How much is your food shop now costing?

[rainbowmagicunicorn]

Ours for a family of 4 is between £500-£600 per month 😳

This is including alcohol, cleaning products, household items, toiletries etc.

We shop at Asda for the majority and the local butchers for meat.

I'm shocked at the cost!

Family of 4 adults, £320 per month. We don't buy alcohol.

Ours is about £50 a week for me, DH (huge appetite) and DC aged 5. including everything apart from nappies and wipes.

But that's a conscious choice because we can't afford to spend more at the moment.
To keep costs down we have a jacket potato (with beans and cheese or tuna/ corned beef etc) meal one night a week,

bacon/egg/sausage sandwiches or omlette one night a week,

and then 2 other meat free nights a week (lentil dahl, vegetable stew, veggie Bolognese, mushroom risotto/stroganoff etc)
And then 'normal' meat/fish based only 3 nights or less.

£400 per month, me and a cat. Pretty shocked by that, but I do do Mindful chef for half of the week, which is an extravagance I'll rein in after Christmas.

About £800. Five of us, 4 adult/adult sized and a child. And I suspect sometimes a bit more.

It's shocking, the inflation.

A few years ago, I could comfortable keep our family of 5 (inc regular extras coming for meals) under £50pw. Now we're struggling to stay under £90. All Aldi, still.

I remember this very same thread at the time, too, and a Waitrose-loving woman who spent £500 per month being ridiculed and pitied and inundated with budgeting advice. Now she would be around average.

Mine has crept up to around £700 per month which is awful.

I had a phase when I was doing online click and collects twice a week and I got it down about £200 but with working shifts and after school activities it's so hard to plan but desperately need to get back organised

I'm in NI. We average £150 per week. This includes toiletries, cleaning stuff, nappies and wipes. 2 adults, 2 kids (but one is only 7 months).
We cook all meals from scratch, batch cook and we don't eat much meat. I buy one free range chicken and we eat that Sunday and Monday plus sandwiches.
I buy kilo tubs of Greek yoghurt. These used to be £1 and are now £2!!! I am so shocked by the prices increases every week it seems. And they don't seem to be stopping.
We seem to be spending a lot compared to others on this thread. I know food prices in NI are higher but I didn't think by that much.

Ps no alcohol included in that either

Only two of us (most of time). Budget is £50pw including cleaning and wine or lager. I'm still spending less than that, so have a nice sum accummulating for some xmas extras food wise.

About £150 a week for everything. Two adults, two teenagers and three rabbits.
We are no longer eating many of the things we used to eat. I used to buy a whole chicken once a week, but I haven't bought one for ages.

Just me at home feeding grandkids once or twice a week used to be around £30 but now £40+ 🫤

Around £100 Pw for 2 adults and 2 tweens. Used to be able to do it for £80.
This includes basic toiletries, cleaning stuff and minimal alcohol (ie the odd bottle of wine for the weekend but not the 2 crates I've just bought for Xmas 🎅 )

Also get free eggs from work so eat a lot of egg based breakfasts plus omlette once a week and often scrambled egg on toast too.

About £150 a week including toiletries and cleaning products. No alcohol as we rarely drink, but we may spend a bit extra on an occasional takeaway. Two adults, three teenagers and two primary age kids.

150 per week including milk, nappies and all toiletries, cleaning products etc. we shop at Asda and her milk from a butcher and milk from a mailman. So £600 per month, that's 5 of us. 2 children at school on free meals too (infants)

Around £400 per month, including alcohol, cleaning products and dog food.

I spend around £60 a week on a 'big' shop, then £20 ish on a top up, plus I do a big B&M/Home Bargains shop once every 4-6 weeks.

There is 5 of us - DH and I, 2 DCs and DDog. DH works away 4 nights per week so his meals are paid for and the DCs eat out for dinner at Grandparents 3 nights per week. They have school lunch usually, I just send morning snack into school.

Enough that it's now currently cheaper to get Hello Fresh for the main meals which I know won't last long.

2 adults and 2 primary-aged DC. Tesco shop is about £80, plus milk delivery is £20. I'm really torn about the milk, we've had it delivered for years for environmental reasons but it is starting to seem like an extravagance. Recently cancelled the organic veg box for the same reason.

£50 a week for 2 adults and 2 children. I shop at Aldi/Lidl. This is only for 5 days worth of food though as my partner and kids are away every weekend and I eat for free at work. So effectively if we were home fulltime it'd be more likely to be £70 a week.