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)

2 adults. 2 teens. 3 pets.
Including all food, alcohol, cleaning and let's supplies around £600.
I meal plan and look for offers etc but we est fresh meat most days, and go to the butchers once a month.

3 adults and 3 cats and we spend around £650 a month. That includes all toiletries and cleaning products and occasionally the odd bottle of wine. DS21 eats at work 3 days a week.

2 adults...about £700 including alcohol.

2 adults, 3 children aged 5-11. £400 including cleaning things etc. Very little alcohol. Takeaway most weeks. Don’t eat much meat. Most shopping at Aldi.

2 adults 2 primary children
About £600 a month.

£500 a month but we are shielding and every single meal for the whole family is eaten at home.Family of 9, 2 adults a teen and 6 children. In regular times it’s cheaper due to lunch out the home.
No alcohol and doesn’t include, dishwasher tablets, toilet roll or kitchen roll. Includes washing powder and other cleaning products.

£400 one adult, two teens and a toddler. No alcohol but does include cleaning stuff and nappies/wipes.

£350 pcm for our family of 4 (2 adults and 2 teens) which covers all meals, beer and wine, cleaning stuff and toiletries.

I'm a good and frugal cook, we eat well and I try to use seasonal ingredients .........eg we don't usually eat strawberries in winter. I batch cook and freeze leftovers or turn them into something else. We love a roast, but homemade pizza is a family favourite and we make it weekly ........so cheap to make and tastes better!

There’s 4 of us (2 adults and 2 dc who are young but eat their weight in not cheap snacks, plus packed lunches). We spend about £150-200 a week. So £600-800 a month.

That includes alcohol and literally all the food we eat, Dh and I make all lunches and snacks for the workday and we almost never have a takeaway (or eat out in normal times).

@mindutopia - that sounds like a lot of expensive snacks if it adds up to that much!

2 adults, 1 child, £300-400 a month

Two adults, two teenagers. Around £550/month. I shop around a lot, but we eat well. Free range chicken, steaks, salmon, nice cheese, real coffee etc.

About £700 a month for two adults plus 11yo and 14yo who eat like locusts. Includes packed lunches X 4, alcohol, pet food. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and veg which really adds up - mix of Aldi and Sainsburys.

@Blankscreen

£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.

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One adult, two primary DC. About £400 a month. Not including alcohol.
We have a couple of cats so that pushes it up a bit. But my parents pick up DC three times a week and give them their tea so that (should) push it back down. One DC still gets free school dinners.

£400 2 adults, could be less, was £300 this time last year. I have added extras over the last year like vitamins, kefir, flaxseed mixes, bone broths and loads of different herbs and spices. Everything is now organic if available or wild caught. We buy a lot of larger/multi packs , split and freeze/repackage. Always bulk buy when special offers are on.

I bought 12 boxes of Montezuma organic dark chocolate mint thins before christmas as Tesco reduced them to half price ( £1 per 100 grams). They are sooooo rich can only manage 3-4 buttons a day so lasting ages :) ( Have a use by date of August).

We don't drink though and a good friend works in the toiletries business and always drops off samples and new products to try so haven't bought any in years.