"mundane needs" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is typically used to refer to the everyday needs that are necessary for survival, such as food, clothing, shelter, etc. For example, "Even when times are tough, we must prioritize our mundane needs above all else."
Technology may spawn elevated philosophical discussion, but it also has mundane needs.
Rents have become so high that shops catering to mundane needs like shoe repairs have been forced out of town.
It's clear that West regards the mundane needs of everyday life — trimming the whiskers, say — as little more than a set of annoying distractions, drawing him away from a much more interesting set of problems.
The more mundane needs of Laborites and Liberal Democrats were met by claims for nonexistent mortgages, dry-rot repairs at the house of a Labor M.P.'s partner, and a Liberal Democrat's trouser press.
For its part, an Islamic foundation that had been fixing up and installing the headstones said that its work was entirely legal and that it believed the late-night destruction of the tombs was part of a city effort to take over the cemetery for more mundane needs.
Unlike most U.S. legislators — who spend hours a day picking over the minutiae of budget projections or health-care policy, and tending to the mundane needs of constituents — McCain waged gallant, and often futile, crusades against the corrupt and the powerful.
So Dick's tricky task was to balance the mundane need for cash against the loftier demands of his paper's integrity.
The mundane became marvelous.
All of us here use at CrunchGear, except Doug (who uses AIM Pro), use it for our everyday, excruciatingly mundane AIM needs.
Meeting dates for discussion, regular dates for restoration work, including that most mundane of needs - feeding the volunteer helpers!
In Patna, however, where I have a dense network of family and friends, more mundane mysteries need to be solved.
