£800 pm on groceries for a family

Just get human food for your cat. I probably spend a bit more than you per person/dog but dog has minced turkey, mackerel, liver and rice...it probably doesn't cost more than expensive dog food.

Sorry for my very MN reply :)

I think we spend around £1000 per month on groceries and that doesn’t include cat food or hair/beauty products.

Prices in general have just gone up so much.

Seems about right to me.

We spend that, there’s 3 of us generally (3 adults), occasionally 4 if DS1 is back from Uni/at home. We probably spend £120 a week on shopping, £35 on a gousto box and £50 on a weekly takeaway.

Shopping is made a bit more expensive as I’m veggie so have to buy extra ingredients like Tofu etc

I use odd box. Boxes come every week or fortnight full of fruit and veg that have been ‘rescued’ - supermarkets only want the perfect stuff and this is food that would have been rejected cos it’s either too big, small, wonky etc.
they’ve also got a market place now where they sell dried goods and also tins/packets of ‘foody’ nice things that have short dates.
even my husband thinks it’s ace and he has previously complained about the quality and cost of fruit/veg boxes.
I have a referral code if anyone is interested- https://app.oddbox.co.uk/register/check-delivery?coupon=ref-program-iWXDAiWsm8okihEgw-21f873e6e60c49c6b3bc4e87917b7336

I get it, especially in the holidays when it's likely they're eating at home more. You could potentially get it lower but I'd say normal enough, especially if you're using a non budget supermarket and getting your big shop there.

Education was definitely a factor, but age as well. Older age brackets overwhelmingly voted for Brexit - that’s a fact. Obviously not every older person did. But the vote wouldn’t have passed without the big pro-Brexit majorities in over-50s age brackets.

The cost of food shopping is insane but I’m actually really relieved to hear ppl r spending similar amounts to me. Sick of ppl making out like im daft for spending so much when they only spend X amount but then they only counting dinners/breakfasts…. No lunches it snacks or household bits like washing powder loo roll nappies toiletries ! Prob same twats claiming they get 16 meals out a chicken lol

I reckon £50 per adult per week is pretty standard these days if you are covering almost all meals ie little or no eating out or takeaways plus some other groceries. It’s about what we are spending on Ocado, milkman and veggie box. Yes I could cut down if we needed, but I don’t think I’m hugely extravagant either.

I reckon £50 per adult per week is pretty standard these days if you are covering almost all meals ie little or no eating out or takeaways plus some other groceries. It’s about what we are spending on Ocado, milkman and veggie box. Yes I could cut down if we needed, but I don’t think I’m hugely extravagant either.

3 adults here most of the time ( 4 sometimes) mostly veggie, no alcohol £628 last month.

We're probably spending about £250 a week in a similar manner, with 3 bottomless teenagers. Have been doing top ups at Aldi and Food Warehouse to try keep snack items etc in check for them.

Prices are pretty depressing at this point and keep going up. Had to do a big shop today at Tesco and everything has gone up again. Mince for bolognese we like is now over the £7 mark; chicken has gone up again; fish is borderline out of the question now based on prices/portion sizes, even on special; cheese, butter, etc haven't come down since covid times. Even fruit/veg prices have gotten silly imo.

Though I suppose it is a choice to some extent, if I was on the breadline I’d buy fewer berries etc for my toddler. YANBU though, food has really gone up enormously

Their offers are good particularly on meat and fish
Fruit and veg is also very good quality

Is be interest to know where your shopping op and an average shopping list. Although there's nothing wrong with what your spending I recon if it bothers you we could come up with some swaps to try.

I spend around 500pm in lidl or aldi plus about £100 on corner shop top ups and the milkman.

We are now a family of 4 adults, DC are 19 and 18. It's around 170-200 per week and thats not including any top ups. We do our main shop in lidl but do go to tesco/sainsburys/co op for top ups. It also includes alcohol, dig food and treats, household cleaning products and personal care for all.

I suspect we could save a little but its within our means.

If you like healthy food, it’s very very hard to get it below that these days. If you’re very keen on giving your kids their five a day (plus extra), want the kids to be able to enjoy weekly berries and grapes and fruit etc, have salmon once a week and so on… it very quickly shoots up! We shop in Aldi but it’s hard to get it below about 160-170 (and then often a top up, cat food bought online on top of that, probably equals the same as you at 200 and we only have one kid!)

Australia and the US have very different economies - pay is higher in the US for one thing.

Our food prices and food price inflation has gone up massively since 2020. Why do you think that happened?

Our main trading partner for food is the EU. We made it significantly more expensive to trade with them plus our currency was effectively devalued by 30 percent after Brexit. We also made it harder for seasonal and year-round agricultural and low-paid EU workers to come here to work in our food industry, and fruit and veg prices went up as a direct result.

Are you seriously trying to argue that the big jump in food price inflation since 2020 is not the result of Brexit? It was all predicted by any key remotely sensible and now it’s come to pass, just as Brexit voters were told it would. You can’t vote for the most economically damaging policy for the U.K. in modern history and then look surprised when it turns out it wasn’t a good idea. Why do you think we entered the common market in the postwar period in the first place?

As for not wanting anything from the EU that we can grow here - well; I hope you are prepared to say goodbye to your wine, most fruit and veg, and have a lovely time eating turnip and onion stew for half the year like our seasonal diet was a few centuries ago. If you think we produce enough food in the U.K. for our population size in the twenty-first century, you’ll be sadly disappointed.

Same here two adults two 6 year olds. £200 is quite a cheap week 😅

I completely get how you spend that much on grocery and household. The only way you could bring that down is if you buy Aldi own brand for most things and even then you’d only bring it down a tiny bit. I have nothing against shopping in Aldi etc but the quality of the plain label items isn’t great. My MIL shops around so she will go to savers for some stuff, see an offer in Asda then go there for a couple of things and then see an offer for others in Tesco and go there but she is retired and has the time on her hands so…

Pretty much bang on what we spend - family of 4 with 2 primary aged DC.

Excuse me.

Im 61. I voted remain. So did all my friends same age,

Dont tar everyone with the same brush. Try putting it another way. The metropolitan cities voted Remain, the towns voted leave.

Brexit was a vote of education level( l was involved in research on this) The older population were less educated.

Two adults here and off the top off my head we probably spend around £350 a month for everything. So not that out of line with what you spend. Food has really gone up in price over the last few years. We are now spending around £75-100 a week more than we were five years ago.

I meal plan, batch cook, one of us is vegan, only one drinks and not that much. No cat either.

Agree with this. The tone on these threads are usually set early on and I too was very surprised by the amount of people agreeing with the original post! For what it's worth, I spend £650/700per month. Two adults two teens and this includes toiletries. I can completely understand spending more if your family appreciates food - ours doesn't really and it is fast healthy fuel ie baked potatoes, slow cooker chillis, mince based meals, bread etc.

5 adults here + 11yr old who is with us 50% of the time. I do one big £350/400 shop at the start of the month to refill freezer, store cupboard, cereals etc and then we top up at around £75/80 per week. My lot are all snackers, have packed lunches for work and are in and out at different times due to work patterns. I could reduce it down but I don’t - everyone being fed and enjoying their food is high on my list of priorities. My family looking forward to their favourite meal gives me joy. You aren’t struggling you say, the price of food you enjoy is what it is, we are all in the same boat. I am grateful I can afford to feed my family when lots can’t