View Poll Results: What is your guess as to your average food bill per week for a family of 4?
Less than $100
0
0%
Between $100 - $150
2
8.33%
Between $150 - $200
13
54.17%
Between $200 - $250
7
29.17%
More than $250
2
8.33%
Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll
Food Costs Poll
Jun 2nd 2005, 7:46 am
#16
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Re: Food Costs Poll
"Bearver tails!? KD!? My education begins here! Please tell me more"
Just joking, Beaver Tails are a strange batter type thing they deep fry and dip in sugar/lemon/cinamon/chocolate etc bit like a pancake I guess but deep fried. They sell them in winter at outside skating and some malls, synomonous with Ottawa skating on the Rideau Canal in -40 :scared:
KD (Kraft Dinner)is a Canadian national dish (packet macaroni cheese) that all Canadians were brought up on, bit like our beans on toast in popularity.
Just joking, Beaver Tails are a strange batter type thing they deep fry and dip in sugar/lemon/cinamon/chocolate etc bit like a pancake I guess but deep fried. They sell them in winter at outside skating and some malls, synomonous with Ottawa skating on the Rideau Canal in -40 :scared:
KD (Kraft Dinner)is a Canadian national dish (packet macaroni cheese) that all Canadians were brought up on, bit like our beans on toast in popularity.
Last edited by brit_in_fizroy; Jun 2nd 2005 at 8:06 am.
Jun 2nd 2005, 7:57 am
#17
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Lamb's pretty expensive here in Montreal too... but what's not is veal (compared to UK that is)... excellent, and the supermarket's do trio minces, with beef, pork and veal... much better in any dish requiring mince than just using one type of meat alone!
Jun 2nd 2005, 8:06 am
#18
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by brit_in_fizroy
"Bearver tails!? KD!? My education begins here! Please tell me more"
Just joking, Beaver Tails are a strange batter type thing they deep fry and dip in sugar/lemon/cinamon/chocolate etc bit like a pancake I guess but deep fried. They sell them in winter at outside skating and some malls, synomonous with Ottawa skating on the Rideau Canal in -40 :scared:
KD is a Canadian national dish (packet macaroni cheese) that all Canadians were brought up on, bit like our beans on toast in popularity.
Just joking, Beaver Tails are a strange batter type thing they deep fry and dip in sugar/lemon/cinamon/chocolate etc bit like a pancake I guess but deep fried. They sell them in winter at outside skating and some malls, synomonous with Ottawa skating on the Rideau Canal in -40 :scared:
KD is a Canadian national dish (packet macaroni cheese) that all Canadians were brought up on, bit like our beans on toast in popularity.
If you're ever in the KW area, try some "pigtails", a true delicacy of the area - and absolutely delicious!
Jun 2nd 2005, 8:08 am
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by willmore
If you're ever in the KW area, try some "pigtails", a true delicacy of the area - and absolutely delicious!
Jun 2nd 2005, 8:18 am
#20
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Looking at the poll, I'm going home to beat the wife, I think she is keeping something from me 
Jun 2nd 2005, 8:20 am
#21
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by brit_in_fizroy
Looking at the poll, I'm going home to beat the wife, I think she is keeping something from me
Jun 2nd 2005, 6:23 pm
#22
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by brit_in_fizroy
"Bearver tails!? KD!? My education begins here! Please tell me more"
Just joking, Beaver Tails are a strange batter type thing they deep fry and dip in sugar/lemon/cinamon/chocolate etc bit like a pancake I guess but deep fried. They sell them in winter at outside skating and some malls, synomonous with Ottawa skating on the Rideau Canal in -40 :scared:
KD (Kraft Dinner)is a Canadian national dish (packet macaroni cheese) that all Canadians were brought up on, bit like our beans on toast in popularity.
