How much is your weekly food shop?

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Just curious really. For 2 adults and small child, ours is on average £60 per week - some weeks £70, some £50. We batch cook a lot as it’s hard to make fresh meals every night with small person.

Would be interested to hear anyone else’s?

1 adult and 2 teens (and a cat), shopping is usually around £70 but I might have to top up the bread mid week. We rarely have take aways.

Currently about £800 a month including cleaning supplies, toiletries and booze... 4 people
Was about 2/3 of this before Brexit and lockdown :(

@PattyPan
I have two boys... need I say more...?

Around £120 per week. Two adults and a three year old. That includes toiletries, cleaning stuff though. Eat very little processed food. Haven't had a takeaway in two months. Rarely buy alcohol.
Get a Tesco delivery every fortnight, go to home bargains and Lidl every few weeks for certain products, get top up shops in local supermarket and buy meat from the butcher counter at local supermarket too as its mostly organic and great quality.

These threads confuse me a bit. Some ppl don't include toiletries etc in their total spend and some do.

@AlwaysLatte That makes sense - it’s only me and DP here and fortunately he’s trained 😂 Definitely puts me off getting a bigger house though, I could not be doing with so much cleaning!

@AlwaysLatte

One of the meals we have sometimes (my son loves it) is fish pie, but that costs about £15 to make it and if we have it at the weekend with a bottle of wine and some pudding then it's easily £30 spent.

Bloody hell........I'm in shock at £15 for a fish pie...........what do you put in it????

2 adults 3 kids 60-80 a week

No idea about an average week. Something like £130. No takeaways. No pets. Neither of us drinkers. Two preschool children.

Probably about £180-200 a week. Includes food, wine and household, plus some clothes from Sainsburys, an organic veg box, and milk deliveries. 2 Adults, 4 children, 2 cats.

Bloody hell........I'm in shock at £15 for a fish pie...........what do you put in it????
We really like the cod loins from Waitrose and they're £6 odd a pack - x2 - then prawns to go with it, and the rest of it. It's definitely one of the more expensive meals. Fish is expensive. But we also love dals, and lentils are super cheap!

3 adults, me and two sons 19 and 22. I spend 70 to 80 a week at Aldi, if I shopped at Sainsburys it would be easily 120 quid

£150 per week including takeaways and wine. Also included - milkman.

That’s 2 adults and an 8 year old

£150-200 pw for 2 adults and 1 DC. Includes toiletries/cleaning.

We buy all organic meats and fish. Heavy exercisers with healthy appetites. No ready meals or pre-prepared stuff. I have fully stocked cupboards and freezers so am in credit as it were. We cook and experiment a lot in the kitchen - some people spend more on other things. We eat it :) I could spend a lot less if necessary.

@Alfaix

£150 per week including takeaways and wine. Also included - milkman.

That reads like you include the milkman when ordering your take away @Alfaix

That would be very kind! But no, my brain just isn’t working very well

2 adults, 1 teen, 1 dog. £70-80 pw Aldi including 2 bottles of wine. We cook from scratch and I don’t do brands.

120 pw
2 adults. 1 teen. 1 child. 1 baby

Forgot to add we have a gluten free person and a lacto free person. That’s £2.50-3 per loaf of bread etc.

Really am staggered at people spending £250-£300 per week for 2 adults and 2 DC/teens. I just can't imagine it, unless the whole shop is in a farm shop/organic/independents?

Or are people shopping at Asda/Sainsburys but adding alcohol, make-up/skincare, clothing, small electrical goods, books, stationery, toys, batteries, homeware and clothes to the trolley?

Comparisons are so difficult without establishing the parameters at the start......maybe food/toiletries/cleaning products then divided by people in the household?

I am relieved to see the bigger amounts on here, I am sure lots of us don’t post for fear of the judgement . I have a delivery coming on Friday, £230 and that’s usual amount for four of us at home at the moment.

Fine to spend that amount if you can afford it. What's not fine is to spend so much and complain that all your disposable income goes on basic food and you 'cant afford anything nice' because your luxury level grocery spend is your 'something nice'.

You can make a nice fish pie for far less than £15 for example. Just buy frozen fish pie mix from a cheaper supermarket rather than the most expensive option from the most expensive supermarket.

£350 a week. Two adults. 3 late teen boys who are into the gym and body building so eat HUGE amounts. Plus 4 dogs.

That figure includes alcohol, dog food, loo roll, batteries, toiletries, cards, cleaning stuff not just food. I shop everywhere from Lidl to Waitrose depending on what we fancy to eat.

I wonder how many of these teen body builders will insist on a diet of expensive protein when they have to pay for it all themselves.

@BarbaraofSeville Exactly what I say to them! Two are off to uni in September fingers crossed and they won't be eating daily steaks, nuts, French toast with berries, protein shakes, Graze, haloumi and chicken skewers etc then.

They laugh and say they're making the most of it while they can.

We don't have money worries but I'm longing for a reduction in the food buying and cooking as it's a massive chore.