What a diet costs in reality, What do you pay per week?

Eating healthy is saving me money due to eating out less and being more conscientious of my food choices. The expensive part has been replacing my wardrobe as I get smaller.

Get something like a Brita or PUR pitcher instead of buying bottled water. Go to the websites of your favorite products and look to print up coupons for same - lots of them do this! I spend much less now because I'm eating the same things I ate before, mostly, but in smaller quantities. Shop smart - shop the BOGO deals and stock up a little. I only buy the fruit that's in season as it's cheaper. If you have a yard I'd suggest planting a fruit tree or some veggies. If it's not on sale, I don't buy it. It will be on sale soon and I'll get it then. Except for milk. That's never on sale. I buy the Cabot Greek yogurt(plain) as it has the fewest calories & the most protein. It's cheapest at Walmart, unless the grocery store has a sale. Good luck to you!

I generally spend less than $50 per week for food & beverages but I'm smaller, an excellent shopper, and am only buying for me.

SS thanks for that list, It looks great, I forgot to mention, buy ready made pastas etc from co=ops healthy range, and that's not a cheap option at £3.00 ish per purchase..

You need to start making your own I think Invest in some Lock&Lock containers and get cooking! I know my weekly food cost is lower than many of my collegaues' because I always pack my lunch (soup/casserole in a thermos).

Same with the people who suggested buying big packs of nuts and portion them out. I make my own trailmix. I buy big packs of things at Real Foods and mix them up in portions. While Real Foods can be really pricy they are actually competitively priced for nuts + dried fruit/coconut. You can also buy rice and different kinds of oats by weight from them which might well work out cheaper for you.

Whilst the word ‘Diet’ is used to for me to lose weight, unfortunately it does not mean cost savings by far, in fact my shopping bill has risen a little, the obvious benefits are there when on a diet, but for me, it has hit the pocket a little. Here is an example of what it can cost to cover a week ( me only)
Eggs per week £ 8.00
Chicken per week £12.00
Green vegetables per week £15.00
Porridge oats per week £3.00
Milk 8 litres per week £3.50
Vegetables per week £12.00
Fruit per week £10
Yoghurts and other dairy products £14.00
Protein drinks and vitamins per week £25.00
Purchased water £7.00
Purchased snack foods (pasta etc) £15.00
Nuts £6.00
Meats £20.00 per week
Spices, oils and flavorings £10.00

Gym membership £10 per week.

Total costs: £170.00 per week ( $263 Dollars)

This is actually about £40 pounds more than I had spent on a regular diet, but the diet is clean and fresh and has the supplements to help me achieve my goals; I believe the cost above could be substantially saved, and would be really interested anyone can come up with a better price for the above than me...

Or even better, what do you pay for yours?

I'm a very skint/broke university student, and I have just under £100 per month to live on.

I do my weekly shops on a Saturday, and I've just come back from mine. This week I spent £12.54, but the week prior I spent £22.90, on average I spend about £18 per week on food. I would say I am lucky in the fact that my boyfriend works at a butchers, and he frequently brings me fresh chicken breasts, extra lean minced beef, lamb steaks etc therefore all I need to buy is the cheaper extras like fruit, veg, rice, pasta, oats, (you get the drift).

Today I bought the following for £12.54:
Houmus (be good to yourself, Sainsburys)
Chicken breast deli slices
Low fat white cheddar (be good to yourself, Sainsburys)
Warburtons wholemeal square wraps
1 large red onion
5X small bananas
Rachels organic low fat garden yoghurts
1% fat skimmed milk
60 sachets truvia (not tried this yet, I've heard good things and it was on offer for £1.89!)
Jordans healthy porridge oats
Hellmans extra light mayonaise
Tomato puree with garlic and herb

Last week I bought very different things, and I have a full drawer of salad stuff left still (some of it's nearly ready to throw out but being a frugal student I'll still eat until it's basically wilted and brown haha).

So yeh, weekly about £17-£18 but if I had to buy my own meat it would probably be about £15-£20 more than that...

A family of 3, we spend £140 a MONTH on a food shop from Asda or Tesco (Sainsburys was getting ridiculous for the amount of substitutes/ items not in stock) My husband works in Morrisons so we're lucky that he can bring home lots of discounted fruits and veg at the end of his shift (sell by dates are well off, we usually get a week out of things that would of been wasted), probably adds another £30 a month, if you go to the supermarket at the right times you can get huge reductions on perfectly good food.

i spend 100 a week on average for groceries for two. 60 a month for the gym membership. it really is not all that bad.

I have 2 teenagers and a 6yr old who are all on high calorie diets per Dr's orders and my husband and I are on low calorie diets. You guys dont want to know my grocery bill.

I have a $40/week budget (including household goods like tp and shampoo) for our family of 3 regardless of what I want my diet to look like. The majority of fruits and vegs I buy I give to my son, though, since he is little and growing. I figure he needs the nutrition more than I do. No gym membership and the only time I eat out is if someone takes us out.

ETA no Aldi around here :-(

How posh are you?! Aldi or Lidl would help you reduce your bills, MrsSWW, sorry for my ignorance, I thought and Aldi was a vegetable or something... I had to google it!
I have not really shopped before!

Oh dear, it's not for the faint hearted, build yourself up to a visit... they pass on savings because they don't spend money on nannying shoppers - bring your own bags or you'll get charged for them, have a pound coin for the trolley, but MOST IMPORTANTLY do not pack your bags at the checkout, it's not the done thing in Aldi. They scan and put your shopping back in the trolley or basket, you pay, then go to the packing area. BIG mistake if you try and pack at the till, there'll be a load of angry shoppers like me tutting behind you :laugh: It's a good cardio workout if you're doing a big shop!
When we go MrWW knows now to stand well back because there's no loitering, and I don't take prisoners when checking out!

Why is milk so cheap in the UK?

My food bill has actually gone down. The food I cook isn't drastically different from what I did before I started down the road to weight loss...I just eat less of it. I also don't eat out as much. I consume less processed carbs, sugar, and saturated fats these days, but otherwise things aren't drastically different for me.

Not only am I trying to buy good foods for me, I am feeding 3 teenage boys. A family of 5 on 1 income. I am denial about grocery costs. I want my own chickens and cows though, I think that would help. And my own salmon farm. And 5 acres of blueberries should be enough for the 19'yr old.

From shopping in the US, then shopping with Mum at Christmas (in the UK), healthy food is cheaper in the UK

My son loves sprouts (um eww) 89p a pound at Tesco, come back to the US, $3.99 for 8 oz
Basic staples are cheaper in the UK.

That said, I have a brita water pitcher, and try to never buy water out.

I think my bill is about the same, I am still getting all the junk my son loves