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Where are you shopping where you can get a weeks worth of food for only 50
Aldi
£50 would be pushing 2 weeks for both of us. We normally spend £20-30 a week between us. May reduce it further as my garden becomes more productive, already never need to buy rosemary, thyme, sage, chives or mint again.
I'm intrigued what you could be buying where a weeks worth of food for a couple only costs you £30. Like, what do your daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) look like?
IIRC the following is roughly what we bought for this week, obviously some ingredients left over from previous weeks and some won't be completely used and gets used in following weeks.
I grow quite a few of my own herbs to help as well: Rosemary, sage, thyme, chives, mint. Adding oregano soon. My garden is fairly small so only growing herbs rather than veg but hopefully getting an allotment soon. I also forage for fruits when they are in season, made 2L of apple chutney this week which is why I needed the honey/vinegar, though could do with a proper stockpot to do it in larger quantities.
If you don't have a garden, the herbs I am growing would be pretty easy options for some guerilla gardening. Maybe not the mint as it can be a bit invasive. There is even a large rosemary bush near one of the supermarkets in town here that I have taken cuttings from before. A little cheeky but you could probably even take a little cutting from someones front garden if you are desperate.
That does not sound like enough for six meals per day...
I don't eat 6 meals per day
No, but as a couple you probably eat three each?
2 or 3. I forgot to list bread but that costs like £0.45, also that list is only stuff I bought this week, still got oats left from the previous week for example. But I am unlikely to need to buy more cheese next week. Overall it comfortably works out to £20-30 a week, varying a bit depending on more expensive purchases like bulk packs of toilet roll or cheese being among the most expensive single item purchases we have but are not bought most weeks.
Aldi is the shit
I get groceries for a week in auckland at about 70. Considering auckland is the most expensive city in my country, I reckon 50 is fesible in other cities.
Whangerei about $100 for 2 of us a week and we eat yummy
Hell yea bro! Thats pretty good :)
If you're single and no kids, it's very doable. Considering this person prefers an active lifestyle, they probably don't spend money on junk food.
Eggs, milk, bread and some vegetables and maybe some fish. Add some soap and hygiene every once in a while then about 50 sounds about right.
My average was around 25 bucks with about a trip every 4 or 5 days or so unless some kind of splurge is added.
Salmon is 9 dollars a pound at Aldi's milk is 2 bucks eggs are like 2-3.
Deodorant is about 3-4 dollars. Protein powder is like 2 dollars a serving at Aldi's if I remember right?
Anyways when I go to Aldi's I usually spend about fifty and that lasts a few days. I have three people in my house though and a growing teen. You can definitely do 50 a week on lean diet that requires you to cook every meal but the more people in the house and the more you work the less this is viable and the more you have to rely on premade shit.
Aldi's is the shit tho. 8 bucks for three pounds of ground turkey goes a long way
Salmon is one of the more expensive fishes. Try something cheaper like pollock, or just buy chicken instead.
Also, no shit your bill goes up when you add more people to the household!
In the year 2022. As per the date of the post in the screenshot.
Looking back at old receipts is very depressing right now …
How much are rice and dried beans per pound in your parts?
I wish Aldi stocked dried beans here, only get tinned. Rice is fine though, they also sell oats and they come in compostable paper bags now which is nice, rice is still plastic.
Damn, that sucks. Maybe lentils? Or try a mexican, indian etc. store?
We don't have those. Pretty sure I can get lentils, at least from some shops if not Aldi.
Trader Joe's