What is your most expensive weekly food purchase

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And where do you buy it?

Just me being curious nosey

Today I Made an unexpected trip to Waitrose to look about and bought some frozen meatballs for £3.60. Expensive for me.

Bread- £5.50 a loaf several times a week

Is it made of gold with a dusting of diamonds?

Salmon fillets - we eat one each most weeks.

We ate almost all of an £8 leg of pork yesterday (2 adults, 12 yo and 10 yo)!

The couple of items we are brand loyal to - lavazza coffee and Special K.

Free range, organic chicken. I'm a vegetarian but DH and DC aren't so we buy the most ethical meat choices as I don't want to have the cruelty stuff in the house.

Dhs pizzas from Waitrose and the bacon medallions. I don’t eat either.

Washing powder and dishwasher tablets. I am thinking of trying cheaper ones. Mine are always on some fake deal or another.

Not something I eat but when my cat was in the last few months of life his food was very expensive.

Probably Friday night steak!
£30 ish every week on steak for the 2 of us. Since we had dc (millions of years ago) we obviously went out less so decided to make sure we treated ourselves to nice meals at home instead. We do go out a fair bit now that the oldest are teens but it’s a tradition that stuck.
For the dc, smoked salmon. Around £10 a week and it does then 2 bagels each and maybe one more for one of them.
Also mozzarella shocked me. The one we like most has crept up to £4.99 a ball and we need at least 2 for pizzas

Diet Coke, sliced meat for sandwiches and fresh meat... although we buy a lot of fruit which adds up.

@nelsonmuntzslingshot yikes!! What kind of bread coats over £5 per loaf

Fruit - we don’t really eat the exotic just in season stuff but due to the quantity it adds up to a huge part of the budget. In fact I swear if I add up fruit and veg it would be more than meat and fish.

WeComeToDance chicken dippers are half price in tescos at the moment

@Kez200 I live on my honey so go through £££s of it! Honey in tea is just the squeeze stuff but on yoghurt and weetabix and bread is a wildflower honey and it's so delicious I can't not buy it. I forgo chocolate in its stead.

Probably wine, fillet steak or salmon.
I spend a lot of money on food but still only buy certain things like coffee, tea bags and Lurpak when they are on offer. If I get vouchers from Waitrose I try and use them buying gin. We rarely eat out these days as we have been disappointed so many times so we spend a little extra on food.

Fruit and yoghurt -- we go through tons every week.

Gin 😬

If any of you have a farmfoods nearby they do lots of offers on brand name cleaning and loo rolls.
I got two huge boxes of finish dishwasher tablets for 15.00 .
They also have a leaflet with lots of vouchers on with up to 10.00 off a shop.

@CakeNinja £4.99 per ball?!? The regular balls are about 50p in Tesco... that's ridiculous when you're going to cook it anyway.

My DS must eat £20 of fruit a week.
I spend too much on coffee and a bottle of wine (one a week).

Have to admit, have expensive food tastes and not much cash - but I literally never go out, rarely get haircuts etc. so buying good food is my last indulgence.

The word budget obviously doesn't exist to a lot of MN folk 🙄

Don’t buy it every week obviously, but posh olive oil is crazy expensive

And fancy Parmesan blocks. Again, no every week.

Individual items that I buy fairly regularly that cost over about a fiver are washing powder, wine, gin, roasting joints and occasionally steak.

Collectively as a food type, I probably spend the most on fresh fruit in a week.

@CakeNinja £30 on 2 steaks 😳 where do you buy them from? Aldi sell a cracking sirloin

My most expensive is salmon, kids have a piece once a week, or a joint of meat for Sunday roast

When I get strawberries I shudder but they're so happy when I do I feel guilty. The thing is there's 6 of us so they're gone in a day

Yes the fruit bill is easily more than we spend on meat/fish each week. If you have 4 people eating a range of berries daily you’re easily seeing off £4 of non organic fruit a day