How much do you spend ?

And I know exactly what I spend as I use YNAB and all grocery spends come out of that category so I can see down to the penny what I spend every month. It shocked me when I was less disciplined and buying lots of brands as we were spending £600+ a month and still having to top up at local shops.

£100-110 a week for two adults, two preschool age kids. We buy pet stuff elsewhere but that does include cleaning materials, laundry stuff, nappies, basic toiletries, etc.

I’ve just added up August and I spent £475 ish between M&S and Tesco and £200 in Costco ( food / toilet rolls etc ) . That’s for 3 adults , one of whom is gf but we don’t drink alcohol . I haven’t included dog food as I buy that online . I reckon you could add another £200 for lunches when out .

Honestly probably £200 a week on 2 adults and 3 kids, 0 pets. Could get that down if I done a big shop more often instead of spending £40-£50 a time in tesco but I loathe the big shop & everything about it.

2 years ago ours was £100 a week. That was pretty much it. Including dog, toiletries, cleaning etc.

This week £172!!!! I knew it was creeping up, but my goodness.

Changes need to be made or I'm never going to retire.

Some of these cats are big eaters.

Probably not far off that for me, teenager and a cat. Definitely £550 p m. That includes food (incl lunches), cat litter and cat food, cleaning products. No toiletries beyond deodorant and toothpaste.

2 adults and a 5yo, we have a big £110 shop every 2 weeks with a £20-£30 top up shop in between. We tend to try and buy what's on offer and hardly any brands, dd also has the free school dinners. Usually 1 takeaway and one cheapish dinner out a month on top of that.

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I could double it if I added meals out into it! Or takeaway coffees 😬 or lunches at work....

£650 -£800 a month for two adults and a five year old.

we are trying to balance out with different shops. Some shops recently have been shockingly bad value from Ocado.

DH has been given the job of meal planning so we can improve the quality of our meals and reduce any wastage.

toilet rolls/ laundry powder and other cleaning materials are really expensive nowadays.

Sainsburys shopper
2 adults, 1 primary kid, 1 infant

Spend no more than £80/wk max on the delivery. Then probably around £25 on a top up shop at the weekend and on treats.
This includes all meals and packed lunches, kiddie snacks, toiletries, nappies, formula, wipes

Can easily spend alot more but trying to cut out unnecessary treats.

Grr just typing this made me realise it will be going up by 20 quid per week or so as I slowly squirrel treats away for Christmas

@cruffinsmuffin you must live near me 😅

2 adults 2 animals, £910 last month (not counting meals out 😩).

Family of 4 which includes 1 at uni and is back regularly plus 1 dog but not included on the food bill as I buy hers online but I would say on average £150 minimum. Depends on where I shop. I try to shop at Aldi and top up from Sainsbury’s for the stuff Aldi do not sell. Recently shopping more at Sainsbury’s as I have been so busy I can’t face 2 supermarkets.

About £100 a week but do a top up shop of between £20 and £30 too. Two adults, two teenagers and a 3 year old.
That includes breakfast, packed lunch and evening meal for 4 of us, most ofthe time (DS eats at nursery 4 days a week). DS is still in nappies too and that pushes the price up.
DH moans about how much we spend but I think it's about average.

Me, DD, dog & cat

Dog food pm £36
Cat Food £19
Waitrose £200
Tesco £120
Aldi £50

Just me and £240pm not including cat food or toiletries but does include cleaning products/bin bags etc

2 adults, a cat and a dog. We spend between 40 and 60 a week on our food/house products/Toiletries and cat food then dog food is an additional 100 a month
We found we spend way less by doing an online shop as less likely to pick things up for the sake of it. We also look at what's on offer/what gives high nectar points and plan meals around that

@Totaly please send me your meal plans, I need to be more you.

Too much.
150 a week.
20 ish a week on DS school food
Two adults and a bottomless pit of a 13 year old

2 adults, 1 teenage boy, 4 dogs, 3 cats. Around £600 a month

I spend about £300 a month for one adult, one child. I think I'd spend the same on two adults and a child because the cost is pretty much dictated by packet size? I have a fairly well stocked freezer because I hate eating the same meal twice so a portion often gets frozen and/or rejected by an ungrateful child.

£100 shops still take me by surprise though. I did one last week and, to look at, it really wasn't anything interesting.

Easily £150 a week here for 2 adults and a 16yo and an 11yo. That’s without toiletries too. No pets here.

I also think there’s quite a lot of leeway in the ‘£100 on average’ types of responses - psychologically we’d probably call £107 ‘about £100’ and then if you x 4.33 that’s actually £463 not £400 a month, without any extra top-up shops that people usually don’t mentally count, so you could easily get to £500 a month when you only really think it’s £400, for example.

Just me here. I spend about 80 pounds. Don't drink or smoke- no idea where it goes 🙄