18 MEALS for $49 AUD - How Much I Spend on Food in a Week! Sydney Grocery Haul Weekly Vlog 2023
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This is How Much I Spend on Groceries in a Week Here in Sydney!
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In this video, I'm going to be documenting how much groceries cost in Sydney, as well as how much money I spend each week on groceries. I have definitely noticed impact of inflation... if things arent on special they are definitely noticeably more expensive!
I'll also be sharing some superrr quick & easy recipes for the different food items we are going to be buying, so hopefully that gives you some inspiration on what to cook! !
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First of all, let me acknowledge that soooo much work went into this video guys. Janice deserves a round of applause and props for this. Second , impressive simple tasty cost effective meals, like wow. 3rd mince, rice & egg rocks. We have something similar in the Philippines but with raisins in the minde sometimes & fried bananas on the side. Last, I’m inspired to do a similar video but won’t go in depth with the costs coz so much work lol
aww man thanks Raff! i had an entire spreadsheet on all of this lol
I cant wait to see yours!!!!
Janice, this is probably the best, most relatable what I eat in a week / recipe video i have ever watched. Thank you for making it! 💗
Thank you Jessica! I’m so glad you enjoyed it :)
Love the calculations of "per unit cost" (must be a business/finance grad), rating your own cooking (done with skill!), and Aussie names for things, like "Spag Bol." Also, we don't have mince here in the US but we need it! Great videos, thanks🤩!
I found this really useful as someone also living alone! Thanks for the meal ideas, which are super realistic and easy (I do not like cooking!)
I'm glad it helped! let me know what you think if you try making any of these !
Hey! I love your videos. You get straight to the topic, no clickbait titles, and no frills. Very informative stuff.. Keep 'em up! Thank you!
Fantasic video Janice, I love to cook and some great ideas! Love your work!
Love this ep!! More of these please !!! Meal prep ideas
thanks Jason!
Thanks Janice, great video
cheers David!
You’re the best!! 🎉
You are so organised I love it!!! ❤️
haha thanks Jenny! I tried to be extra organised for this video
Your videos are so relaxing.
Love her she is fantastic. Love her cooking, easy to listen, love her voice and just love her cooking. X
You’ve inspired me to cook these healthy yummy meals! Off to the butcher I go! ❤
Really affordable! Lovely show.
i loved ur video, i couldn't keep up with da condiments u added, but i appreciated da recipes n tutorials, thank u!!!
You’re welcome! ☺️
One of my fave youtubers
Always a good idea to buy some dried goods and canned food as back up (when they go on sale of course) because you never know when you need it. People end up spending more when they actually need to make an urgent stop at the supermarket!
Awesome vid !!, interesting menu ideas :D
cheers Mike!
Love this it's a great example of being wise with your money . Hope you don't mind im putting this on my frugal budgeting group on Facebook we have 22 thousand members . Great meal ideas . Thanks for showing us x
Enjoy Janice videos, as always! 支持Janice! I’m a Hong Konger living in Sydney 😉
Awesome video thanks. This is an epic production that makes a difference. So much work for me to match your efforts though so I might consider instant noodles instead.
Amazing, you got some sweet deals!
hahaha im always on the look out for deals 🧐
Thank you for this vid, I found it super helpful for moving out tips - also living in aus
so glad you foundd this helpful!
Also for spaghetti Bolognese, add pepper and salt earlier on, add paprika and Italian herbs and spices mix before adding the canned tomatoes, but with the paste.
Sugar and MSG (yes really) after you put in the canned tomatoes
Life savings recipes, except spag bol, I like them all, thanks for sharing.
I Sleep and eat at weird hours and if I do have a breakfast it's either an Up & Go or Vegemite toast, sometimes I add cheese to the toast and grill it. Spaghetti bolognaise is a really cheap meal. I love Mexican but normally only buy the Old El Paso boxes half off, same as Up & Go's. Stir frys are also pretty cheap. Everything has gone up quite a lot.
Hi Janice, i really enjoy watching your videos. Im Indonesian and have plan to visit Sydney next May and you video has been giving me some insights so i can calculate the approximate budget that i will have to prepare. Thank you so much!
Hey Janice really enjoyed your video! I'd say I spend around 30-40 ish on food grocery each week but I'm really not organised at all so your video will help me prepare my meals better. Thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 30-40 is really good! what do you typically get?
