Weekly food bill?!

[3rdtimemummy2845]

How much do you spend on a food shop?

I am hitting anything between £170-£200 a week. It is literally killing me at the thought! We are a family of 5. 2 adults, 3 children aged 11, 5 & 6mo. My husband has lunches for work 5 days a week, we eat everything fresh & home made. When I speak to friends they spend anything from £80-£120 a week. I do have older children than the people I am comparing myself too but £200 seems an awful lot per week??!!

Maybe if you post a photo an itemised receipt, and an example of your meals, some clever MNer could see where you could make changes?

Probably £250? It's definitely around £1,000 a month.

2 adults, 2 young children, and a dog.

I care about a lot of things, but groceries are not one of them. We just put what we want in the trolley and that's that. It wasn't always like this though - there were definitely times I'd look at prices and put things back on the shelf.

If I was on a strict budget, then I'd have no choice to stick to it I suppose.

That does sound a lot when 2 of your children are young.
We have 2 adults and 2 teens (so effectively 4 adults in terms of food consumption) we are not particularly frugal, cook from scratch and normally spend around £120 a week - that's all meals for all of us. That's about half shopping at Tesco and half at Aldi.

£100-£130 I'd say a week for 2 adults, 1 toddler & 2 dogs but this does include cleaning products etc

£80 - £100 for 2 adults, DC aged 9 & 12. That also covers DC's packed lunches and my lunches as I'm still WFH. DH does most of the shopping and cooking and he's very good at meal planning - he cooked roast sea bass for DC last weekend which was completely wasted on them.

I would say we are £100 a week in a household of 5 being 2 adults, 2 hungry boys and a foodie toddler

We spend between £70 and £80 on our big shop, but my DH does go to the supermarket and buy loads of unnecessary extras as well.

It does sounds like a lot op. Are you throwing away foods the end of the week?

80-150 - 1 adult, 3 teen boys. We also eat fresh and home made mostly

No throw aways other than maybe a few potatoes? We barely even get any left overs after dinner to freeze away.

This shop does include cleaning products too. So this is my all round shopping bill not just food 😣

£150 a week easy, more if we get a treat takeaway.
Myself, 3 sons aged 8-14.
Pet food is £60 a month

And like you op we have minimal frozen food, mostly made from scratch (cleaning products included in the £150 too)

£200 a week for 2 people but I've included meals eaten out and often that's twice a week

Obviously @3rdtimemummy2845 the classic is to meal plan and to go for supermarket own brands as a lot are really good and some even taste better than the big brands.

There’s just me and I regularly spend £60-70 if I shop in Sainsburys. Maybe less in Aldi but I tend to stock up on things like washing powder and household items when I’m in there as I don’t have one particularly close by. But that’s all my food and drink for the week other than maybe a coffee & cake / bacon roll at weekend. I take lunch and snacks to work and rarely get takeaways.

£40-60 per week for 1 adult, 1 toddler and a dog. Dog only eats cheap shit (we've done the raw food/premium but he prefers own brand crap), we don't have a freezer by choice so everything fresh/cupboard based. That includes cleaning supplies, nappies, wipes and toiletries but we don't need toiletries and cleaning supplies every week. Before DH left it would be more along to £80-90 lines.

We spend around 110-120 a week depending on whether we need dishwasher and/or laundry tabs.

That’s for 2 adults, 11 yr old 5 yr old and cat.

Pretty much all from Sainsbury’s and included toiletries and most cleaning products. though occasionally will use pound shop for cleaning products.

I have to say though that is cooking from scratch most meals, very very few ready meal type things or treats and almost all own brand unless a brand is on offer. I can’t drop in things like nice cheeses/fancy items. Also not as much meat as we’d like but I’m trying very hard to buy less meat and only by higher welfare which means a lot less meat!! Lots of frozen veg and pulses.

It feels expensive for what it is!

Does that include formula and nappies too or are you breastfeeding? That seems like a lot of money a week on just food and a few cleaning supplies?
We're 2 adults, a 11month old and a 3 year old! Luckily the 11month old will be on our milk soon but we spend about £60/70 a week.

£400 a month shopping at Aldi and top ups at morrisons. 2adults 2kids.

Usually when dh is home, about £150-£200 a week. Two adults, one mini human.
Right now whilst it's just me and DD I'm still spending anywhere between £80-£120. This does include all our top up shops. I'm aware it's a lot of money, but I buy a lot of branded products and I'd rather them than the basic ranges.

Ours would be 150 a week including cleaning products.
Thats for me, DP, 8yo and 2yo.
And that is mostly aldi products but branded washing powder and toiletries.

Approx £100 per week, although doesn’t include stuff brought from Costco. If you include that, maybe £125 per week.

I had a spreadsheet that worked out averages for me. On average it’s been £90 per week since January. 2019 it was £85 and 2020 it was £100.

DC2 is only in pull ups on a night now and DC1 has school dinners 5 days and DC2 nursery dinners 3 times a week. For DH and I it’s every meal, including the odd bottle of wine, most personal treats and the occasional bunch of flowers.

We shop mostly at Aldi with a top up at Asda and additions from Home Bargains, B&M and Iceland occasionally (Swedish meatballs!). All of them except Asda are on the same retail park and then Asda is on the way home.

We spend around £200 in Waitrose and then around £30 on our organic veg box. That's for 4 adults and we all eat breakfast at home, take packed lunch and then eat at home in the evenings. We cook 90% from scratch, and eat well. No alcohol, or cleaning products as we have a weekly cleaner.

We had so many years when our DC were young that I had to stick to a really strict budget - we're now fortunate enough to just put whatever we like in our shopping trolley.

Around 50 a week, one adult. I could bring that down if I didn't eat as many ready meals, but I don't have time to cook often. By the time I've added in hygiene and cleaning products, plus takeaways and lunch at work, it's probably 300 a month. I'm vegetarian and don't drink, if that's relevant.

4 adults including packed lunches and our total spend is about £150 a week, sometimes less. I'd say we eat pretty well It's hard to say how you might reduce the bill without seeing a typical food plan or shopping receipt, but I am sure you could.

We rarely have crisps/biscuits/snacks/desserts (apart from fruit/ yoghurt). We only have alcohol at the weekend.