altus Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Cheers JB,I am glad an expert has added their intellectual weight. If JB was a real expert they'd have said there's only one side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avidcameron Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 If JB was a real expert they'd have said there's only one side. You have lost me -I wish I had never started this.It went down rather well in the old peoples' home last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 You have lost me -I wish I had never started this.It went down rather well in the old peoples' home last month. Topologically speaking, it only has one side. Think of a sphere, it only has one side. If you squash that sphere until it forms a cylinder, topologically it still only has one side. This may help (or make your head hurt). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 ... I find that staggering to be honest. Assuming you use a normal amount of cleaning/sanitary stuff, we can probably ignore it entirely, so how much of that £200 - £250 /person is food?... Well, maybe you should have exercised your brain and performed some simple, elementary arithmetic then you wouldn't find it 'staggering'. Kitchen/cleaning products: Clothes detergents and conditioner: £5/mnth Washing-up liquid: £1/mnth (this is a somewhat conservative figure, and based on one bottle a month bought on offer) Kitchen roll: £2/mnth Wipes: £2/mnth Other: £1/mnth (bleach etc) Dishwasher powder: £2/mnth Sanitary and medication: Shower gel: £2/mnth Toothpaste: £2/mnth Mouthwash: £1.5/mnth Floss: £0.50/mnth Hair: £2/mnth (and this is just the cheap stuff for me, the wife uses stupidly expensive stuff from the hairdressers) Toilet roll: £5/mnth Painkillers: £2/mnth Indigestion tablets: £4/mnth For non-food items we are already upto £32/mnth, or just over £1/day. Then we have booze at 3-4 bottles of wine a week, call it £20/wk or £86.67 a month or £2.79 a day. This leaves us with £9-£12/day between us or £4.50 to £6 each. Using yesterday as an example: Weekday Breakfast (cereal): £0.20 each (weekend breakfast is more because bacon) Lunch (ham, cheese and pickle sandwich, yoghurt and banana): £2 each Tea (home made chicken pie and veg): £2 each Pudding (strawberries and cream): £0.5 each (and that's conservative, probably more like £1 each given the price of strawberries) Other misc: £0.2 each Total: £4.90 each, so already overspend on the lower end of the scale (£400/mnth), and dipping into the excess of a £500/mnth spend which should really be going on more elaborate meals for the weekend.. jb ---------- Post added 15-10-2013 at 11:17 ---------- Topologically speaking, it only has one side. Think of a sphere, it only has one side. If you squash that sphere until it forms a cylinder, topologically it still only has one side. This may help (or make your head hurt). Or, if it was hollow, 2. Next question: is it possible to turn a hollow sphere inside out? jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karis Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 WoW. This is a real eye-opening post, mainly 'cos if you buy a pack of chicken breasts it's a fiver! Food is just insanely expensive these days and heating healthy is just outrageously so! Thanks for ALL the replies (except the weird ones about the 50 pence piece - they were just dumb ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASGOWOODS Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 You were being a pedant, I just out pedanted you I can't believe this has turned into a debate about a 50pence piece.. Jeezus Cyclone! What would Chuck Norris think? ---------- Post added 15-10-2013 at 13:18 ---------- Well, maybe you should have exercised your brain and performed some simple, elementary arithmetic then you wouldn't find it 'staggering'. Kitchen/cleaning products: Clothes detergents and conditioner: £5/mnth Washing-up liquid: £1/mnth (this is a somewhat conservative figure, and based on one bottle a month bought on offer) Kitchen roll: £2/mnth Wipes: £2/mnth Other: £1/mnth (bleach etc) Dishwasher powder: £2/mnth Sanitary and medication: Shower gel: £2/mnth Toothpaste: £2/mnth Mouthwash: £1.5/mnth Floss: £0.50/mnth Hair: £2/mnth (and this is just the cheap stuff for me, the wife uses stupidly expensive stuff from the hairdressers) Toilet roll: £5/mnth Painkillers: £2/mnth Indigestion tablets: £4/mnth For non-food items we are already upto £32/mnth, or just over £1/day. Then we have booze at 3-4 bottles of wine a week, call it £20/wk or £86.67 a month or £2.79 a day. This leaves us with £9-£12/day between us or £4.50 to £6 each. Using yesterday as an example: Weekday Breakfast (cereal): £0.20 each (weekend breakfast