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

[TheOpalFox]

how much does everyone spend on coffee and eating out

Tea once a week. More if it's school holidays. Takeaway once a month max. Meals out very infrequently - usually only birthdays or on holiday.

I used to have a coffee far more frequently but stopped when I lost weight- lattes are very calorific!

On coffee nothing. We hardly eat out now as it's so expensive. This month I have taken DD to McDonald's as the happy meals were 2.99 and they had crocs in.

According to my budgeting app, in the last 12 months it’s been an average of £46 per month for eating out. My budget is £50 a month so glad to see I’m managing to stay within it! I don’t drink coffee so nothing on that.

Likely less than £500 a year. I have an espresso machine at home so I may e get two or three coffees a year if we are out for a day trip (a "flask" doesn't last me when whole day). Christmas dos are usually £60-70 per person and I typically have two per year with hobby groups. Plus an occasional meal with a friend, although, it's more common for our friendship group to rotate who hosts in their house.
Can't remember when was the last time I had a takeaway. Probably 2024
I will mention that we do go out but my partner normally handles it except for his birthday meal. If I were single, I wouldn't really eat out as frequently if at all.

Zero on coffee. I invested in a Miele built in coffee machine when we did our kitchen and whilst it cost £££ and took up the space of entire cupboard I reckon it’s paid for itself.

We eat out maybe 3-4 times a year, mainly because the last few times we did, it didn’t really justify the expense. Average food, average service and I just felt a bit ripped off.

Quite a lot. Usually have a cheap lunch out at the weekend. Eat out about once a week at night, usually about £50 to £60 for 2. Once or twice a month it’ll be more like £100. About once a month on average take adult kids and partners out so will be about £400 up.

it adds up. And going out to eat isn’t as good as it used to be.

My budget for meals/drinks outside the house is £104/month. Anything that doesn’t get spent rolls over to the next month.

0.on.coffee as I dont like if. Maybe 5 take out T per year - ridiculoisly expensive so Im not bothered for it.
Maybe £800-£900 for takeout per year.

(No expensive nails/har/lashes/tans on a montly basis, non smoker, average 1 bottle of wine per month )

2 coffees per week on the way to the office. £8. Meal deal on office days extra £10. Used to eat out weekly but now it's only special occasions with the cost. Had a date night last week, meal was £100. We don't drink weekly, only meals out and Christmas so I'd say our splurge is the supermarket shop where I'll often buy sushi or Seabass. Before prices skyrocketed we would have a takeaway a week £40 and probably eat out every 2 weeks at £100 but we definitely haven't been able to afford this this year.

Probably about £100 a week. We like to go out in a Saturday to watch the football.

Pre Dietary issues I’d get a coffee out maybe twice a week (although at one point I was using Waitrose card, and Vitality free Nero cup per week so barely ever paid).
Eating out, maybe similar. Now it’s £15-20 just for a simple meal (Omlette/spud/salad) so unless I’m meeting friends/family I don’t bother as there’s a lot of foods that aggravate my digestion.

So maybe it was at one point £7 on coffees and £40-50 on food. Now it’s 0 on coffee, although I’ll get a herbal tea if out socially, which is no cheaper so a complete rip-off imho (£3 to dunk a teabag that costs pennies in hot water - yes, I know overheads but I do resent it). Brewing coffee is a skill and you’re paying for beans and milk.

And eating out varies, sometimes I don’t for a couple of weeks and then twice in a week. If I can avoid it, I will. So I’ll say about £60pcm.

I’ve saved a lot of money not eating out/buying lunch etc I’m sure.

I rarely have coffee out the house I don’t like shop/cafe coffees I have a coffee machine and I make my own coffees. Also I stop drinking coffee about 12-1pm so after that I don’t bother.
Eating however is another matter. We do get a takeaway once a week which I am stopping as I don’t enjoy it, we don’t have many places to choose from for delivery as we live quite rurally and the just aren’t nice so we decided that we would just go to somewhere nice to eat. Will we stick to that? Probably not.
Probably a few hundred a month on eating out I have never added it up.

When I’m in work I spend too much on coffee, probably £10-15 a day. I don’t often eat out anymore, the odd meal deal here and there and we tend to go for meals on special occasions which set us back £150ish.

I get you on the “ripped off” feeling—we had a £150 gastropub gift voucher from Christmas that we used on Monday. We weren’t watching our pennies when ordering (4 of us) because the voucher would cover most of it and we were happy to top up. But the mains came with no sides (my main was literally a chicken breast), so by the time you add in a £6.50 portion of chips, the restaurant added their “charity donation” (which you can ask them remove, but you look like a dick), and their £30+ service charge, we paid £123 on top—this included no starters and only 3 of us had dessert. £273 for 4 mains/sides, 3 desserts, 2 glasses of house wine, 3 Cokes, a jug of tap water, the charity donation, and the service charge. 😒

I’ve more or less given up on takeaways and I make my own tea at home or work. Eating out depends on the occasion: I do grab a pastry for breakfast each morning (£15 a week). I took DD out for dinner last week which was about £70. I mostly eat lunches made at home and I eat in most of the time.

Habits have definitely changed since the Pandemic, going back further, Brexit, because I’m fed up of paying silly prices for small portions and rubbish quality. When I was married exDH spent a lot of time in the pub and sometimes I was obliged to go too. Now I only go if I really fancy a pint which isn’t often.

About £150 a week

Live on my own so walk down to a lovely independent coffee shop/bar by our marina twice or three times a week. Couple of lattes and people watching

Then my partner and I have lunch on a Saturday and coffee and a sandwich on a weekday

Will be more some weeks when I/we have lunch with friends

Far too much. A few hundred a month.
We always aim to spend a lot less but then events always come up that involve meals/drinks out.

Eating out: nothing, except for birthday. We used to have a pub lunch every other Saturday or Sunday. But since you have to book a table and the food quality is gone downhill plus the ridiculous prices it's not really worth it.
Coffee, I like mine a cretin way so rarely.

Excellent typo!

I’ve no idea!
most weekends I’ll have coffee and a bacon roll type thing out or maybe a more substantial brunch. Maybe one or two takeaways a year. Some months I might have lunch or dinner out two or three times depending on plans, but other months not at all……

I really hope you are saving for something nice / important as that sounds miserable! But I admire your restraint 👍🏻

We eat out quite a lot and also pay for adult kids and their partners if they’re with us.

Rarely get a takeaway now as they’ve been disappointing, would rather buy a Charlie bighams Thai or similar.

Having said that we had an amazing curry delivered on holiday in Dorset … if that was near us we would have it regularly so maybe our crap takeaways are a good thing.

Maybe £4 per month on coffee if I meet a friend, otherwise I make my own.
Eating out -depends if we have any birthday celebrations - 2 celebrations this month so £200 on lunches out. Last month we spent nothing on eating out. We never have takeaways.

Occasionally a coffee...maybe once a month? I usually bring my own from home when commuting.
Lunch...varies, now maybe once a week. Spend 5-10.
Out as a family...we got a takeaway last month, maybe eat out every couple of months.
It all depends on what's going on.

🫣 someone always has to deliver on these depressing threads! 😂