How much do you spend on your weekly shop?

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I feel like feeding vegetarians is as expensive as feeding meat eaters because my weekly shop is not changing at all...

We are two adults and one toddler
Weekly shop ranges between £55-£75

What are your tips in keeping the costs down? We’re really finding it hard and the rest of the family are very unhelpful..

I haven’t found it much cheaper because veg is expensive and you need more of it to replace the meat.
Lentils are cheap and bulk things up.
I like to add one or two cheap meals like Dhal and pasta.

@hidinginthenightgarden I’ve been driven to calculating the cost per person of each meal and I’ve got the shop to £55 by shopping for those costing £1.50-£2 per head.

I think the problem lies mostly in lunchtime and breakfast items. That and not wanting to cook every single thing from scratch... e.g. paying £1 for a pre-made sauce

Lentils are definitely a bulk buy. Rice too.

One thing I do to reduce cost is the use the discount codes for first customers. A lot of the time you can just change your email and get the codes again.

I'm veggie and ds is 11. Dp refuses to eat veggie food.
When it's just me and baby I can feed us for a week on 30 quid. But that's without wine or any beer. If dp adds in he only eats meet and it's 50 quid.
Im a tad lazy so. I do a big mixed veg pasta sause which I blizh (aubergine, peppers, carotts etc). We have veggie bolegense made with lentils or quorn one night. Homemade pizza with the sauce one night. I do a veggie tagine with chickpeas and couscous one night.
Curry n rice one night.
I have a good recipe for lentil croquets that are cheap and tasty.
Veggie lesagne, cottage pie etc are cheap staples.
We have falafal wraps and hummus with dip dips as well (crudaties and crisps with hummus)
Eggs on toasts, beans on toast, crumpets for breakfasts plus toast some days and baby has porridge.
Snacks we do fruit and yighurts and rice cakes.
I shop at aldi or. Lidil though!

£90 a week for 2 adults, that includes lunch for work every day too, cleaning products and an m&s treat tea a couple of times a week.

£75 is very good! We eat meat, dd is veggie and we are spending over £250 on food and drink a week but this does include takeaways, meals out, alcohol, 4 adults and a (spoilt) dog plus household items like shampoo and loo roll.

I think you’re doing really well on that. I reckon we average £130 a week if I include household stuff, nappies, cat food/litter. 2 adults, a ravenous toddler and a baby. Occasionally I try to get it down a bit, maybe to £100, but it soon creeps back up.

I’ve stopped buying any pre made biscuits or cakes but I suspect making homemade actually works out more expensive!

We get most household stuff from amazon subscribe and save which does save us quite a bit each month.

I spend about £70 at the beginning of the month, and do top up shops each week for fruit, veg and milk (these vary between £10-£30 week). I have a budget of £250/month for food and fuel, which I never go over.

There is just me and teenage DS (and one cat), we both have breakfast at home and take lunch to work/school.

That sounds pretty good! Veg vary hugely in cost - potatoes, carrots and tinned beans and pulses are cheap (look in the ethnic aisle for cheaper tinned stuff), but aubergines are more, spinach, salads, avocados a lot more.

I probably spend 200 but that's 3 adults, two pre-teens, some ready-prepared stuff and lots of special diet stuff to deal with, and milk being delivered.