@@JaniceFung It usually varies from week to week but mostly consists of fruits like berries and some vegetables and I switch between carbs and proteins. Yoghurt & milk is always there too cause I love them 😄
Enjoyed the ideas. Will try the vermicelli soup w/corn. Love corn. I usually use shoyu, msg, cayenne pepper and bullion powder. Will try the oyster sauce, fish sauce and shoyu combo. Sounds good. Only thing I would add is tofu. Excellent vlog. Learned and enjoyed. Thanks!
mmm tofu is always an excellent addition! never tried cayenne pepper in my vermicelli before! though I have added chili flakes, so I assume it may be similar?
@@JaniceFung ground cayenne is hotter which is my preference. Your vermicelli looked delicious.
It's 2am when I watched this. I Wasn't hungry after work. But then a few meals in I had to resist the urge to raid the fridge.
Also how are you wearing trackies in Sydney it's been so hot and humid here recently!
8:06 in Japan they sell this small container where you break the egg and put in it then microwave for a few minutes and it will turn out to be an onsen tamago (half boiled egg).
She should check out 2 Aussies channel. How to eat crap on the cheap. Yibbabada yibbada that's all folkes!
@@vincentvega3978 you can never be 2 Aussie wooroo stay fresh
@@antonyzhou6602 Ya love to see it!
Eestwa!
The tide is low on these!
Beveragino Drinkypoo!
💜👍💜👍so cool to see different part of the world and see how people budget👍💜👍
good way to save money is just make large batches of food and freeze them. ill cook up things like chilli con carne, taco rice etc, make a batch large enough for 8-10 portions with rice then freeze half of them and use the other half as dinner for the week. or you can freeze more of them and cook up something else to add a bit more variety. can usually end up with plenty of food that just needs to be zapped in the microwave for a few mins at $3-4 per serve.
This is fantastic!!! Thanks so much you've given me healthy cooking meals I can make and I always struggle to come up with ideas.
Do you eat junk food? Like chips and chocolate and stuff?
I do sometimes snack and sneak into my sister's snack drawer for her stuff haha
I prefer more savoury than sweet snacks though! also sometimes, since I always have some rice in the fridge, I heat it back up and then open a pack of seaweed and eat that together hahah
I spend around $50 for grocery in a week as well unfortunately this is not the only price that we spend in a week like you mentioned. Thank you for sharing your cooking recipe as cooking is not easy for me 😊
i used to buy the generic colesworth pasta and diced tomato combo. However listening to vincenzo plate, have since have switched up to better pasta. Buy Cucina matese from coles or Molisana from woolworths. it's only slightly more expensive maybe 1 or 2 dollars (stock up when on special 😀 for better bang for buck). Also switched out diced colesworth for whole peeled tomato. The combo of these two small changes (minor increase per serve) significantly better results.
also i see your using the old "quick" version. Chuck the pasta in with the sauce to bind together. Add some pasta water to thicken and emulsify up the sauce (sounds counterintuitive but the starch from the pasta will thicken it up)
try adding heinz ketchup to spag bol. It was my dad's trick to spag bol and it adds quite a bit of flavour. Also that isn't too bad, my partner and I spend $120 on groceries for a week and half for everything, fruit, veg, carbs/proteins + house things in South Australia. So Sydney isn't as bad as I thought in comparison, but housing and such must cost a lot more. Also a video recommendation could be a AMA for 2023!
thanks for the tip Lisa!
AMA could be a good one! I dont think I've done one in a longgg time
Great vid Janice 😍, you probably have enough to cook for 2 weeks 😂 I like to add some bacon pieces & splash of red wine to the mince for the spaghetti bol
thanks Peter!
how good is that universial pan lid you have! got one for myself, then my GF wanted one too lol. try adding mushrooms to the spag bol, bulks it up a bit and adds some extra flavour
Super interesting video Janice, thank you for making it. Made me wonder how much I spend- I know it is quite a lot and that I spend more being one person because of having to buy in smaller quantities in order not to waste food (I can't store that much due to space constraints). I do know cooking at home is still so much cheaper than dining out would be- but your video made me think, how can I do it better to be more cost effective? I was impressed with your frugal and tasty looking/ healthy breakfasts.
thanks Daina! completely relate with regards to having to spend more just as one person - I think my costs would definitely be higher if I couldn't store someone the meats in the freezer!
Hey there, try adding Vegemite to your spag bol....that's what I do n I think it adds the extra something to the sauce ☺️
ooooh! I can see how that'd work! kinda like adding stock to the pasta!
Hallo Janice. I love your videos and your energy!!! You are a ray of sunshine!!!
I'm from Greece and our eating habits are so different. We consume many dairy products and legumes like lentil, chickpeas,beans...etc....
