How much is your weekly shop?

Tesco 2 adults and a young teen. Plus a cat. About £180 a week but £40 or so of that will wine and beer

£80 a week for 3 of us- that's for a weekly big shop in Sainsbury's and a top up of some fresh bits from the corner shop.

Meal planning, buying what is on offer and not going for the convenience stuff saves money. For example, we buy the 2kg packs of chicken breast and seperate it into freezer bags, takes a minute or two but it's a fair bit cheaper per kg than buying the smaller packs. I'd say we eat fairly 'clean' and have decent meals. Eggs with sourdough and either avocado/tomatoes for breakfast or porridge with frozen berries for breakfast; a wrap/pitta with some form of protein and salad with fruit and some crisps for lunch or a baked pot/cous cous with protein; dinners. We choose a pack of chocolate each for the week and that's all we buy in that regard.

@Loveduppenguin - well I would use eggs to make something like hash browns.
boiled eggs for breakfast at least once a week, maybe an omelette for lunch once a week, waffles or pancakes for a weekend breakfast. If we have biscuits or cake they are baked. Often in things like homemade burgers or to make breaded chicken.

We all eat all meals at home which I think also makes a difference. No office meals or school lunches or other family members houses for food

About the same, family of 4 & Sainsburys between £150-£200 I think it’s pretty standard now for it to cost that. I wouldn’t shop elsewhere as Lidl/Aldi are rubbish tbh

£70 for 2 adults we cook from scratch every day and I wfh and oh takes lunches so every meal comes from home. We don’t really snack but we do eat loads of fish and meat. Also 2 dogs (large) @ £45 pw

Breakfast for my dc is a choice of
bran flakes
weetabix
porridge
Potato waffles
hash brown
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and they always have a piece of fruit too.

lunches-
rolls with chicken and another filling like cheese or lettuce
chopped veggies- carrot, cucumber, pepper, olives.
a piece of fruit
a yogurt
crackers/popcorn/pretzels

i will have salad and brown bread or cous cous salad, egg on brown toast and I buy lunch in work some days. Soup and brown bread is €2.

Roughly £180 in Sainsbury’s each week, plus £40-50 in M&S and local bakery. We eat out about once a week (£98 today in Wagamama for 4) but could be sandwich and drink so £50 other weeks. About £25 a week between us on coffee. It’s embarrassing writing it down.

£200-£250 with top up shops considered in that price too. I shop at Ocado. Adult and 2 children.

This isn’t planned out meals to a T and included a lot of snacks.

Feel absolutely awful for anyone a lot worse off financially than me. How can they afford to live?

About £100 for 3 adults

Was about to 200-250 a week last year. Made a New Year’s resolution to finally get it under control. Tried meal planning, cheaper shops, bulk buying and freezing, searching for deals. All too much effort nothing stuck. Completely out of control.

Managed to get it down to £55 last week with cherrypick. That’s my best yet. On an average week it’s £80-£100 on cherrypick and that’s with quite adventurous recipes & premium ingredients.

It's bad for you to eat so much meat. If you swap to 3 veggie meals, you'll save loads.

We spend £100 per week, family of 4. This week our lunches are: eggs and black bean salad, avocado cheese toastie, tuna salad, eggs and kale salad, cheese and cucumber sandwiches. Dinners: chickpea and cauliflower curry, spinach& mushroom pasta, roast chicken, frozen fish with veg and rice, butternut squash and asparagus risotto, spaghetti bolognese.

We have porridge with with banana, apple or kiwi for breakfast, loads of apples, bananas and oranges for snacks, buy blueberries once or twice a week. Kids have Greek yogurt with honey for pudding and we also buy a few packets of biscuits.

Yeah I don’t bake, we rarely even eat eggs and rarely bake to be honest. 6 eggs would do me. Mostly used for lunch when I wfh and pancakes for breakfast on an sat/sun.
one cucumber a week is plenty as it’s mainly for dc. Peppers I use 2-3 a week.

About £200 a week for everything, food , cleaning products , toiletries and alcohol

About £120-£150 a week in Aldi. Including one in nappies and one in overnights. But they go to nursery in the week so only have to give them one meal (and endless snacks) on weekdays. That does include some lunches, some cleaning stuff and some alcohol.

I always think we must eat loads compared to some of these lists. I mean 6eggs for 10 days? We probably use 15-20 eggs a week, more if baking.
1 cucumber and 1 pepper as entire week salad for 4 people?

Theres dh, myself and 1 fussy school age child who doesn’t eat huge portions, and we def buy much high quantities. None of us overweight ( low if anything)

About €160-200 a week. We cook everything from scratch due to allergies, and grow a lot ourselves in summer ( and freeze). No wastage.

I work it out over a month, so:

4 x £80 weekly shop
2 x £40 fortnightly fruit and veg grocer shop
1 x £150 Costco shop
plus £50 for bits in between

Total monthly budget from the above is £600, so I guess it averages out at £150 per week.

£300 but that includes wine, food for large dog and 3 cats. We eat well, buy quality stuff too which can be expensive. Family of 4 including 2 teens

@bibliotek a typical day would be:

breakfast: oats with fruit and nut butter. A bag of oats goes a long way. I also make a tray of baked oats and we have this for two breakfasts.

lunch: at school/work

Dinner :

Monday: Dhall, rice, chickpea curry, roasted sweet potatoes
Tuesday: Grilled salmon, leftover lemon rice, grilled veg
Wed: spatchcock chicken roast with veg, garlic bread
Thurs: leftover chicken shredded in a pasta bake with mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes, and garlic bread with salad
Friday: Takeout
Saturday: chicken curry
Sunday: out with friends

a bag of veg is entirely used up in different ways, breads or rice is used up as leftovers, I make an entire bag of dhal and freeze in portions.

a variety of fruit is also used up and goes into smoothies for the kids. I also make batches of waffles and pancakes for the freezer. Great for breakfast with yoghurt and fruit.

I think if you know how to use ingredients in different ways and pair them well with different foods it feels like you are not eating the same food all the times.

we shop at M&S as that’s the closest to us and we eat very well for a very very reasonable amount imo.

What are your meals? We do at least two "cheap and cheerful" a week.

Always have, used to make a bigger difference than it does these days but it helps.

For example, sausage chips and beans. Pasta with tuna, cheese and olive oil (throw some frozen sweetcorn or peas in if you can get away with it). Scrambled egg on toast (with diced bacon for the carnivores). And so on.

Then we batch cook the more expensive meals because the packs of meat are cheaper if they're bigger.

(I spend 90 a week, roughly. All meals are from scratch and no UPF, me, 1x teen 1xcat) For everything. I plan within an inch of my life.

Absolutely!

At 15, they are eating twice as much as you.
2primary does not equal even 1teen!

(1 x skinny DD 16)

YANBU OP

80 quid today but husband wanted 2 bags of big prawns from farm foods at 20 quid a pop. 40 quid in Aldi.

Family 5, three kids under 8. Vegetarian and buy alcohol sparingly. Shop at Tesco and spend roughly £110 a week.

Sainsbury’s is expensive.

We buy what’s on offer and some weeks includes treats, others I pare it back (for health more than money).

£50 for 2 of us, it goes up when dd is home from uni.

3 adults. Food aspect of weekly shop is probably around £110. But DS is night shift worker, so we don't sit down to meals at the same time, so we could economise if we all ate the same thing at the same time.

I shop at Morrisons and buy own brand for most things.