Expenditure on Fuel and Food?

Hiya everyone!

Just wanting some advice from the 2010 crews......

How much did you all spend on Food/Drink and also fuel for the trip?
We're only a 2 peson team, so just the 2 of us to feed and im running a Td5 Disco!

any idea would be better than what i have now (as usual) - NO IDEA!!!

Cannot wait to meet you all!

D

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**Serious Face**

I didn't log it and haven't looked...!

**Normal Face (whatever that means!)**

Sorry... not much help.... but I'm still scared to look!!

Gill and I didnt really tally up all the fuel and incidentals for last year,

The way to do it would be plan on 3000 miles and budget for that.




1995 Discovery 300 TDI

Fuel - 600 quid ish

Scoff and Booze - 300 quid ish


Not surprised SKIBUM hasn't totted up his fuel costs, he had a naturally aspirated 300 DI for 2000 out of those 3000 miles....


Ref SKIBUMs post, it would be great if he had a normal face....

Me: Fuel £650 ish

Food for the two of us, 400ish

Beer for me, still paying back the bank loan !!!

Sandy wrote:

Gill and I didnt really tally up all the fuel and incidentals for last year,

The way to do it would be plan on 3000 miles and budget for that.




1995 Discovery 300 TDI

Fuel - 600 quid ish

Scoff and Booze - 300 quid ish


Not surprised SKIBUM hasn't totted up his fuel costs, he had a naturally aspirated 300 DI for 2000 out of those 3000 miles....


Ref SKIBUMs post, it would be great if he had a normal face....

Oi... go stand up under the disc you!!!!

Haha,

Ok so if I budget for £1k fuel and £500 for food, I shouldn't be that far off!

After the rally we're going up to Prague before coming back down to Paris, so an extra few hundred miles to add on!

Thanks everyone!

Not long now! And still so much to do!

D

Last year:

nickburt wrote:

Some Truck facts from the trip:

3423 miles (truck speedo)
700 litres (154 gallons)
£760.75 in fuel (UK;£261.52, Europe;£499.23)
22 mpg
Overall average cost per litre;£1.12

Satnav:
3366 miles
Moving ave;39.9 mph
Moving time; 84.23 hrs

This year I'm budgeting on £1000 for fuel (last year I reckoned on £800).
3500 miles @ 22 mpg and £1.25 per litre average = £900

Fuel prices in Europe >>>Here<<<

Reckon we spent around £500 on food etc... but we did eat out most of the second half of the rally. (4 of us - 2 adults, 2 kids).

Ooh sorry Nick, I didn't see this page when I just asked how much do you reckon it will cost! We are on the right lines anyway, I thought £1000 for fuel and £500 for food and £500 for emergency's + the pin code to savings account and Aunty VISA card!

Dee Pacey wrote:

................. the pin code to savings account and Aunty VISA card!

You can let me have them for safe keeping for you if you like

Budget!!! How does that work.

Tony, it doesn't.

When it's empty, fill it up.

That's the truck or me

So after being asked at the weekend, i added up the totals on fuel today!!!!

I done (from start line to home via paris) £676.56 in fuel,

As a guess on food it was around £10 a day on food and then booze so about £300ish, then misc stuff like presents and cooking gas i would say about £200

99claydond wrote:

So after being asked at the weekend, i added up the totals on fuel today!!!!

I done (from start line to home via paris) £676.56 in fuel,

As a guess on food it was around £10 a day on food and then booze so about £300ish, then misc stuff like presents and cooking gas i would say about £200

Wow thats pretty good, what sort of Mileage do you get on your Disco?

MightyLewis12 wrote:

99claydond wrote:

So after being asked at the weekend, i added up the totals on fuel today!!!!

I done (from start line to home via paris) £676.56 in fuel,

As a guess on food it was around £10 a day on food and then booze so about £300ish, then misc stuff like presents and cooking gas i would say about £200

Wow thats pretty good, what sort of Mileage do you get on your Disco?

I was thinking how did he get by on £200 on food Suprised me when you have seen (no better behave!!!!!!!) hush my mouth.

We are now reducing our fuel bill

Our Landy is now having an engine transplant

Due to the v8 bening fitted very badly

So we will now have a 2.5 tdi

hope this will do the trick and work

The D4s we have did 29.6mpg; if that helps

I had an eco tune on the landy which meant i was getting nearly 38mpg,

I have however just found another reciept for £78 fuel littering thge door pocket! haha!

Now now Tony! Thats £200 of food, being what was spent and put in the back of the truck which i could have survived on! just because we ate out a few times, if being honest on what we actually spent rather than what we could have lived on its probably closer to £400!

At the end of the day i was only feeding one mouth, as the co driver could never be found at dinner times! That would mean being socialble!

Wal wrote:

We are now reducing our fuel bill

Our Landy is now having an engine transplant

Due to the v8 bening fitted very badly

So we will now have a 2.5 tdi

hope this will do the trick and work

What you spend on engine transplant will surely be repaid in fuel saved. Don't you just love a Green Oval Badged, so simply to replace parts

As we start from mid way down in France, and have to get back again going East to West (that's against the wind so no advantage there) we are working on £1500 for fuel. Food, well you have to feed yourself at home, so no real difference accept another adult mouth to feed and fill with beer in our case. Oh SWMBO just told me, we are eating out as she refuses to cook all the time Doubles budget now

Dan, we budget £1,000 for fuel, but we are running a 200TDi Disco, as you can never depend on the exchange rate and the taxation in the various countries we are due to travel through.    In 2010 and 2012 Luxemburg seemed to be the favorite place to fill up on fuel, no idea why  
£10-£15 per day should cover you for food, if you are eating out all the time.    We planned all the meals before hand and took them with us. This meant we where not dependent of finding places to eat each leg of the route.

In 2011, I entered in a 3.9 V8 Discovery & used about £1200 on fuel (very poorly engine!! haha), about £300 on food, drink & other expenses. Last year I was in a 300Tdi Discovery, lifted, over-size tyres, roof rack etc & used around £650 on fuel & around £300 on food, drink & other expenses. This year I'm in a Td5 Discovery which is actually better on fuel than the 300Tdi, so I am reckoning about the same this year - hopefully   

Simon