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How much is your weekly food shop?

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Lelophants · 01/05/2021 21:30

Ours is around £150 which I know is a lot for 2 adults and a toddler We are home for all meals and eat a lot it seems! We are also letting ourselves buy all sorts of food and enjoy that with covid and not spending on much else. If we needed to budget I would get it down though!

I wonder how much most people spend?

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tv86 · 02/05/2021 22:34

2 adults and two children- budget 100 a week but usually spend around 150 including buying from shops through the week

penfold2020 · 02/05/2021 22:37

Including top up shops and alcohol around £200+ for 2 adults and 3 primary aged children.

BillieSpain · 02/05/2021 22:38

2 adults, 1 DC, 1dog, 70 euros a week inc everything.

QueenPaw · 02/05/2021 22:43

Just me, and varies between £35 and £50 depending if I need say a fresh top up or cupboard stuff. I'm including loo roll in that and the odd cleansing product but

Cleaning products I tend to get from wilkos, toiletries boots or wherever I see them cheap, cat food from pets at home. Probably do a Wilko shop every few months and stock up or use the online pound shop

KinseyWinsey · 02/05/2021 23:07

£250 per week. 3 adults and 3 dcs

ShrikeAttack · 03/05/2021 00:01

If you'd like a completely ridiculous grocery bill, I've spent £3,600 with Ocado since the 28th of March.

Even to me that seems a bit mad. I have entertained quite a few people since we could though.

Bloodybridget · 03/05/2021 02:41

Around £80 for two adults, that's including household stuff, but we also have a monthly meat delivery which is around £60.

BatshitCrazyWoman · 03/05/2021 07:30

I only really eat two meals a day. It's just me, and it probably averages at about £30 a week. I don't drink. Lots of veg and fruit, not much meat.

BorderlineHappy · 03/05/2021 08:18

About 150 a week. Thats 2 adults,one teen and 2 younger kids that have hollow legs.
I do meal plan otherwise i find a lot of food goes to waste.
Sometimes alcohol is inclued. And maybe twice a month a takeaway which is separate.

Mostly Aldi/Lidl but sometimes Dunnes or Tesco.And last week i done a shop in Iceland.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 03/05/2021 08:24

About 170€ for everything (includes non food items like toiletries and cleaning products, we don't shop anywhere else separately for toiletries).

That's absolutely everything for 2 adults, 2 adult height teens, one 10 year old. No food provided/ bought at school, one take away once per month, nothing else to eat really bought outside the home, mostly due to our rural location.

It depends a lot on where you live and whether anyone eats food from other sources - any take aways, food at work or school etc. as well as what you buy ime.

funtimefrank · 03/05/2021 08:34

Between 150 - 200 for 2 adults and 2 growth spurty pre teens (Dd2 nickname - Mr Creosote)

It's too much. We shop in Waitrose as it's the closest - we changed in the first lockdown as our previous Tesco was too difficult to get in. This isn't all bad as we get less non food tat.

But we do several shops a week just popping in to get milk and rarely leave without spending 20-30 quid.

We don't buy too many ready meals (pizza is the main one) and maybe one bottle of wine a week for dh but dh is shocking for picking up treats and he does most of the shopping.

It does need to go back to how it was before tbh from a health perspective but we don't have as many coffee/cake, takeaways and obviously meals out as we did so financially probably saved quite a lot.

clareykb · 03/05/2021 08:37

2 adults and 2dc we get a Hello fresh box for 45 and then send about £60 in Aldi includes everything except wine which we buy a case every 12 weeks so probably works out as £115 a month all in used to be £70 before I was full time and when DH was working away. Know the meal box is an extravagance but whilst we are time poor it's worth it.

FleetwoodRaincoat · 03/05/2021 08:47

£100-£125 per week. 3 adults and 3 visiting hedgehogs

minniemomo · 03/05/2021 09:03

Before the pubs reopened we were spending about £90 which includes some wine, loo rolls, cleaning solutions etc. but not trips to majestic once a month. It's gone down as the trip to majestic didn't happen and I've dropped hello fresh however we are now spending on eating out (way too much!)

minniemomo · 03/05/2021 09:05

3 adults here, one is veggie

AlwaysLatte · 03/05/2021 09:20

To all those spending £200-£300 weekly on groceries, what are you buying? Are you buying pre cooked chilled and ready made meals? I find that's what often pushes the price up plus alcohol. We cook from scratch so buy ingredients to cook with but we do buy frozen ready made for busy days.
We don't ever buy ready meals (apart from the occasional pizza) but the meals we have often have a lot of ingredients - maybe 2-3 different fresh herbs and several spices in one dish (we do grow what we can), and lots of different fruit and vegetables and meat several days a week including a nice joint on Sunday. Wine also pushes it up -£10-12 a bottle a few days a week. We also cook lunch every day - omelettes, etc, salads, dressings. Lots of cleaning products (Method or Ecover). It all adds up! We could obviously cut it down if we needed to.

MustBeTheWine · 03/05/2021 09:39

About 70-80 a week

QueenLagertha · 03/05/2021 13:00

2 adults and a 3 year old. £115 per week on average including some toiletries and cleaning stuff. Doesn't include alcohol. That's for all meals except DS lunch as he gets this at nursery. My banking app shows me my spending for groceries every month. It hasn't went up during covid as we've been healthy eating, eating less meat and cooking from scratch

AtleastitsnotMonday · 03/05/2021 13:39

@ShrikeAttack

If you'd like a completely ridiculous grocery bill, I've spent £3,600 with Ocado since the 28th of March.

Even to me that seems a bit mad. I have entertained quite a few people since we could though.

How is that even possible? That’s over £100 a day, I like nice food and could spend that on one day if hosting but not every day for five weeks! Is that a lot of expensive booze? Do you run a pub or a holiday camp? V. intrigued!

Mypremiumwhat · 11/05/2021 20:25

Op I had a similar thread a few months back, we spend €120-150 for 2 adults 3 primary kids and a toddler. Don't drink but it includes all toiletries, nappies and cleaning products. Shop online with Tesco or Supervalu (always pricier then).

I was hoping to be told that we were vastly overspending and could cut a good chunk off if we tried, but the general consensus was that we were spending an average amount compared to others with the same amount of people.

Cost has definitely gone up since covid though, our spend has increased by around €20-30. I tried going to lidl and aldi but ended up spending more in store as I had no visibility over how much I was spending, and they don't offer online shopping where I live, so it works out cheaper for me to stick to Tesco or Supervalu where I can keep track of exactly how much I'm spending.

maryjosephandtheweedonkey · 11/05/2021 20:27

120 per week for 4 of us but that also includes non-food items like washing powder, dishwasher tablets, toiletries etc.

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