Some interesting facts about the UK's weekly food spend per household, taken from Nimblefins website:
Average Food Costs
The average annual food cost for a typical UK household was around £4,753 in 2018 (based on the average 2.4 people per household), including £255 spent on non-alcoholic drinks. The average weekly food cost for the typical UK household is £91, up 3% from 2017. (Note: "food" includes non-alcoholic drinks but not alcoholic drinks.) Food cost as a percentage of the average UK household budget has remained steady for over fifteen years.
On average, we spend about 66% of our food budget on meals and snacks prepared and eaten at home, and we spend 34% of our food costs on eating out. That is, we spend on average £3,151 on food for home and £1,602 on takeaways, restaurants, cafés, and snacks, as you can see in the table and chart below.
On an individual basis, we spend £1,980 per year per person on food, with £1,313 spent on groceries and £667 spent out (e.g., restaurants, takeaways, etc.).
Weekly:
Food at Home Per person: £25.30 Per household: £60.60
Food Out (e.g., restaurants, take away, etc.) Per person: £12.80 Per household: £30.80
Per Year:
Food at Home Per person: £1,313 Per household: £3,152
Food Out (e.g., restaurants, take away, etc.) Per person: £667 Per household: £1,602
Average Food Costs
The average annual food cost for a typical UK household was around £4,753 in 2018 (based on the average 2.4 people per household), including £255 spent on non-alcoholic drinks. The average weekly food cost for the typical UK household is £91, up 3% from 2017. (Note: "food" includes non-alcoholic drinks but not alcoholic drinks.) Food cost as a percentage of the average UK household budget has remained steady for over fifteen years.
On average, we spend about 66% of our food budget on meals and snacks prepared and eaten at home, and we spend 34% of our food costs on eating out. That is, we spend on average £3,151 on food for home and £1,602 on takeaways, restaurants, cafés, and snacks, as you can see in the table and chart below.
On an individual basis, we spend £1,980 per year per person on food, with £1,313 spent on groceries and £667 spent out (e.g., restaurants, takeaways, etc.).
Weekly:
Food at Home Per person: £25.30 Per household: £60.60
Food Out (e.g., restaurants, take away, etc.) Per person: £12.80 Per household: £30.80
Per Year:
Food at Home Per person: £1,313 Per household: £3,152
Food Out (e.g., restaurants, take away, etc.) Per person: £667 Per household: £1,602
So how does your weekly food budget compare?
Our back-to-basics adult cookery course aims to help you:
-spend less on food
-learn to prepare more food at home so you save money by not eating-out/buying pre-prepared foods
-eat and plan a healthy weekly menu for you and your family
-enjoy cooking
Our back-to-basics adult cookery course aims to help you:
-spend less on food
-learn to prepare more food at home so you save money by not eating-out/buying pre-prepared foods
-eat and plan a healthy weekly menu for you and your family
-enjoy cooking
The workshops will be based on our student kitchen survival course where we'll show you how to prepare & cook dishes as they do in Italy; simple dishes, with good ingredients, plenty of flavour and which are healthy and inexpensive to produce. For the full course contents please send us an email: info@scambiocucina.com
The course consists of 2 x 3-hour lessons & 2 x 2-hour lessons.
All dishes prepared in class will be packaged ready to take home with cooking/re-heating instructions.
We'll also look at: correct food hygiene, basic knife skills & discuss the right way to store/freeze dishes.
Course held in our Poole venue between 5th - 10th August.
Price £100 (10 hour course)
All dishes prepared in class will be packaged ready to take home with cooking/re-heating instructions.
We'll also look at: correct food hygiene, basic knife skills & discuss the right way to store/freeze dishes.
Course held in our Poole venue between 5th - 10th August.
Price £100 (10 hour course)