ok boring but lets talk the price of food?

[mothersmilk]

iv just done my 2 week food plan and am just wondering how much does everyone else spend as a rule for a 1 week shop for the average family there 4/5 in mine 2 adults 2/3 kids im hoping doing it this way will save money am i being wishfull?

[ilovetochat]

2 adults, 1 dc (2), we spend £60 per week including night nappys still and beer/wine.

[LilyOfTheMountain]

switching away from a one-sueprmarket-for-all shop to visiting local stores (indie butchers, greegrovers, wilkinsons, H&B then a top up at asda for absics saved us about £10 a week. In fact that is also about what Chrostmas costs us LOL, sorted

We are a big family of 6 with 4 on special diets and we eat fro £113 pw. So I would say above that is a bit high if you don't have the same extrs buys.

[bigchris]

about £90

[nancy75]

mine depends, if i do a dinner plan for the week and stick to my shopping list its about £80, if i go with dp we usually end up spending about £110 - £120 (2 adults & 1 dd age 4)

[Stinkyfeet]

We're a family of 4; 2 adults, 6yr old and 3yr old. A year ago it was about £70 per week, crept up with rising food cost to about £90 6 months ago.

[FlyMeToDunoon]

Family of five - two adults and three children, £115 for the two week shop and around £20 extra a week in greengrocer, bits and bobs.

[sherby]

Family of 4, about £50 at the till and then £20 bits and bobs during the week

[LadyOfWaffle]

We are a family of 4 - DSs are 3 and 1 but we seem to spend a fortune on food without really getting much. I have noticed alot goes to waste with the boys, I now cook one chicken breast between them/one piece of salmon etc. Also don't use up stuff because you think it will go to waste then have a heaving plate - plan something to use it up the next day - eg. DH and I had spaghetti the other night and usually would bung in all the mince as it would go to waste, but have started to save 1/3 for burgers for the DSs the next day etc. Food planning is the way to go, then you can plan to use the food up better.

[AramintaCane]

Did you see the Economy Gastronomy show where they economised and spend 210 pounds a week on food ?

about £80

[AramintaCane]

including pets

[sherby]

Trick is to to not just throw crap in because you are hungry etc

[bigchris]

i dread to think how much it will go up to when mine our teenagers herbie

[mothersmilk]

do any of you but on line could this be the way to go? apart from veg as i dont trust them to a good job

[pippylongstockings]

It varies. We are a family of four 2 adults and 2 kids (3&5).

If I do a weekly menu then I guess we spend about £60.

We get through about 12 pints of milk a week, 3 loaves of bread and vast quanties of fruit and veg which is all stuff I have to stock up on again during the week.

[theansweris42]

I buy online for everything except fruit and veg, I plan meals and less impulse buying online. we're two adults and teeny DS (3 months) and spend about £50-60 per week, including toiletries, household items and baby things (not formula)

[theansweris42]

agree mothersmilk they don't send the veggies you would choose! and sometimes poor quality/past their best so I go to the shops for those

[oneopinionatedmother]

2 adults 2 sub twos -

about £50 including booze/ cleaning stuff.

that's still too much though, partly my fault for drinking milk like a suckling calf (even at 2 6 pinters for £4 from tesco's)
and allowing DH to have BBQs/ buy stuff for homebrew.
The toddler loves veg so is quite cheap to feed, baby isn't off veg purees/ yoghurt things yet.

in some ways the food cost rising has just altered our choices - we don't buy cream any more (so instead of spending 20p more, we spend 50p less.IYSWIM) or nice puddings [sulky face with quivering top lip]

[cazboldy]

7 of us (5 dc) 2 still in nappies at night only

we spend approx £110 including cat food

BUT I have a freezer full of a bullock we had slaughtered

and I only buy milk for the youngest 2, the rest of us have it straight out of the tank - we live on a farm.

I make most of my own bread

[tassisssss]

i think we overspend on snacks for the kids - you know all those wee bags of mini biscuits etc. and as we often have a houseful they only last a minute. i'm going to revert to normal packets of biscuits and a big bag of raisins instead of boxes.

we have 2 adults, 3 kids under 7 and struggle to spend under £100 (only 1 bottle wine per week). I bake which I think is expensive and (as I said) we regularly have a houseful so tea/coffee/loo roll etc etc goes in the blink of an eye!

i feel a tightening of the belt coming upon me...starting Tuesday!