Budgeting Food

[naut]

My Shopping List for the week usually

5lb black beans
36 Eggs
Coffee
2 Gallons Green Tea
10 Gallons water
2.5lbs Tuna
Olive Oil
Orange
1lb of blueberries
Bananas
Spinach
Broccolli
Walnuts
1lb of Turkey
5lb chicken breast
White onion
Bell Peppers
1lb of Greek yougurt
2lb of Peanut Butter
Oats
Whatever meat or fish is on sale


Then every two weeks I grab those family size bags of chicken breast

Runs me about 80 USD

Cut out the bloody bread and add some beans. How is chicken not cheaper than sausge?

Food in the US is soooo cheap. That'd run up well over $150 dollars, and if you add the bananas and better brands then it'd be around $200.

[Strike For The South]

Food in the US is soooo cheap. That'd run up well over $150 dollars, and if you add the bananas and better brands then it'd be around $200.

Really? That smells

How does one get swole in OZ?

I figured foodstuffs would be cheap there.....at least meat

[Fragony]

Pasta, lots of it. Three cheap basis you can expand on,

Tomatoe + onion + basillicum
Cream + 1 egg + cheese (mix like an omelet and throw ad pasta)
Olive oil + chopped garlic + parmasan cheese

Also, liver, learn to love it, really nutrisious and delicious when done well.

[gaelic cowboy]

Really? That smells

How does one get swole in OZ?

I figured foodstuffs would be cheap there.....at least meat

Thats cos a lot of the time it actually is proper ingredients as opposed to filled with things to bulk it up like sugar, salt, water etc etc course we have the rubbish too.

[naut]

Really? That smells

How does one get swole in OZ?

I figured foodstuffs would be cheap there.....at least meat

Taking a guess I'd say because our minimum wage and average weekly pay would offset it. From what a can glean from some google-fu the US average weekly wage is around $750, whereas the average weekly wage here breaks the $1000 mark. Some things are cheap - beef is relatively cheap, anything imported from Asia is cheap (like rice for example). Stuff like tuna, bananas ($12 a kilo currently) and walnuts are pricey here. The other issue is it's not easy to buy bulk. Everything (except liquids) comes in half kilo packs, not always possible to buy 2.5 kilos of something and save money that way.

[The Stranger]

Food in the US is soooo cheap. That'd run up well over $150 dollars, and if you add the bananas and better brands then it'd be around $200.

wtf... week worth of groceries for 150 dollars :O thats a bigload of money.

what he buys would be about 30-50 euros depending on what supermarket and what quality brand you buy.

[Fisherking]

Well as he lives on an island out beyond another island everything will cost him a bit more, perhaps.

I also think he is in that pound zone rather than the regular €U.

[gaelic cowboy]

Well as he lives on an island out beyond another island everything will cost him a bit more, perhaps.

I also think he is in that pound zone rather than the regular €U.

UK is not self sufficient in pretty much anything agricultural related, the country is too urbanised

Luckily there is another low populated island next door who need to export there produce and have lots of spare capacity.

[TinCow]

wtf... week worth of groceries for 150 dollars :O thats a bigload of money.

what he buys would be about 30-50 euros depending on what supermarket and what quality brand you buy.

I consider it a cheap week if I spend $150 on groceries (for a family of 2). Usually it is $150 to $200, and that is from a store with extremely good prices. That also does not include meals out, which will be done for lunch probably 4 times per week, nor does it include wine. However, it does include non-food products, like dish detergent and toiletries.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I consider it a cheap week if I spend $150 on groceries (for a family of 2). Usually it is $150 to $200, and that is from a store with extremely good prices. That also does not include meals out, which will be done for lunch probably 4 times per week, nor does it include wine. However, it does include non-food products, like dish detergent and toiletries.

But I trust you are not living off bananas and sausages.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I think my diet is very healthy. Only thing I would change is replace chicken with sausages. Today for example I had:

breakfast - bran cereal, banana
lunch - 5 chicken thighs with wholemeal bread, banana
dinner - 2 chicken breasts with beans and wholemeal bread, apple
supper - i will have bran cereal with an apple

With my 2 litres of milk throughout the day. How is that not healthy?

[TinCow]

But I trust you are not living off bananas and sausages.

Certainly not. Though sausages (at least, non-frozen ones) are actually more expensive. We eat a lot of fresh produce, and that stuff is usually pretty cheap. Generally about $30-40 for the entire week. Meat and processed food always costs a lot more.