Just joking, Beaver Tails are a strange batter type thing they deep fry and dip in sugar/lemon/cinamon/chocolate etc bit like a pancake I guess but deep fried. They sell them in winter at outside skating and some malls, synomonous with Ottawa skating on the Rideau Canal in -40 :scared:
KD (Kraft Dinner)is a Canadian national dish (packet macaroni cheese) that all Canadians were brought up on, bit like our beans on toast in popularity.
Beans are a popular kids, student and camping food in Canada only it's more common to eat them not on toast but in a bowl with toast or some other type of bread (dunking the toast or bun into the bowl to soak up the sauce). In the 'deluxe version' or 'payday version'
slices of fried up tube-steaks (reg or veggie weiners) are added giving you 'weiners and beans' or 'beaners and weins'.I could go into the variations of KD but I don't want to make myself sick. It's weird though since coming to Britain and learning that KD is very hard to come by here, I have actually craved it a couple of times
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Last edited by hot wasabi peas; Jun 2nd 2005 at 7:18 pm.
Jun 2nd 2005, 6:28 pm
#23
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by SANDRAPAUL
Seen many many variations about food costs per week from $100 - $400 and of course it depends on how you eat, where you buy, and how many. Is the poll system any use to get some kind of average from those in Canada?
Using 2 adults and 2 children as a base....
Using 2 adults and 2 children as a base....
Jun 2nd 2005, 11:23 pm
#24
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Blimey! Do you guys live on KD? There's only three of us and we spend $300 a week, easy, not including booze.
Jun 3rd 2005, 12:42 am
#25
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by Souvenir
Blimey! Do you guys live on KD? There's only three of us and we spend $300 a week, easy, not including booze.
Jun 3rd 2005, 1:10 am
#26
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OK I went home and confronted the wife re the poll results. I was put in my place very quickly, 2 kids in their early 20s and a boyfriend who doesn't go home very often, can put away a fair amount of food. So, definately 200-300 would be realistic for the larger family. Of to the hospital now for some stitches
Jun 3rd 2005, 1:20 am
#27
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Re: Food Costs Poll
I think it's time for a review of our grocery shopping! We're not living on fillet steak and smoked salmon, so we must be doing something wrong.
Jun 3rd 2005, 1:39 am
#28
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by Souvenir
Blimey! Do you guys live on KD? There's only three of us and we spend $300 a week, easy, not including booze.
. Honestly, I guess being a vegetarian factors into my estimate. And I buy in bulk; big 25 lb sacks of rice, lentils, etc. from Chinatown and cheap bags of veggies right from the local farms (more out of convience than being a tightwad). Plus I get free salmon and halibut and whatever my dad's growing in his greenhouse from the family (when I eat it) and there's plenty of free food in the wild. If I factored booze into the equation, well
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Jun 3rd 2005, 1:59 am
#29
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Re: Food Costs Poll
Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
Hey... KD's actually pretty pricey .
Honestly, I guess being a vegetarian factors into my estimate. And I buy in bulk; big 25 lb sacks of rice, lentils, etc. from Chinatown and cheap bags of veggies right from the local farms (more out of convience than being a tightwad). Plus I get free salmon and halibut and whatever my dad's growing in his greenhouse from the family (when I eat it) and there's plenty of free food in the wild. If I factored booze into the equation, well.
. Honestly, I guess being a vegetarian factors into my estimate. And I buy in bulk; big 25 lb sacks of rice, lentils, etc. from Chinatown and cheap bags of veggies right from the local farms (more out of convience than being a tightwad). Plus I get free salmon and halibut and whatever my dad's growing in his greenhouse from the family (when I eat it) and there's plenty of free food in the wild. If I factored booze into the equation, well
.We ran out once, so he used clamato instead (cue projectile vomiting smiley).
Jun 3rd 2005, 2:15 am
#30
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Re: Food Costs Poll
I have a budget of $450 to spend on food. It's pretty difficult to spend all of that... but then there's only me and the two cats. But then I do stock up on meat which I freeze at costco. Currently I have 20 portions of salmon to eat :scared:
Lucky that I like salmon eh!
Lucky that I like salmon eh!
