Well, I’m a bit over half way through the experiment so I thought this would be a good time for a progress check. The first post is here for those of you who don’t know what i’m talking about.
There are two reasons for the date discrepancies. On Thursday I fell asleep really early without eating and I was away over the weekend so got a lot of food for free. Even though scrounging is considered a typical student activity, I thought it wouldn’t really be fair to include these days in my budget.
The weekly food bill so far stands at £14.06. That includes all the breakfast and lunch items i mentioned from the first day, my dinner costs, two large bottles of diet coke and 3 packs of crisps from the college vending machine. I believe that leaves me with another 3 days worth of dinner to produce plus sandwich fillings for the rest of the week. I think I can still do this in under £20!
To be honest, this has almost been too easy. Lunch has been boring but I tend to just eat over work anyway. Evening meals haven’t been much of a problem, except when I’ve been to Tesco and found they’ve shut half it down for refurbishment 
.
I’m not sure where the BBC’s average budget of £29 per week came from. What are these students eating? Venison? I guess they are like the guys I lived with in my first degree and live off sirloin steak.
But it’s these things here that really scare me. How do you manage to make 2 portions of pasta, sausage, onion and soup cost that much?! I can’t see how it could be more than £2.50 unless you buy fresh pasta, shallots and wild boar sausages! And it doesn’t look that healthy to me either.
When I started out on this experiment I really thought it would be hard. With all my swanning around at the farmers’ markets, I was spending about £60 on food per week. But it turns out that there are actually really nice, healthy things you can eat for around £1.50 per meal. I’ve still got some more to try before the week is up.
Well, I’m a bit over half way through the experiment so I thought this would be a good time for a progress check. The first post is here for those of you who don’t know what i’m talking about.
There are two reasons for the date discrepancies. On Thursday I fell asleep really early without eating and I was away over the weekend so got a lot of food for free. Even though scrounging is considered a typical student activity, I thought it wouldn’t really be fair to include these days in my budget.
The weekly food bill so far stands at £14.06. That includes all the breakfast and lunch items i mentioned from the first day, my dinner costs, two large bottles of diet coke and 3 packs of crisps from the college vending machine. I believe that leaves me with another 3 days worth of dinner to produce plus sandwich fillings for the rest of the week. I think I can still do this in under £20!
To be honest, this has almost been too easy. Lunch has been boring but I tend to just eat over work anyway. Evening meals haven’t been much of a problem, except when I’ve been to Tesco and found they’ve shut half it down for refurbishment .
I’m not sure where the BBC’s average budget of £29 per week came from. What are these students eating? Venison? I guess they are like the guys I lived with in my first degree and live off sirloin steak.
But it’s these things here that really scare me. How do you manage to make 2 portions of pasta, sausage, onion and soup cost that much?! I can’t see how it could be more than £2.50 unless you buy fresh pasta, shallots and wild boar sausages! And it doesn’t look that healthy to me either.
When I started out on this experiment I really thought it would be hard. With all my swanning around at the farmers’ markets, I was spending about £60 on food per week. But it turns out that there are actually really nice, healthy things you can eat for around £1.50 per meal. I’ve still got some more to try before the week is up.
