoga every Friday. So about £5 a week? Me and DH will also get a takeaway or eat out once a month so £50 - £100. I don’t buy coffee out as I’ve cut out caffeine and a lot of decaf coffees are awful.

£0 on coffee out because I don’t drink it (or tea, only water or booze for me) but I make up for it with eating out, certainly in the last week anyway.
I spent about £700 on eating out last week - one of those times was a special lunch out for dh birthday though which was just over half of that, then a couple of lunches out with the dc towards the end of the summer holidays. Took my niece out for dinner Sunday night and bought lunch out at work today. Usually probably more around the £100 a week mark. A meal out with friends/family and buy a couple of lunches out at work.

Almost nothing as am perpetually saving, saving, saving. Never have coffee out. Family usually go out to eat for birthdays, so 4x year, and then only somewhere pretty low-key. Maybe £300 per year?

Eating out, we don’t do regularly: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays or when we’re visiting friends & relatives. This week, we’ve had family visiting so we had fish and chips £85 and a pub Sunday lunch £140, but that’s out of the ordinary. Most weeks we don’t spend anything.

Coffee, though, I do twice a week, sometimes more. £3.50 - £4.00 per coffee so probably in the region of £10 per week on average.

£700 in a week on just eating out …some people have to live on half of that a month

@TheOpalFox no idea, we get whatever we want whenever we fancy it. How much do you spend? And why do you need to know what everyone else spends?

We get takeout once a week, and go out for dinner once a month.

I buy a couple of coffees one nice lunch per week. I have a decent disposable income so don't mind treating myself and supporting local businesses, but I have cut down as I was buying multiple coffees/lunches per week, and I was spending far too much money.

About £10k a year excluding holidays - we eat out a lot, at least once a week often more. We pay for our AC if they come out with us - which is quite usual too.

School holidays so I enjoy one coffee a day at roughly £3.50/£4. I don’t smoke, vape, buy takeouts or drink alcohol or shop much.

As a family we spend 4-5k a year at the local pubs and that’s eating out, Christmas period and drinks. Coffee zero we are rural so just take our own if we need to.

We used to get a takeaway maybe once a month but when they started creeping up to 60-70k for 4 people we decided a luke warm curry wasn’t really worth it. Our entire order covid times and just after would be maybe 40-45 and the same order is now £70+ delivery.

@IchiNiSanShiGo I’m assuming so the OP can benchmark her own spending?

Just added it up because of this thread.. last month was £350 .

that’s roughly average for us I think. We did have an extra pizza express meal out , and a few extra cafe / coffee trips with it being the holidays .

depending where we go that can cover quite a few meals. For example the pizza express trip cost us just short of £100 (nice meal but not really worth the £100)

however one of my favourite meals out is a loaded jacket spud and strawberry daiquiri from weather spoons - and that’s £8 🤷‍♂️

we don’t get a lot of takeaways anymore, as I’m finding them very expensive but the quality has massively gone downhill. I don’t mind a one off £40 takeaway if I thoroughly enjoy it , but if it’s poor with crap meat we might as well get a nicer ready meal and save some money 🤷‍♂️

Coffee - I don’t spend a lot because I prefer the coffee I make at home. I probably buy one flat white per week max and the going rate around here is about £4 a cup.

Eating out - we eat at restaurants quite a lot as a family. 2 meals over the weekend usually and we probably spend about £200-250 doing that.

But DH and I both WFH full time now and make simple meals at home during the work week, which I reckon saves us a fortune compared to what we used to spend buying breakfast, coffees, lunches, after-work pints etc. every day in the City. So it balances out I think

Lunch out about once a month, ranging from £15 to £40. Breakfast out about once a week, £7.

Very rarely eat out, but get a coffee most weekdays for £3. So £12-15 a week I’d say.

Single lady here. Until the start of the summer holidays I would guess at around £200 - £300 per month on eating out or takeaways. I dont like coffee so zero there.

New anti depressants 7 weeks ago have completely put me off eating most of the foods I used to enjoy, so I would say its now £40 - £50 per month.

DH and I both get a coffee every day £6 total.

We would get a family take out once a month, go out to dinner as a family once a month and probably each do something individual with friends too. Maybe breakfast one Sunday.

Maybe £600-700 total per month (but in Aussie dollars)

My sister and I meet for lunch about twice a month, we take it in turns to pay. It costs about £12 each and I will get a coffee on the way to work very occasionally. So....£30 a month or so, but usually much less.

We have a spreadsheet of what we spend. Anorak behaviour i know.

Basically we spend about £150 a week on eating out , probably 3 times a week. Never anywhere really expensive, coffee, drinks out and the occasional treat.

So about £600 a month

Coffee nothing. Take away once a week, eating out maybe 5/6 times a year

None.

No idea. More than some, but way less than others.

I don't buy either as a matter of routine as I'm not rich enough for that, so I take my own lunch to work most days and often take food and drink out with me.

I do eat out a couple of times a month with DP and have a couple of nice lunches out by myself a month too (I don't like and resent paying for a lot of ready made lunch options so I'd rather pay for an occasional sit down cooked meal than daily sandwiches and pasties).

I'm not a coffee person, so if I fancy a hot drink while out and about I'll go to McDonald's or Greggs because I'm too tight to pay 'coffee shop' prices and hate the experience - too slow and full of annoying people.

But what I spend is irrelevant to you, everyone has different budgets and priorities and what's affordable to one person could be a huge dent in another's budget given that regular spending on coffee and eating out can add up significantly and other costs eg bills, debt repayment, mortgage deposit saving, home improvements, new car etc etc should usually be a higher priority.

Even a relatively small daily spend eg £10 each working day is £200 pm, nearly £2500 per year or over £30k per decade once interest is taken into account and many people spend more than that and then wonder why they can't afford other things.

Yabu. How dare you wonder about this.