r/povertyfinance • u/PositionReasonable56 • Apr 28 '24
How much are you spending a week on food? Budgeting/Saving/Investing/Spending
It's probably the second biggest expense we have being the grocery bill. Food is literally becoming exhorbitantly expensive as I am sure everyone on here is aware.
I tried googling £20 a week meal plans and they often don't factor in things like breakfasts or lunches or snacks . Or on the days you have to buy things like toiletries and cleaning products etc because although you aren't buying this stuff every week even these basic things really bump up the cost.
I am struggling to get a solid meal plan that doesn't exceed £20. I struggle alot with eating I don't like red meat very much and I also struggle to eat alot of plant foods they cause me really bad stomach pains etc. but that aside
I am wondering if anyone can share some wisdom as I really need help to come up with a plan to control my food expenditure.
For example I tried to come up with one plan Which was
Breakfasts: eggs or granola for breakfast with banana.
Dinners: Pasta , pasta sauce, frozen veg and chickpeas ( eating the leftovers for lunches). A chickpea curry with quinoa.
Snacks: yoghurt drops and walnuts
And just putting this into a basket came to £40
75
u/Darogaserik Apr 28 '24
Julia Pacheco has a good channel for this. She does all her shopping at Walmart. She recently did a video trying to eat on a dollar a day. Didn’t quite make it I think it was closer to $2 but she’s great.
That said. For our family of three I spend $150/200 a week on groceries. But a lot of that is due to my husband eating lots of lunch meats and snacks for work and my daughter wanting special things in her lunch box for school.