If you aren’t particularly frugal, what is your weekly grocery spend up to now?

[TwoMagnificentLabradors]

We enjoy good, home cooked meals and are fortunate not to need to be especially careful, but I think a hardly lobster and steak every night. We mostly cook from scratch, never order takeaway, and rarely eat out. We’d cut back on other areas before food.

Our weekly spend is now £180-220 for 2 adults and 2 teens. That’s for a weekly Waitrose delivery (including kibble, sardines, eggs and sweet potatoes for the dogs), meat from the farm shop and a Co-Op top-up shop. Yikes!

Anyone else’s food shop coming in around this?

I spend about between £70 and £90 a week on my groceries alone, and this is just for me. I was diagnosed with diabetes in July 22 and since then I have changed my diet, which includes buying fresh veg and fruit, lots of lean cuts of meat etc has bumped up my costs. For example I get through 2 bags of frozen cherries a week which costs £3 a bag, then I tend to have a chicken breast each day, I also have fish once a week, I buy sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, runner beans, carrots and brocolli, very large portions of veg with each meal, because I no longer eat potatoes, pasta or rice and rely on lots of protein and veg to fill me up. I also have greek yoghurt every day with blueberries, raspberries and strawberries, I alllow myself one bar of 85% dark chocolate a week, Peanut butter and low carb bread from carbzone which is £2.49 for just 4 slices, I get eggs, tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, onions. I also have cheese and cashew nuts. I cook with olive oil and then top up other ingredients for recipes. I have vegan sausages one day a week with one yorkshire pud, and veg as a treat. I also have benecol every day and allow myself one glass of red wine a day, it all adds up. I could live very frugally but as I dont have many treats in life, dont really socialise much and have given up smoking, I feel that spending money on fresh food is a luxury I deserve, if I found I couldnt afford it I could change it but it would be less enjoyable. I am 57 and have saved so much by giving up smoking alone I am OK with this cost.

About 120-150 for me and 2 DC excl. they’re school lunches-hot meal provided by school and paid separately. That’s one Waitrose delivery and then a couple of top up shops. Also that does include toiletries, OTC meds, cleaning products and random stuff like batteries. Also includes wine but only a bottle a week as I’m consciously cutting down.

We sound similar to you - pretty much all food cooked from scratch, hardly ever have takeaways - maybe once every six months or so, and we only eat out a couple of times a year, if that.

All our meat is from the farm shop. We have our veg delivered. We also have milk, eggs, butter and bread delivered.

We love food and thankfully we can eat and drink well. We spend somewhere in the region of £200pw. 2 adults. That will go down a bit though as I've decided I won't have much alcohol anymore.

£200 per week for 2 adults and a million pets. That includes absolutely everything and it has definitely gone up! I prefer to cook from scratch and we don’t get take away often at all (3-4 times per year) and we take lunch to work. We do go out to eat 2-3 times per month for a nice lunch or dinner, which is not included in that.

Family of 4/5 (dd is at uni but home at the moment), our food shopping comes out at £200-£250 a week. £170ish on ocado for the basics and then the rest at the butchers.
Dh loves cooking, the rest of us love eating. Last night was steak, tonight is lobster Thermidor. We eat out often, dh and I usually pick up lunch out (me particularly when I’m in the office although he’s self employed and pops home quite a lot so will have lunch at home more than me).

Oh and that's ALDI/LIDL for basics/staples, Morrisons for a small top-up if there's anything we need. We also buy things like flour, pasta, tinned goods and dried foods online.

£250 a week. No pets, 2 adults, 2 primary aged children.

that amount is with Ocado. I buy organic whenever possible

Wow people spend a lot of money on their supermarket shops, I had no idea people spend that much (no judgement!) We are a family of two adults and three children and I do our weekly shop in Aldi for about £100-120 and then maybe £10/20 a week top up shop at our local Sainsburys (or bits I couldn’t get at Aldi).

Currently spending about £80 for 2 adults per week in aldi. I think that figure is probably double what I spent 4/5 years ago!

We're at £200 a week on one big shop and a fresh top up (and struggling to keep it down). Two adults, three teens. Not that long ago I was at £125 a week.

No alcohol, no drinks at all actually, except tea bags and coffee, no pet food, no meat, no toiletries, no pants and socks or candles or cushions etc but toiletries are included.

