Cost of food shopping a month

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How much do you spend on food shopping a month?

We are a family of 3 adults and 1 child and I pay around £450 a month. How does this compare to you. (We don't drink alcohol)

Family of 5 (older DCs so pretty much adult sized meals). £500-600 these days. Used to be £100 a week but it's gone up in the last few years partly due to food prices and partly due to growing DCs. Where a meal would serve 4, before it would have done all of us and now it doesn't because all need full portions so have to buy bigger packs or 2 instead of 1. That really makes a difference.

That's not including alcohol and no packed lunches as they get FSM.

We do eat a lot of (probably too much) meat so could cut down quite a bit if needed.

450 a month, family of 5, 3 primary aged children. We don't drink, don't have takeaway. We only do home delivery; as we're quite rural, no midweek top ups.

Family of 3 adults - c £400 pcm. No alcohol or takeaways.

750. two adults two kids

£900 ish a month in the supermarket

2 adults, 17 year old, 11 year old ds and 7 year old DD.

The children have school lunches, 17 buys lunch at college 3 days a week and we have family takeaway on a Friday night

We buy alcohol separately

I try and get it down but it alway ends up at around this figure

I'm am clearly doing something majorly wrong.

buying for two adults who share the cost, we spend about £200 - £300 a month depending where we shop and what we buy. We dont buy any alcohol or take aways and the rare takeaway that gets bought comes out fo 'play' money.

Just me, anything from £100-250 depending where I'm shopping

3 adults £300

£400 per month for me and my two teenagers (16 and 13y old). Includes one takeaway a month (usually some kind of offer), basic toiletries (shower gel and the like), alcohol for me (4-5 bottles of wine a month), cat food, and some random 'stuff' from Aldi like a pancake maker, candles and so on! I buy most meat reduced on the 'best before' day and either eat or freeze straight away, and I bake rather than spend money on biscuits. I freeze unused bread. My own lunches during the week consist 100% of previous day leftovers plus fresh salad.

OP - I think you are doing well! £450 is not a lot, and no alcohol is a good thing!

Approx £700 a month. Me and 3 college aged teens. No alcohol.

Are these figures including non food items too? £75/week for me and dd. Incl pack lunches, toiletries, no alcohol. But then I also do occasional top up cleaning, toilet roll etc

I budget £100 per week on supermarket shopping. We don't buy a lot of booze and don't eat meat every day. 2 adults, a 10yo and an 11yo.

Between £300-400 a month depending on whether lunches at school are needed. No alcohol as we don’t drink.

Family of 4 (dcs 13 & 11) - it’s gone up to around £650/700 during this last year. Alcohol & dog food not included, but toiletries and cleaning products are.
Oldest one buys school lunches but other 3 have lunch at home daily or packed lunches.

3 adults and I spend approx £70 per week.

We eat well, decent meat and proper home cooked meals. I take breakfast and lunch to work every day (12 hour shifts).

Teenage Ds has a massive appetite, he buys his own meal deal or eats at a Burger van every day whilst he's at work.

That doesn't include dog food. I get that separate.

Two adults, three cats and a dog.

Approximately £75 a week.

2 adults, 2 primary age DC, younger one still gets free infant lunches. 1 cat.

About 600-700 a month plus 1 takeaway a week. A lot of that is driven up by gluten free products but to be honest we just like to eat well so a lot of luxury items like juice, nice yoghurts, fancy cheese etc.

Oh and plus 2 hello fresh meals a week.

So realistically were spending 1000 pcm on food. We both work busy full time jobs though so short cuts like the hello fresh and takeaway feel justified

Two adults, one teen boy and about £800ish a month.

1000+ but what I spend is completely irrelevant to what you spend as it's based on my budget not yours.

Currently £100ish a week that’s includes a main weekly shop plus a top up mid week and milk delivery. No alcohol. That’s for 2 adults, 3 dc(4, 8,10)

Me, partner and our 10 month old that eats more than me, no alcohol, about 450 a month

£500-£600 a month (including alcohol and cleaning products). 2 adults, 8yo, 9yo. All meals including packed lunches for school).

We are happy with what we eat/drink. Fresh fruit and veg, range of protein, years etc. Probably could do it cheaper, but we don't want to compromise on meals we like and cooking.

Threads like this can turn into competitions. Food is relatively cheap in the UK.

We spend £120-140 a week (2 adults 2 dc, 5 and 7)but that does include some booze, flowers, all cleaning stuff and things like shampoo/other bits of toiletries. We buy organic chicken and eggs but non organic veg/fruit etc, cook mainly from scratch and covers pretty much all of our meals and packed lunches. We get takeaways sometimes in addition to that .

@idontlikealdi

1000+ but what I spend is completely irrelevant to what you spend as it's based on my budget not yours.

YY to other people's budgets, and priorities, being irrelevant. £450 a month for a family of 4 is around average when you look at the population as a whole, not a Mumsnet snapshot, which is likely to be atypical.