How much do you spend on food every week?

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Just that!
for me, dd and dh (gluten free, lactose intolerant and nut allergy!)
it’s about £100 per week but we shop at Waitrose ill break it into categories

essential food: £80 (meals, fruit, COFFEE , breakfast etc.)
non essential food: £10 (hot chocolate, baking things, fancy bread)
household stuff: £10 (bin bags, paper bags etc.)

so that’s £400 per month

add smol subscription
(£15 pm)
and trip to zero waste shop (£50ish)

£475 ish per month

£110 to £120 a week, family of 4(1 teenager, 1 primary school). Tesco fortnightly delivery and coop(staff discount).

We don’t buy brands either but I still don’t see how anyone can feed 6 for £50 even with a veg box and yellow stickers. That’s not even 40p per portion and that’s without considering toiletries/household items. Can you post a shopping list? I ask because earlier this year on another thread someone else made a similar post but when she posted a shopping list and meal plan it was a) not enough to feed 6, and b) cost more than their post suggested.

We are doing this experiment at the moment.

There's 3 adults here now, until recently there were 4. But both of the younger adults do shift work and often have meals out/at work/at friends houses.

Both parents work mostly from home so most meals eaten here.

We've been consistently on £165 to £175 per week excluding alcohol for the past few months.

It used to be around 80. It's now recently more £120. £100 main shop. £20 in tesco express grabbing the odd random bit x

I would say maybe £120 weekly food shop and £80 or so of top ups/sandwiches/snacks out and about. So maybe £200 a week for 2 adults and 2 primary age dc. We grow a lot of our own veg, have chickens for eggs, but we don’t necessarily scrimp on other bits unless we need to.

4 people in this house ( kids are 15 and 10) and we average around 70 pounds a week.

@Thatsnotmycar I suppose it depends on how much you eat, curry, stew, chilli can all be super cheap,
Bread is only 37p, last week I spent 39 at lidl and I used some mince from freezer, and pork, it's definitely 50 or less because I move it weekly into a special account only used for shopping!

I spend about 80 a week going to cheaper supermarkets and there is only me. I prefer Morrisons but I just can't justify their prices anymore. Don't drink or smoke so that a blessing due to costs.

Around £85 on average a week, we are 2 adults who shop at Tesco. That does include literally everything. All drinks, snacks, breakfast, lunch and dinners.

£100 per week for four - 2 adults, 2 primary kids. Children get a hot meal at school. We have a lot of eggs for free. And therefore eat a lot of eggs! Doesn't includ alcohol or Xmas food. Does include cleaning stuff and cheapie shampoo, soap etc. once a week delivery from Tesco

Used to be £80 but I can't do it for less than £100 now and that takes a fair bit of meal planning and "clear out the fridge" soup type meals. I do however have a freezer that could feed the five thousand after falling in love with tje Batch Lady Method and a lingering fear of running out of food after Covid!

Unless someone is eating minute amounts like the poster on the previous thread who thought a normal cheese portion was 16g I don’t see how £50 for 6 is possible regardless of what types of food you eat. That is less than 40p per portion not including toiletries/household items. Bread itself may be cheap but people don’t just have that for the meal. For example, for breakfast, 2 poached eggs on toast has the eggs, bread and butter. Then milk, tea/coffee. Maybe a portion of fruit. For lunch, you would need butter, filling, fruit, vegetable, something else to go with it.

Interesting thread. It's just me and my daughter (7) and I'm trying to get our weekly shop down to £50. We also have two very picky cats. On average I'm spending £80-£100 a week. I shop in Tesco. I'm wondering if it's possible ?

£125 ish pw on asda shop, delivered. For 2 adults and 3 teen dcs.
Mostly veggie meals, meat maybe twice a week. Includes cat litter but not cat food. Includes one bottle of wine and one box of beer. Middle dc is into baking so I'm often buying ingredients.
We all take packed lunches except eldest dc gets his lunch at work several days.

I also have a coffee subscription, and get my cat food delivered. Maybe another £15 pw

£75 a week at Sainsburys = 2 adults 1 child

2 adults & 3.5 year old twins. £120 per week - used to be £200 per week until I took over the shopping from DH. He’s a bulk buyer & it drives me mad. I’d like to get it below £100 per week but the girls love fruit & one of them is on lacto free milk which is pricey.

shop at Aldi & Tesco

£150- £180 at the moment on 2 adult and 2 sporty growth spurting teen boys .. it was more like £75-£100 when they were in Primary school

About £50 a week for 2 adults including toiletries, laundry, cleaning stuff! Either Lidl or Sainsburys. We plan meticulously and very rarely waste anything

Between £250 and £280 a week.
Two adults, 17,12,9 and 8 year old. Adults and two kids have lunch at home/packed lunch.
That's all cleaning stuff, dog bits (not actually food though)
We shop mainly at Aldi with a few bits from either Waitrose or tesco.

£280 ish a week. 2 adults 2 kids. (Waitrose & sainsburys with the odd Tesco express top up)

£220-£250 pw for 5

Average £100 a week. 2 adults and 2 dc aged 6 & 4 and a cat!

2 adults and DD3 is around £50-60 a week. Tesco delivery once a week and often struggle to get to £40 so add bits for the food bank. No meat, no branded items. We get oat milk separately on subscription. No pets, don't smoke, don't drink except a very occasional bottle of wine. Get an occasional Simply Cook box but have lots of freebies gathered from them. I meal plan and batch cook to aim for minimal waste.

Budget is £50 for two of us weekly. Also add a takeaway or cheap meal out 2/3 times a month.

Probably averaging £170 a week for 4 adults, that’s a mix of Tesco, Aldi and local butcher. All food, toiletries and cleaning stuff, it used to be less but I can’t get it lower.

We are two adults and one teen (one gluten free) We're up to £100 a week now. Don't eat out, no coffees out and packed lunches for school and work.
My GF bread is now up to £2.70 a loaf I use two a week. I'm plotting to reduce the bill, Dh tends to use a lot of prepared stuff when he cooks for us, so I'm going to have to take on more of the cooking, like I used to when the kids were younger.
We shop most of it in Aldi and Iceland (frozen veg and a single pizza for Dd on a Friday) the rest from either Asda or Tesco.