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?

2 adults 4 kids. I budget about 125 a week. Although sometimes I go over ever so slightly. Thats including everything, 2 kids still in nappies and 2 cats .It always pushes the price up if we need nappies/wipes or Catfood that week. I meal plan too and nothing goes to waste :) It did go up to 150 when my OH was furloughed but he's back at work and the kids will be at school/ nursery again soon so it will probably decrease again. ( hopefully )

2 adults, 1 KS1 child, 1 pre-schooler.

Average £100 per week. Sometimes more, sometimes less. When in setting school child is provided with lunch, nursery child all meals.

Budget covers, breakfast, weekday lunches for adults, weekend lunches, dinner, snacks and drinks for all.

No longer require nappies, wash liquid cones from costco, cleaning stuff mainly from Home Bargains/B&M and the like. Toiletries, probably 50/50 supermarket and shops above.

Supermarket is 90% Aldi and 10% Asda.

£160 p/w

It's easier to calculate because of covid. Only one shop per week, and everything bought from that one shop.

£70/£80 a week, 2 adults, everything cooked form scratch. This includes toiletries, cleaning products and alcohol.

2 cats cost about an extra £15 a week.

2 adults, 1 school age and 1 preschooler

At the moment we spend £100 a week on an online shop that includes toiletries/cleaning products/washing powder etc. Then probably £10 a week on nice coffee, £20 on fruit & veg and £20 on meat.
It’s absolutely staggering if I’m honest, it’s the most it’s ever been including when I was buying formula & nappies.
It’ll reduce once school reopens because they get free school lunch.

1 adult , 2 children - around £60-70 a week.

£120-130 a week.

2 adults
1 toddler
1 cat

I genuinely don’t understand how a household that’s just two adults can regularly spend more than £100 a week. Is it steak and a bottle of wine every day? When we were getting a supermarket delivery every week I was honestly struggling to make it up to £40. I don’t think I could spend £200 every week if I tried!

About 180-200. 2 adults and two kids. And a cat. That's all groceries. Mostly ingredients and fresh (not packaged) foods and a liking for expensive coffee beans 😁

Covering everything, food for 3 (including a hungry teen with very fussy tastes and training for competitive sport), cleaning products, alcohol for 2, delivery charges on those items we need to buy online, etc.

I currently budget €1200 per month (so €300 per week) - that increased from €750 to €800 in early 2019, up to €1000 at the start of 2020, and to €1200 in April 2020. Due to a combination of factors.
Prices going up in general.
DD tastes changing so needing more things like turkey, protein bars, health food shop items rather than supermarket items
Our work only getting more busy so needing more convenience
Brexit changing supply options, brands coming off the shelves etc
Covid only multiplying that effect, and various gaps in supply chains causing prices to spike
Covid also caused changes in our eating habits as we are now all home all day - more coffee, different lunches, more snacks, but spending less time cooking proper dinners (that latter is more pressure from work caused by Covid than directly because we are home more due to covid)
WFH means I cannot get to some shops I would go to relatively frequently near my office in the city - Asian supermarket, Nespresso, Italian deli, large M&S (which was great for yellow stickers) etc.
I am also not able to get to the off licence I used to go to relatively frequently as that is outside my 5km limit - the ones nearer are more expensive. Nor a number of things we'd get when visiting Ikea, or from the Farmers' Market on Saturdays when "down home" to visit our extended families.....(the latter means I have discovered a few of those stall holders have an online presence, but needed to order larger amounts to reach the min order limit and also had delivery charges on top....but after over a year without things like the hot choc that we love, I was willing to pay it recently etc).

I generally grow a fair amount of our veg in the summer but that was not as good last year for lots of reasons (I was too busy, GC was closed for baby plants at the wrong time, GC was sold out of baby plants and seeds when it reopened and I was a day late, and weather and constant football thumps killed off a lot of what I did get going). So that also dented what should have been some savings in the summer.

We are conciously supporting local businesses also, so bread, fish, deli items and meat are costing us more - but we are able to and happy to pay that.

I do use coupons and loyalty programmes - but they are not as available at the moment as in normal times.

And my freezer is still struggling to adapt - I have lots of small tubs of leftovers from when only 1 person would be home for dinner and it would suit fine - but now DD won't eat those, they are too small for DH and I am getting so little time to cook that I can't organise 3 different meals.

If I needed to, I could spend a LOT less.

Around £70-75 pw. Two adults, 3 DCs.

£50-£60 per week. 2 adults and a cat

3 adults, one teen, one pre-teen, usually around £180.

