On average per day how much are you spending to feed the family?

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Per person?

We are family of 3, and did our last big shop 12 days ago. It seemed expensive at the time but it’s managed to last us to today (only just), but also covered Easter treats and a Easter roast dinner which isn’t the normal weekly purchases.
It’s around £13 a day which for 3 people doesn’t seem to bad.

However, we’ve run out of so many spaces and herbs and other condiments that this weeks shop also now seems surprisingly expensive.

Is there a daily spend you are happy with in general?

I’ve never been able to work it out accurately before because of top up shops and DH and I picking up lunches on the go sometimes

One adult, 2 teens. We all usually eat lunch at school (£37.50 a week) plus the odd snack from the vending machine. We're all having breakfast every day so a fortune in cereals. I think I'm breaking even with no school food or takeaways, and we're eating well rather than a nasty sandwich and bottle of water which somehow is all the kids get at school.

My kids school are not refunding any funds on parentpay which is another thread

I'm spending £20-£25 per day for 2 adults and 2 teens. This is about double what I would normally spend, but includes more meals (usually teens have school dinners), and we're using local veggie box and meat box to top up in between supermarket deliveries, so that's a much more expensive way to shop. I also think we're actually eating better than normally, as we have more time to cook as we're not having to commute. And lunches are things like greek salad or tomato, mozzerella and avocado, Ploughman's etc, rather than a bog standard sandwich to take to work. We're also quite often having cooked breakfast (not full on fry ups, but boiled eggs or bacon sandwiches or mushrooms on toast etc) again because we have the time, rather than just grabbing a slice of toast or a banana on the way out.

It’s hard to compare because before I would do a massive top up shop on pay day, then weekly medium shops and then frequent little top ups etc pick up bread and milk and chocolate, go and get some more salad another day etc. Then kids all had school dinners, DH had free lunch at work, I would buy lunch for work either supermarket or sandwich shop so even though now because we are only doing 1 shop per week it seems like a lot I think it might actually be less overall than before!

About £4.50 per person per day, it's been a fair bit worse since lockdown it's normally less.

£200 a week, so £6 per person per day. Not just food though, that includes toiletries and cleaning stuff.

I normally only have to cook for myself during the week or I have leftovers because my boys get a warm meal at school & my oldest lives away at uni. But they’re now home all day every day & my food bill has more than doubled 😩 and we’re still paying the monthly direct debit to school for the meals (not in the UK). I’m meal planning and making some meals last 2 days but still it’s a lot of food. I spent 150€ last week - I would normally spend 70€

I spent £50ish on the shopping on Thursday so probably about 7 ish quid for 3 people (toddler/me and do). Dp buys his own dinner at work (comes out of his money) and neither of us normally bother with breakfast unless it's a weekend. Shopping includes nappies for ds (bed time only), cleaning stuff and bath stuff. I normally shop in Aldi but last week I couldn't be bothered so went to Tesco

I tend to buy meat once every 2 months so add that in and it works out about another £2 pd. we are big meat eaters. Normally eat meat most days, dp and ds don't really like fish.

So we spend £9-£10 per day. I buy some stuff on discount and then chuck it in the freezer. This is normally treats (pudding etc - we don't really buy puddings) and expensive bits of meats (steak/joints etc) Dp will often buy a takeaway once a week which is maybe £20 a week, but we don't count this in the monthly food shop. Naturally some days are probably more expensive than others but I think £10 is about average

I would say we eat quite well, ds eats a truck load of fresh food, and is constantly snaking, but tend to give him fruit etc.

Our weekly shop feels like it has gone up massively. Although we used to spend about £50 a week on school dinners/work lunches, and I usually preferred to do smaller shops across the week, so it probably evens out, it just feels like a shock every time at the checkout.

I reckon I now spend £4-£5 per head per day, based on 2 adults and 2 children (but not counting the pets). We did have a fair amount in the storecupboard already.

Also so much money! In normal times, DH is at work 5 days a week & eats lunch there. He is now WFH, having lunch, hundreds of coffees & snacking.

DS1 normally works 5 nights a week so sleeps in the day & eats very little at home (tends to get himself something to take to work in an evening). Now furloughed so at home & eating a pretty normal amount for a 22 year old.

DS2 - home from uni. Never seems to stop eating/drinking (not alcohol).

DD - normally has breakfast at home, lunch at school & tea at after school club. Now eating all 3 meals & snacks at home obviously.

I am still on the same work pattern - either 3 or 4 12.5 hour shifts a week (NHS). But somehow I seem to be eating more too 🤦🏻‍♀️. Probably because there is so little else to do on my days off. Plus the snacks I am buying for the DCs that I wouldn’t normally buy are very tempting!

