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?

Family of 5; including 2 packed lunches a week. Not including 1 takeaway a week and sometimes go out for Sunday lunch; averaging around £150-160 a week.

Our spend (all groceries...food, cleaning products and nappies etc) is £100- £150 per week including top ups.2 adults, 5yo and 1yo.No pets.Try to buy supermarket's own brand stuff where possible.I admit due to time constraints and not being too keen on/ talented at it, I don't cook many meals from scratch, so we do end up getting a fair bit of ready made stuff (although I guess it depends what meals your making as to whether cooking from scratch saves money or adds expense)

The main weekly grocery being over £100 used to be very unusual or at Christmas. We would then get the other bits and pieces from other local shops

We're well over £100 are week every week now for basic weekly grocery for 2 adults and 2 teens

2 adults

including toiletries and cleaning products £20-25 a week
if buying alcohol then £50

pets small caged animals £20 a month food and bedding

Thanks everyone for sharing. Our grocery shop 10 years ago never topped 100. That was Ocado and Sainsbury’s (and I didn’t skimp on the old Ella’s kitchen convenience pouches or Pinot gris). During Covid it seemed to soar in price as we bought lovely things to keep our spirits up. But now we are buying mostly ‘normal’ stuff ( yes Waitrose, but lots of Essentials, and meat from the farm shop but we only eat a meaty meal a few times a week) and I can’t remember a week where we didn’t go below £200. It would be so easy to spend £300 if we gave the dogs posh food and ate more meat ( and I I hadn’t discovered the £4.99 Waitrose wine range).

I was just remembering back to when I was a teen in the nineties. Mum used to save stickers in Tesco ( a pound a week) and we’d go for the Christmas shop on 23rd December. One year we had loads of family and friends coming for Christmas so we filled two trollers and the shop was £103. I remember my telling telling my aunt the cost and her stare of wide-eyed disbelief. Those were the days…..

I remember when I could do a full weekly shop at Morrison’s for me and my two children for about £35 if I was pretty careful.

(But still plenty of treats, meat and lots of fruit and veg)

There's 4 adults in my house right now and we spent £75 last week.

Ours is very similar to yours OP - 2 adults, 2 old teens -£180-£200 a week. That’s for all meals plus pet things plus cleaning/laundry . I used to spend £150 this time last year.

50 ish. Two adults. I batch cook for work meals ( long shifts) we eat out or have a takeaway once a week but that doesn’t come out of the food budget. Fresh fruit, I buy some fresh veg but mostly frozen. Don’t have fresh meat with every meal, use frozen or veggie too.

I shop between Aldi and occado. Turns out Occado isn’t crazy expensive and Aldi has gone up massively! We buy our own toiletries and he buys his own beer. I don’t drink much at home and still have Christmas booze left.

I posted basic of £150 pw early on in the thread.

Today was £162.00 -Sainsbury’s . I also spent £20 in Sainsbury’s yesterday and £18.00 on vitamins and household. I still have to buy a few ingredients not in stock - things just not available.

That doesn't include alcohol, as nobody drinks, but did include large washing powder and cat food.

40 to 60 pounds for a family of four including two little ones. We meal plan regularly, we plan the kids snacks, we make one meal last another day and we buy toiletries from savers. We make sure everything we make gets eaten. We have to be frugal because I’m on my maternity leave, and also we are huge amounts of debt (through very complicated circumstances)

We tend to alternate frugal and more splurge days. I think we spend around £120 a week (really hard to work out as we tend to stock up on freezer food and non perishables infrequently and just get perishables on a week by week basis, but it might be as much as £150.

I always think with these threads it makes more sense to ask people to list their total food spend. Like you, we very rarely eat out or have takeaways, so our grocery spend is all our food. If your DC have school meals, you buy lunch out and get a takeaway once a week (for example) and you only look at food shop spend, then you're not comparing like with like.

£140 a week. 2 adults and 2 young primary school kids.

I thought this would be embarrassingly high, but it seems comparable to others.

Basically I am one of the tofu eating, Guardian reading, wokerati. We have a fruit and veg box of local produce every week, we have (oat) milk and juice delivered in reusable glass milk bottles, and I often buy organic or local or packaging free rather than cheapest. On the other hand we're mostly meat free, love the deals at a local veg stall (bowls for £1), and make quite an effort to reduce food waste, mostly for environmental reasons.

About £200/week. Family of five, four adult sized and one dietary restriction.

Average of £70 pw for two adults - this includes toilet paper, cleaning materials and the occasional cosmetic purchase toothpaste, body cream etc..). We eat meant and cook from scratch. We usually eat out a couple of times a week - often Saturday lunch and/or Saturday or Friday evening meal.

We shop at Sainsbury's and increasingly Lidl, especially for cheese, cleaning items, crisps and biscuits.

meat not meant!

Mine is about £110 max and still often less than that for 2 adults and 2 teens. Teens have lunch at school and have given up breakfast most days as it eats into sleep time but I don't skimp at all and buy everything we want. This is in aldi with a top up at M&S. we don't eat any red meat though so maybe that keeps it down

My jaw is on the floor reading this.

I spend about £45pw, for 2 adults and a bottomless teen.

About 160 per week to cover everything (food, toiletries, cleaning stuff) for 2 adults, 2 teens includes a bottle of wine a week, no pets, only free range meat & some organic stuff.

@YourApplePie 3 meals a day for 3 of you 7 days a week? To be fair the only one here who eats breakfast is ds but im curious as to what you eat for £45 a week! I reckon my ds costs me £45 per week alone in just meat 😂 and he’s only 11!

About £100 - £120 per week. 2 adults and 2 children inc. cleaning stuff and toiletries. No alcohol (we don't really drink) but does include nappies. DH buys about 3 lunches a week so another £20 on top of that for that.

I am very very frugal. We also get lots of free or heavily reduced food.

We're all fairly happy to eat anything, not loads of meat and most things are cooked from scratch. Tonight's dinner is a gochujang pork ragu and spaghetti that I saw in delicious mag :)

I could do £45 a week for two of us but it would be very very tight, have not to include any non food items and rely heavily on tins, pulses and veg. To be honest we always keep full cupboards and a fullish freezer so I can rustle up a couple of emergency meals.

I used to budget £15 a week for supermarket shopping in the late nineties when I was a student and I would eat out a few times a week at the canteen/SU.

Probably about £100 a week for two vegetarian adults and two cats.

However, I like to cook well, so some of those ingredients will be expensive one-offs (fancy spices etc), I've included alcohol, and I also keep the pantry well topped up on a 'one out, one in' basis, so that figure doesn't necessarily represent exactly what we eat on a weekly basis.

In terms of 'actual figures', we probably consume about £25-30 a week on fresh food (veg, eggs / dairy, protein such as tofu etc, no cat food included), but as I say, I keep a very well-stocked pantry.