How much is your weekly shop?

Average of £60 - two adults. Usually three weeks Tesco and one week Lidl. No top ups.

About £100 a week from Ocado for 2 adults and 2 cats. I thought I massively overspent too.

I’ve just spent £220 in Morrisons this afternoon and I’m not sure it will last 7 days but I have stocked up on cleaning and dishwasher stuff and there’s some wine for tonight. That’s for 2 adults and 2 teens & 1 dog. DH is veggie and DS12 has ARFID, so meals are complicated. It covers all breakfasts and lunches as well as dinners. We have takeaway once a week and eat out once or twice a month.

I looked back through my banking app and it’s £800-£1000 per month on shopping for at least the last 12 months.

About £100 a week. Mainly Sainsburys with a few bits from M&S . 3 adults, 1 vegan, 1 vegetarian and 1 meat eater who is happy with meat free for most meals.

You need to ask what people buy rather than only how much they spend otherwise it's a lot of random numbers

If you think you're spending more than you want to or can afford then you need to find the same food at a cheaper price or buy different things

I'm always baffled about what use knowing what strangers spend is, can you explain?

I do a weekly shop in Tesco where I spend around £150pw, that's for everything though not just food. Then once per month, I'll spend around £100 in Iceland to fill up the freezer. We're 4 adults and a dog.

You said 'I don't know where I'm going wrong' so tell us a bit about what a couple of days of food in your house look like.

My weekly shop is done in bits and bobs and in the end will exceed yours but we're also high earners so I'm not watching. But if I needed to feed us on £100pw I definitely could (and have!) - veg Thai curry, spaghetti Bol, egg for breakfast, fruit snack (apple or banana), baked potato. No ready meals.

I live on a very tight budget (single parent, ill health pension and disability). I therefore have to be strict with my budget and meal plan every meal, bulk buy, dont buy brands, buy on offer, I have a delivery every 10 days (delivery stops the impulse buys but you can't do yellow sticker so may or may not help). I batch cook, have a cheap night at least once a week. It's me and two older teens, eldest eats for two as is also very sporty. I spend £50-60 every 10 days, upto £70 in school holidays. You need some cheap recipes in your rotation ours include:
Jambalaya
fishcakes or Pork chops with new potatoes And vegetables,
Tomato, chorizo and red pepper pasta,
Chicken curry,
Savoury rice with pan fried meat,
chilli with rice or jacket potatos,
Spaghetti bol,
Shepherd's pie,
Nandos rice with spicy chicken,
Jacket cheese and beans,
Sausage or chicken pasta,
scrambled eggs, beans on toast,
Fajitas,
rice and bean bouritos,
chicken, veg and roast potatoes and Stuffing.

75-100 every 10 days.
Buying extras through the week .
i buy a big bag of potatoes, mash chip and roast them even do fancy cubes sometimes.

That’s 2 adults 2 children

i don’t cut back. Includes biscuits and crisps and ice cream etc

£100ish per week for 2 adults and 2 hungry teens. I don’t skimp too much, I wonder what people are buying that I’m forgetting about!!

Family of 6. We spend about £220 a week. But that includes cleaning supplies, hygiene products and also 4 packed lunches. I cook from scratch as much as possible.

We do Tesco and it’s about £130 for 3 adults and 1 child. Normally nip to locals shop once or twice too.

i use to shop at Aldi and it’s about was around £100 but then I’d have to nip to Tesco for the stuff I couldn’t get there and price would be similar

Atm for 2 adults and my 11 month old, about £70 a week. I reckon maybe £90 a week when she gets older. But tbh there are some things we could do to cut it down!

Everything for the week including butcher, milkman, lunches away from home, treats, drinks and alcohol.
2 adults, 2 teens, plus additional teens
Buying certain veg organic
£200 all in easily usually less.

Which broken down is £50 per person per week
Just over £7 per day per person

So drinks, treats, food, toiletries, snacks, alcoholic, good meat, milk delivered, full fruit bowl, organic veg.

Which I don’t think it that bad.

This is exactly the same as us. Two adults, two teens and a cat.

My Tesco is much more expensive than that

What’s a day of meals for you, do you mind me asking?

We budget £500pm/£115pw for a family of 5, shop mainly at Aldi, inc nappies and a few bottles of wine per week. Doesn’t include 2 children’s lunches though as we get FSM run on.

Averages about £200pw, 2 adults, 1 teen. Mix of Ocado, Abel & Cole, Riverford, local veg box. occasional Suma delivery. Cook from scratch and mainly organic. Food is our biggest expense.

Family of 3 - 2 adults and one hungry teenager!
Our diet is 2x meat or fish and 5x veggie or vegan.
We spend on average £100.- / week. This is Tesco and online bulk buying of things like rice, couscous and pulses as well soap, washing powder ect. So pay day is usually one big shop for the month of non perishables and then weekly top up of veg, bread & milk. (A 3kg bag of rice lasts 9-12 weeks so again costs are spread out evenly.)
I meal plan and cook from scratch as well as batch cooking- I usually have 2-3 meals in the freezer! So if things get tight, we still have decent meals.

Granted, my methods takes a lot of planning and storage space. But once it's up and running it's great!

If I were you, I would also look at food waste. Check how much you throw away or goes off and change what/ how you shop & cook.

4 adults and a small dog in our household and our food bill is about £170 per week as well. We also meal prep and cook from scratch.

£150 - £200

Wow that's a lot. I spend about £80 for my family of 4. One kid still gets free school lunches and DH often buys lunch out in the week.

£190 per week at Sainsburys.

2 adults and 3 teenagers (so adult portions).