If you're genuinely spending £400 pcm on just food then you really need to sort your budgeting out. Especially in retirement, when you've way more time to cook big meals and freeze stuff.
400 / 2 people / 30 days = 6.6£ a day.
Can you please share the secret on budgeting out?
I think that if you don't want to eat shit 6.6£ a day is the bare minimum I really can't see how can you spend less.
You have something like 3£ for lunch, 3£ for dinner and 60p for breakfast.
I checked my shopping for this week, we spent 54.35 on food for two for the week (well, 6 dinners, and 7 breakfast/lunches). We also had £6.10 of that on toiletries this week, so 48.25 on food. Our breakdown is: £20 on dinner for 6 nights, £10 on lunches for both of us for 7 days, and breakfast is £12 for 7 days. There's a bit of a crossover between the breakfast and lunches in there, as there's yogurt, fruit, beans and bread in there, that servers as parts of two meals. We also have £7 on snacks/luxuries (chocolate)