I would say that I spend around 40 euro.....I usually skip breakfast, I'm a vegetarian so I don't buy meat/fish which are more expensive than veggies...for dinner I usually eat a double cheese toast.....or a tortilla....or chips sometimes...
Vegan products are a little expensive but I don't buy them every week...
aww thank you so much!
what would you say you usually eat on a typical day??
The key here to making it realistic is the rice.
Rice is so good.
A lot of Aussies are scared its so many carbs and they will instantly become overweight but i lived in Vietnam and you ask the people what they eat for lunch and they simply say RICE. They are nearly all healthily slim.
excellent presentation and wicked shopping, some of those prices! I reckon I am hard nosed but nothing like that. Spreading over several stores will do it I guess. As a single I budget $90 a week for total supermarket shopping. I found that to be a good average until suddenly it crept to $120+ I found I was buying a lot more snack foods and yummy stuff. I have cut this back now and back to budget. I am an old age pensioner so my budget must be tight.
Haha, very impressive. Looks tasty, too. I live in Sydney and if I can spend less than $20 a day on food I’m over the moon. I budget around $40 per day (I doordash a lot 😅)
Add fish sauce in the spagbol. And paste.
fish sauce and fish paste???
I spend at lest 350 a week on grocery not including going out for the whole family ..❤I loved this video and the recipes you made and the corn 🌽 was definitely a bargin hehe ..Thanks for sharing Janice you always put so much into your videos it’s appreciated..x💕💕
$350 is pretty good if you're buying for the whole fam! What do you typically make Irena ?
I should have explained better that’s without a lot of the meat we buy ,I usually cook ,a lot of European food ,curries and stews ..something different all the time .😊🥰
Hi
Do not need to peel carrots!
There is a lot of vitamins in the skin.
I also live alone .
I also can understand you as cooking for one there seems to always leftovers!
All the best Jocelyn 💐❤️
Great video I love that Chinese hot pot soup restaurant in burwood in the Asian arcade I wish I could find out how they make that soup base it's the restaurant where you choose your ingredients and pay by weight, can't remember the name .
I spend like $60/week at the asian market, usually for 2 family dinners + snack meals for myself like ramen and frozen bao. I probably eat like $40 worth of food of my parents'. My daily ritual breakfast is a toasted bagel + cream cheese + iced coffee. Korean or Japanese short grain rice is my favorite. Your meals look so nutritious. ^_^ I sometimes avoid looking at my food prices cuz it gives me anxiety but last month i bought a pkg of cheese pandesal and it was almost $20 and I was like @#)($*@# so now I pay more attention 👀
I spend around $250 a week just for myself and I dine out quite a lot too (possibly 4-5 meals a week). Impressive how $49 will cook so many meals. I have been getting healthier food (organic if possible, pasture raised free range egg, very little carb, lots of berries, seafood and lean beef mince) and I have no time to shop around. Protein is so expensive too and I had been trying to increase my protein intake.
I spend $80 per weeek on groceries at Aldi this week. Normally I would spend $40 a week for groceries before COVID. Now that bill has gone up by 30 percent for one person since COVID had started.
Hey Janice, level up your bolognese by using tomato paste instead of canned tomatoes
thanks for the tip - appreciate it!
I love homemade chicken soup yummy
You did great on weekly groceries! Why don’t you add maybe a teaspoon of maple syrup to your spaghetti, it be more flavoursome. Also what is the ratio of the soya sauce, oyster sauce and fish sauce? I am eager to try. Thx
Hi Janice
yooooo
I rmb the days when you could buy like an A4 sized box (ard 4 HUGE bunches of veggies) of veg for AUD2 at Market City.
That saved my budget since it was all the veg I needed for the week 😅
oh my goodness, an A4 sized box for just 2 bucks??!? what kinda veggies would be in this box?
@@JaniceFung It was just a random selection! I've gotten mustard greens, water crest, cai xin, shanghai nai bai, xiao bai cai, spring onions... I'm pretty sure it was just made up of whatever they couldnt sell that day!
Hi Janice,
Just subscribed and just wondering if you have ever been to the best japanese restaurant in Kingsford?
Niji japanese is in my view the best Japanese restaurant as it never disapoints.
Hi Janice,
Can honey dates be eaten just like regular medjool dates? I eat them like lollies.
Have you ever bought the Aldi stir-fry frozen vegetables? I make an Asian inspired soup using those vegetables and serve it with rice noodles, but soba are just as good. To flavour the soup I used miso, ginger, garlic and a pathetically tiny amount of chilli.
