How much do you spend a week on groceries?

[KitKat1985]

Inspired by a post I saw on a recent Facebook page with someone claiming they can feed themselves for £20 a week. She claims she is also eating healthily. I'm torn between struggling to believe this, and then wondering if I just spend more than average. We're a family of 4 (2 adults, 5 year old DD1 and 2 year old DD1). Average weekly shop for me (for all food, toiletries, cleaning products and pull-ups) is about £100-£110. And that's with trying to be reasonably careful, but also wanting to get a decent amount of fruit and veg each week. On top of that we usually have a take-away each week for about £20.

How much do you spend? And if you've managed to be much cheaper than me, how do you manage it?

I can see how it could be done for £20 a week if you bought the £1 root veg packs you get at Tesco and cheap meat then cooked in bulk for the week also using own brand cleaning products and toiletries. Maybe they shop around too.

I spend about 70 a week but we do a shop twice a week so spend roughly 35 each time. I spend about 30 a month on toiletries and maybe 10 on cleaning products. I am gluten and lactose free and vegetarian, DH isn't. I could probably do a cheaper shop if I shopped around and bought the cheaper alternatives.

I think with groceries you either compromise on cost or time. To eat cheaply it tends to be long cooking items, and to take longer in terms of preparation and attention.

We spend about £100 a week for a family of 4/5 (DSS is with us EOW). Our monthly budget is £450.

Family of 4 (dc age 7 and 4). Around £100 a week on big shop, plus a takeaway and the dd top up for bread/milk etc. It’s sometimes more if I need to buy more cleaning/laundry products. Extra wine etc also pushes the price up, but that’s not every week.

Probably about £100-£120 for 4 of us. I could do it more cheaply but cooking makes me very stressed out, and my son has a health condition which means I don’t sleep. Life is enough of a drudge without making everything from scratch at the moment, and I’m fortunate to be in the position where I can allocate a higher proportion of the budget to food.

Oh oops I included cleaning and pets. That should be around £90-100

Usually around £100 per week, including cleaning and baby milk. That's for 7 of us

Last month I spent £123 pounds on food alone and I live on my own.Which averages out to be £30.74 a week.

This month I'm trying to cut back to only the bare essentials, but still looking at £25 a week max.

Family of 4 and I spend 65 per week, we eat healthy and I cook all meals from scratch except one easy dinner. I meal plan and portion plan.

£80 a week for two of us.

We spend £100 a week including toiletries, cleaning products and pull ups for me, DH and DD who is 2. We could definitely spend less though.

2 adults, 4yo, 3yo, 6wo and 1x cat.
I budget for £90 a week (everything - groceries, toiletries, cleaning stuff etc) but rarely spend the full £90.
What I don’t spend gets put in the “spare cash” cup in the cupboard

About £100 a week - 2 adults and 3 teenagers. All meals cooked from scratch and 5 packed lunches a day. We always do a big Sunday roast - big joint that does another 2 meals. Plus I cook a chicken which is used for sandwiches/salads lunches. I bulk cook spag bol, chilli, curry, stews

£60 for family of 3 (£40 Sainsbury's, £15 green grocers and £5 fish mongers)

We meal plan and only have a take away once every couple of months or once a month so that cuts costs instantly. Don't eat out that often either and only my fiancé drinks. Cook from scratch most of the time.

We do spend an additional £40 or so a month having milk delivered though.

£100 for all groceries, cleaning products, toiletries and pets. 2 adults, 1 child, 1 dog and 2 cats. I am tying to get it down to £80 a wee to give me another £80 to £100 towards clearing a debt.

About £100 per week for family of 5 but that includes nappies for twins which bumps it up quite a bit and all cleaning products, tampons, cat food etc.

About £40 per week for two of us, so I imagine the £20 is doable, though we might eat better due to economies of scale. We eat meat a few times a week and cover almost all lunches out of this. I batch cook sometimes and avoid brand names. I eat 6-8 portions of fruit/veg most days and have to be gluten free. We definitely don't starve on this budget.

About 120 a week for me, dh a 4yo and 1yo. I cook everything from scratch and buy a ton of fruit. My kids seem to eat non stop

Family of 4 (2 adults, 6yo and a 2yo) plus 2 cats I spend at least £90 per week but that’s all toiletries and cat stuff included.

Used to be £70ish as well not too long ago and nothing has changed with what I’ve been buying.

I'm surprised you think it's not doable, op. You are only £20 to £30 per week above that (so £5 to £7.50 per week per person), and yours includes pull ups, toiletries and cleaning items. How much do your pull ups cost per week?

Our budget is £480 a month for 2 adults, a toddler, a baby on 2 boxes of formula a week and 2 cats.
I meal plan, budget, cut out meat dishes if it's going over budget, batch cook etc, and for some reason, it's barely enough. I shop at Asda and do it online.
It includes all cleaning and laundry products and toiletries.
These people that say they can feed their massive family on tuppence a week are fibbing surely? I can't do it and I've actively tried. Or maybe they are saying they can "feed" their family on £20 a week but that doesn't include toiletries, cleaning products, nappies and pet food?

Went to Aldi last week to see if it made a difference and it cost £106

We spend an average of £35 a week on our Aldi shop for two, and probably another £15 on top-ups in between.

@tiredtrumpet I only shop at lidl or aldi (mostly lidl) but I don’t have to buy formula or nappies and we don’t have pets. I do include household products but I only buy a dettol spray, cif, and toilet cleaner. I don’t buy an array of cleaning products. Also we don’t buy biscuits and chocolates etc.

@Linnylinn1 I prefer Lidl but none near me.
I don't have an array of cleaning products either, just what you describe and probably some loo bloos. We do have biscuits and crisps, but not much.
Looking through the receipt from my online shopping that arrived today, the most expensive stuff was formula (£10.85 a box and 85p x 3 for the ready made stuff for when we are out and about) Nappies (about £7) Whole Milk for toddler and skimmed for adults (£8 should last 2 weeks though) chicken (£5) and innocent fruit smoothies for kids (£3.90).
I 100% am aware that I can make these fruit smoothies myself however I don't have the time to do it all from scratch, and I would have to do it every other day and buy all the fresh fruit which most definitely will not keep in the fridge for the week.

I don't know if it's my fridge or the supermarkets, but food lasts 5 minuets before it's growing something

Ah I know @tiredtrumpet formula and nap pies add up for sure! But once you are out of that stage/phase things will reduce down again.