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, 1 teen and one pre teen who seems to be eating more! and 3 cats
Pre - lockdown £70-£80 per week. Now seems to be £100. But I do it all in one shop where as I used to go to aldi for my wine and yogurt.
Sometimes nip into Iceland on way home from work for the odd things

Two adults ( one who is getting over major surgery so on high protein and fat diet) about £80 a week which is made up of £65 a week tesco and the rest is spent at corner shop (bread and milk).
We have a take away once or twice a month -£30 .

2 adults and 2 pre-teen DC. We spend about £400 a month on food and cleaning/household bits. That's:

1 Sainsbury's delivery a week
2 Gousto boxes a month (2 person box)
2/3 Oddbox fruit & veg boxes a month
1 Smol box of laundry capsules a month

Gousto and Oddbox alternate weeks. We don't get takeaways very often, maybe once a month.

Family of 4 including two teens. Groceries budget covers wine/beer/cleaning/ laundry/ toiletries and food. I am a keen and thrifty cook who was brought up to never waste food, I tend to buy food that is in season and buy meat when it's on offer, our servings of meat would be considered small by many, I add veg and pulses to make meat go further.
I shop mostly in Aldi / Lidl / Morrisons.

Our weekly spend averages out to £80.

3 adults, around £100 per week. That also includes all cleaning supplies and alcohol (gone up rapidly as not going out anywhere).

I think people who have tiny bills often aren’t including stuff.
Ie above saying they just order toilet roll from who gives a crap so that’s pennies and doesn’t count. Well it does count. We order as well, it’s £48 for 48 rolls. Even if they only use one roll per week that’s almost £1 per week, most households would be using 2-4 rolls depending so that’s almost £200 per year or just under £4 per week.

If you do that for various things it’s easily any extra £10-15 per week just not spent on a weekly basis.

We bulk buy cat food. Maybe 3-4 times per year. Things like cat flea treatment etc also included in ‘food bill’

We don’t have a steak and fancy wine diet at all. 2 adults, 1 baby, and I think €500 ish per month.

We do use 1 roll a week because there’s only two of us, or max 3 per fortnight (the more fibre you eat, the less you need 🤣). My Sainsbury’s order for this week is £46.54 and on the alternate weeks the veg box + bananas is £17.30. We get a pint of milk and OJ from the milkman so £2.20 each week. Adding on even £5 if we used loads of loo roll and toiletries or whatever still brings it out to less than £40 averaged across those two weeks
This thread is really interesting to me because I used to read the moneysavingexpert forum a lot when I was saving for my house and discovered that before MN. There are threads on there like grocery challenges to help you cut your bill so that kind of primed me to feel like switching from £25-30 on a shop at Lidl to £40-50 on a Sainsbury’s delivery was incredibly decadent spending! Very different attitudes to money on the two sites.

@TheByngster same! We get gousto for £37 a week then the weekend shop which is delivered/collected comes in at £130 ish. We drink too much though so I blame that. But there's only me, dp and dd6

Ours is about £120 a week now, that's for 2 adults, 3 primary aged children, 1 cat. It doesn't include alcohol or toilet roll. We only very occasionally have takeout so that covers all meals.

Pre-lockdown it was more like £80 or £90. I'm hoping the return to school will reduce the food bill a bit! Once we are less locked down I will start to venture to Lidl again too, to help reduce costs.

2 adults and 1 dog is about £60 per week. We don't do takeaways or lunches at work so that covers packed lunches for my DH and lunch at home for me

£130 a week I cook everything from scratch. 2 a 2 c and it includes everything from pritt stick to nappies.

Around £220 for family of 6 plus pets, including alcohol, household, nappies & cleaning products. All meals for all of us currently eaten at home. Mostly home cooked meals from scratch but some ready meals for tired days. We don’t get takeaways more than once a month so this is all meals in a week.
It’s a lot, but struggle to cut it down at the moment.

£2.50 for toilet cleaner but that lasts months.
How?? The one I use is also £2.50 (Ecover). On average I think I replace two bottles a week, no extreme usage - just a quick squirt and brush around each toilet every morning and a thorough clean once a week.

£ 60 ish per week for two adults, not counting wine.

On average I think I replace two bottles a week, no extreme usage - just a quick squirt and brush around each toilet every morning and a thorough clean once a week

Umm, two bottles a week of toilet cleaner a week is extreme usage. That's an insane amount to use.

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.

Umm, two bottles a week of toilet cleaner a week is extreme usage. That's an insane amount to use.
I don't think it is really - it's just enough to go around the toilet bowls each morning (x4) so x7 and it goes pretty quickly!

1 adult, 3 teens £150 pw term time
£170pw school holidays

Ours is between 50 and 70 a week depending on what we need. Thats 1 adult 2 teens and a 3 year old. I shop at aldi.

About £80 - £90 a week for two adults and one 13 year old strapping lad and a dog.

Takeaways on top about once a fortnight.

If I go £70 for 2 adults. Then on a weekend we spend about £50 extra because my partners kids visit. £120,000 if dp goes

To say though I always browse the aisles for the bargains.for eg I refuse to pay more than a quid for a pack of orange Jacobs club. Maybe this is why my shopping is cheaper than others with a similar family dynamic.

£180-£200 a week at the moment as we're at home for all meals. Included in that is cleaning stuff, toiletries, a bottle of wine, a weekly take away at approx £26 and organic meat from the local butchers which accounts for £40 of the spend. Main shop at Aldi, topped up at M and S and Waitrose.

When things return to 'normal '. It'll reduce by about £40 I think.

@AlwaysLatte

£2.50 for toilet cleaner but that lasts months. How?? The one I use is also £2.50 (Ecover). On average I think I replace two bottles a week, no extreme usage - just a quick squirt and brush around each toilet every morning and a thorough clean once a week.

Well I only have one toilet for starters! I clean it twice a week. Ecover is what I use too, the power one because we live in a hard water area.

A LOT
2 adults and 1 small DC we spend easily £600pm

Lots of convenience food for DH as I’m heavily pregnant (so cba to cook) and he works long awkward shifts so eats at weird times.

Batch cook fresh stuff for DC which is cheaper than buying baby food but also try to keep a good amount in at any time. Incase we suddenly had to isolate...etc

Nappies and wipes cost us about £50pm but DC has very sensitive skin and every brand other than pampers/water wipes cause soreness

Also including DC clothes in that as buy them all from supermarket. At least 1 pack of vests and 3-4 new items like pj’s per month as growing so fast hope that slows down as they get bigger.