I buy my frozen peas, carrots & corn from Aldi!
re honey dates, I dont think you can eat them raw. usually (unless im mistaken) they are added to soups, herbal drinks and desserts
Hi Janice, always enjoy your videos. In your noodle soup do you really not add anything else but salt? Thank you 😊
thanks so much Sophie! I usually just add salt. sometimes I add a tiny bit of soy sauce and sesame oil at the bottom of my bowl before I add the noodles & soup in
@@JaniceFung thank you Janice I’m going to give it a go
good video
cheers Joseph!
Hi I follow you for a while now about 2 months when I move to 😉Sydney sooner or later I'd love to catch up at a restaurant and have a meal with you and share about recipes!!😊 you do have great cheap ideas , I love Asian foods Chinese, thai, Malay, so on the best Yumminess
I rarely comment on posts. However, I really find this interesting as me and my partner allot $300 for our groceries in a month. This is a great idea to calculate our meals. As we tend to over budget and sometimes waste on ingredients that expire.
$300 a month for 2 people is really good! I usually end up spending close to $200 just for one person
Aldi ftw
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11:08 use your hand to marinate, makes the meat taste better!!
i usually would! but i had to film was just easier to use chopsticks
Great video. Loved your format and explanations. I’m on my own and average round $70/week for all groceries, which includes cleaning stuff, toilet paper, toothpaste etc as well as meat, vegetables, bread, dairy. I’m in Tassie and thought your Sydney veggie prices were way cheaper than I pay in Hobart. Btw, to my mind, your spag bol lacked what I consider the tastiest aspect of a spag bol….the grated parmesan on top 😊
cheers Rita! i think I am around $70-80 a week too if I include everything else. Veggie prices usually are higher but I try to find things on special, or usually go to asian grocery stores for them. I saw a thing of cauliflower for $7 bucks the other day!
haha yes, parmesan makes all the different - I ran out this week haha
and forgot red wine lol, makes it taste so gooood!
True. I too was going to suggest adding red wine but thought I didn’t want to be too negative on such a great video. Also I add a tablespoon of sugar to tomato-based pasta sauces, just to counter balance the acidity of the tomatoes. Anyway I got some fabulous suggestions of future meals for one from the vid so am super grateful and would love to see more like this.
My wife (she is Japanese) and I spend $100 AUD a week. This is enough for us and we love to eat. We love your videos too, so please keep them up.
that's awesome! what's typically on the menu?
I don’t know if you have the time, but when I buy like this I make a Sunday or something a day when I cook like hell and then just add it to the freezer. Got meals ready then
Janice possible if you do the challenge in part of Australia
like do this in another part of Aus?
@@JaniceFung yeah then you can tell which one is the cheapest for it.
I pay about $300 a week for my family of 6. I love this video please do some more!
thanks Jessyka! what kinda meals do you typically cook?
Janice, you have a remarkable commonsense attitude to life.
We do things slightly differently. I'm European background, and you have the Asian predilection to cook fresh from scratch.
I cook in bulk with variations. So I buy a whole chicken and break it down. Then take some of the broken down parts such as breasts, thighs drumsticks and freeze what I won't use in individual portions. Wings, necks and carcase go into the chicken/veg/minestrone pot. Maybe a couple of of portions will be turned into chicken + veg or rice or noodle or pasta or cous cous.
I'll seal meals into 2 serve jars to refrigerate, or individual serve pop top glass containers to freeze and the balance becomes my current meal or meals for the day. The stored meals are quickly reheated or turned into other meals with enhancements, quickly, when I am in a rush.
The break down proteins go into quick asian dishes like yours, using combinations of veg and noodles/rice. My favourite veggies I keep in my larder are wombok, bokchoy, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, carrot, leek, peas and eggplant, which can all be done many ways and flavour variations. Where needed I add umami with anchovies or sardines.
$3 a meal would be more than enough for any of my meals. Many I'd say I do for half that. If you can cook and cook by feel rather than recipes, meals are varied, interesting and filling for very little.
Those meals look so tasty! Do you have snacks between meals at all or like tea or coffee too?
ah good question - I do have coffee in the morning most days - I sometimes use my aeropress, but other days I buy it from my local coffee shop
I have to say, thank you for putting so much effort in this video! This just reflects what I eat in a week on a budget. Def a very helpful & informative video. Thank you, appreciate it!! 🙏🙏😆
I’m so glad you found it helpful sophie!
