No idea how much spent on Food

Add it up on your bank statements, I was happily surprised to see I only spend 350 a month after panicking when I saw that Mumsnet 1000 a month thread.

I’ve shopped online since it was invented in 2000 odd because I hate supermarkets too

Sounds like a very inefficient way to shop OP - as though you’re not doing on budgeted big shop at all, just lots of little shops.

Jackets with caviar and truffle?

(Sorry person who mentioned jacket potatoes, it's just light hearted - I get that costs can add up).

You must have a rough idea @Aquarius1234

I shop once a week. I'd run out that's it's till next shop day

Weekly around £100 which is too much and ideally like to spend less

And some posters spending £700 a month but having jackets madness

Fair enough if you don’t know as you’re going along, I suppose. But will you be looking at your bank statement and adding it up at any point OP? Once in a while I do this across a few months and divide by weeks to see rough estimate.

Not sure whether op is winding up but she has a point here. I get really stressed in supermarkets and can’t get out fast enough, often forgetting the main thing I went in for.
I shop online. About £100/ week but I’ll vary the day so it’s only 3 shops a month. 2 adults, 3/4 big visiting family meals a month.
Occasional jacket potatoes but mainly vegan veggie salady meals. Biggest extravagance is sourdough bread, about £10 week. We definitely eat our 30 veg and grains a week- holding that in mind is the best thing I’ve done for meal planning and budgeting.

I don’t know - only 2 of us and no pets*. Several small shops a week. From former habit/necessity I’m generally fairly frugal, though.

*but dh spends a bomb on wild bird food!

im £160 a week on a good week, £200 a week if i want to have some special things or extra household bits

I'm lucky enough not to have to account for every penny but for the 2 of us I broadly budget £120 a week for supermarket shop (including cleaning products and toilet roll) and general eating out - Pret sandwich, meal in the pub sort of thing, not special occasion or big meals out which come from a different budget.

We eat pretty well and definitely are not havig jacket spuds every night.

£80-90 per week for 2 adults and £100 every 6 weeks or so at farm shop for meat so averages out about £100 per week. Includes all cleaning stuff/toiletries and some wine. Eat very well at home, don't do takeaways and eat out rarely. We're doing OK financially although not well off and I would hate not knowing where the money's going - way too easy to overspend.

Including a couple.of packs of beers every week and a bottle of gin about once a month plus cleaning stuff and toiletries about:

£140 to £150 in Tesco, £30 to £40 in Waitrose and about £15 on extra bits. Probably £200 tops (more if we have weekend guests- much more).

We eat well but don't gorge on fillet steak, rack of lamb and finest scallops.

I cannot fathom how the op @Aquarius1234 doesn't clock her spending. I make a mental note of everything.

Supermarkets don't do anything by accident. Even before loyalty cards came in they would track where customers went in the store, which aisles were busiest, and what shelf your eyes would linger on.
The staff don't randomly put items where they want, product placement is all planned out, there's £££££s spent on enticing customers to part with more money, that's literally their business.

If a customer goes to a supermarket twelve times in a month they're almost always going to spend more than someone going there four times a month. You're far more likely to impulse purchase the more times you enter the store, even if you went in with the exact same shopping list as the person going less often.

If you're happy spending more money than you need to, and can afford it, then crack on.

We generally have no idea week to week/month to month either. But that’s largely because our eating habits are so variable. Some months we will do meal planning and big shops to buy everything in a structured way, but most months are doing a deliveroo of bits we need for that night/the next few days to tide us over.

We are extremely fortunate in that we have a high household income and high disposable amount each month, so we don’t need to budget or really worry about the spend.

I just looked through spending in April and we spent around £800 on food/coffee/takeaways etc. That covers 2 adults and a 4 year old who eats lunch and tea at nursery.

Either go into your bank statement or don't. What's the point of this thread?

That seems a crazy amount to me, these threads always highlight how there's so much variation of what's 'normal'. I don't mean this as a criticism, more an observation really.

I find it really helpful to meal plan and get 2 deliveries a week. It has cut down my wastage hugely. We always know what we are cooking and who is cooking it and we always have the right ingredients in the fridge.

Just worked mine out and it’s £280/week. That for 4 adults, 2 dogs and includes nice wine, all cleaning stuff, lots of organic things plus we eat meat. It’s a lot but worth it to me- I could easily spend much less though.

Even if you aren’t on a very tight budget it’s worth being aware of what you are spending so that you are getting value for money. I find this much easier shopping online where you can compare prices more easily and are less likely to stray from your list.

I have a good idea how much I spend weekly and now and again I work it out monthly by adding it all together. It is usually shocking but helps keep things on track.

We spend about £120 per week for 3 adults including cleaning supplies and basic toiletries. Not much meat or fish, no alcohol, lots of fruit and veg, no ready meals. I do one big shop a week and maybe one top up shop for eggs and stuff.
If you really want to get it down, eat more veggie meals, cook from scratch, shop once a week and get a budgeting app. But I don't get the feeling you do want to cut your bills.

Yes I know, I shop online so it’s all totalled up as I go. Also don’t you see the total at the till?

budget wise I use a credit card with cash back for supermarket shopping then pay it off in full each month. There is a credit limit on the card so I can’t spend more than I mean to. The modern day equivalent of my mum just taking cash to the supermarket so she couldn’t spend more than she had!

This month averaged £85 per week plus a meal out for 5 people at £70.