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If you like falafels or shwarmas, there are plenty of good quick-service Middle Eastern restaurants around the city with huge, cheap shwarma sandwiches and salads, about 3 gbps each. Plus there are lots of cheap fish and chips places.

London can be very expensive, but there are ways around the high prices. Nanoo's is excellent and cheap, ASK is also a very good buy and our favorite is the Turkish restaurant SAFA. But be careful at all these places. If you order a set price menu, do not make any changes. You can pay dearly. Also you can get tap water with ice rather than bottled water. Coffee or tea can cost the price of the meal. We love Safa and have eaten there many times...BUT we were once grossly overcharged. I think we were give the wrong bill, but we had had such a good meal that we paid the bill and did not notice the overcharge until much later. Take out from department store food halls is fun and saves money. Ice cream during intermission at the theatre is 2 pounds and is very small. Theatre programs cost between 4 and 6 pounds and have lots of ads and little info. TimeOut is very helpful. You won't starve.

Eating at ethnic restaurants, especially Indian and Chinese, will serve you very well. There are any number of places in the Westbourne Grove area; we especially like the Standard Indian Restaurant. Good Chinese restaurants abound near Leicester Square.