£40 per day for two adults 2 kids and 2 cats including toiletries and cleaning products

Actually I’ve just done a quick tot up. We are spending roughly £150 a week at the supermarket. It feels like loads as we would normally only spend £60-£70.

But it still only evens out to £4.28 per person per day! Much cheaper than it feels 😂.

It's gone up, definitely. Ours weekly shop is between £80-100, plus £40 a week for a Gousto box, plus £20 for a takeaway. That's just two adults, a toddler and a baby. To be fair, I am buying formula very single shop now as when all this started, I really struggled to find any so it's made me a bit over cautious about having it in, so that's an extra £20 a week!!

It feels like there aren't so many special offers on at the moment so the shop seems more expensive!

I haven’t tried to work it out, as I prepped little bits from January so there is quite a lot I’m not buying.

I’m used to shopping in aldi and bulk buying special offers in other places so switching to Tesco for deliveries has been eye watering. The milkman is bringing juice, butter and eggs at premium prices too.

On the other hand there’s a lot of things I haven’t bought in the last month. Food waste is close to zero. Fuel and tolls costs are zero. And we haven’t eaten out.

Gone up since lockdown as DS was on free school meals (KS1, not pupil premium). It's just DS and I at home. If we're including the baking ingredients and alcohol for me I'd say about £15 per day for both of us. DS never stops snacking.

We're allowing approx £3.33 pp per day or £600 per month for 6 although we're having a takeaway a week on top of that paid for from our personal accounts.

I've spent hideous amounts the past few weeks (£150+), but I have been trying to buy a bit of extra for the freezer/tins/household stuff. We're also fully shopping at Sainsbury's/Tesco rather than shopping in Aldi, as we are both working/husband NHS and don't have the time to go to two places. I don't think prices have gone up that much, but there aren't as many deals on and the cheaper versions of products aren't as available.

I'm hoping this week onwards will be a bit better, but still likely to be £120 for 2 adults and a child. This does include all food, alcohol, toiletries, household products though.

More is coming out of our joint account, but obviously we're saving on petrol, office parking, lunches bought whilst at work which would be paid out of our own accounts.

I've decided to start cooking a couple of vegetarian meals per week to help keep the cost down, as a vegetarian curry/chilli etc is cheaper than meat based.

It’s working out between €6 and €8 per person per day. That’s everything, including replacements for the stock (basically double the weekly shop) I bought just before lockdown.
We’re not skimping on main meals (soup, omelette or salad for lunch and a meat dish or pasta for dinner) but the adults are doing a 16 hour fast 9pm-1pm. For health reasons and to balance out the drop in exercise. We’ve got used to it now and found when we did a cheat breakfast on Easter Day a) I felt quite ill and b) DH was just as hungry at lunchtime as if he’d fasted and saved the calories!
I usually have porridge which is cheap and healthy but DH enjoys cereals, toast and marmalade, croissants if available, biscuits if not. All of which pile on the “£s/lbs”.

I am spending £5 per person per day, that seems soo much to me! But we are eating well, and am feeding two teen boys + DH who are all 6ft3 freaks with freakish metabolisms

A cheese sandwich in this house is “just a snack”

Even a banana, a sandwich and a flapjack is just what they eat between meals

Atm about £1.80 a person a day.

It's not hugely over what I would expect, but it has meant I have add choices not to buy some of the products that have serious price hikes.

TheHumans it’s similar here.

Slim DH who seems to have a never ending metabolism and a 3 year old who seems to match him.

I’m not a huge eater but heavily pregnant and starting to be hungrier than I usually am and craving more cheese and meats than normal.

DC also seems to have quite an addiction to expensive fruit. I stock up on apples and bananas to keep us going but the berries, mangoes and grapefruit are gone within days

Loads! 2 adults, two very hungry teens, one very hungry dog... probably £25 a day (that includes the cost of one takeaway a week - our only treat!). I am shopping at Waitrose or M&S though as the queues are too long as Sainburys and they seem to have better stock levels.

Yes That’s another thing I haven’t factored in. I’m getting shopping from Waitrose and local co op as the local sainsbury and Tesco’s are crazy and I get get slots with either of them.
For some reason I’m classed as a priority customer with Waitrose at the moment so it takes some pressure off.
It means DH’s red wine of which he doesn’t normally drink much is now nicer more expensive bottles as it’s a nice treat

Also a hungry cat.

€4.50 per person per day, counting the 1.5yr old as half a person since he eats less.

Usually it would be more like €3.60 per person per day.

About £12/day but we're eating pretty well (too well).

We're saving overall though since not buying lunches, no meals out and although they're still open we've not had takeaway.