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??!!

About £60-£70 from Sainsbury’s including non-food items like toiletries, nappies etc. Two adults and a toddler. Toddler gets meals at nursery all week though, and we don’t drink.

About £700 a month, two adults two kids. We eat all fresh but quite high protein which is more expensive. We don't bulk our meals the way we used to with cheaper carbohydrates like rice and pasta etc. That includes cat food, cleaning products and night time nappies for one child, and all lunches as school dinners are so crap they have a packed lunch.

I think a lot of people don't realise how much they spent though, I'd have confidently said £120 a week as that's roughly what my big shop tends to be each week but I actually usually do one extra fresh veg and some protein top up each week and having tracked it for several months I see we average more like £160 a week.

I don't think it's easy to compare grocery shopping as everyone is so different in how they eat.

Family of 5 and usual is around £75 - £100. Tesco online.

The elder kids have school lunches which makes it easier (one I pay for as y3 so that adds £20 to the total)

Roughly £150 a month, £35 of that is formula for our 3 month old. 2 adults, 3 year old and a 3 month old. Includes cleaning products, toiletries, nappies & wipes. We do one big shop online every month.

Where do you shop OP ?

90 a week 2 adults 1 19yr old and a 9 and 4 year old. We dont eat all fresh home cooked meals though. This week we have pizzas enchiladas and some gammon. Rest of the week is frittata omelette and frozen chilli and baked potatoes. Will probably have 1 takeaway. 19yr old eats out a fair bit. Kids have packed lunch or school dinners. Rest of shop is cereal yoghurts fruit crisps snacks ect.

Loads. Almost everything cooked from scratch due to allergies and preferences.

Not in uk and food is way more expensive per item.

I don’t see how you can only shop once per month. The fresh food I bought a few days ago is always either all gone or getting a bit ‘old’ so needs using up

£200 a week for a family of 3 which I thought was extortionate until I looked at the Dave Ramsey budget percentages and decided we were fine.
That includes main shop from Sainsbury’s, all meat from local butchers and our fruit from M&S. All dairy is organic but that’s it.
I cook all our meals from scratch so it’s a lot of fresh ingredients and we don’t tend to throw anything out. If I have lots of scrappy veg I make soup for lunch. I get a food delivery twice a week, I find once a week it just doesn’t stay fresh long enough.
We used to spend less and buy less quality food but once we stopped eating out so much I started buying better to make up for it.

£200 odd a week for two adults and a 14 year old. Shop at m & s, Waitrose and Sainsbury's

@SpeckledyHen

Where do you shop OP ?

Asda. Occasionally Aldi but I tend to do it online for convenience so it's usually Asda.

For people asking yes this includes formula & nappies. Snacks like crisps, choc & alot of fresh fruit which dies bump up the bill.

I just feel like I'm going going wrong somewhere when I see people spending £120ish a week 😂

@Husbandswife

£200 a week for a family of 3 which I thought was extortionate until I looked at the Dave Ramsey budget percentages and decided we were fine. That includes main shop from Sainsbury’s, all meat from local butchers and our fruit from M&S. All dairy is organic but that’s it. I cook all our meals from scratch so it’s a lot of fresh ingredients and we don’t tend to throw anything out. If I have lots of scrappy veg I make soup for lunch. I get a food delivery twice a week, I find once a week it just doesn’t stay fresh long enough. We used to spend less and buy less quality food but once we stopped eating out so much I started buying better to make up for it.

I can understand your bill though. Shopping in Sainsburys isn't cheap nor M&S & organic dairy. I am shopping in Asda 😆

If it makes you feel any better, there’s 2 adults and 1 year old here. Reusable nappies etc so no extra weekly cost on those.
My pop to the shops for two bags of food this morning cost €92 (£78). That was regular food, no meat or extra luxuries and I will probably go back Monday for more fresh items.

We're a family of four... definitely at about £100-120 a week now. Yours does sound very high

If I pop to the shop without a list or any self control than I could easily go in for bread & come out with a £90 shop & wonder what coat so much 😂

£60 a week, 2 adults, 1 preteen, 1 toddler & 4 cats. All we can afford on my salary so have to meal plan very carefully this includes all cleaning/washing products too

2 adults, 2 children (9 and 13), I do an online Tesco shop that is usually around £70 but anywhere between £50 and £80 generally, plus we use a milkman that is £11 per week for bread, milk, eggs, butter and juice. The children have packed lunches 2 or 3 days per week and buy food at school the other days. I don’t eat meat and the others don’t eat much, I don’t drink (since having Covid I can’t stomach it), dh sometimes buys himself beer. Some of our cleaning products and toiletries come from refill shop, I go most weeks and spend another £10-15. So probably around £100 all in. I cook from scratch and lunches are usually leftovers.

I spend about £80 / week max for 2 adults and 2 children (10 & 11). We eat meat, but not every day. I shop mainly in Lidl (usually £50-£60) with a couple of top up shops for milk etc. in Tesco / Sainsburys / Asda / wherever I'm passing.

For cleaning products buy refill pods, add water and reuse your spray bottles. Works out miles cheaper as you're not paying to transport water and plastic. I actually wince when i see people buying new bottles of cleaning spray when there's a much cheaper, greener option. Its saved us a fortune. We use Oceansavers pods but there are others. Also Smol laundry pods

I spend the equivalent of 100 per week and week have two small children. I tend to shop In Lidl and we have steak once a week and very rarely eat out and take packed lunches. So that's 3 meals each a day. I batch cook a lot. But xxl Lidl deals etc. I am just in a good habit now I think.

Buy xxl deals (often In Lid they sell huge packs of pasta or whatever) )
We also have a pasta pesto night once a week.
I try and buy the fruit offers and large sacks of rooster potatoes. Homemade pancakes and stuff like that take minutes and are filling.

You mentioned fresh fruit. Is that your basic apples, pears, oranges and bananas, or stuff like pre-packed melon pieces, bunches of grapes and punnets of berries?

About £100 a week. Just me and 20 year old DS, but that does include cleaning stuff, toiletries, etc.

£120-£140 p/w for two adults and one five year old.

We eat well. Not particularly extravagantly, but mainly home cooked.

I spend around £170 a week and I honestly don’t know what on as we never seem to have any food in. The one thing that has helped cut down cost has been ‘Gousto’ I recommend you give them a try.