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ada smart price? lolol and a lot of wind due to regular beans on toast?

Hi caesars wife: I know where you come from so I know what type of food you eat. I can't blame you spending a lot more than £55/week.

I love lentils and all sorts of pulses. Though we do have meat once (excluding barbie weeks) a week and fish once. We are a couple around 60.

We spend around £100/week,this covers most foodstuffs but no wine which we purchase in France every few months.

Usually 120 bottles at a time. (120 bottles lasts about 3 months) This comes from my misspent youth in Toulon.

That is about 10 bottles a week in France this would cost about £35 but if bought in UK would be around £80 for the same quality wine.

I don't drink all the wine myself,we have a dinner party every 2nd week and go to one the weeks in between.

My wife does also do some shopping in between.

When my mother in law was living with us 7 years ago we would spend £20 on her fruit alone,Papaya being her fav.

I suppose although we do not eat that much meat, we do go for the more exotic things.

Perhaps they eat a lot in restaurants?:)

btw., lentils are quite healthy food

Caesarienne, thanks:)

Actually, lentils are not that cheap. Generally speaking, good, organic food, fresh vegetables, fish, meat etc. tend to be expensive in this country, as they are everywhere else. On the other hand, highly processed food, ready meals included, is dramatically cheap, often cheaper than the actual raw substrats and ingredients. It makes me think what is this all junk food made from...

We do our shopping at Wal-Mart, thank goodness for that and, that isn't saying much for quality but, it's something. I don't know what the exchange is but, we spend easily $150.00 a week and, that isn't everything.

We try and keep it to things like spaghetti an sauce, something easy and cheap. Hamburger and sauces with that. Soups, like chicken soups that will last for three or even four days, chili's and stews over potatoes.

We try and go to the farmers stands along the highways that offer vegetables cheaper and get as much for our money as possible. We don't buy paper products like paper towels, we don't wax the floors, we use hot water and soap for washing the floors to get buy. We just can't make it today.

We had a big garden and it's about to stop with fall coming, we did can many things for winter. That isn't cheap anymore either.

The average is the total amount divided by the number of family's. A meaningless figure. the average like expectancy in Swaziland is 35, but very few people die at that age. Infant mortality is high though, which brings the number down.

Having said that, for one person who only buy fresh fruit & veg. quality meat and fresh fish. I don't send anywhere near that!

I spend a fortune on groceries for myself and my partner, but I guess it would be possible.

Some foods are dirt cheap, such as chicken,turkey, mince and pork.

You can also get some real bargains at certain times in the supermarket too, and provided you're careful with portion size and avoid the ready meal syndrome, that budget could be adhered to.

Who is average though?

this week i spent £46 in the butchers £19 in the greengrocers and £65 at the supermarket for a family of 4 and we eat very well indeed, there is no way we could survive on only £55 a week unless we bought the basics pack of everything and it would taste like shite, full of additives and preservatives. i believe the government should abolish tax on fruit and veg and lean cuts of meat to help ppl to choose healthier foods.

Were a family of 5 and we spend about £150 a week on shopping, don't know what planet this family of 4 live on but book me on the next space shuttle.

I'd like to know where they shop !

I spend almost treble that amount on groceries and there are only 4 of us !

My milk bill alone is £10 per week...then if you buy one loaf of bread a day..that's almost £7 a week..depending on which brand you buy !

Are these people off another planet or what ?

We are two old age pensioners and our weekly groceries bill is usually about £60, and that doesn't include meat or fish which we buy separately from private local traders.That is Government propaganda to try and make out that you can live more cheaply than you can.

This obviously a family of four in Peru...fifty five pounds would by an awful lot of marmelade