This week and next I am trying to only buy what I need to use up what I've got if you see what I mean.

But once that's done I'll need to buy in all the staples again to restock.

I just realised I based that on £100pw on meat when that's what we spend pm!

(In my defence I've been ill for 2 weeks and am still not back to full health/brain power)

It's actually about £125pw.

If I'm not paying attention, and just buying what I fancy, I could easily spend £150 for two adults, on food and cleaning stuff/dishwasher tablets etc. More if you take into account the dog. If in doing a dinner for friends, probably closer to £300.
If I'm paying attention I try to keep it closer to £120 but that doesn't include coffee shops and lunches out.

It's rapidly increasing.

6 months ago, I'd say £100 on a weekly shop, and a £20 mid week.
It's now more like £140 plus £30.

2 adults, 1 teen, 1 tween, 1 cat. Maybe a meal out or takeaway once a month. Alcohol and cleaning and toiletries all included. But, like you, we don't really watch it - yet.

Yes we have noticed an increase too.

We're actually going to be a bit more frugal this year.

My monthly budget for me and my son and the cat is about £280 and that includes random Aldi special buys. I mostly shop in Aldi but also pick up stuff at the co-op and sainsburys that I can’t get there or out of convenience I shop at the corner shop. I buy what we need, cook from scratch but we are vegetarian so there’s no meat involved.

the truth is that Waitrose is expensive. If you want to spend circa 12k a year on food you can do. If you want to spend less you can cut back or shop somewhere cheaper. Those are really your choices. I just don’t want to spend more so I don’t and shop in cheaper supermarkets.

We spend about 100ish per week, 2 adults, 2 kids (small) and a cat. I am q frugal though. We have the odd treat, no alcohol.

Try to keep ours well under £75 for two adults including pet food and all meals which we cook from scratch

We buy a lot of yellow stickered meat , cheese , butter , prawns when we see it and freeze so in Jan we are working through freezer and have reduced to £50 a week top up for fruit and veg , milk bread etc - just off to Aldi actually but we aren’t loyal to one particular supermarket.

Up to £100 but I shop at Asda, kids are primary school not teens, and we don't have a dog or drink alcohol. Shopping at Waitrose would easily add 30-40%.

Also dc have school lunches, I only eat porridge for breakfast and soup for lunch and DH often doesn't eat lunch at all. So we're not feeding 4 people 3 meals a day.

Yes, ours is pretty high too. I spend about £60 on certain meat from a farm once a month and in addition our online shops work out to £150-180 per week. We do very little top up shopping though as we tend to do proper shopping (online or in person) roughly every 5 days, with one bigger than the other ie £120-£150 on the first then more like £70 on the second. Our does include cleaning materials, basic toiletries, some wine etc and we do packed lunches for the DC at least half the time and DH and I eat lunch at home most days.

I could get it down if I needed to. What scares me though, is how easy it would be to double it. I'm not particularly frugal but we're not eating steak and salmon every day either.

We used to do £200/week when it was just DH and me. These days it’s £125/week including DD but she is fed by childcare 4 days.

Trying to cut it down but we are roughly £200-250 or so a week. Main shop around £140, top up around £50 plus milkman and school lunch money. Plus a monthly takeaway. 6 of us with various dietary requirements so often separate meals.

Around £150 for 3 of us, but we do the big shop at aldi, spend about £110 in there, then top up at either asda or waitrose later in the week, spending about £30 - £40.

Pet food is bulk bought online.

Similarly unfrugal, 2 adults and a toddler £80-£100 at Tesco. Little to no alcohol (only dp drinking as I'm pregnant) and no pets.

Just me, around £45-£50 a week. That doesn't include cat food (she's on a vet diet). Breakfast, lunch and dinner, cleaning stuff, and some toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, deodorant and toothpaste). I don't eat much meat and don't drink at home so no alcohol either.

Similar. I actually have no idea how much we spend as we just get what we need when we need it. I’d say we spend £50 at least a week at the butchers and greengrocers, so all in, it’s probably getting nearer £150 for 2 adults and 2 DC.

But like you, we don’t eat out as a family often and don’t get a takeaway more than once a month. Generally we’d rather spend £30 on some good steak than on takeaway.