I love this kind of vlog! Incredibly helpful for someone like me who's moving to Sydney soon, and need to get acquainted with local life from a local's POV/reality. 🫶
im glad it helped! let me know if there are any other videos that would be helpful for your move!
nice vid!! really interesting, I spend roughly $50 a week
Best wifey quality ! Haha 👍🏻😀
This is so entertaining because I always wonder how much we spend too but never can figure it out because we buy things in bulk and also not consistently eating at home. Hmm I'm curious how your breakfast looks like after you microwave it...do u add water?
yess I add water haha - it's just like oats with some blueberries in it
I live in Sydney. If I shop at woolies or Coles for the ONLY, for two people.. it'll be about $250-300 per week including snacks! :( I could definitely cut down
I didnt have any steak this week or salmon, but on weeks when I get those, my grocery costs are definitely higher haha
what snacks do you usually get??
@@JaniceFung yes I got steaks and salmon. I also got quite abit of frozen seafood and nuggets etc.. it costs so much.
Snacks are usually fruits (grapes, apples and banana), baked harvest peas (they're chips and so good), more chips (doritos or something), ICE CREAM :( and tiny teddies or a variety of snacks. Oh and Asian snacks like seaweed and some Asian drinks. My partner snacks alot and it costs so much. I'm so jealous of your grocery haul. If it was just me, I'd probably buy the same. How much do you usually spend if it's you and your sister?
Hey Janice, you forgot to put cheese over the spaghetti bolognaise - maybe next time or was it a cost saving issue?😂👍
$190 for my boyfriend and me shopping at Woolworths. I enjoy watching ur videos while i eat 😋
thanks for watching!!
Family of 4 (2A 2K, eldest eats like an adult lol) and we're about $170 /wk long term average these days. This includes everyone's breakfast 7 days a week, all lunches bar say 3 x A lunches and all dinners except 2 x A & 2K dinners out once a fortnight. Includes cleaning products, fruit & veg, snacks etc. I run a tight ship, shop the specials, know the times my local Coles marks down etc..
I spend like 100 a week, but then some items last longer so the next week I may spend closer to 50 :o I try to keep bulk for what I can :o
Your voice and accent sounds exactly like Caroline Wozniacki : )
Amazing video! Thanks for the effort on detailed calculations! Keep it up!
What you spent in a week was what you spent when you went out. You are a great cook.
haha yeah... typical brunch at a cafe these days is like $25 now 😅
For the oats, chia seeds, and blue berries is that all? Is there any milk or anything? I'm use to seeing people putting milk chia seeds and overnight oats in the fridge but haven't seen it just microwaved like how you showed but I'm interested in trying it out
I just add water to it and then put it in the microwave. It’s actually really plain, but I’ve gotten so used to eating this now, its just part of my routine haha
You need to increase time to show the prices as we had to pause to see his much it is!
Your vids make me wanna live alone even more 😂
haha how come???
@@JaniceFung just because hahaha! What kind of answer is that? Gosh 🤐😅
The worst for my wallet are the impulse items. You see something that is not are your list, but as soon as you see it you want it.
Do you also eat snacks? Because all my grocery money adds up because of all of my snacks hahaha
You don't want to know. I have a family of 5 and I shop Harris Farm and Coles and we spend about 400-500 a week.
oooh thanks for sharing Ariella! What do you typically cook?
I wouldnt say the chicken fried rice looked plain. It looked nice 😜
hahah thank you!
I spend $450-$600 per week on grocery for 3 ppl
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Aussie supermarkets are much cheaper than NZ :/. That would have been 5 bucks for the same amount of Spring Onions ;(.
usually spring onions are about $3 bucks in supermarkets and I try to wait out until I see cheap ones lol
but $5 is LOT. are the bunches much bigger, or similar??
im gonna buy those oats so cheap. I bought uncle tobyoats and it was $6.50 :
lol I can completely relate - I used to buy those too and then I bought these ones and... they taste exactly the same 😅
Watching this video has made me realise how much I overeat! I didn't realise people had such a small portion of food for dinner. Mind BLOWN
omg it's small?? I've been told a cup of rice (uncooked) is enough for a family of four but I can eat half a cup in just one sitting 😅
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Hellllllo!
how much do you guys spend on groceries in a week? if you have tips for shopping / cooking for 1.. let me knowww 🙏🏻
I am trying to lose weight because I gained so much while I was on a dialysis machine : (
But since my transplant, I am doing good and eating The best food. My grocery bill would not reflect the Avg. of Canada.
Cooking for one is hard. Less varieties :)
yeah I know right, gotta eat the same thing at a minimum twice haha