Christ, a huge amount at the moment because they're all home all the time. It's verging on £150 a week, some weeks. I never thought I'd say that! When my eldest DC were small (they're now 13 and 14) I would spend no more than £50 a week for all of us. We do have 4DC including the teenagers. We get a gousto box once a week which is £48 ish, then spend around £70 in Sainsbury's for the million snacks and lunch supplies, cleaning stuff etc. I pop to Aldi and/or Home Bargains for the few bits I cant get elsewhere every couple of weeks and end up spending £20-30 then too. Shocking really. I did a shop the other week where we did Gousto recipes, but bought our own ingredients. It was only marginally cheaper!

It all goes though, and we still run out of milk and bread.

£100 per week for three adults

@PattyPan Depends where you shop. I use Ocado, but I went to Aldi a few times and it was obviously much cheaper. Couldn’t get half the stuff I needed though.

Rather shockingly it is regularly £170-200 a week at the moment, 2 adults, 2 teenage sons.

They eat allll the time.

This includes booze, cleaning stuff etc.

But lets face it food is the only thing to get excited about at the moment isn't it?

I am comforted by the fact that we throw exactly nothing away ever.

@PattyPan

I genuinely don’t understand how a household that’s just two adults can regularly spend more than £100 a week. Is it steak and a bottle of wine every day? When we were getting a supermarket delivery every week I was honestly struggling to make it up to £40. I don’t think I could spend £200 every week if I tried!

I can't understand how you can't understand how people do it.

You could spend the £100 on wine if you wanted to, without being massively heavy drinkers. Some people will drink champagne as a matter of routine.

That plus choosing the most expensive/nicest option for everything you buy and you've got a lot of money for not a lot of food.

2 steaks £26.40

smoked salmon for a couple of breakfasts for a couple £16

2 small pieces of cod £6.25

Mumsnet essential blueberries £2.50 a day

posh muesli £4

prawns £7

dozen eggs £6

2 pizzas £12

£4 sourdough loaf

soup £3

Buy the above including blueberries for every day and it's pretty much £100 right there. No alcohol, no veg or other sides, no cleaning products, not enough food for a week, far from it.

We spend more on food per month than rent, probably double. Easily done when rent is £400 per month and we spend anywhere up to £200 and that’s for 3 adults, a 10yr old and a husky puppy. We’re all at home currently and we have 2 vegetarians and one protein mad 18yr old.

A large amount of that is soft drinks, cans of diet coke and Pepsi Max. We don’t drink alcohol unless we go out which is rare.

I tend to buy toiletries and cleaning products separately and the puppy food is bought in bulk with fresh food added in with our shopping. I struggle to understand how people can get it so low.

I am not a high earner by any means but realistically we spend around £130 - £140 a week for a family of 5. That includes a formula fed baby though. Am in admiration at people who can spend £60 a week and I used to have to but with fresh fruit and bits can never get it below £100 these days.

But lets face it food is the only thing to get excited about at the moment isn't it?
True. And TV!

Sorry that should say £200 per week

I find these threads really interesting and useful. I know there are endless variables but if you find a bunch of other posters with the same family size spend roughly £X at your regular supermarket then it gives a good idea of what budget is realistic and what can’t be done.

February - £320 for the month, for 2 adults 2 primary aged children, shopping mainly at Aldi with some from Morrisons (gf pasta&dairy free milk which are not necessarily more expensive just not sold in Aldi). Cooking and baking from scratch is the only way I’ve found to keep costs down as well as doing regular fridge/freezer/pantry inventories. As yet unsuccessful in smuggling any pulses into spaghetti bolognese without it causing great alarm🚨 to the rest of the family. When both dcs are having school lunches I hope that can go down a bit more. We live in the middle of nowhere so couldn’t have a takeaway even if we wanted to, and believe me, I’d like to!

But, Oct/Nov/Dec averaged £675 per month shopping in the same places but I took my eye off the budgeting and had serious FORO (fear of running out) plus the fierce need to emotionally feed everyone.

I like that bit in Eat Well For Less where they compare what people think they spent with actual receipts, just shows how easy it is to spend more if you’re not checking. Would love to go on that show if only it wasn’t actually shown on TV....

We’re saving a lot in travel costs right now so there is more money available for groceries but am getting back into the budget again to save as much as poss.

We pop £240 a month into our "food pot" and use that for shopping, toiletries and cleaning stuff for two adults and one 10 year old. We usually have £20 ish or so left over per month that goes on a takeaway on payday. The only time we've gone over that is when I tried vegan January as some of the vegan alternatives were expensive.

We do a meal plan every week which helps and neither of us are drinkers so there's never any alcohol to pay for, I imagine that helps a bit keeping costs down.