If you consider yourselves healthy eaters please could you share a typical weekly shopping list and spend please?

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I'm trying to balance costs with nutrition and family preferences!

I'd really like to eat less meat but DH loves it, so we've compromised on two fish meals and two vegetarian meals a week, plus maybe a prawn meal. I'd really like to buy organic high welfare meat but at the moment can't seem to stretch to it.

Our typical weekly shop is fresh fruit and veg with three meals worth of meat ie two chicken breasts, a packet of mince, pork loin steaks, two lots of fish, nappies etc, whole meal bread, rice and pasta, organic milk, cheese and eggs. We make sandwiches for lunch with fruit as a snack. There's no "snack items" like crisps, or any preprepared meals although I know DH would like a few nice things. I do buy curry paste etc rather than making from scratch though.

For DH, 2 year old DC, dog and me we generally end up at £100pw for all including washing powder etc and shop at Tesco and sometimes Lidl. Where can we save? The most expensive items I buy are nuts and blueberries/raspberries but my 2 year old loves them and DH will eat them whereas there aren't many other high anti oxidant foods he'll eat (I'm happy with veg as a snack)

So we're vegan and shop at the local farmer's market for all fresh fruit and veg, so lots of my stuff isn't relevant to you, but you can buy frozen berries MUCH cheaper than fresh - we often have frozen cherries in porridge as a cheap way of getting berries.

Also, if you have an Aldi near you, they're great for cheap nuts. Seeds are often cheaper than nuts but with a lot of the same health benefits.

Honestly, we eat well and spend about that on average. I tend to shop in Lidl/Aldi with organic milk etc from bigger supermarket.

We get through lots of fruit (DS is fussy but loves most fruit), vegetables, salad. We have a bread maker but do buy wraps, etc. I like nuts, peanut butter for me and DS, organic eggs, and so on.
We balance cheaper meals (I love porridge with frozen berries, banana, raisins or sometimes plain) with lots of homemade soups, pasta, baked potatoes, with more expensive habits such as proper jumbo flame raisins, DP likes specific cereals, decent cheese, DS prefers shop bought toddler snacks (he's got ASD so a bit fussy) blah blah blah. We cook a lot from scratch, even pizzas and pasta sauces, meat on a few times a week, try to eat seasonally and so on.

I do go every 4-6 weeks to my butcher but I'm very lucky that they rear most themselves so all local, high welfare, grass fed, and he does us brilliant deals. So cost wise, it's roughly the same, especially as it's all very good quality so for example, a chicken breast is MASSIVE and doesn't Shrink when cooking so one is plenty for me. I don't eat lots of meat so does keep costs down as well.

It works out roughly £100 a month but we eat well, rarely have takeaway, don't eat out often so it works out. Not much help I know but I think it's about average.