The Cost of a Healthy and Socially Acceptable Food Basket for Six Households in Ireland : Table 3

Table 3: Total weekly cost (€) of food basket for rural and urban households in 2014 and 2016¹.
¹based on the Minimum Essential Standard of Living food baskets developed in 2012 [3] updated using the Irish Consumer Price Index for ‘Food and non-alcoholic beverages [7].

	Urban households		Rural households
Household Type	2014 (€)	2016 (€)	2014 (€)	2016 (€)
Two-parent, two-child
(Aged 3 and 10 years)	125	121	138	133
Tw0-parent, two-child
(Aged 10 and 15 years)	150	146	165	160
One-parent, two-child
(Aged 3 and 10 years)	96	93	105	101
Single adult male of working age, living alone	57	55	53	51
Pensioner couple	82	61	89	64
Female pensioner living alone	63	80	66	86