is more because bacon) Lunch (ham, cheese and pickle sandwich, yoghurt and banana): £2 each Tea (home made chicken pie and veg): £2 each Pudding (strawberries and cream): £0.5 each (and that's conservative, probably more like £1 each given the price of strawberries) Other misc: £0.2 each Total: £4.90 each, so already overspend on the lower end of the scale (£400/mnth), and dipping into the excess of a £500/mnth spend which should really be going on more elaborate meals for the weekend.. jb ---------- Post added 15-10-2013 at 11:17 ---------- Or, if it was hollow, 2. Next question: is it possible to turn a hollow sphere inside out? jb I think you could save even more. Ditch the... Conditioner. Kitchen roll. Wipes. Dishwasher powder. (clean the cutlery/crockery yourself) Mouthwash (floss will suffice) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldleaf Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 If you know what you are doing £7 a week is easy! …. £7 a week keep me at just over 13 and half stone. …. God £40 a week…. I could feed a family of 6 on that if you know what you are doing. P.S sorry … just want to say am not fat… am 6,2 and great build.! Its all about putting the right **** into your body ---------- Post added 14-11-2013 at 01:59 ---------- You were being a pedant, I just out pedanted you Mr hover, just to let you know pedanted is not a word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintsized Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 How do you survive on £7 a week?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windra Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 My partner and I spend between £80-100 per week, but we don't eat out we take lunches to work. Most of the cost is vegetables and lean meat or fish, we eat 5-10 fruit/veg/salad items a day and that all adds up. We have cut down by about £10 a week by not buying chicken very much now and I eat alot of veggie meals. When I was a student I could live off of about £25 a week eating lots of bread,pasta and cheap foods like chips and sausages but in no way was that healthy. I'm not sure in the present day its possible to eat healthily and on fresh produce from the supermarket on a reasonable budget! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 If you know what you are doing £7 a week is easy! …. £7 a week keep me at just over 13 and half stone. …. God £40 a week…. I could feed a family of 6 on that if you know what you are doing. P.S sorry … just want to say am not fat… am 6,2 and great build.! Its all about putting the right **** into your body ---------- Post added 14-11-2013 at 01:59 ---------- Mr hover, just to let you know pedanted is not a word Yes, it's a neologism. ---------- Post added 20-11-2013 at 07:36 ---------- Well, maybe you should have exercised your brain and performed some simple, elementary arithmetic then you wouldn't find it 'staggering'. Kitchen/cleaning products: Clothes detergents and conditioner: £5/mnth Washing-up liquid: £1/mnth (this is a somewhat conservative figure, and based on one bottle a month bought on offer) Kitchen roll: £2/mnth Wipes: £2/mnth Other: £1/mnth (bleach etc) Dishwasher powder: £2/mnth What are you doing with all this stuff, poring it down the drain? You use a bottle of washing up liquid, and £2 worth of dish washing powder a month. Sanitary and medication: Shower gel: £2/mnth Toothpaste: £2/mnth Mouthwash: £1.5/mnth Floss: £0.50/mnth Hair: £2/mnth (and this is just the cheap stuff for me, the wife uses stupidly expensive stuff from the hairdressers) Toilet roll: £5/mnth Painkillers: £2/mnth Indigestion tablets: £4/mnth Eating the toothpaste I assume? For non-food items we are already upto £32/mnth, or just over £1/day. Then we have booze at 3-4 bottles of wine a week, call it £20/wk or £86.67 a month or £2.79 a day. So this should actually be taken out of the figures. This leaves us with £9-£12/day between us or £4.50 to £6 each. Using yesterday as an example: Weekday Breakfast (cereal): £0.20 each (weekend breakfast is more because bacon) Lunch (ham, cheese and pickle sandwich, yoghurt and banana): £2 each Tea (home made chicken pie and veg): £2 each Pudding (strawberries and cream): £0.5 each (and that's conservative, probably more like £1 each given the price of strawberries) Other misc: £0.2 each Total: £4.90 each, so already overspend on the lower end of the scale (£400/mnth), and dipping into the excess of a £500/mnth spend which should really be going on more elaborate meals for the weekend.. jb Based on your figures, it's impossible for someone on the average income to actually afford to eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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