$22 bucks can buy you a lot of rice in Australia too.
Nah, it is a western buffet where expats can load up on the stuff from home they miss like cheese, german sausages, steak, salmon and much more.
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$22 bucks can buy you a lot of rice in Australia too.
Wow, I thought $550 per week on food was cheap!! How the hell do some people only spend $5 per meal... without buying pure rubbish. we eat only organic so admit there is a (easily worthwhile) premium to this but still I'd eat $5 worth of "budget" meat as a snack let alone to feed a family!!
I guess its no surprise our budget is at the $70K mark too then.
Wow, I thought $550 per week on food was cheap!! How the hell do some people only spend $5 per meal... without buying pure rubbish. we eat only organic so admit there is a (easily worthwhile) premium to this but still I'd eat $5 worth of "budget" meat as a snack let alone to feed a family!!
I guess its no surprise our budget is at the $70K mark too then.
What kind of recipes do you make?
Just good Paleo recipes.
Yep, we cook all of our meals from scratch. Admittedly it is probably lower now that we make our own almond milk and coconut flour etc as we just got a Thermomix. We source all our own suppliers for food as 99% of super market is crap and even the organic delivering companies need work as their sources aren't always up to scratch. We will buy bulk soon as we bought a deep freezer so can buy a whole cow etc. So that will lower costs. It's all an investment though, I see patients in my clinic everyday who are a mess because of their lifestyle so for me it's a non negotiable.
I feed 5 adults (3 male, 2 female) for about 200-250/week. As an example of how I do this cheaply, portion control on meat is important, I bought 5 chickens when they went on sale in coles for around $8-$9 each. Hubby jointed them so we got 2 meals of 1 thigh each, 1 meal of drumsticks (2 each), 5 meals of stirfry/risotto from the breasts, 1 meal with the wings that I would add as an extra to a mainly veg meal, then the frames I made stock out of (for risotto- YUM) and I pulled another 800grams of meat off the bones that I portioned up to use in chicken and corn soup.
So for $45 I got 8 main meals and 2 part meals (or 1 more main if we had the soup and wings on the same night) so that is $1/adult/meal. Each serve is a the recommended amount of meat roughly and we bulk out with veges, rice, pasta quinoa, couscous....
Even an organic chook at $15 each would only come to $1.66/adult/serve.
I also like to cook from scratch.
And as a side note, if my bl00dy rooster gets out again and crows outside my window at 4 am I will be eating FREE organic chicken!
One typical meal for us is spagetti - for 5 people, and usually one meal left over for my lunch the next day...Wow, I thought $550 per week on food was cheap!! How the hell do some people only spend $5 per meal... without buying pure rubbish. we eat only organic so admit there is a (easily worthwhile) premium to this but still I'd eat $5 worth of "budget" meat as a snack let alone to feed a family!!
I guess its no surprise our budget is at the $70K mark too then.
Have no idea how a couple, let alone a small family in this day and age can exist on $100+ per week on groceries/food. I've always been a good spreadsheeter and my spreadsheets tell it as it is (I do this for a living), so can only imagine people are unconsciously understating their budgets or not including every single purchase, coffee snacks and all.